STAND WITH THE PEOPLE OF HAITI \, Protest Another US/UN Military Invasion of Haiti!
\nTuesday\, October 10
\n4:00pm – 5:00pm\,
\nSan Francisco Federal Building
\n90 7th
Street
\n7th & Mission Streets
\nSan Francisco
Haiti Act ion Committee condemns in the strongest possible terms the UN Security Cou ncil vote on Monday to authorize yet another invasion of Haiti. Organized and promoted by the US\, the invasion will be fronted by Kenya\, which has pledged to send 1000 police. The Kenyan police force is notorious for its corruption and brutality\, including the recent killing of over 30 people in a peaceful demonstration over increased fuel prices. Soon\, this polic e force – along with other foreign troops – will be murdering Haitians.
\nThe authorization comes despite overwhelming opposition from multipl e sectors of Haitian society\, who have demanded instead the removal of th e current regime of unelected and illegitimate Prime Minister Ariel Henry and the installation of a broadly representative transitional government. While the US characterizes this new intervention as an attempt to stop “ga ng violence\,” the real aim is to prop up the current dictatorship and to fend off the broad-based efforts within Haiti to 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 why Kenyan soldiers are prep aring an invasion. Faced with collapsing infrastructure\, the spectre of f amine looming over half the population\, a new cholera outbreak\, and a de funded health care system\, Haitians now fear that the militarized nationa l police and their armed proxies\, the paramilitary “gangs” who have been terrorizing dissident communities\, will be buttressed by more foreign tan ks and troops\, to further oppress the civilian population.
\nWe rem
ember the democratically elected governments of Jean-Bertrand Aristide and
the Lavalas movement that were twice overthrown by US-supported coups d’e
tat. Had it not been for the coups\, “Today\, many of the beautiful dreams
of the Haitian people would have already materialized\,” a recent Fanmi L
avalas statement declared. “The anti-democratic forces have produced a hel
l on earth: kidnapping\, insecurity\, misery\, hunger\, corruption”—a fail
ure that now requires a new occupying army to sustain it.
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br />\nTHIS IS WHY WE OPPOSE A NEW FOREIGN INVASION AND EXPRESS OUR OUTRAG
E AT THE US GOVERNMENT’S POLICY
\nInfo: Join Haiti Action Commit tee to protest yet another US/UN military invasion of Haiti! : Indybay
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