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DESCRIPTION:Pre-March Protest in Solidarity with the fighting people of 
 Haiti\n\nRECLAIMING DR. KING'S RADICAL LEGACY\n\n"Injustice anywhere is a 
 threat to justice everywhere"\n\nBlack Lives Matter - From Haiti to the Bay 
 #ReclaimMLK\n\nJoin Haiti Action Committee March Contingent:\nMONDAY, 
 JANUARY. 18th - 10AM\nOAKLAND FEDERAL BUILDING\n1301 Clay Street, Oakland 
 (12th St. BART)\n\nDrummers and report from Haiti by Pierre 
 Labossiere\nMarch from Federal Bldg 2 blocks to join the 11AM rally and 
 march Reclaiming the Radical Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr\n\nHaiti is 
 in the streets almost every day – as tens of thousands turn out to demand 
 that the stolen 2015 election be thrown out. The mass movement is telling 
 the U.S./U.N. occupiers: “Don’t Steal Our Votes!” The people are 
 demanding: “Reclaim Haiti’s sovereignty!” No more foreign occupation 
 and control!\n\nHaiti’s struggle is our struggle. It’s now 50 years 
 since the U.S. Voting Rights Act, but it’s been rolled back to 
 systematically deny Black people the right to vote – again. In Haiti the 
 2015 elections were plagued by endless and well-documented ballot stuffing, 
 vote buying, armed coercion, naked vote rigging – yet the U.S. ambassador 
 gave his “OK” to the faked election results. In effect, whether it’s 
 here or in Haiti, the U.S. rulers are deliberately interfering with the 
 people’s right to freely choose the representatives that they 
 want.\n\nHaiti’s fight is our fight. Just as we in the Bay Area are 
 fighting against police murder of Black people, so it is in Haiti. The 
 State Dep’t wants to suppress the surging popular movement – using 
 police terror against the people. During the 2015 elections, special 
 US-financed police units sprayed machine gun fire into working-class 
 neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince and Arcahaie to suppress the vote, killing 
 scores of people.\n\nThe U.S. State Department is the main actor trying to 
 push through the fraudulent elections – maneuvering to exclude Haiti’s 
 most popular political party – Lavalas – from any role in the next 
 government. The U.S. wants to keep in power corrupt puppets who are willing 
 to give away Haiti’s abundant mineral resources … privatize the mines 
 and the electric company … and keep factory wages at US$3/day – 
 continuing a long tradition of the U.S. and France stealing the wealth and 
 the labor of the Haitian people.\n\nLighting the fires of struggle – Many 
 have commented that the Haitian people, in their vast majority, are very 
 aware of their history – proud inheritors of the Revolution of 1791-1804, 
 when Haiti defeated the army of Napoleon, ended plantation slavery and 
 declared independence from France. “It’s on every lip,” said one 
 Lavalas activist. “People are saying that in rejecting this stolen 
 election, we are lighting the fires of struggle, continuing the fight for 
 equality and sovereignty that our ancestors fought for 200 years ago.”   
 \n                  \n**** \nFrom the Federal Building we will walk 2 
 blocks to join the 11:00 AM rally and march at Oscar Grant Plaza (14th & 
 Broadway): “Reclaiming the Radical Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.” 
 \n****              \n\nFor more information, connect with the Haiti Action 
 Committee: www.haitisolidarity.net @HaitiAction1 and on Facebook \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/01/14/18781824.php
SUMMARY:Reclaim MLK - Pre-March Protest in Solidarity with the fighting people of Haiti
LOCATION:Oakland Federal Building Conference Center\n1301 Clay St\nOakland, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/01/14/18781824.php
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