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Haiti
A Haitian coalition, including the Mobilizing Collective for Reparations to the Victims of Cholera, issued an international call to protest the eighth anniversary of the United Nations’ occupation of Haiti....
Posted Jun 11, 2012
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Over 10,000 supporters of former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide marched in Port-au-Prince on Feb. 29.
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Posted Mar 11, 2012
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Judge Carvès Jean, basing his decision on the recommendation of Haiti’s state prosecutor, told the media on Jan. 30 that he had dropped all murder, torture and other charges against Jean-Claude Duvalier. ...
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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Ever since Haiti was established as the first Black republic in the Western Hemisphere — by carrying out a heroic military slave uprising against the country’s slave masters in 1804 — it has suffered unimaginable superexploitation and poverty comparable to that imposed on poorer African countries. ...
Posted Jan 5, 2012
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The transparency-advocacy group WikiLeaks has released secret cables dating
from 2003 to 2010 that reveal details of Washington’s intervention in
Haiti....
Posted Jul 31, 2011
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At least 23 people died in Port-au-Prince June 6 after a night of heavy rain....
Posted Jun 18, 2011
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Michel Martelly was sworn in as Haiti’s president May 14....
Posted May 19, 2011
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Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s return to Haiti released a tidal wave of
celebration....
Posted Mar 23, 2011
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The United States has decided that what Haiti needs is what the U.S. calls "a good election." ...
Posted Mar 19, 2011
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President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s lawyer said on Feb. 13 that necessary
paperwork has begun in Port-au-Prince and that the Haitian leader is expected
back shortly....
Posted Feb 17, 2011
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Òganizasyon Fanmi Lavalas de Boston and their supporters picketed in
front of Boston’s JFK Federal Building on Feb. 11, demanding the
immediate return of democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to
Haiti...
Posted Feb 17, 2011
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A mass movement of protest and anger has erupted in Haiti against the
oppression, extreme poverty and desperation experienced by the vast majority of
people....
Posted Dec 20, 2010
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Ever since it took over the occupation of Haiti from a U.S., French and
Canadian coalition in June 2004, the United Nations has spent billions of
dollars on repressing the Haitian people. The U.N. has not addressed the huge,
pressing needs of the Haitian people, basic needs like jobs, education and
health care....
Posted Nov 3, 2010
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The situation for the homeless in Port-au-Prince is so grim that a 10-minute
rain storm with high winds on Sept. 24 left at least five people dead, hundreds
injured and thousands of shelters — tents, tarps and sheets —
destroyed. ...
Posted Sep 29, 2010
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Hundreds of thousands of Haitians have been living in misery for more than
seven months — without houses, jobs, sanitation, potable water or
electricity....
Posted Sep 6, 2010
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Conditions are worsening daily for the 1.5 million people in Haiti living in
tents or under oilcloth tarps on the streets of Port-au-Prince, Leôgane or
Jacmel....
Posted Aug 1, 2010
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Both before and after the Jan. 12 earthquake, Cuban doctors and nurses
have provided free and greatly appreciated medical care to the Haitian people
at the invitation of the Haitian government....
Posted Jun 2, 2010
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May is the rainy season in Haiti and the hundreds of thousands of Haitians
still living in tents or under tarps have to cope with water and mud flooding
their sleeping spaces. That many practice what they call “domi
pandeye,” or sleeping while balancing upright, shows how serious the
problem is....
Posted Jun 2, 2010
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Labor, community, student and political activists packed the North Carolina
Association of Teachers auditorium here on April 10 for the 27th Annual Martin
Luther King Support for Labor banquet organized by the Black Workers For
Justice....
Posted Apr 22, 2010
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News of the detention of Haitian earthquake survivors in prison-like detention
facilities in the U.S. have exposed, once again, just how little the U.S.
relief effort in Haiti is about actual relief for the suffering Haitian
people....
Posted Apr 11, 2010
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While the vultures are beginning to circle over the money that “donor
countries” are planning to pour into Haiti, hundreds of thousands of
homeless Haitians — estimates vary between 400,000 and 1.5 million
— are trying to survive heavy, violent, tropical downpours that are
turning their camps into pools of water and mud....
Posted Mar 28, 2010
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On March 2, seven U.S. doctors gave a report on their month-long mission of
providing post-earthquake medical services in Haiti at a program at Judson
Memorial Church in New York City....
Posted Mar 19, 2010
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The Union of South American Nations — UNASUR — held an emergency
meeting on Feb. 9 in Quito, Ecuador, to examine the situation in Haiti after
the earthquake and make plans for short- and long-term assistance to the
destroyed nation. Exterior ministers and special envoys from Argentina, Brazil,
Chile, Guyana, Surinam, Uruguay and Venezuela and the presidents of Colombia,
Paraguay and Peru joined current UNASUR President Rafael Correa from Ecuador
and Haitian President René Préval....
Posted Feb 22, 2010
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Haiti remains a country devastated by the Jan. 12 earthquake. The disaster has
been successfully used by the United States as a pretext for reoccupying the
country with thousands of military troops....
Posted Feb 19, 2010
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Many people think it is human nature to be greedy, to put the interests of the
individual before the common good — in a word, to live in a dog-eat-dog
society. At the same time, they may be moved by suffering and want to help
others but usually find themselves stymied. Hey, that’s capitalism, what
can you do about it?...
Posted Feb 17, 2010
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As the people of Haiti continue heroic efforts to recover from the Jan. 12
devastating earthquake that has claimed at least 200,000 lives, they are facing
a new challenge — an occupation of 13,000 U.S. troops and advanced
weaponry. This new occupation was sanctioned by the United Nations on Jan. 22
without any say from the Haitians themselves....
Posted Feb 12, 2010
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The 20 U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships, 63 helicopters, 204 joint operations
vehicles and approximately 13,000 military personnel — 10,000 afloat and
3,000 ashore — occupying Haiti, were sanctioned by the U.N. as of Jan.
22. No request from Haiti was needed — the U.S. wanted to send troops and
it did. The occupation and the U.N. approval have no legal basis....
Posted Feb 7, 2010
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The people of Haiti are undergoing incalculably great suffering. We, the
International League of Peoples’ Struggle, convey our deepest sympathies
to the Haitian people for their loss and express our most heartfelt recognition
of their plight. We join the people of the world in lending our wholehearted
support to help ease their suffering and call on our member organizations and
allies to extend immediate rescue and relief support to the victims in
Haiti. At the same time, we direct our strongest
denunciation against the U.S. government for deploying military forces in Haiti
instead of the personnel of U.S. civilian agencies who are trained and equipped
for rescue and relief aid....
Posted Feb 4, 2010
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Boston’s Haitian community and its supporters have begun a campaign to
allow Boston teenager Jenny Ulysse to return home from Haiti and for the right
of all U.S. permanent residents to return to their homes. They are also calling
for medical treatment or evacuation for all in need of critical medical
attention....
Posted Feb 3, 2010
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It is useful in understanding the current situation in Haiti to examine
its roots — in particular why Haiti should be regarded as a country with
an African culture and how U.S. and other imperialist interventions in Haiti
met a stubborn and tenacious resistance....
Posted Feb 3, 2010
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Statement from the Black Workers League, based in Rocky Mount, N.C.,...
Posted Jan 31, 2010
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The recent natural disaster in Haiti has once again thrown Haiti into the eyes
of the world and once again brought out the best and the worst of us. ...
Posted Jan 31, 2010
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The U.S. secured its occupation of Haiti when the Pentagon
placed 13,000 troops in the country around the capital and on nearby ships,
with at least 4,000 more scheduled to arrive. It’s now two weeks after a
magnitude 7.0 earthquake leveled the capital city and nearby towns, wreaking
havoc on the population, and in doing so eliminated the Haitian government
bureaucracy, police and the United Nations military mission....
Posted Jan 27, 2010
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The relief effort in Haiti is happening despite a lack of any real
mobilization on the part of the U.S. on the ground there. The U.S.’s
main priority was not to rescue those trapped under rubble nor to provide
relief to survivors of the quake....
Posted Jan 27, 2010
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For years, and especially since the four devastating hurricanes that struck
Haiti in August and September of 2008, progressive organizations and
individuals in the United States have been urging the Homeland Security
Department to grant Temporary Protective Status to Haitians....
Posted Jan 27, 2010
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Where to donate for Haiti....
Posted Jan 27, 2010
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With most media focusing on Haiti and people here in the U.S. gripped by the
humanitarian crisis, they may have missed the dramatic news out of Afghanistan.
Even as thousands of U.S. troops were landing in Port-au-Prince, Afghan
resistance fighters carried out a coordinated attack in the heart of occupied
Kabul, the Afghan capital....
Posted Jan 24, 2010
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Haiti had been the most prosperous of all the French colonies during the period of slavery. After the proclamation of independence on Jan. 1, 1804, France and the United
States both blockaded Haiti....
Posted Jan 20, 2010
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‘We should be there in Haiti — to help rebuild the country’'...
Posted Jan 20, 2010
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Boston school bus drivers host meeting to organize relief....
Posted Jan 20, 2010
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$100 million = 1% of Goldman Sachs’' bonuses...
Posted Jan 20, 2010
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While U.S. focuses on troops and control of airport....
Posted Jan 20, 2010
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Party of deposed President Aristide barred from election....
Posted Jan 20, 2010
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From Fox to New York Times, blaming the victims....
Posted Jan 20, 2010
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Not a traditional history book or textbook, but a
people's history....
Posted Jan 20, 2010
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The earthquake that flattened Haiti’s capital and brought a new
calamity to millions of people in that heroic but impoverished country has
awakened calls for solidarity and aid from the vast majority of the
world’s people. ...
Posted Jan 14, 2010
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Fight Imperialism Stand
Together extends its solidarity to Haiti, its people and the
peoples’ movements....
Posted Jan 14, 2010
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During the last three decades, Oct. 28 has been the day to celebrate creole
languages throughout the world. Creole is a stable language that has grown from
a mixture of other languages, where the words come from the parent languages
but the syntax is generally specific to the particular language....
Posted Nov 20, 2009
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After two days of a general strike, the people of Lascahobas, Haiti, held a
peaceful rally Aug. 6 and set up blockades on the road to the Dominican
Republic....
Posted Aug 23, 2009
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At least 10,000 people
marched in Port-au-Prince July 15 to demand the return of former President Jean
Bertrand Aristide on his birthday. Aristide has been in forced exile since the
coup, mostly living in South Africa....
Posted Jul 30, 2009
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Louis Fignole Saint-Cyr of the Autonomous Confederation of Haitian Workers
(CATH) spoke at a meeting at the Brecht Forum in New York City on July 5....
Posted Jul 8, 2009
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When mourners gathered June 18 in Port-au-Prince’s cathedral to celebrate
the life and leadership of Father Gérard Jean-Juste, a hero in the Haitian
people’s struggle in both the United States and Haiti, the mood was
clearly anti-occupation....
Posted Jun 29, 2009
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Thousands of Haitians from all over North America traveled to Miami June 5
and 6 to spend hours paying tribute to Rev. Gérard Jean-Juste. They came
from Orlando, Fla., Boston, New York, Washington, Chicago, Atlanta and
Montreal. ...
Posted Jun 19, 2009
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There are 30,000 Haitians under deportation orders in the United States....
Posted May 22, 2009
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The U.S. government has a new strategy to stop Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his
Fanmi Lavalas party from winning elections in Haiti. Keeping Aristide in exile and Fanmi Lavalas off the ballot in Haiti is easier than arranging another coup, like the two Washington administrations previously pulled off against Aristide....
Posted Apr 19, 2009
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Despite claims of concern from the U.S., France and the U.N., it is these
entities that were responsible for the removal of the Aristide government on
Feb. 29, 2004. Thousands of U.S. troops landed inside the country, kidnapped
President Aristide and sent him to the Central African Republic....
Posted Mar 18, 2009
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The International Action Center is distributing a petition to stop the
racist U.S. policy of illegally targeting 30,000 Haitian refugees for
deportation....
Posted Mar 15, 2009
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The U.S. government is threatening to expel 30,000 Haitians living inside its
borders. Among the millions of undocumented workers in the U.S. who live each
day with the fearful possibility of deportation, the Department of Homeland
Security has made undocumented Haitians a special focus....
Posted Mar 4, 2009
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A few days before the 50th anniversary of its victorious revolution, Cuba
made a significant gesture of international solidarity to its nearest neighbor,
Haiti....
Posted Jan 10, 2009
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The four hurricanes that hit Haiti in August and September directly caused 800
deaths and massive destruction of its roads and bridges, along with the crops
and cropland that feed its people....
Posted Nov 16, 2008
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Haiti started the month of August as the poorest country by far in the Western
Hemisphere. Then four hurricanes—Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike—hit the
country, doing vast and unmeasured damage....
Posted Sep 28, 2008
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Hurricane Ike brushed by Haiti Sept. 7, dumping major rainfall that forced the
residents of Gonaïves to flee to higher ground or climb up on their roofs
once again....
Posted Sep 10, 2008
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Emmanuel “Toto” Constant was convicted at the end of July for bank
and mortgage fraud....
Posted Aug 8, 2008
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The history of Haiti has been marked by stubborn, lengthy and mass resistance
and struggle to achieve justice against heavy odds....
Posted Jun 1, 2008
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Cuba is actively helping Haiti develop a literacy project....
Posted May 27, 2008
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