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DESCRIPTION:SPEAKOUT to mark the 3rd anniversary of the earthquake that devastated 
 HAITI – actions in a number of countries are calling the US government 
 and NGOs on their rape and pillage of Haiti.\n\nTens of thousands of people 
 have been demonstrating in Haiti for months. Three years after the 
 earthquake, despite billions donated by a generous public, hundreds of 
 thousands of people are still struggling to survive in tent cities, 
 surrounded by rubble. They are still without clean water or food security 
 or income, still fighting the cholera imported by UN troops. And now they 
 face the further devastation of Hurricane Sandy, which destroyed 70% of the 
 crops (but only its impact on the US got publicity). See ‘Disastrous 
 Relief’http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/30/disastrous-relief-for-haiti\n\nHaiti 
 has more NGOs per square mile than any other country in the world, yet it 
 is the most impoverished in the western hemisphere. The NGOs have stolen 
 millions intended for earthquake survivors. And joining in the stealing, 
 the corrupt Martelly government put there by the US represses the mass 
 protests of a people who refuse to be defeated.\n\nSolidarity actions are 
 also planned in Guyana, UK and other countries.\n(We chose the 11th rather 
 than the 12th, the actual anniversary of the earthquake, because the Red 
 Cross offices will be closed Saturday. Other countries may prefer a 
 different day.)\n\n Some of us spoke out outside the London Red Cross in 
 May 2012. It was one of the biggest beneficiaries of public donations: at 
 least $479m to the US Red Cross alone (whose CEO earns $600,000 a year). 
 Hardly any of these millions have reached the survivors. Instead the Red 
 Cross is using some of it to build a luxury hotel and conference centre in 
 Haiti. We must protest this grand 
 theft.\nhttp://globalwomenstrike.net/content/protest-red-cross-theft-haiti 
 \nWestern governments and NGOs have used natural disasters as their 
 opportunity to destroy Haiti’s agriculture and impose sweatshops. At this 
 moment almost everywhere in the world there seems no limit to the plunder 
 by the elites. The burden and the trauma are falling especially on women 
 – the first carers, the poorest, and the hardest workers – the main 
 breadwinners in 70% of Haitian families. In protesting the rape of Haiti, 
 we refuse the rip-off we are suffering everywhere by the same elite.\n 
 \nWhat you can do:\n•         Bring your networks to the speakout.\n•   
       Circulate this call widely.  Even those who don’t come will be 
 informed.\n•         Contact your local media/radio station.\n•         
 Invite a GWS speaker to your school, college, community centre, church . . 
 .\n•         Pledge a regular donation to the Haiti Emergency Relief 
 Fund.  HERF is led by Haitians and every bit goes to those it is intended 
 for, particularly women’s self-help survival initiatives and food 
 co-operatives – there are no overheads.  www.haitiemergencyrelief.org\n 
 \nVigil called by: Global Women’s Strike (GWS), Women of Color in the 
 GWS; Endorsed by Haiti Action Committee\nTel: 415.626.4114\nEmail: 
 sf@allwomencount.net\n                                                      
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 http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/01/09/18729763.php
SUMMARY:Protest theft of Haitian relief by US Government & NGOs
LOCATION:Outside Red Cross, 3901 Broadway, Oakland, CA (near MacArthur BART)
URL:http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/01/09/18729763.php
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