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Haiti Appeal |
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 HELP BRING PEACE AND REAL DEMOCRACY into the world…starting in our own backyard – HAITI. Mobilize, mobilize, coordinate, coordinate, agitate, agitate… HOW? Send a copy of the Miami Law Center Report to your local Congressperson,
your friends, a celebrity you know, your local media, church. Somehow,
anyone you know, or who knows someone in the Black Caucus, Latino Caucus,
Progressive Caucus, any member of Congress, local or federal. Make
follow-up phone calls. Help us at HLLN get this information into the
Congressional record. Find the report at: What else can you do? PRESS WORK, press work, press work (see, www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaignone/presswork/pressreleases_hll.html Help Haitians counter the erroneous coverage by the mainstream media. Spread the truth about Haiti. Haitians did in Haiti did not forcefully unseat their elected government through some sort of popular uprising. Not true. The U.S./France/Canada took down the Constitutionally elected government of Haiti and are responsible for maintaining today’s blood bath throughout Haiti and keeping democracy way from Haiti’s poor. Be clear on this: The current genocide in Haiti was caused by Bush’s Regime Change not Haitian in-fighting. That mainstream media spin is a self-serving and racist LIE. Read: “Haiti Human Rights Investigation: November 11-21, 2004" at the University of Miami’s Center for the Study of Human Rights website – www.law.miami.edu/news/368.html Send out HLLN action alerts and press work initiatives to a friend who wants to do something constructive to help Haitians take back their dignity, reverse the brutal Bush Regime change and the bloodbath and dictatorship America has established upon this Hemisphere’s most struggling poor. Stop the killings of innocent people whose only crime is that they want the President they elected back, but the U.S./Canada/France who took him down have said that Aristide has no place in Haiti and if he returns, he will be killed. Ask, “How is that “spreading of freedom and democracy” Mr. Bush?” Why are the Haitian poor being forced to owe, acquire debt that will go to paying the very people, the ex-Haitian army and paramilitaries, the U.S. used to help take down their democracy, liberty and freedoms? Go to our website – commit to doing some “press work” once
a , week, a month, twice a month, as much as possible. Make a call,
write a letter, follow-up on last week’s letter. Circulate our information on Haiti: Human Rights Reports -www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaignone/ Latest analysis of the situation from a Haitianist and the common people’s perspective– At News, Views, Essays and Reflections: www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/newsessaysreflections.html Join the Ezili Danto mailing list to keep up with the latest information and mobilization efforts (Subscribe by writing “subscribe” in the subject line and mailing it to: Erzilidanto@aol.com) Tonight Listen to: Tom Griffin on Vancouver Radio Tonight Discussing Haiti Human Rights (See details below) This weekend: Go to our pro-democracy event, help with fundraising and if you are in the Bay area, listen to Fr. Jean-Juste, Haitian Human rights activist. Listen to his radio spots. Tell your friends to listen. Send a donation to the Haiti Action Committee at: Haitiaction.net ******* Tom Griffin on Vancouver Radio Tonight Discussing Haiti Human Rights Tune in to Vancouver Co-op Radio’s Discussion this Wednesday, January 26th, 7:00-8:00 PST. Host Charles Boylan with guest host Anthony Fenton will interview Thomas Griffin, immigration attorney and author of a new and explosive human rights report for the University of Miami (available at ijdh.org). Tune in live, 7 Pacific, 10 Eastern, to 102.7 Co-op Radio. The phone lines will open at 7:30/10:30 P.M. “This Haiti report educates, outrages, and horrifies. Canada, the U.S., and France are embroiled with 38 other “UN-sanctioned” countries in a “dirty war” against the Haitian people, riding a Reaganite/Bush-led resurgence of “Third World Fascism.” This report uncovers how and why they did it, while exploding the myths of post-Aristide Haiti as propagated from on high by the Bush administration, its allies in the “war on terror,” and the lapdog corporate media machine.” Listen Live at: www.coopradio.org Fr. Jean-Juste, Haitian Human rights activist in town this weekend + radio spots Fr. Gerard Jean-Juste, a Haitian priest, human rights activist, close associate of President Aristide, and recent political prisoner will be in town this weekend. He was arrested in October while serving lunch to 600 children and imprisoned for 7 weeks, until an international campaign gained his release. He will be on several KPFA programs and on Laura Flanders show on Air America this Sunday at 4 (AM 960). His main appearance will be at St.Joseph the Worker Church, this Sat, January 29, 1640 Addison in Berkeley, at 7:30. He will also be at Stanford Friday night, and at several churches on Sunday. Contact me for further details. He will speak at a press conference on friday at 11 at the Berkeley Montessori School, 1310 University Ave. If any of you have press contacts, please invite them, or get me their information and I’ll be sure they’re invited. Father Jean-Juste will have extremely current information to share, and I hope as many of you as possible get to hear or meet him. Charlie P,S, For those of you who won’t be able to attend the event, I invite you to listen to at least one of the following broadcasts (which can also be streamed if you’re out of town on either www.KPOO.com or www.KPFA.org) of an interview w/Fr. Gerard Jean-Juste to be recorded Sat. afternoon at KPFA w/yours truly, KN. But first, Dennis Bernstein will have Fr. Jean-Juste live in the KPFA studio for Flashpoints, Fri., 1/28, 5-6 p.m. KPFA, Hard Knock, 4-5 p.m., Mon., 1/31 KPOO, Terry Collins program, “In The Spirit of Joe Rudolph,” 10:00 p.m., Tues., Feb. 1 KPOO, Prison Focus, 11:00 a.m. – Noon, Thurs., Feb. 3 KPFA, Living Room w/ Kris Welch, Noon – 1 p.m., Thurs.,Feb. 3 (This will be a live broadcast with an open phone line following the prerecorded interview). There may be one other program on which the interview will be aired— on KPOO, Mon. afternoon between 4 and 5:30 p.m. (unconfirmed). ****** Forwarded by the Haitian Lawyers’ Leadership Network ****** “Men anpil chay pa lou” is Kreyol for – “Many hands make light a heavy load.” See, The Haitian
Leadership Networks’ 7 “Men Anpil Chay
Pa Lou” campaigns to help restore Haiti’s independence,
the will of the mass electorate and the rule of law. See, |
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