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DESCRIPTION:  Stop U.N. "Peacekeeper" massacres in Haiti!  EMERGENCY PROTEST!  
 Thursday, July 21st  Gather: 4 P.M. - Powell and Market, San Francisco  On 
 the morning of July 6, 2005, more than 350 heavily armed United Nations 
 "peacekeeping" forces killed at least 23 unarmed people in the densely 
 populated Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Cite Soleil. Some estimates 
 indicate that 50 or more may have died. The UN Force Commander, Brazilian 
 Lt. General Augusto Heleno, claims there was a "firefight," yet there were 
 no UN deaths or injuries.  THIS WAS A MASSACRE. Photographic evidence and 
 eyewitness testimony confirm that the U.N. murdered unarmed civilians, 
 including a 4-year old child, shot through the head.  Cite Soleil has been 
 the focus of attacks by both UN forces and the Haitian police because it 
 remains a powerful base of support for the democratically elected President 
 Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the Lavalas movement. The U.N. operation 
 targeted and killed Emmanuel "Dred" Wilme, a well-known community leader in 
 Cite Soleil, who had been in the forefront of the neighborhood's resistance 
 to the illegal coup regime. The attack came just a few days after U.S. 
 Ambassador to Haiti James Foley labeled Haitian grassroots activists as 
 "terrorists" and "gang members", sending a clear signal that it was now 
 open season on civilians.  Since a U.S.-orchestrated coup overthrew the 
 democratic government in February 2004, a United Nations force of 7500 
 troops has occupied Haiti. The U.N. has supported the coup regime, which 
 has killed and imprisoned thousands of innocent people. As the U.N. mouths 
 its concerns for human rights around the world, it attacks the poorest 
 communities in Haiti and backs up the violent repression carried out by the 
 Haitian police. Brazil continues to do the bidding of the United States by 
 heading-up this brutal U.N. military operation in Haiti.  On July 21, there 
 will be coordinated protests in many U.S. and Canadian cities to condemn 
 the U.N. massacre in Cite Soleil. Please join us!  END THE U.S./U.N. 
 OCCUPATION OF HAITI! RESTORE DEMOCRACY AND PRESIDENT ARISTIDE!  Thursday, 
 July 21st  Gather: 4 P.M. - Powell and Market, San Francisco  March to 
 Brazilian Consulate, 300 Montgomery: 4:30 P.M.  Followed by Picket at the 
 Brazilian Consulate.  Sponsored by the HAITI ACTION COMMITTEE  For more 
 information: http://www.haitiaction.net haitiaction@yahoo.com 
 510.483.7481\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/07/20/71683.php
SUMMARY:Emergency Protest!! Stop U.N. "Peacekeeper" Massacres in Haiti
LOCATION:Gather: 4 P.M. - Powell and Market, San Francisco  March to Brazilian 
 Consulate, 300 Montgomery: 4:30 P.M.  Followed by Picket at the Brazilian 
 Consulate.  
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/07/20/71683.php
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