HIP – A new educational video released today by journalist and filmmaker Kevin Pina entitled Haiti: We will bend but we will not break highlights the resistance before the coup of Feb. 29, 2004. In this 20-minute video we see the roots of Haiti’s movement representing the majority of the poor struggle to contain [...]
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August 18, 2009
HURRICANE BILL WILL THREATEN HAITI THIS WEEK
“Hurricane Bill will threaten Haiti this week”
In addition to important weather news, this article includes this bewildering item:
“UN Envoy Bill Clinton has made numerous pronouncements about the effectiveness of economic aid and hurricane “relief,” but the effectiveness of the 9,000 UN occupation forces — MINUSTAH — in assisting the People of Haiti will hurricane preparedness [...]
August 13, 2009
GET YOUR HAITI ON: Read, Learn and Take Action
Here is a list of some of the latest articles concerning the situation in Haiti. These all appear on the site of “Haiti Action.” The author of the articles is Kevin Pina who is founder of the Haiti Information Project, a journalist and documentary filmmaker and Special Correspondent for the Flashpoints program on KPFA Radio [...]
July 30, 2009
CUBA: Raul Castro’s Speech at July 26th Celebration in Holguin
GRANMA INTERNATIONAL
Havana. July 28, 2009
The modest results reaffirm our optimism and confidence that yes, we can do it!
• Speech by General of the Army Raúl Castro Ruz, president of the Councils of State and Ministers, at the central rally commemorating the 56th anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Garrisons, [...]
July 26, 2009
HONDURAS: Zelaya Puts the Screws to Obama in a Letter
A letter from President Zelaya has gone to President Obama which gives him the names of the biggest golpistas, lists the crimes they have committed and requests that certain measures be taken against them. Now, Obama cannot claim he didn’t know. Zelaya should continue to communicate directly with Obama stating the obvious and asking Obama [...]
July 25, 2009
HONDURAS: Al Giordano Wrong about Zelaya and “Three-Ring Circus”
Al really does need to work himself out of his community organizer mode a bit. After all, what’s going on in Honduras is not about trying to clean up a polluted stream in the community or, for that matter, a workers’ strike for more pay. In the following article, Giordano condemns Zelaya along with Micheletti [...]
July 17, 2009
HONDURAS: FIDEL CASTRO, “What Should Be Demanded From the US”
What Should Be Demanded From The United States
Reflections by Comrade Fidel Castro
The meeting in Costa Rica didn’t, nor could it, lead to peace. The people of Honduras are not at war, it’s just the perpetrators of the coup who are using weapons against the people. One should demand that they cease their war against the [...]
June 24, 2009
HAITI (video): Footage Shows UN Shooting at Crowd in Haiti
Video footage shows UN shooting at crowd in Haiti
June 24, 2009
HIP- Port au Prince- Haiti’s largest privately owned TV station, Radio Tele-Ginen, released video footage today that contradicts denials by the UN that they only fired shots into the air during a funeral for Catholic priest Father Gerard Jean-Juste on June 18.
The footage obtained [...]
May 26, 2009
IN HAITI, ARISTIDE LIVES
LIBERTE
26 May 2009
IN HAITI ARISTIDE LIVES!
by Charlie Hinton
http://www.haitisolidarity.net/article.php?id=315
Four elections prove it.
In 1990 and 2000, overwhelming majorities elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide president, but military coups overthrew him both times.
In 2004, the U.S., France, and Canada led an occupation force that kidnapped and exiled him from the Americas. A United Nations military occupation force followed, led by [...]
May 25, 2009
FIDEL CASTRO ON HAITI: “Nothing Can Be Improvised in Haiti”
There has been much discussion about Haiti in the press and the recent announcement by UN Secretary-General, Ban-Ki Moon that former President Bill Clinton will be his special envoy to Haiti. John Maxwell, columnist for the Jamaica Observer, provided a searing indictment of the US’ entire policy towards Haiti, including the decision to send Clinton [...]
