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Aristide calls for resistance after six killed in Haiti violence
PORT-AU-PRINCE : Exiled Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide called on his supporters to peacefully resist foreign occupation a day after gunmen opened fire on an opposition rally, killing at least six people, including a journalist, and wounding 34 more...
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 1:38pm PST
A Shot Off the Bow: Haitian Democracy be Damned!
We have seen in Haiti what happens when a democracy goes against the interests and ideology of the Bush administration. For all their talk of democracy (the only surviving rationale for the war on Iraq), we now know what we ought to have known all along: America's support is contingent on cooperation in free trade policies; democracy be damned!...
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 1:28pm PST
South Africa Cannot Back the Removal of Aristide
Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has issued a statement, saying "the South African government joins Caricom leaders in expressing deep concern regarding developments and circumstances that led to the departure of a democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, from office ... The slow response of the UN Security Council to pleas for assistance by the government of Haiti ... remains a matter of serious concern ... SA stands ready to support all efforts by Caricom to hel...
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 1:27pm PST
Aristide Plans to Sue U.S., France for Kidnap -Lawyer
PARIS (Reuters) - Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide plans to sue the United States and France for allegedly kidnapping him, one of his lawyers said on Monday....
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 1:22pm PST
Transcript of Democracy Now's Interview with Aristide
At approximately 7:20 am EST, Democracy Now! managed to reach exiled Haitian
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide by cell phone in the Central African
Republic. His comments represent the most extensive English-language interview
Aristide has given since he was removed from office and his country....
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 9:56am PST
Sept: Globalization and the Env'tal Justice Movement:
Globalization and the Environmental Justice Movement:
An ASLE/UAS Symposium
September 23-25, 2004, Tucson, AZ (Call for Papers by May 31)...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:39pm PST
Four Haitians and Spanish journalist die in anti-Aristide protests
Five people were killed and more than thirty were injured as thousands of Haitians demonstrated against Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the ousted president, in Port-au-Prince yesterday....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 9:06pm PST
Stop CAFTA, Stop the FTAA!
In the face of growing opposition from developing countries in
multinational forums such as CAFTA and the FTAA, the Bush administration is now turning to an
emphasis on bilateral trade deals in an effort to bully our smaller Central
American trade partners into accepting painful concessions on trade....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 2:40pm PST
HAITI ACTION ALERT: Aristide Under Lock & Key, U.S. Delegation Says
"We were stopped at the gates by a guard who contacted a Central African Republic official inside the building. A representative of the Central African Republic came out to speak with us," Ives reported. "We asked to go in to visit President Aristide and were told we could not. We asked if he could come out to see us, and we were told no. We asked if we could send in a note or our phone number, and we were told no. The official then told us that he had spoken with the Minister ...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 1:02pm PST
Stop CAFTA, Stop the FTAA!
In the face of growing opposition from developing countries in
multinational forums such as CAFTA and the FTAA, the Bush administration is now turning to an
emphasis on bilateral trade deals in an effort to bully our smaller Central
American trade partners into accepting painful concessions on trade....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 12:17pm PST
U.S. and France Kiss and Make Up, Haitian Democracy Dies
Leave it to the New York Times to turn the bloody overthrow of a democratically elected President into a veritable love story. In an article published on March 3 entitled "U.S. and France Set Aside Differences in Effort to Resolve Haiti Conflict" the newspaper of record reported that "the joint diplomacy over Haiti is a dramatic example of how the longtime allies can set aside differences, find common ground, play to their strengths and even operate in an atmosphere of trust.&q...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:47am PST
HAITI: Washington was behind `coup’ says Aristide
“The Haitian constitution is working”, US President George Bush told the media on March 1. It might seem an odd way to describe a country overrun by armed thugs and, now, foreign troops, and whose elected president has been kidnapped and spirited away. But what Bush meant was that the Haitian constitution is now working to the benefit of Washington's elite....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:45am PST
Haiti: Washington's Tar Baby
Aristide is not the first Haitian leader to have been kidnapped by the US. In 1915, they arrested and exiled (to Jamaica) Dr Rosalvo Bobo, who was not only a noted physician but also the leader of the Haitian majority party, and was scheduled to be formally elected as president by the Haitian Parliament....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:43am PST
Before fall of Aristide, Haiti hit by aid cutoff
WASHINGTON -- For three years, the US government, the European Union, and international banks have blocked $500 million in aid to Haiti's government, ravaging the economy of a nation already twice as poor as any in the Western Hemisphere....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:41am PST
Bush Must Go
This is an article about expressed views by half the country. Thanks Be To God!...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 10:35am PST
Revealed: Shocking new evidence of the dangers of GM crops
Genetically modified strains have contaminated two-thirds of all crops in US...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 10:11am PST
National Conference of Black Lawyers Blasts Kidnapping of Aristide
NCBL stands firmly in support of President Aristide, and we offer our full support to those courageous members of the Congressional Black Caucus and others who have dared to defy the U.S. political establishment and expose the lies of the Bush Administration and its lackeys in the corporate mass media....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 10:08am PST
3/6 AHP News on Haiti
Guy Philippe’s rebels are still armed; supporters of the platform and Lavalas
supporters are getting ready to demonstrate...
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 10:03am PST
HAITI: Another US foreign policy tragedy
THE UNITED States has registered yet another foreign policy tragedy in a long series of such episodes in the world, particularly in the Latin American region, long considered its sphere of influence....
Posted: Sat, Mar 6, 2004 11:02pm PST
Defeat for Democracy: Haiti and the US
PRESIDENT Jean-Bertrand Aristide's exile from Haiti represents a defeat for democracy and a victory for the island's brutal elite, supported by the US Republican right....
Posted: Sat, Mar 6, 2004 10:59pm PST