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HLL
Denounces Meeting of Illegitimate and illegally Appointed Prime Minister
Latortue with UN's Kofi Annan and Some Members of the Congressional
Black Caucus
(Contact Information follows below)
**Immediate Action Request**
May 12, 2004
The Haitian Lawyer's Leadership denounces the illegitimate and illegally
appointed Gerald Latortue on his first "official" visit to the United
States
For further details, see Congresswoman Maxine Waters and Congresswoman
Barbara Lee's press releases denouncing Gerald Latortue's visit to Capital
Hill. http://www.haitiaction.org/News/CBC4_5_4.html
HLL restates its appreciation and reaffirms its support for CARICOM's
non-recognition of Haitian Interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue's
Government
HLL denounces the visit to the U.S. and herely declares that all those
responsible for arranging said "official" visit by the illegally appointed
Latortue as exhibiting little sensitivity and no knowledge of the Haitian
people's long and arduous struggle against rule by force and dictatorship
and for democracy and development. In this context, HLL also denounces
the little publicized meeting on Monday, May 10, 2004, between the illegitimate
and illegal Prime Minister Gerald Latortue and UN's Kofi Annan.
Please contact Kofi Annan at the U.N. to protest his meeting with the
illegitimate Gerald Latortue in New York on Monday, May 10, 2004, as
well as continue to call up the five members from the 39-member Congressional
Black Caucus, who met with Latortue last week.
According to recent media reports the following members of the Black
Congressional Caucus as well as Senator Harkin met with Latortue, the
U.S. imposed puppet in Haiti. The Haitian National Palace is currently
occupied by U.S. military. Voice your concerns about this travesty,
this deliberate beheading of Haitian democracy when U.S. lives are being
lost in Iraq , supposedly because we, the American people, stand against
fascism and Saddam's former dictatorship rule.
How do the following representatives square supporting democracy in
Iraq and rule by force in Haiti? Contact them and let them know your
displeasure at their meeting with the illegitimate Gerald Latortue:
Eddie Bernice Johnson [D-Texas],
Gregory Meeks [D-N.Y.],
Sen. [Tom] Harkin [D-Iowa],
Carolyn Kilpatrick [D-Mich.] and
Elijah Cummings [D-Maryland] .
These members of Congress and the Senator seem also willing to accept
the U.S. installed government and brush aside demands for an investigation.
To contact them to share your concerns about human rights abuses in
the period after the February 29, 2004 coup d'etat and the illegality
of the "interim" Haitian government, you can use the info below.
Eddie Bernice Johnson [D-Texas]:
Washington, D.C
1511 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-8885
Fax: (202) 226-1477
District Offices
Dallas Office:
Cedar Springs Plaza
2501 Cedar Springs Road
Suite 550
Dallas, TX 75201
Phone: (214) 922-8885
Irving Office:
1634 B West Irving Blvd.
Irving, TX 75061
Phone: (972) 253-8885
Kendrick Meek [D-Fla.]:
Washington, DC
1039 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-4506
Fax: 202-226-0777
Miami-Dade County
111 N.W. 183rd Street
Suite 315
Miami Gardens, FL 33169
Phone: 305-690-5905
Fax: 305-690-5951
Broward County
10100 Pines Boulevard
Third Floor, Building B
Pembroke Pines, FL 33026
Phone: 954-450-6767
Fax: 954-450-6768
Gregory Meeks [D-N.Y.]:
Washington Office
1710 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
phone--202/225-3461
fax--202/226-4169
congmeeks@mail.house.gov
St. Albans District Office
196-06 Linden Boulevard
St. Albans, NY 11412
phone--718/949-5600
fax--718/949-5972
Far Rockaway Office
1931 Mott Avenue, Room 305
Far Rockaway, NY 11691
phone--718/327-9791
fax--718/327-4722
Richmond Hill Office
Ý 106-11 Liberty Avenue - 2nd Floor
Richmond Hill, NY 11417
phone--718/738-4200
fax--718/738-5588
Carolyn Kilpatrick [D-Mich.]:
WASHINGTON OFFICE
1610 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-2215
(202) 225-2261
Fax: (202) 225-5730
Office Hours: Monday-Friday (9:00-5:00pm)
DISTRICT OFFICES
1274 Library, Suite 1-B
Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 965-9004 or (313) 965-9005
Fax: (313) 965-9006
Office Hours: Monday-Friday (9:00-5:00pm)
Downriver Wyandotte Office
3005 Biddle Street, Room A
Wyandotte, Michigan 48192
Tel: 734.246.0780
Fax: 734.246.1148
Sen. [Tom] Harkin [D-Iowa]:
WASHINGTON OFFICE
731 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-3254 Phone
(202) 224-9369 Fax
(202) 224-4633 TDD
email:
http://harkin.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm
Iowa offices:
DES MOINES
210 Walnut Street
Room 733, Federal Building
Des Moines, IA 50309
(515) 284-4574 Phone
(515) 284-4937 Fax
DAVENPORT
1606 Brady Street
Suite 323
Davenport, IA 52803
(563) 322-1338 Phone
(563) 322-0417 Fax
CEDAR RAPIDS
150 First Avenue, NE
Suite 370
Cedar Rapids, IA 52401
(319) 365-4504 Phone
(319) 365-4683 Fax
DUBUQUE
350 W. 6th Street
315 Federal Building
Dubuque, IA 52001
(563) 582-2130 Phone
(563) 582-2342 Fax
SIOUX CITY
320 6th Street
110 Federal Building
Sioux City, IA 51101
(712) 252-1550 Phone
(712) 252-1638 Fax
Elijah Cummings
Washington D.C.
1632 Longworth H.O.B.
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: (202) 225-4741
Fax: (202) 225-3178
Baltimore City
1010 Park Avenue
Suite 105
Baltimore, MD 21201
Phone: (410) 685-9199Ý
Fax: (410) 685-9399Ý
Baltimore County
754 Frederick RoadÝ
Catonsville, MD 21228Ý
Phone: (410) 719-8777Ý
Fax: (410) 455-0110
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Also lodge your protest against the mass slaughter of Haitians and the
hooding in black plastic bags and manacling of Haitian children on May
10, 2004 by the U.S. Military in Haiti by contacting:
Ambassador James Foley directly at the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince.
Call on Secretary of State Colin Powell at the U.S. State Department
in Washington, and contact your Senators and Representatives.
Call early and call often. Ensure all letters you send out are also
copied to Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, the Caribbean media, BBC, Wolf
Blitzer, Paula Zhan, Dan Rather of CBS, Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes, Bob
Herbert of the NYTimes, Brian Lamb of C-Span, and so on.
(Contact information for these media people shall soon be listed on
this website.)
CONTACT INFORMATION
Ambassador James B. Foley
U.S. Embassy, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
phone: 509.223.7011 or 509.222.0200
fax: 509.223.9665
email: acspap@state.gov
http://usembassy.state.gov
(for address and additional phones)
Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State
fax: 202.647.2283 or 202.647.5169
phone: 202.647.5291 or 202.647.7098
email via: http://contact-us.state.gov/ask_form_cat/ask_form_secretary.html
Haiti Desk Officers, U.S. State Department:
Joseph Tilghman
fax: 202.647.2901
phone: 202.647.5088
email: tilghmanjf@state.gov
Lawrence Connell
fax: 202.647.2901
phone: 202.647.6765
email: ConnellLF@state.gov
Marguerite Laurent, JD,
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
(dedicated to protecting the civil, human and cultural rights of
Haitians at home and abroad)
May 12, 2004
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaigns.html
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