Haitian community says: All out on Sept. 2nd at Madison Square Garden

Haitian Community Says:
ALL OUT ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND!

While Bush is accepting the nomination ...
Join us outside of Madison Square Garden to say:
U.S. Out of Iraq!
Bring the troops home now!
End the Colonial Occupation of Iraq, Haiti, Palestine and everywhere!

Gather at 7 pm at 8th Ave. and 31st St. for a Permitted Rally

Bring drums and noisemakers.
Let your voice be heard.
We will not be silent!

The Haiti Support Network (HSN) calls on all the supporters of Haiti’s movement for justice and sovereignty to turn out for the September 2 demonstration that start at 7 pm right outside Madison Square Garden as President George W. Bush accepts the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.

It is important to let George Bush know that the people of Haiti and the world do not accept his transparent and merciless drive to crush Haitian democracy.

U.S. Marines kidnapped Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Feb. 29 after a three-year Washington-orchestrated destabilization campaign. Haitians are now enduring skyrocketing inflation, brutal repression, and the humiliation of another foreign military occupation (Haiti’s third in the past 90 years) during the bicentennial of Haitian independence, history’s only successful slave revolution.

U.S. and French occupation troops have killed dozens of Haitians, particularly during a March massacre in Belair, and ransacked the homes of many more. Haitian jails, from which former Haitian soldiers posing as "rebels" freed common criminals and human rights abusers last February, are now filling up with pro-democracy political prisoners, detained after neighborhood sweeps and targeted arrests.

On Aug. 30, former Haitian soldiers took over the town of Petit-Goâve in the south, one more move in their campaign to reestablish the Haitian Army, dissolved in 1995, and claim ten years of back-pay.

Meanwhile, the same day, the anger of Haitians was articulated when crowds threw rocks and fired shots at a French government minister visiting a hospital in the Port-au-Prince slum of Cité Soleil on Aug. 30. He was trapped in the hospital for two hours before armored cars from the Brazilian-led U.N. occupation force came to whisk him away.

This incident reveals the deep anti-imperialist anger of the Haitian masses. All supporters of the Haitian people’s struggle for democracy, justice and self-determination should turn out on September 2 at Madison Square Garden to show their solidarity with the struggle in Haiti and say NO to occupation in Haiti, as well as those in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine.

Haiti Support Network (HSN), member organization of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition National Steering Committee.

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The demonstration is initiated by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition and is sponsored by a growing number of progressive and community organizations including the Free Palestine Alliance, Haiti Support Network, Al-Awda: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, The Palestine Right of Return Congress, NYCLAW (New York City Labor Against the War), Muslim Students Association - National, Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, Global Women’s Strike, African Services Committee, James Earl Chaney Foundation, Alliance for a Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines, Nicaragua Network, Mexico Solidarity Network and others. It is also endorsed by the National Council of Arab Americans (NCA).

Please consider making a much needed financial contribution. You can donate online using the secure server by clicking here. If you wish to make a tax-deductible contribution of $50 or more, mail a check payable to A.N.S.W.E.R./AGJ to: A.N.S.W.E.R., 1247 E St. SE Washington DC 20003. You can also make a tax-deductible credit card donation of $50 or more by calling 202-544-3389.

To get involved in the local activities, contact the A.N.S.W.E.R. office in New York City at 212-533-0417 (please take note of this number for all inquiries).

A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
Act Now to Stop War & End Racism

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