Entries Tagged as ‘UN Security Council’

August 21, 2009

New Kevin Pina Video “Haiti: We Will Bend But We Will Not Break”

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

May 25, 2009

HAITI: Bill Clinton, Haiti’s Great White Hope? by John Maxwell

“Haiti’s Great White Hope?
COMMON SENSE
JOHN MAXWELL
Sunday, May 24, 2009
History is littered with treachery. In the noisome Slough of Dishonour are mired thousands of reputations, most of those who betrayed their own countries, like Pierre Laval, Vidkun Quisling, Jonas Savimbi and Augusto Pinochet.
JOHN MAXWELL
The deepest pits, though, the most purulent sinks, are reserved for those who [...]

May 8, 2009

HAITI (videos): United Nations’ Peacekeeping Massacres – Making the 2004 Coup Stick

It’s been over five years since the coup in Haiti in which the President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was kidnapped and dumped in the Central African Republic.  The coup was planned and orchestrated by the US, France, and Canada.  About 200 “rebels,” no doubt financed by the US, made a series of cross border attacks from their [...]

May 6, 2009

Latin America in the Fast Lane: Let’s Take a Cuban Music Break “Hasta Siempre, Che Guevara” (videos)

Okay, folks it has been a busy few weeks.  Latin American leaders have been hopping all over the hemisphere making news everywhere they go.  In fact, they are making such big news, even US media is paying attention.  But, all this frenzy has worn me out and now I just want to chill to out.
In [...]

April 30, 2009

CUBA (video): Raul Castro Speech to the Non-Aligned Movement

Cuba is currently the president of the Non-Aligned Movement which is holding a ministerial meeting in Havana this week in preparation for a heads of state NAM meeting in Sharm El Sheik, Egypt,  July 11-16, 2009.  Raul Castro gave an excellent speech at the ministerial meeting.  Since not everyone may be familiar with the NAM [...]