STAND WITH THE PEOPLE OF HAITI \, Protest Another US/UN Military Invasio
n of Haiti!
\nTuesday\, October 10
\n< p>4:00pm – 5:00pm\,\nSan Francisco Federal Buildin
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\n90 7th Street
\n7th & Mission Streets
\nSan
Francisco
Haiti Action Committee condemns in the strongest possibl e terms the UN Security Council vote on Monday to authorize yet another in vasion of Haiti. Organized and promoted by the US\, the invasion will be f ronted by Kenya\, which has pledged to send 1000 police. The Kenyan police force is notorious for its corruption and brutality\, including the recen t killing of over 30 people in a peaceful demonstration over increased fue l prices. Soon\, this police force – along with other foreign troops – wil l be murdering Haitians.
\nThe authorization comes despite overwhelm ing opposition from multiple sectors of Haitian society\, who have demande d instead the removal of the current regime of unelected and illegitimate Prime Minister Ariel Henry and the installation of a broadly representativ e transitional government. While the US characterizes this new interventio n as an attempt to stop “gang violence\,” the real aim is to prop up the c urrent dictatorship and to fend off the broad-based efforts within Haiti t o oust it.
\nThis is why Henry\, the neoliberal puppet of the US and the Core Group of foreign occupiers\, has called for foreign troops and w hy Kenyan soldiers are preparing an invasion. Faced with collapsing infras tructure\, the spectre of famine looming over half the population\, a new cholera outbreak\, and a defunded health care system\, Haitians now fear t hat the militarized national police and their armed proxies\, the paramili tary “gangs” who have been terrorizing dissident communities\, will be but tressed by more foreign tanks and troops\, to further oppress the civilian population.
\nWe remember the democratically elected governments of
Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the Lavalas movement that were twice overthrow
n by US-supported coups d’etat. Had it not been for the coups\, “Today\, m
any of the beautiful dreams of the Haitian people would have already mater
ialized\,” a recent Fanmi Lavalas statement declared. “The anti-democratic
forces have produced a hell on earth: kidnapping\, insecurity\, misery\,
hunger\, corruption”—a failure that now requires a new occupying army to s
ustain it.
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\nTHIS IS WHY WE OPPOSE A NEW FOREIGN INVA
SION AND EXPRESS OUR OUTRAGE AT THE US GOVERNMENT’S POLICY
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