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Why don't we care more about Haiti?
Americans love freedom. Shouldn't we care deeply about its survival in the teacup-size country whose greatest general, Toussaint L'Ouverture, helped Haiti's citizenry defeat Napoleon's 60,000-man army in 1791, in what some historians describe as history's only successful slave revolt?...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 4:22pm PST
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CP) - Thousands of angry supporters of exiled president Jean-Bertrand Aristide demonstrated in the Haitian capital on Friday, threatening violence unless he is restored to power. Several blamed Prime Minister Paul Martin along with U.S. and French leaders for his removal....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 4:09pm PST
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Thousands of outraged supporters of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide poured out of Haiti's slums and into the streets on Friday, marching on the U.S. Embassy to denounce the "occupation" of their homeland and demand Aristide's return....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 4:07pm PST
Local Haitian activists are urging people from across the metro area to protest this Saturday against last weekend's U.S.-backed coup in Haiti....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 2:42pm PST
Please help defend the revolution in Venezuela! No to U.S. interference!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 2:17pm PST
The United States has repeatedly sponsored coups and uprisings in Haiti and in neighboring [democratic] Caribbean countries. ...With a violence-prone U.S. government operating with impunity in many parts of the world, only the public's perseverance in getting at the truth can save us, and others, from our own worst behavior....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 2:08pm PST
Haiti brings back the for gotten art of grieving as its mountains burn, its democracy is trampled by the jackbooted march of an ousted police chief who is supported and financed in the armed take over of the tiny nation by the Bush coup machinery bent on gaining corporate power and control of the impoverished nation nestled atop the Caribbean topography, criminally ousting its democratically elected leader....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 11:33am PST
Haiti's prime minister calls for an investigation of how Jean-Bertrand Aristide left the country. Aristide, meanwhile, wants to return....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:25am PST
In which the Canada Steamship State sails into uncharted waters, and all we get is a cheap T shirt....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:24am PST
Does the new Canadian Prime Minister support democracy in the Americas or U.S. orchestrated coups?...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:20am PST
Haiti, America, and the rest of the world...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:19am PST
There's a wave of anger about these ads all over the media right now. The media need the pressure to ask the real questions, the ones that go beyond the ad itself. Do ONE thing towards this efffort, and keep the wave going....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:18am PST
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A three-member commission Thursday began working to select a new prime minister and organize a transitional government to end the crisis that plunged Haiti into a violent tailspin and forced President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to resign....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:15am PST
Realpolitik: a ruthlessly realistic and opportunist approach to statesmanship rather than a moralistic one....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:12am PST
South Africa has also expressed concerns. The country’s foreign affairs minister said if the U.S. did kidnap Aristide it will “have serious consequences and ramifications for the respect of the rule of law and democracy the world over.”...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:10am PST
This year, and for every year for
the rest of my life, the approach of March will mean something else entirely - the
anniversary of the brutal death of my cousin, Rachel Corrie....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 11:19pm PST
South Africa has joined calls for an independent investigation into claims that Haiti's President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was forced out of office....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 8:09pm PST
South Africa added its voice last night to a growing international chorus questioning the circumstances surrounding Jean-Bertrand Aristide's departure from Haiti and demanded an investigation into allegations that the US forcibly removed a democratically elected president from office....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 8:02pm PST
Relatives of victims killed in the 11 September 2001 attacks have criticised George W Bush for using images from the tragedy in his campaign advertisements....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 6:57pm PST
We, the undersigned women of the Caribbean and of Caribbean descent, denounce the US-backed coup, which culminated in President Aristide’s removal from Haitian soil by US forces on Sunday, February 29, 2004....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 6:35pm PST