10/28/2004: Dozens of people gathered in downtown San Francisco at Powell and Market streets on 10/28/2004 to protest U.S. support for the current murderous coup regime in Haiti. Given the key role Bush Administration officials, including Secretary of State Colin Powell, played in orchestrating the February 29, 2004 ouster of democratically-elected President Aristide, the explicit call of the action was for people to “take your anger to Bush and Powell.” Now that the U.S.-backed death squads which forced President Aristide into exile have control over much of the country, many of the activists previously in close contact with friends in the Bay Area have either been killed or gone into hiding; local activist Pierre Labossiere gave powerful descriptions of the heightened terror campaign against supporters of Aristide and his Lavalas Party, and pointed out that in Haiti, “Unless you vote for the elite or military thugs, it’s a crime, in effect to vote. Those who voted for Lavalas now have a death sentence over their heads.” Read more | Haitiaction.net