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Report from Haiti: School Threatened by Opposition Thugs
Haitian activists call for "urgent action": Haitians in Haiti are being slaughtered....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 4:30pm PST
Aristide: 'Marines forced me to leave'
In the end, Jean-Bertrand Aristide left Haiti the same way he came in 10 years ago: at the pleasure of the United States, under escort from the Marines, with the streets of Port-au-Prince at the mercy of former army officers and paramilitary death squad commanders....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 3:43pm PST
A Transman Meets Dennis Kucinich
Here is an article I wrote about what happened when I met Congressman Dennis Kucinich in Massachusetts last week. Please vote for Dennis on Super Tuesday!...
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 1:54pm PST
Bringing Hell to Haiti, Part 1
by David Edwards and Media Lens
www.dissidentvoice.org
March 1, 2004...
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 1:43pm PST
Haiti president accuses US of kidnap
An African-American activist said on Monday that Aristide told him on the phone that he was kidnapped at gunpoint by American soldiers and ousted in a US coup d'etat.
Aristide said he was being held prisoner at the Renaissance Palace in Bangui, Central African Republic, activist Randall Robinson told CNN....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 12:23pm PST
Another blow to democracy in homeland, local Haitians lament
'Le mal est Infini'. Aristide supporters blame world powers for failure to support elected president...
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 10:56am PST
Haiti as Target Practice: How the US Press Missed the Story
"The fact that the group in charge of Haiti policy today in the State Department has been literally gunning for Aristide since before his initial election as a champion of democracy in 1990 has been left all but unmentioned by the US press."...
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 10:29am PST
"I Was Kidnaped"--Aristide
"I was kidnaped by U.S. Marines and forced to leave Haiti," Jean-Bertrand Aristide told Congresswoman Maxine Waters in a phone call Monday morning from the Central African Republic. "I did not resign." Photo: President Aristide lofting flag during bicentennial celebration....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 10:24am PST
Gay wedding raided by police in small town in Saudi Arabia
Guests fled the venue at the sight of police cars and left some 30 vehicles behind, according to sources....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 9:30am PST
Callout to International Mobilization Against the FTAA/bFTA's for April 17
This is a callout from the anti-FTAA campaign based in Quito, Ecuador. Recognising that bilateral free trade agreements with the United States have replaced the FTAA as the new and immediate threat for the Andean and Central American nations, we call out for an international network of solidarity to fight neoliberalist politics and mobilize on April 17 international day of peasant struggles...
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 8:41am PST
PHONE CALL by PRESIDENT ARISTIDE to Congresswoman Maxine Waters. (audio/mpeg 15.6MB)
Amy Goodman talked with Representative Waters after she had received a phone call from Haitian President Aristide Monday (Mar. 1) morning. Eleven minutes mp3 15MB....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 8:12am PST
PHONE CALL by PRESIDENT ARISTIDE to Randall Robinson (audio/mpeg 3.1MB)
Amy Goodman talked with Randall Robinson after he had received a phone call from Haitian President Aristide Monday (Mar. 1) morning. Two minute QT mp3 3MB....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 7:47am PST
The overthrow of Haiti’s Aristide: a coup made in the USA
The violent overthrow and forced exile of Haiti’s President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has ripped aside the democratic pretensions of Washington and the other major powers to expose the brutal and predatory character of resurgent imperialism. The actions taken by the US government in Haiti demonstrate the farcical character of its claims that the aim of the US invasion of Iraq was to inaugurate an era of democratization and freedom in the Middle East and around the world....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 7:01am PST
How The US Forced Aristide Out
BANGUI, Central African Republic - Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide took refuge in the Central African Republic early Monday, fleeing Haiti and rebels there under an asylum offer negotiated by France and the United States....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 6:59am PST
We are pagan and we vote! (explanation)
In the memory of all those who will be casting their votes
in November of 2004, there has been no administration
whose policies and actions have been more antithetical to
the tenets of Druidic faith than those of George W. Bush....
Posted: Sun, Feb 29, 2004 11:24pm PST
U.S. OUSTS ARISTIDE: Another coup in Haiti
woke up this morning to the terrible news that the U.S. and its criminal allies had succeeded in forcing duly-elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to resign....
Posted: Sun, Feb 29, 2004 11:17pm PST
Hacktivists Deface Dare.com in Act of Electronic Civil Disobedience
Hackers have targeted dare.com in political protest of the criminalization of marijuana, the hypocrisy of the war on drugs, and the indoctrination of today's youth through the DARE program....
Posted: Sun, Feb 29, 2004 10:53pm PST
Help Stop Cuts to Higher Education in Florida
A grassroots coalition of student groups has formed in Tallahassee, Florida to combat cuts to higher education and tuition increases. Please visit our website and sign the petition....
Posted: Sun, Feb 29, 2004 4:49pm PST
Aristide touches down in Antigua for refueling, food; destination unknown
Jean-Bertrand Aristide's plane stopped for food and fuel on the Caribbean island of Antigua on Sunday before departing for South Africa, government and airport officials said, but it remained unclear where the ousted Haitian president would seek asylum.
But a South African official said there had been no recent contact with Aristide or any offer of asylum.
Panama's president, who did offer Aristide asylum, said her government was told by the United States that Aristide was heading to ...
Posted: Sun, Feb 29, 2004 4:33pm PST
A Statement of Solidarity with the Haitian People from EPICA
No U.S. Intervention in Haiti! Let the Haitian People Decide!...
Posted: Sun, Feb 29, 2004 4:28pm PST