450 Golden Gate Avenue @ Larkin
San Francisco
Stand in solidarity with the overwhelming majority of Haitians, whose
continued resistance to an illegitimate, US-backed regime has given rise
to years of sustained protest against stolen elections, government
corruption, poverty, land grabs, rising prices, and 15 years of UN/US
military occupation. These are the conditions that drive people to leave
Haiti and immigrate elsewhere seeking a means to survive. $4.2 BILLION
has been stolen from government revenues. The international media has
either ignored this struggle or reported in a way that blames the
demonstrators for “violence.”
As resistance to this regime intensifies, so does repression. Police and
paramilitary forces have responded with bullets, teargas, imprisonment
and increasingly, massacres, aimed at wiping out Haiti’s grassroots
_Lavalas_ movement. Over several nights in November, 2018
state-sponsored armed forces tortured, and/or murdered several hundred
people, raped women in front of their families and burned homes in
Lasalin, a neighborhood of Port-au-Prince with a history of resistance.
The U.S. arms, funds and trains Haiti’s military and police, and only
with U.S. support can this corrupt regime remain in power. The people of
Haiti deserve to live without the daily threat of state-directed
violence. It is time for the U.S. to be held accountable for its
continued support of the repressive regime now in power in Haiti.
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sent by Haiti Action Committee