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FANMI LAVALAS OF HAITI IS COMING TO OAKLAND!

On the 20th anniversary of the 2004 coup that overthrew the democratically elected administration of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the Fanmi Lavalas Party, we commemorate the continued resistance of Haiti’s grassroots movement. 

The program will be held at Eastside Arts Alliance in Oakland and live-streamed on YouTube.

Click on YouTube or copy-paste https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-1QoZ095FQ

Featured speakers are Dr. Maryse Narcisse and Joel Edouard “Pacha” Vorbe, members of the Fanmi Lavalas Executive Committee; Dr. Rama Ali Kased, US Palestinian Community Network, Assistant Professor of Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University; Pierre Labossiere, co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee; and Professor Walter Turner, host of KPFA Africa Today and president of the Global Exchange Board of Directors. 

Marvin X will read poetry accompanied by Andrew Reynolds on drums.

Haiti’s Lavalas governments made historic advances in health care, women’s rights, housing, economic justice, food sovereignty, and education. The 2004 coup reversed these gains and ushered in 20 years of foreign occupation, dictatorship, terror, and a wave of neoliberal economic policies that have created a disaster in Haiti. 

However, the achievements of the Aristide administration are etched deep in Haiti’s soul and remain a foundation for Haiti’s future.

AARP COMMUNITY CHALLENGE GRANT PROGRAM

Artists, community engagers, educators, muralists – ALL:

I found learned of this grant opportunity at 6:22 AM today, March 6, 2024. For those who are interested, the deadline is the end of the day, today!

If you are engaged in projects that uplift communities this grant is for you. It’s a yearly program, so if not 2024, then plan for 2025!

Good luck, all!

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Berta Cáceres: 8 Years After Her Murder, Justice Still Not Confirmed.

Statement by COPINH on the 8th anniversary of the assassination of Berta Cáceres. Press Release#1 2024 COPINH, together with the

Source: Berta Cáceres: 8 Years After Her Murder, Justice Still Not Confirmed.

Secret cable: CIA orchestrated Haiti’s 2004 coup – The Grayzone

URGENT: PLS SHARE! Haiti faces imminent invasion/occupation from U.S. proxy William Ruto’s 1000 police, paid4 by $US200M / The Haitian PPL neither want nor need another foreign invasion. The PPL of Haiti 🇭🇹 fight 4 Dignity Sovereignty & Liberation; they fight4 “Sali Piblik” bit.ly/3atiEug / The info n the secret cable explains more – 20 yrs after the 2004 U.S. instigated coup – abt who’s responsible4 Haiti’s destabilization.

A classified diplomatic cable obtained by The Grayzone reveals the role of a veteran CIA officer in violently overthrowing Haiti’s popular President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004. A spectacular jailbreak in Gonaïves, Haiti in August 2002 saw a bulldozer smash through the local prison walls, allowing armed supporters of Amiot “Cubain” Métayer, a gang leader jailed
— Read on thegrayzone.com/2024/03/01/secret-cable-cia-haiti-coup/