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DESCRIPTION:Haiti Action Committee condemns in the strongest possible terms the UN 
 Security Council vote on Monday to authorize yet another invasion of Haiti. 
 Organized and promoted by the US, the invasion will be fronted by Kenya, 
 which has pledged to send 1000 police. The Kenyan police force is notorious 
 for its corruption and brutality, including the recent killing of over 30 
 people in a peaceful demonstration over increased fuel prices. Soon, this 
 police force - along with other foreign troops - will be murdering 
 Haitians.\n\nThe authorization comes despite overwhelming opposition from 
 multiple sectors of Haitian society, who have demanded instead the removal 
 of the current regime of unelected and illegitimate Prime Minister Ariel 
 Henry and the installation of a broadly representative transitional 
 government. While the US characterizes this new intervention as an attempt 
 to stop “gang violence,” the real aim is to prop up the current 
 dictatorship and to fend off the broad-based efforts within Haiti to oust 
 it.  \n\nThis is why Henry, the neoliberal puppet of the US and the Core 
 Group of foreign occupiers, has called for foreign troops and why Kenyan 
 soldiers are preparing an invasion. Faced with collapsing infrastructure, 
 the spectre of famine looming over half the population, a new cholera 
 outbreak, and a defunded health care system, Haitians now fear that the 
 militarized national police and their armed proxies, the paramilitary 
 “gangs” who have been terrorizing dissident communities, will be 
 buttressed by more foreign tanks and troops, to further oppress the 
 civilian population.   \n\nWe remember the democratically elected 
 governments of Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the Lavalas movement that were 
 twice overthrown by US-supported coups d’etat. Had it not been for the 
 coups, “Today, many of the beautiful dreams of the Haitian people would 
 have already materialized,” a recent Fanmi Lavalas statement declared. 
 “The anti-democratic forces have produced a hell on earth: kidnapping, 
 insecurity, misery, hunger, corruption”—a failure that now requires a 
 new occupying army to sustain it. \n\nTHIS IS WHY WE OPPOSE A NEW FOREIGN 
 INVASION AND EXPRESS OUR OUTRAGE AT THE US GOVERNMENT’S POLICY\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/10/03/18859336.php
SUMMARY:Join Haiti Action Committee to protest yet another US/UN military invasion of Haiti!
LOCATION:San Francisco Federal Building, 7th & Mission Streets, San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/10/03/18859336.php
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