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> To: <ANSWER_seattle at yahoogroups.com<mailto:ANSWER_seattle at yahoogroups.com>>
> From: "International Action Center"
> <iac_sea at actionseattle.org<mailto:iac_sea at actionseattle.org>>
> Date: Mon,  4 Oct 2004 23:30:01 -0400
> Subject: [ANSWER_seattle] FWD: Emergency Campaign
> for Haiti
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Important message from ANSWER national office! 
> ---------- Original Message
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> From: "A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition"
> <ANSWER at InternationalANSWER.org<mailto:ANSWER at InternationalANSWER.org>>
> Reply-To: "A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition"
> <ANSWER at InternationalANSWER.org<mailto:ANSWER at InternationalANSWER.org>>
> Date:  Mon, 4 Oct 2004 20:02:05 -0500
> 
> EMERGENCY CAMPAIGN TO SUPPORT THE HAITIAN PEOPLE:
> For Independence, Democracy, Justice
> 
> The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, in cooperation with the
> Haiti Support Network and other progressive forces
> inside the Haitian community, is initiating an
> emergency campaign in support of the Haitian
> people's struggle for sovereignty and democracy, and
> in opposition to foreign occupation.
> 
> We urge you to join us in showing your support for
> the Haitian people. We must act now to show concrete
> expressions of solidarity. We will be sending
> urgently needed medicines to Haiti. The long-term
> need in Haiti is for the social and economic
> transformation of the island and for the Haitian
> people to be able to reclaim political and economic
> sovereignty over their country. People in the United
> States are making it crystal clear that the Haitian
> people do not stand alone. Two hundred years ago the
> Haitian people created what is now the second oldest
> republic in the Americas and the first free Black
> republic in the western hemisphere following the
> only successful slave insurrection in history.
> 
> The humanitarian catastrophe facing the Haitian
> people from Hurricane Jeanne can only be understood
> in the political and social reality caused by IMF
> neo-liberal policies and the anti-people policies
> flowing from the U.S. coup that overthrew the
> democratically-elected President Jean-Bertrand
> Aristide. Cuba, by contrast, because it has
> sovereign control over its economy and resources,
> has been directly hit by hurricanes in recent years
> but has prevented any major loss of life.
> 
> The Emergency Campaign to Support the Haitian People
> will include support for both political/educational
> mobilizations and for the shipment of urgently
> needed medicines to Haiti. It will also publicize
> the struggle of those in Haiti who are the victims
> of repression. The Emergency Campaign to Support the
> Haitian People (ECSHP) will act in solidarity with
> those in Haiti who are heroically building
> opposition to the foreign occupation and its proxy
> government. The Haitian people are refusing to
> return to colonial servitude and we must support
> their right to be the masters of their own destiny.
> 
> We urge everyone to support the Emergency Campaign
> by helping to organize the upcoming Sunday, December
> 5 indoor rally in Solidarity with Haiti that will
> take place at New York Technical College located in
> Brooklyn, New York at 6:00 p.m. This program will
> feature Mario Dupuy, former Communications Secretary
> of State for President Aristide's government; Ben
> Dupuy, Secretary General of the National Popular
> Party (PPN); former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey
> Clark, and other well-known leaders and
> personalities. This will be an exciting,
> inspirational and educational event and we hope you
> tell your friends and family to save the date.
> 
> HELP SEND MEDICINE TO HAITI
> 
> The death toll from the September 18 floods in
> Northwest Haiti caused by Hurricane Jeanne is now
> close to 2000 and climbing. Hundreds of thousands
> are homeless and destitute, their shops, livestock
> and crops swept away.
> 
> And the worst is yet to come. The receding flood
> waters, laced with sewage and the bloated corpses of
> humans and animals, are leaving behind diseases such
> as cholera, dysentery, malaria and dengue fever.
> These after-effects will be less noticed but more
> lethal.
> 
> The hearts of people around the world have gone out
> to the flood's victims in Haiti. Many individuals
> and organizations are sending food, clothing and
> money. But one of the most urgent needs is for
> medicine.
> 
> Press reports have described hospitals and clinics
> knee deep in mud. Doctors have been performing
> amputations without anesthesia. Infections from the
> putrid flood waters are widespread while there are
> virtually no antibiotics or other medicines to treat
> the sick.
> 
> In Port-au-Prince, a group of progressive Haitians
> have formed the Committee to Aid the Flood Victims
> (KOPEVI). Working in conjunction with the
> International Alliance for Health and Social
> Development (AISDS), directed by Father Jean
> Bien-Aimé and Dr. Max Mondestin, KOPEVI will collect
> and distribute medicines to doctors and clinics in
> the flood ravaged region.
> 
> The Emergency Campaign will be purchasing medicines
> to send to KOPEVI, including Metronidazole,
> Mebendazole, Bactrim, and other antibiotics. These
> medicines will save lives, alleviate suffering and
> mitigate the effects of water-born disease. All the
> humanitarian efforts put together are not enough but
> these medicines will help.
> 
> The Emergency Campaign to Support the Haitian People
> can only move forward with your support and with the
> generous donations and contributions of those who
> care about Haiti, those who want to provide
> immediate relief to those victimized by the storm
> and its aftermath, and those who want to help build
> a larger political/education mobilization to expose
> the role of the Bush Administration, the IMF and
> imperialism in perpetuating of the suffering of the
> people in Haiti.
> 
> You can make an urgently needed contribution
> immediately to the Emergency Campaign to Support the
> Haitian People by donating with a credit card online
> through our secure server at
>
http://www.pephost.org/site/R?i=RV8_pQreQQu72suC2Mm5YQ<http://www.pephost.org/site/R?i=RV8_pQreQQu72suC2Mm5YQ>..
> 
> Credit card donations are not tax deductible. If you
> want to make a tax deductible donation to the
> Emergency Campaign, you can do so by writing a check
> made out to the Progress Unity Fund/Haiti and send
> it to Progress Unity Fund, 167 Anderson St., San
> Francisco, CA 94110.
> 
> BACKGROUND TO HAITI'S UNNATURAL DISASTER:
> The role of the IMF and the Bush Administration
> 
> The roots of this disaster are political, not
> natural. The Feb. 29 Washington-backed coup against
> President Aristide removed a popularly elected
> government. All elected local officials, including
> mayors and councilpeople who would be on the front
> lines of relief efforts, have been replaced by the
> notoriously brutal former Tonton Macoutes and
> Duvalierists whom the people distrust and fear. The
> people also recognize that these forces are thieves
> apt only to plunder the relief resources. While
> Haiti's constitutional government might not have
> averted today's devastation, it surely would have
> been better able to respond if only because it
> enjoyed popular support, participation and
> enthusiasm.
> 
> The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank
> are also to blame for accelerating the deforestation
> which contributed to the flood's severity. For three
> decades, they have forced Port-au-Prince governments
> to follow neoliberal dictates to lower tariff
> barriers and grow cash crops.
> 
> These policies have ruined hundreds of thousands of
> Haitian farmers who have then migrated to the
> cities. They cook with charbon, or charcoal, which
> is half the weight and efficiency of wood. Peasants
> remaining on the land have turned to cutting down
> trees for charbon to fuel the growing cities.
> 
> These are the root causes of the disaster in Haiti,
> and in the weeks ahead we intend not just to send
> medicine but to organize events to make these root
> causes known and to support the democratic forces in
> Haiti working to change this status quo.
> 
> Haiti's rain-induced floods were devastating because
> the country has been already ravaged by a flood of
> cheap imports, weakened by coups and despair, and
> neglected by a greedy bourgeoisie intent only on its
> own enrichment, not its compatriots' welfare.
> 
> Democracy is a prerequisite for the development that
> can result in better infrastructure, housing,
> irrigation, reforestation, and governmental disaster
> preparation and relief. By overthrowing the
> popularly elected government, Washington, Paris and
> the Haitian ruling class made this year's disasters
> worse.
> 
> The Emergency Campaign to Support the Haitian People
> is an urgent effort to bring humanitarian relief,
> specifically medicine, to Haiti. Recognizing that
> today's crisis in Haiti is the consequence of
> politics and policy, the Emergency Campaign to
> Support the Haitian People is also working to
> support those struggling for democracy and social
> justice.
> 
> Join in this effort in solidarity with the people of
> Haiti today. Mark your calendars for the December
> 5th rally in Solidarity in Haiti, and please help
> with urgently needed support by making a donation
> today at
>
http://www.pephost.org/site/R?i=lY4vIiNc1Ge72suC2Mm5YQ<http://www.pephost.org/site/R?i=lY4vIiNc1Ge72suC2Mm5YQ>..
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