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DESCRIPTION:Emergency Demonstration  Take Your ANGER to BUSH and POWELL  Protest the 
 U.S.-Led Occupation of HAITI  Thursday, October 28, 2004  4:30 p.m. Gather 
 at Powell & Market  5:00 p.m. March on Bush and Powell  BRING DRUMS, POTS 
 AND PANS TO MAKE NOISE  The Haitian people steadfastly demand the return of 
 President Jean Bertrand Aristide since the culmination of the 
 U.S.-sponsored coup on February 29th.  The U.S.-appointed Latortue 
 government has responded by jailing hundreds of Lavalas supporters, 
 including leading activists and several members of the former government. 
 These political prisoners have been illegally detained for months in 
 appalling conditions – none have been tried.  On September 30, tens of 
 thousands of Lavalas supporters marched in Port-au-Prince & Cap-Haitian to 
 mark the anniversary of the previous coup from 1991-4.  Units from the 
 National Police fired on these peaceful demonstrations while United Nations 
 “peacekeepers” stood by and did nothing.  The next morning, de facto 
 Prime Minister Gerard Latortue boasted at a press conference: \"We opened 
 fire on demonstrators; some of them have been killed, others injured, and 
 still others fled.”    Two days later, three leaders of Lavalas were 
 arrested at Radio Caraibe after criticizing the interim government on air.  
 On Wednesday, October 13 authorities arrested and roughed-up Father 
 Jean-Juste – a beloved priest, activist and pacifist -- while he served 
 600 hungry children in his parish.   Hundreds more have been arrested and 
 many dozens killed just in the past two weeks.  As of October 15, the tenth 
 anniversary of Aristide’s return from the previous coup, the popular 
 neighborhoods such as Cite Soleil and Bel Air are under siege by the police 
 -- augmented by the hated former military, as well as U.N. troops.    While 
 these deadly attacks continued, U.S. State Department chief-spokesman 
 Richard Boucher absurdly blamed Lavalas supporters for this state-sponsored 
 violence, calling on their movement to \"break with [its] legacy of 
 violence and criminality.\"  The message is clear: “Haitians no longer 
 have human rights.”  The people of Haiti will not back down.  They will 
 defend their neighborhoods.  They will not give up their demand to return 
 to the constitutional, elected government under President Aristide.  The 
 People of HAITI Need Your SOLIDARITY Now More Than Ever.  To Donate or For 
 More Information, CONTACT the HAITI ACTION COMMITTEE:  
 http://www.haitiaction.net	                    \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/10/25/50423.php
SUMMARY:Break the Silence – Tell the Truth About HAITI
LOCATION:meet at Powell and Market, near Powell BART  at 4:30pm  March to Bush and 
 Powell   at 5pm
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/10/25/50423.php
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