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Haiti Capital Braces For Attack Port-au-Prince is on edge with flaming barricades up across the city and armed masked men patrolling the streets as the Haitian capital braces for an assault by armed gangs opposed to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. We go to Haiti to hear a report from the streets of Port-au-Prince....
Posted: Fri, Feb 27, 2004 10:03am PST
Oaks, petroleum fertilizer and Haiti la isla en el mar de Caribe called Haiti is center stage in the petroleum war shift. Corporations use FTAA/WTO globalization authority to exploit resources in South america. Oak trees could be part of global peace and ending violencia.....
Posted: Thu, Feb 26, 2004 11:20pm PST
Haiti: Different Coup, Same Paramilitary Leaders For a closer look at what is happening right now on the ground in Haiti, we look back at the involvement of the U.S. in the 1991-1994 coup period with veteran investigative journalist Allan Nairn who broke a number of stories that proved the direct links between US intelligence agencies and Haitian paramilitary death squads in the early 1990s....
Posted: Thu, Feb 26, 2004 6:17pm PST
Congressional Black Caucus: Bush Must Stop Haiti Coup After President Bush rejected Haitian President Aristide's appeal for immediate security assistance from the international community, members of the Congressional Black Caucus expressed their concern at what they say is Bush's refusal to preserve the democratically elected government in Haiti. We speak with Black Caucus member Rep. Maxine Waters....
Posted: Thu, Feb 26, 2004 6:15pm PST
Powell questions Aristide tenure:US One Step Closer to Openly Backing Haitian Death Squads Randall Robinson, a longtime analyst of U.S. policy in Africa and the Caribbean, expressed dismay at Powell's remarks but said the administration has never given support to Aristide.
"President Aristide is one of the finest people I have ever met," Robinson said. "What the administration has done to him is disgraceful."...
Posted: Thu, Feb 26, 2004 6:13pm PST
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 2/27/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.2MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Russia, China, Spain, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Feb 26, 2004 4:47pm PST
Haiti Background: Guy Philippe 
The feared Haitian army, disbanded by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is making a comeback. We take an in-depth look at the paramilitary leader who now claims to be in control of the Haitian police and military: Guy Philippe, a former Haitian police chief who was trained by US Special Forces in Ecuador in the early 1990s....
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 4:18pm PST
Haiti Background: Louis Jodel Chamblain 
Guy Philippe and Louis Jodel Chamblain, both received U.S. help and have been protected by the Dominican Republic's army, despite several requests for their return to face charges in Haiti. The Dominican army receives extensive U.S. assistance, including U.S. advisers near the Haitian border, and a year ago, a shipment of 20,000 M-16 rifles, many of which are believed to be in use in Haiti today. Guy Philippe was a soldier in the Haitian army (FADH) during the brutal 1991-1994 de facto dictat...
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 4:07pm PST
Issue #15 of Canada's Grassroots National Newspaper The Dominion is a free, not-for-profit newspaper available in print and online....
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 2:48pm PST
Chaos and fear grip Haiti capital Looting has erupted in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, which advancing rebels have vowed to capture....
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 12:50pm PST
Dates to Help do Outreach for Mumia Demo in April The Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal has planned to participate in and
organize a series of activities in the coming weeks to build for the SF
march and rally on April 24th to FREE MUMIA and to End the Death Penalty...
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 11:46am PST
Haiti: Throttled by history Haiti's political class has failed it, but the first black republic has also been squeezed dry by a vengeful west...
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 10:37am PST
Rally in Solidarity With the People of Haiti — San Francisco Thursday, February 26, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
SF Federal Building
Golden Gate Ave and Polk St...
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 10:30am PST
Renowned Haitian Journalist Michele Montas Discusses Haiti Award-winning Haitian journalist Michele Montas fled Haiti last year after her bodyguard was killed and continued threats against her forced her close her radio station and leave the country four years after her husband, Jean Dominique, was assassinated....
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 10:14am PST
Aristide Warns of Possible Refugee Crisis in Haiti In the past week, more than 400 Haitian refugees have reportedly landed on beaches in Jamaica and the Turks and Caicos Islands. We speak with the Center for Constitutional Rights' Michael Ratner who has dealt extensively with the issue of Haitian refugees for many years....
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 10:13am PST
Haiti's Lawyer: U.S. Is Arming Anti-Aristide Paramilitaries As opponents of Haitian President Aristide reject a U.S.-brokered peace plan, we speak with Ira Kurzban who has served as General Counsel for the government of Haiti since 1991. [includes transcript]...
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 10:12am PST
Aristide supporters prepare for last stand in Haiti capital Supporters of Haiti's embattled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide steeled themselves for a last stand in the capital, Port-au-Prince, yesterday. They faced a rapidly expanding rebel insurgency which tightened its grip on the country's second-largest city, Cap-Haitien, and vowed to have the country under its control within two weeks....
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2004 9:55am PST
2/27 in SF: Commemorate 200th Anniversary of the Haitian Revolution Friday, February 27
7 p.m.
African & African-American
Arts & Culture Center
762 Fulton St (btwn Webster and Laguna)...
Posted: Tue, Feb 24, 2004 10:15pm PST
AHP News from Haiti 2/18-24 Prime Minister Yvon Neptune calls on the opposition Platform to adopt the
plan proposed as a way out of the crisis by the international community, and thus
put an end to the escalation of violence......
Posted: Tue, Feb 24, 2004 3:55pm PST
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