EMERGENCY RESPONSE DEMONSTRATION

HAITI SOLIDARITY

Monday, March 1, 2004

Powell & Market, SF, 5 p.m.

(adjacent to Powell Street BART)

Dear Friends,

This is horrible day for
Haiti and a shameful day in the history of the United States. The forced ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide culminates a U.S.-led destabilization campaign to undermine and sabotage Haitiís democratically elected government. As the violence spreads in Haiti, our government has blood on its hands.

While the corporate media talks about President Aristideís ìresignationî, it is clear that the United States gave the ultimatum and pulled the trigger.

According to sources
within Haiti, United States Special Forces went to
President Aristide's house, took him to the Palace and presented him with a resignation to sign. They made it quite clear that, without his resignation, there would be no international assistance to defend Haiti against the heavily armed commandos who have terrorized Haiti for weeks. We have heard from at least two sources that he refused to sign. President Aristide was later taken to the airport and put on a plane out of the country. He made no public statement and has not been in contact with anyone since. His whereabouts are currently unknown.

Haiti Action Committee
February 29, 2004


Call the White House, the State Department and your local
representatives to denounce this U.S.-engineered coup.

; Congressional Switchboard 800.839.5276 or 202.224.3121

Nancy Pelosi's SF Office 415.556.4862


White House Comment Line 202.456.1111


; U.S. State Department 202.647.5291 or 202.647.7098 (phone)

202.647.2283 or 202.647.5169 (fax)

for more information, contact the Haiti Action Committee:

http://www.haitiaction.net

haitiaction [at] yahoo.com

haitiaction [at] yahoo.com 510.483.7481


http://www.haitiaction.org/News/hac2_29_4.html

More pics at
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/03/1671972.php