On Monday, February 28th in San Francisco, the Haiti Action Committee held a rally and march, to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the the U.S.-led coup in Haiti. The coup occurred when a contingent of U.S. Marines kidnapped President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from his residence, put him on a plane and expelled him from the country. Hundreds of thousands have been driven into internal exile, thousands have been killed in political violence and hundreds of political prisoners have been incarcerated during the ensuing occupation..

The march targeted UN Plaza because the UN did not stabilize Haiti; the San Francisco Chronicle because of its scant coverage of the story of the situation in Haiti after the ouster of Aristide; the Chilean and Brazilian consulates because Brazil, whose troops are mostly in Port-au-Prince, leads the U.N. "peacekeeping" mission, while Chile has a large contingent of troops in the north; the French Consulate because France was Haiti's original colonizer and slave master, and Aristide's government demanded restitution from France, which may have pushed France to join with the U.S. and Canada to oust Aristide; and Dianne Feinstein because she has ignored Barbara Lee's demand that the U.S. investigate the truth of the manner in which Aristide was removed.
There were many other demonstrations in cities across the US on February 28th.

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