Event: Haitian Lives Matter – Week of Action 10-16 Dec 2020
| Haitian Lives Matter! JOIN WEEK OF ACTION IN SUPPORT OF TODAY’S BLACK JACOBINS From 10 Dec (Intl Human Rights Day) to 16 Dec (30th anniversary of Haiti’s first democratically elected government) Today, Haitians are in revolt against a corrupt government backed by the US and other western powers. As the movement has grown, the government has unleashed death squads reminiscent of the worst days of the Duvalier dictatorships. People around the world are asked by the Haitian movement to act in solidarity with them December 10-16th. Steve McQueen’s award-winning Small Axe series mentions how The Black Jacobins, CLR James’s history of the Haitian revolution that abolished slavery and established the first Black republic in 1804, has inspired resistance and organizing in the UK – from the Mangrove Nine defendants to author Alex Wheatle. But the descendants of the Black Jacobins are still struggling to defend their revolution from imperialist occupations, coups and massacres. On December 16, Haitians will commemorate the first free election which brought Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the people’s party, Lavalas, to power after decades of brutal dictatorship. Within seven months, a US-orchestrated coup ousted Aristide and installed a military dictatorship that murdered thousands; re-elected in 2000, Aristide was removed by US marines in 2004 as Haiti celebrated the bicentenary of its revolution. |
 | Join 10 December Banner drop “HAITIAN LIVES MATTER STOP MASSACRES IN HAITI” Include the name of your organistion. Send photos to action.haiti@gmail.com More information Haiti Action Committee Global Women’s Strike (GWS) gws@globalwomenstrike.net Women of Colour/GWS womenofcolour@globalwomenstrike.net +44 (0)20 7482 2496 Contribute to fundraising for the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund |
| Watch our documentary How the Mangrove Nine Won, the “perfect accompaniment” to Steve McQueen’s film, with defendant Altheia Jones-LeCointe and “renegade” defence lawyer Ian Macdonald, both riveting speakers. Read Camden New Journal’s stunning review |  |
| · Watch Campaign for Dignity with former First Lady Mildred Aristide, Danny Glover, Maxine Waters of the Congressional Black Caucus who ensured the Aristides’s safe passage to South Africa after the 2004 coup, and others. · Get your organization/college/office/union branch to donate to HERF and issue a statement demanding an end to the massacres in Haiti. See letter of support from the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival in California. · Watch Massacres in Haiti about Lasalin. |