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It's demonstration time in Brazil and San Francisco

Brazil's Lula visits Haiti 5/28 to mark 4 years of brutal Brazil-led UN occupation

Rally Wed. May 28th, 4:30 - 6:00 PM

Brazil consulate, 300 Montgomery, S.F.

(at Pine, near Montgomery BART)

Join African drummers and the Haiti Action Committee to demand:

1. Withdraw Brazilian and all foreign occupation troops from Haiti!

2. Demand that all authorities in Haiti - including the Brazilian-led UN force - redouble their efforts for the safe return of disappeared human rights advocate Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine!

3. Free the political prisoners! End the continuing repression in Haiti!

Brazil's President Lula da Silva is set to visit Haiti on Wed. May 28, commemorating the 4th anniversary of the first arrival of Brazilian UN troops in Haiti following the 2004 coup d'etat.

UN forces moved in as a proxy force, after US troops kidnapped the democratically-elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Feb. 29, 2004 and installed a coup regime. More than 8,000 Aristide supporters were killed and thousands more 'disappeared', exiled or thrown into prison, where most remain locked up to this day.

Brazil commands the 9,000-strong UN force in Haiti, which has committed massacres and rapes in poor neighborhoods on July 6, 2005, on December 22, 2006, February 2007 and numerous other occasions -- attacking the civilians who are the base of support for President Aristide and his widely popular Lavalas political movement.

The San Francisco rally is in solidarity with labor demonstrations May 28th in Brazil and elsewhere on the occasion of President Lula's visit to Haiti. Their demand: All Brazilian and UN Troops Out of Haiti!

Wednesday 5/28 is also the day for the weekly Vigil for Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine in Port-au-Prince, and the Global Women's Strike weekly vigil for Lovinsky at the Brazilian consulate in London. On this day our love goes out to all the sisters and brothers in Haiti who are keeping the flame of freedom alive.

It's demonstration time in Brazil and San Francisco Brazil's Lula visits Haiti 5/28 to mark 4 years of brutal Brazil-led UN occupation Rally Wed. May 28th, 4:30 - 6:00 PM Brazil consulate, 300 Montgomery, S.F. (at Pine, near Montgomery BART) Join African drummers and the Haiti Action Committee to demand: 1. Withdraw Brazilian and all foreign occupation troops from Haiti! 2. Demand that all authorities in Haiti - including the Brazilian-led UN force - redouble their efforts for the safe return of disappeared human rights advocate Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine! 3. Free the political prisoners! End the continuing repression in Haiti! Brazil's President Lula da Silva is set to visit Haiti on Wed. May 28, commemorating the 4th anniversary of the first arrival of Brazilian UN troops in Haiti following the 2004 coup d'etat. UN forces moved in as a proxy force, after US troops kidnapped the democratically-elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Feb. 29, 2004 and installed a coup regime. More than 8,000 Aristide supporters were killed and thousands more 'disappeared', exiled or thrown into prison, where most remain locked up to this day. Brazil commands the 9,000-strong UN force in Haiti, which has committed massacres and rapes in poor neighborhoods on July 6, 2005, on December 22, 2006, February 2007 and numerous other occasions -- attacking the civilians who are the base of support for President Aristide and his widely popular Lavalas political movement. The San Francisco rally is in solidarity with labor demonstrations May 28th in Brazil and elsewhere on the occasion of President Lula's visit to Haiti. Their demand: All Brazilian and UN Troops Out of Haiti! Wednesday 5/28 is also the day for the weekly Vigil for Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine in Port-au-Prince, and the Global Women's Strike weekly vigil for Lovinsky at the Brazilian consulate in London. On this day our love goes out to all the sisters and brothers in Haiti who are keeping the flame of freedom alive.
	Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, abducted on August 12, is still missing. The mobilization for his safe return continues: in the U.S. Congress (see the letter from Rep. Maxine Waters to President Preval); on the streets (weekly vigils in Haiti, as well as vigils by Global Women's Strike at Brazilian Consulates in London and Los Angeles ); and on the internet (Petition to Save Lovinsky). * Demand action from Brazil, which commands the UN military mission occupying Haiti.
Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine is a grassroots leader, member of the Lavalas party, and the head of Fondayson Trant Septanm, a Haitian organization that advocates for victims of the 1991 and 2004 coup d'etats against the democratically-elected governments of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He was last seen on the evening of Sunday, August 12, 2007 after meeting with a US human rights delegation visiting Haiti. Demonstrate in S.F. on May 28th! And please continue to fax or call the following numbers. Express your concern that all efforts are being made to facilitate the safe return of Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine. For more information, visit www.haitisolidarity.net and www.haitiaction.net Haitian Ministry of Justice Tel: 011-509-245-0474 UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) Tel: 011-509-244-0650/0660 FAX: 011-509-244-9366/67 Or, Fax Office of Secretary General (New York): 212-963-4879 United States Embassy Port-au-Prince, Haiti Tel: 011-509-223-4711, or 222-0200 or 0354 FAX: 011-509-223-1641 HOME