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Charlemagne Peralte - In 1919 the US murdered him and put the body on display.

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CONTACT:
HAITIAN LAWYERS' LEADERSHIP NETWORK
Erzilidanto@yahoo.com

INTERNATIONAL
HAITI SOLIDARITY DAY
May 18, 2005 (Launching The Free Haiti Movement)

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Circulate attached flyers far and wide.

Stand with the people of Haiti against the Coup, the de facto protectorate and foreign occupation of Haiti.

WHAT:
A grassroots initiative by The University of Guyana African Culture & Development Association (UGACDA) in association with the Global Afrikan Congress (GAC) Guyana, endorsed by the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network and co-sponsored by a network of university students, human rights' activists, Haiti solidarity organizations, progressive radio and press outlets, reparation organizations and the global African community from the Caribbean, U.S., Canada, France, Latin America, Africa. (The students at University of Guyanam have made the May 18th announcement on their website.

WHEN:
May 18, 2005 - Haitian Flag Day is International Solidarity Day with Haiti!!!

WHY:
To support the resistance inside and outside of Haiti to the U.S./Canada/France-backed Coup D'etat and foreign occupation of Haiti.

WHY:
To support the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network's Haiti Resolution calling for a stop to the killings, rapes and political persecutions; return to Constitutional rule; release of all political prisoners; disarm, prosecute and bring the death squads, ex-military, paramilitaries, renegade police and coup d'etat orchestrators to justice; to not remobilize the former military or reconstitute human rights violators into the police force; give temporary protected status to fleeing Haitian refugees, andsupport calls by CARICOM, OAS, African Union, Congressional Black Caucus for investigations into foreign powers' role in the coup d'etat.

WHY:
To say to the Haitian demonstrators and marchers: "You shall not walk or die along this freedom road alone or in vain. We shall fly Dessalines' liberating colors on May 18, 2005 worldwide!"

ACTIVITIES:
There will be teach-ins, rallies and lectures before and on May 18, 2005 about Haiti's historical accomplishments, the unmatched achievements of the LAVALAS movement; vigils, pickets outside embassies and U.N. buildings; audio and video streaming for internet and DVD distribution of testimony from victims and resisters of the coup d'etat; letter campaigns, media outreach campaigns, the wearing and flying of the blue and red colors of Haiti; and, the sacrilege of last year's bicentennial coup, shall be remembered as Africans worldwide commit to fax, call-in and deliver to French Embassies and Consulates worldwide the petition from The People of Haiti demanding that France pays back the 22 Billion dollars it extorted from Haiti after its people had broken the chains of racial slavery to win their independence.

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DESSALINES RISING WORLDWIDE!

Dessalines Rising Worldwide! Answer the call - Join the list of sponsors for this Haiti Liberation Day Movement!

All people of conscience invited to sponsor in event.
(See official flyer)

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Men Anpil Chaj Pa Lou!!! - is Kreyol for "Many hands make light a heavy load."

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