Haiti

Haitian Police Massacre Teachers & Students Fighting For Education

November 23, 2017 Staff, sfbayview.com Educate! Education, Haiti, police brutality, Repression, Strikes, Students, Teachers

By Staff of San Francisco Bay View - Oct. 17 – The Moise regime attacked demonstrations throughout the country marking the anniversary of Haiti’s first coup d’etat in 1806 and the assassination of its first head of state and founder, General, later Emperor, Jean-Jacques Dessalines. He is revered as a personification of Haiti’s independence and for his relentless campaign to distribute land to the formerly enslaved African majority, the chief reason for the coup against him. Oct. 12 – Members of BOID, the militarized unit of the Haitian National Police (PNH), trained and supervised by the U.N.-U.S. occupation with U.S. taxpayer dollars, rampaged through the Port-au-Prince community of Lilavois, burning down houses and terrorizing the population in yet another case of repression and collective punishment. The short video posted on “HaitiInfoProj” on Oct. 25 was filmed in the dark during the police terror and is accompanied by a plea: “BOID terrorists set fire indiscriminately to cars, homes and businesses of people struggling to make ends meet …, shooting tear gas that is greatly harmful to children with asthma … How can we blame people for leaving Haiti …?” Radio and witnesses reported that one person is known to have been executed, others have disappeared, and many others severely beaten.

Protests Outside Mar-a-Lago Over Haitian Immigration

November 23, 2017 Staff for NBC6, www.nbcmiami.com Resist! Haiti, Immigration

By Staff for NBC6. The Rally for TPS Extension & Permanent Status left Miami Gardens and headed to the Palm Beach County as a Facebook page organizing the protest said they want the Temporary Protection Status renewed for all immigrants from Haiti and Central America while also asking for a “clean” Dream Act for children of immigrants. President Trump is expected to spend the Thanksgiving holiday at his Florida home and travel from Washington D.C. on Tuesday. Over 60,000 people who relocated following that earthquake are affected, as the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday that conditions have improved enough that the status will only be allowed to continue until 2019.

Anti-Government Popular Uprising Continues to Grow in Haiti

October 29, 2017 Kim Ives, haitiliberte.com Resist! Anti-Austerity, Democracy, Haiti, Neoliberalism

By Kim Ives for Haiti Liberty. Massive, raucous demonstrations, sometime several times a week, have rocked Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, and other provincial cities over the past two months and show no sign of subsiding, despite a lack of clear or unified leadership. Police repression of the demonstrators has grown as their calls have morphed from denouncing a tax-laden, fee-hiking, austerity budget proposed in early September to demanding the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse, who came to power in February following controversial, anemic elections in November 2016. The neoliberal measures, featuring privatizations, public employee layoffs, and tariff reductions, included slashing gas subsidies which resulted in a 30% hike in transportation costs overnight. The Caracazo revolt led to the 1992 coup d’état attempt and subsequent 1998 election of Hugo Chavez. Similarly, Jovenel Moïse’s Washington-influenced budget proposes a host of taxes and fees on everything from drivers licenses, vehicle registrations, and passports to a 10,000 gourdes ($157US) annual tax on expatriate Haitians.

Dominican Republic, Haiti & El Salvador Reject US Threats

April 3, 2017 Sergio Alejandro Gómez, www.en.granma.cu Resist! Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, US Foreign Policy, US Imperialism

By Sergio Alejandro Gómez for Granma - Rubio directly threatened the governments of the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, and Haiti, and in an interview with El Nuevo Herald, stating that the vote of these countries at the meeting on Venezuela of the OAS Permanent Council could have repercussions on economic assistance provided by the United States. Certain politicians strolling through the U.S. Capitol in Washington - the first bricks of which were laid at the time of the Haitian Revolution - still believe that Latin America and the Caribbean is the backyard that the United States must “put in order” from time to time. One such advocate of this obsolete U.S. ideology today is Marco Rubio...

Haitian People’s Court Will Put 100 Years Of U.S. Occupation On Trial

January 27, 2017 Staff, www.blackagendareport.com Resist! Court, Haiti, Occupation, Trial

By Staff of AlterPresse - July 28, 2017, is the deadline to deliver denounces to the symbolic People’s Court, which has been called to examine the 100 years of US occupation of Haiti (from 1915 to 2015). This initiative has been created thanks to a joint effort by many social organizations. From January to February 2017, the organizers will visit all of Haiti’s departments to create departmental committees, as reported by the representative of the Committee of Direction and Coordination of the People’s Court, Camille Chalmers, in a conference/debate on January 17, which was attended by online agency AlterPresse. Between February and May 2017, accusations will be made based on testimonies, scientific research and documentation provided by all the regions and sectors, Chalmers announced.

Cuban Medical Internationalism

January 4, 2017 Stephen Bartlett, www.popularresistance.org Create! Cuba, Haiti, Health Care, Solidarity

By Stephen Bartlett for Other Worlds. Many people will never hear about how at the end of 2016 on December 19, 38 medical professionals from Cuba’s Henry Reeve Brigade returned home after more than two tireless months of treating Haitians. They were sent to lend support to Cuba’s permanent medical teams in Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. Following the death of 90-year-old revolutionary Fidel Castro on November 25, 2016 corporate media has been fixated on depicting Fidel as the mastermind of a two-dimensional “dictatorial regime.” For those with a three-dimensional perspective, however, Fidel Castro's death provides an opportunity to celebrate victories from the 56 years of the Cuban Revolution for which many people around the world are profoundly grateful and even owe their lives.

The UN’s Incomplete Apology To Haiti

December 8, 2016 Kim Ives, www.haiti-liberte.com Educate! Haiti, United Nations

By Kim Ives for Haiti Liberté - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, who will step down at the end of this month, made his most explicit apology yet for the UN’s role and responsibility in Haiti’s cholera epidemic, the world’s worst. However, in his ballyhooed Dec. 1 address to the UN General Assembly, Ban stopped short of admitting that UN soldiers militarily occupying Haiti since 2004 introduced the deadly bacterial disease into the country in 2010. “On behalf of the United Nations, I want to say very clearly: we apologize to the Haitian people,” Ban said in the nugget of his long speech in French, English, and Kreyòl.

Haiti’s Never-Ending Nightmare Grows Longer

October 13, 2016 Edna Bonhomme, www.socialistworker.org Educate! Haiti, Hurricane Matthew, Natural Disasters

By Edna Bonhomme for Socialist Worker - Haiti is enduring another not-so-natural disaster in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. With winds reaching 145 miles an hour, the storm wrecked homes, communities and lives, particularly along Haiti's southwestern coast. Estimates of the death toll have reached as high as 900, but most news sources acknowledge that this number is sure to rise.

Coverage Of Haiti And Hurricane Reinforces A Sad, Static Storyline

October 12, 2016 Staff, www.usatoday.com Educate! Haiti, Hurricane Matthew, Natural Disasters

By Janine Jackson for FAIR - While the extent of the damage exacted by Hurricane Matthew on Haiti is not yet known, more than 500 deaths have been reported. But with the storm moving toward the US, media too are moving, leaving in their wake the sorts of stories you would predict: “Fragile Haiti in the Line of Fire From Matthew” (USA Today, 10/3/16), “Impoverished Haiti Braces for ‘Catastrophic’ Floods as Hurricane Approaches” (Reuters, 10/4/16) and, from the New York Times(10/4/16), “A List of Previous Disasters in Haiti, a Land All Too Familiar With Hardship.”

Hurricane Relief For Haiti: Best Organization To Support

October 9, 2016 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Organize! Haiti, Hurricane Matthew, Natural Disasters, Non-Profits

Longtime friend and reader Jack Balkwill forwarded us this information from Kathy Kelly about the best organization doing hurricane relief in Haiti. He wrote: There are "over 900 dead and counting, many living in tents now blown away, starving. I didn't want Red Cross with their million dollar executives. It is probably the most urgent charity existing right now, lives can be saved for pennies, if people donate a small amount it can work wonders in Haiti." Relief aid should be empowering. It should be delivered quickly to meet urgent needs, not be used as a permanent channel for relieving normal stress and pain associated with development woes. In times of tragedy, it is important to distinguish between the do-gooders and the predators. It is quite easy for predators to have the upper hand when they can cast themselves as valuable intermediaries.

Solidarity: Demand Reinstatement Of Haitian Union Organizer

May 18, 2016 Staff, www.workersstruggle.org Resist! Haiti, Wages, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Staff of Workers Struggle - Following the day of mobilization on May 11, 2016 that the Textile Factory Union Platform-Batay Ouvriye (PLASIT-BO) launched to demand that the government set the minimum wage at 500 Gourdes ($7.94 for an eight-hour workday) and publish an Executive Order to make it official immediately, Clifford Apaid, owner of the plant, Premium Apparel, made the decision to fire our comrade, Telemarque Pierre, General Coordinator of Apparel and Textile Workers Union (SOTA-BO) and spokesperson for PLASIT, on Saturday May 14, 2016.

Haiti Rises In Solidarity Against 12 Year US Occupation

February 23, 2016 Staff, www.haitisolidarity.net Resist! Elections, Haiti

By Staff of Haiti Action Committee - The voice of Haiti’s popular movement at this critical period in the country’s history has never been clearer. For the past several months, since the discredited legislative and presidential elections of last August and October, mass, vibrant protests for the right to a free and fair vote and against foreign intervention have been a relentless force, in the face of heavily-armed and well-financed adversaries and mounting repression. The influx of articles and editorials in recent weeks by leading U.S. media outlets depicts the situation in Haiti as a confused, incomprehensible, morass of violence and dysfunction, with all sides being equally unreasonable in their demands.

Women Farmers & Land Grabs In Haiti: An Interview

February 19, 2016 Beverly Bell, www.otherworldsarepossible.org Resist! Black Women, Farming, Haiti, Land Rights

By Beverly Bell for Other Worlds - In Haiti, the majority of the people working the land are women. Not only are they there during planting, weeding and harvesting, but they also play a role in transforming and marketing food products. They’re involved in the entire agricultural production process. This is why we call women the poto mitan, central pillar, of the country. When a family is dispossessed of its land, women are victims. Rural women are the first to feel the pain.

Martelly Leaves In Disgrace: A Great Day For People Power

February 10, 2016 Ezili Dantò, www.linkedin.com Resist! Corruption, Elections, Haiti, Revolution

By Ezili Dantò for HLLN/Free Haiti - The people celebrate today. Tomorrow they've vowed to address the illegitimately elected authorities the Internationals are forcing down Haiti's throat to make the disputed 2015 foreign-supported, corrupt elections count anyways. The alliance of eight top presidential candidates known as the G-8, disavowed the February 6, Trojan Horse Accord signed between the outgoing Martelly and the unconstitutionally formulated new Parliament.

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