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DESCRIPTION:The powerful protests going on in Haiti expose the violence of intractable 
 poverty, misery, hunger, racism, repression and exclusion. After 14 years 
 of UN/US imposed policies and military occupation supported by a corrupt, 
 US-backed dictator, the Haitian people have had enough.\n\nFor years, many 
 thousands of Haitians have protested peacefully month after month against 
 foreign occupation, stolen elections, government corruption, poverty, land 
 grabs, and rising prices. The international media has ignored their 
 struggle and helped stifle their voices. Foreign investors and Haitian 
 elite have continued to amass enormous wealth while popular resistance has 
 been met with bullets, teargas, imprisonment and even death at the hands of 
 Haitian police and paramilitary forces.\n\nThe current crisis kicked off 
 when the Haitian government raised the price of gasoline, diesel and 
 kerosene — which were already high and out of reach for most. It has been 
 building as numerous arson fires over the past months have targeted Haitian 
 market women, wiping out dozens of public markets which sustain women’s 
 economic activity, upon which the livelihood of so many Haitian families 
 depends.\n\nFaced with deepening misery and unbearable living conditions, 
 the Haitian people have no choice but to resist. Fanmi Lavalas, the party 
 of Haiti’s poor majority, has supported the courage and determination of 
 the Haitian people in the face of dictatorship and oppression:\n\n"The 
 cauldron of corruption and lies has been boiling non-stop 24 hours a day. 
 The time has come to overturn it for Haitians to begin to see the light of 
 peace. Haiti is for all Haitians." - Fanmi Lavalas, July 8, 2018\n\nThis is 
 a time for solidarity. A time to stand with Haiti.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/07/14/18816454.php
SUMMARY:Stand with Haiti: Rally for Solidarity
LOCATION:Montgomery and Market Streets, downtown San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/07/14/18816454.php
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