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Dessalines
Is Rising!!
Ayisyen: You Are Not Alone!
Pan-Canadian
Week of Action to Condemn Sham Elections in Haiti, November 12-20, 2005
Sponsored by
The Canada Haiti Action Network
STOP RIGGING ELECTIONS AGAINST HAITI’S POOR MAJORITY!
FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS - RESTORE HAITI’S SOVEREIGNTY NOW!
October 15, 2005 - The Canada Haiti Action Network invites all supporters
to join us in a Pan-Canadian Week of Action to demonstrate the growing
opposition to Canada’s disastrous policies in Haiti. With a launch
on Parliament Hill in Ottawa at 1pm on November 12, Haiti solidarity
organizers in at least six different cities (Halifax,
Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto,
Edmonton, and Vancouver) will be holding
demonstrations and other activities called to condemn the Canada-backed
sham elections in Haiti.
We are demanding that the Government of Canada:
* Withdraw the support of Elections Canada and all other bodies from
any elections held under current conditions of repression, which include
hundreds of political prisoners, police killings and terror, and the
exclusion of the poor from participation;
* Demand the immediate release of Amnesty International prisoner of
conscience Father Gérard Jean-Juste, former Prime Minister Yvon
Neptune, the folksinger Annette “Sò Ann” Auguste,
and all other political prisoners;
* Discontinue all RCMP training and logistical support for the human
rights-abusing Haitian National Police, and withdraw all Canadian logistical
support for the UN “peacekeeping” mission-turned repression
operation;
* Announce Canada’s support for the position of the governments
of the Caribbean community countries (CARICOM) and the African Union,
both of which are demanding an investigation into the circumstances
of President Aristide’s removal;
* Withdraw and withhold recognition of Haiti’s coup government
until President Aristide is returned to oversee the holding of fair
elections without repression.
Canada’s Role in Haiti’s Human Rights Crisis
The deeply-impoverished country of Haiti is in the midst of a major
human rights crisis, following the coup d’état sponsored
by Canada, the US, and France on February 29, 2004.
At the time of the coup, Canadians were told that Haiti’s former
President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, had resigned from the elected government
he led. This was not true. Aristide was coerced by US marines to leave
the country, was forced onto a plane, not told where he was going, and
dumped into the French-controlled dictatorship of the Central African
Republic. At the request of the US and France, the UN Security Council
quickly sanctioned the illegal coup and launched a “peacekeeping”
mission that quickly evolved into a military occupation force.
Canadians were also told that Canada would be working with the “international
community” – a euphemism for the US and France, Haiti’s
former colonizers – to deliver aid to Haiti and help rebuild it.
This was also not true. Instead, Canada and the other two coup-backers
have overseen the establishment of an unelected government that is facilitating
a brutal military occupation that features untold thousands killed,
more than a thousand political prisoners including “prisoner of
conscience” and potential presidential candidate Father Gérard
Jean-Juste, police executions and shootings of unarmed demonstrators,
UN military assaults on poor neighbourhoods, journalists murdered and
arrested for investigating police abuses, and the poor majority being
disenfranchised in a sham, Canadian-backed election process. Meanwhile,
the cost of living has skyrocketed, and the turmoil has left the population
far worse off than they were before the coup.
For corporate elites in Canada, the US, and Haiti itself, this disaster
is already paying dividends. Having failed to overcome President Aristide’s
resistance to the privatization of Haiti’s major state enterprises
(telephone, electricity, water, etc.), the economic plans being laid
for Haiti by the coup government and the World Bank are set to turn
the country into an even more easily exploited sweatshop zone, where
Canadian and American corporations can extract even greater profits
without fear of interference from a Haitian government interested in
protecting its population. A few Canadian companies, such as Gildan
Activewear and SNC-Lavalin, have already begun to cash-in on the new,
more business-friendly environment established following the coup. Share
prices for these companies are flying while Haitians are dying.
Enough is enough. The solidarity movement now building across Canada
through the Canada Haiti Action Network is calling for an immediate
end to these abuses, and the return of Haiti’s constitutionally
elected government. We reject the deployment of Canada’s own Chief
Electoral Officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley to lead the “monitoring
mission” appointed to bless this sham election in the same way
that sham occupation elections were blessed by Kingsley in Iraq earlier
this year. Jean-Pierre Kingsley is in a clear conflict of interest,
given his position on the Board of Directors of IFES, a US-funded NGO
with direct links to the International Republican Institute and other
groups that worked to undermine Haiti’s democracy and foment the
coup.
People and groups from all social justice movements are invited to join
us for these events, and we welcome the organization of other actions
under this banner. All organizations interested in endorsing this pan-Canadian
Week of Action, please contact Canada Haiti Action Network at (613)
864-1590, or email kskerrett@cupe.ca
For more information on Canada’s role in Haiti, and updates on
this Week of Action, please see www.canadahaitiaction.ca
or www.outofhaiti.ca
Sponsored by: Canada Haiti Action Network (CHAN), linking:
Haiti Action Halifax
Hamilton Haiti Action Committee
Haiti Solidarity BC
Haiti Action Montréal
Ottawa Haiti Solidarity
Committee Toronto Haiti Action
Endorsed by the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network as a FreeHaitiMovement
event
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Dessalines Is Rising!!
Ayisyen: You Are Not Alone!
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"Transformation is only valid if it is carried
out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth,
and a painful one. The person who emerges is a new person: no longer
either oppressor or oppressed, but a person in the process of achieving
freedom. It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free
their oppressors."
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