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Hell Freezes Over; Miami Herald Runs Good Haiti Election Piece Posted on Sat, Jul. 23, 2005
An election without voters...
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 3:31pm PDT
Roger Noriega, the Architect of the Rule of Terror in Haiti, Quits State Department Two years to the day of his July 29, 2003, confirmation, Roger F. Noriega, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, quit his job. Noriega was the chief architect of the coup d'etat against Haiti's internationally recognized democratically elected President and all 7,000 elected officials of Haiti....
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 6:32am PDT
This Tuesday at 7PM: Eyewitness Haiti Educational Forum 
Tuesday, August 2nd - 7:00 PM
Women's Building - San Francisco
18th Street between Guerrero and Valencia...
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 6:31am PDT
Haiti: Father Jean-Juste sends a message from prison Message to all from Fr. Gerard Jean-Juste inside Haitian National Penitentiary:...
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 6:28am PDT
REPRESSION IN HAITI MOUNTS The U.S.-backed de facto government of Haiti has stepped up its repression of truthful voices, jailing pro-democracy priest Fr. Gérard Jean-Juste, summoning the director of independent Radio Solidarity to court, and jailing activists who have sought refuge in the Dominican Republic....
Posted: Fri, Jul 29, 2005 6:15pm PDT
Fr. Jean-Juste - Pastor of the Poor Two weeks ago, I received an email from Fr. Gerard Jean-Juste of St. Clare's Catholic Church in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Fr. Jean-Juste and I have worked together through the What If? Foundation for over five years to bring food and education to impoverished children in his community. He wrote to tell me his excitement about the expansion of our food program and the start of this year's Summer Camp....
Posted: Fri, Jul 29, 2005 2:33am PDT
updated action list for Cite Soleil Here's an updated action call with updated list of
contacts. In particular, we're trying to get the
international human rights agencies to speak out...
Pass this list onto your circles......
Posted: Fri, Jul 29, 2005 12:24am PDT
Amnesty International Declares Father Jean-Juste a "Prisoner of Conscience" Haitian Priest Gerard Jean-Juste has been declared a "prisoner of conscience" by Amnesty International after his recent arrest and incommunicado detention. We speak with Amnesty International about his case and the ongoing violence in Haiti on the 90th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Haiti....
Posted: Thu, Jul 28, 2005 7:57am PDT
Release Political Prisoner and Democracy Activist Fr. Gérard Jean-Juste (Again) First the good news: our mobilization is having an impact. The grassroots outrage at the July 6 Cite Soleil shootings by UN Peacekeepers forced the UN to abandon its claim of no civilian casualties, issue an apology and even announce an investigation. Second, the movement for human rights in Haiti is accelerating. The last 10 days have seen protests against the Cite Soleil killings in 15 cities in Haiti, Brazil, Canada, France and the U.S. Amnesty International has declared Fr. Jean-Juste a...
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 10:23pm PDT
The UN troops in Haiti (video/quicktime 9.7MB) Seth Donnelly reports on his trip to Haiti.On the way to the Brazilian Consulate the marchers met a Local 2 UniteHERE demonstration. One-minute QT movie. 10MB...
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 6:47pm PDT
Your Help Needed for Haitian Priest and Activist Please help Human Rights First press for the release of Father
Jean-Juste and an end to the persecution of human rights
defenders in Haiti....
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 6:14pm PDT
Father Jean-Juste Held Since July 21st on Bogus Charges On July 25th, Amnesty International declared Catholic priest Gérard Jean-Juste a prisoner of conscience. He is being held in isolation in the Haitian National Penitentiary, and has been in isolation since late on July 21st....
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 11:49pm PDT
Amnesty International Declares Fr. Jean Juste a Prisoner of Conscience Amnesty International considers him a prisoner of conscience,
detained solely because he has peacefully exercised his right to freedom of
expression. He risks spending a long time in custody awaiting trial on
apparently trumped-up charges....
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 11:10pm PDT
Report on 15-city protests July 21-Outrage at Cite Soleil massacre of July 6 Protest campaign spreads to 5 countries & 15 cities in coordinated day of action.
Wave of Protest Condemns UN Massacre of Poor in Haiti...
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 12:29pm PDT
Father Jean-Juste Arrested in Port-au-Prince, Held Incommunicado Haitian Priest Gerard Jean-Juste, a leader in ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Lavalas party, was arrested last week and charged with the assassination of journalist Jaques Roche even though he was in Miami at the time of the murder. Father Jean-Juste is now being held incommunicado. We go to his lawyer, Bill Quigley, who just returned to Louisiana from Port-au-Prince....
Posted: Mon, Jul 25, 2005 7:03am PDT
March to Brazilian Consulate in San Francisco (video/quicktime 18.2MB) After the rally at Powell and Market, the demonstration moved down Market to Montgomery and then the Brazilian Consulate.
Three-minute QT movie. 18MB....
Posted: Sun, Jul 24, 2005 2:42pm PDT
BTL:U.N. Troops Accused of July 6th Massacre in Haiti's Cite Soleil Interview with Kim Ives, editor of Haiti Progres, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sat, Jul 23, 2005 4:55pm PDT
From Downing Street to Port au Prince: A Benefit for the Children of Haiti Don't miss this benefit for the children of Haiti on Saturday!...
Posted: Sat, Jul 23, 2005 12:36am PDT
Haiti - The Gaza Strip Of The Caribbean “Two helicopters flew overhead. At 4:30 AM, UN forces launched the offensive, shooting into houses, shacks, a church, and a school with machine guns, tank fire, and tear gas. Eyewitnesses reported that when people fled to escape the tear gas, UN troops gunned them down from the back.”...
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2005 7:07pm PDT
5,000 take streets as Haitian people resist UN occupation The word that best fits the mass resistance in Haiti to the UN/U.S. occupation of that country is heroic....
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2005 7:06pm PDT
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