HAITI – AID THOSE WHO NEED IT MOST AND DO IT NOW!
As the death count rises in Haiti, the effects of a catastrophic natural disaster are compounded – as in Hurricane Katrina – by political failure, by the consequence of generations of U.S. intervention in Haiti. Six years after it forced out the democratic Aristide government, and replaced it with a brutal coup regime, the U.S. is advancing a massive military operation in Haiti. While thousands of American troops amass in Port-au-Prince, thousands of Haitians are dying from lack of water and medicine, starving while food supplies sit on the airport tarmac.
This is a time for aid, not charity; for solidarity, not a calculated U.S. military take-over. Demand accountability of the US government and the United Nations. Demand respect for the resiliency and courage of the Haitian people, and the return of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to his homeland, as the vast majority of Haiti’s people demand.
PRIORITIZE MEDICAL AND HUMANITARIAN RELIEF, NOT MILITARY OCCUPATION.
- Get the people of Port-au-Prince clean water, food, and medical treatment now
- Allow President Aristide to return to Haiti from forced exile in South Africa.
- Respect human rights. Do not criminalize a traumatized population that needs aid!
SPREAD THE WORD. LET’S MAKE THIS INTERNATIONAL
DONATE TO HAITI EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND: www.haitiaction.net
For more information, see: www.haitisolidarity.net
