April 15, 2024
From Port-aux-Prince to Africa: Unveiling the Haitian Crisis
22 Mar 2024 – In recent past weeks, the situation in Haiti has drawn international attention due to reports of escalating violence. Various media outlets have brought to…
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March 5, 2024
Gaza Is DR Congo, Gaza Is Haiti
How can I hold the knowledge of unspeakable horrors happening far away and not explode inside? How can I sit in my modest but comfortable home, refrigerator well…
April 15, 2023
A NEW DOCUMENTARY OFFERS A DIFFERENT LOOK AT HAITI’S JIMMY “BARBECUE” CHÉRIZIER
Haiti has been thrown into political turmoil since the 2021 assassination of Jovenal Moïse, which has left the nation without a formerly elected leader. The current acting head…
March 15, 2023
Haiti: “The Truth Speaks for Itself” by Robert Roth, Haiti Action Committee
On December 16th, 2022, Fanmi Lavalas – the people’s party of Haiti – released a statement commemorating the 32nd anniversary of the first democratic election in Haiti’s history. …
August 3, 2021
COLOMBIAN MERCENARIES AND THE ASSASSINATION OF HAITIAN PRESIDENT JOVENEL MOÏSE
THE MEN SAT on a tile floor, many wearing tan combat boots, most with their hands cuffed behind their backs. The table before them was piled with weapons, passports,…
June 7, 2021
Haiti Revolution, sparks for freedom
by Ustadi Kadiri, Haiti Action Committee In 1789, French Haiti – St. Domingue at the time – was receiving 40,000 enslaved Afrikans a year, the result of working…
February 5, 2021
Haitians intensify struggle against president Jovenel Moïse
Haitian citizens, social movements, trade unions and opposition political parties are demanding the resignation of president Jovenel Moïse, who seeks to extend his term of office until February…
January 25, 2021
480,000 killed by extreme weather this century – Analysis
Almost half a million people have died in natural disasters linked to extreme weather events in the last 20 years, according to a new assessment of the direct…
August 6, 2020
When France Extorted Haiti – the Greatest Heist in History
When France Extorted Haiti – the Greatest Heist in History The indemnity Haiti paid to France is the first and only time a formerly enslaved people were forced…
August 4, 2020
Say Their Names: Solidarity Statement from the Haiti Action Committee
Haiti Action Committee stands in solidarity with the determined resistance to police terror and white supremacy being led by Black people in the United States. We join with so…
April 1, 2020
Haiti on the precipice as coronavirus and US-imposed leadership take their toll
HAITIMarch 30, 2020 ShareTweet While Haiti’s widely despised, US-backed government officially promotes social distancing to suppress Covid-19, the stark reality is that most of the population is likely…
March 13, 2020
The Final Chapter Has Still Not Been Written: Remembering The 2004 Coup in Haiti By Robert Roth, Haiti Action Committee
On February 29, 2004, the democratically elected government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti was overthrown by a violent coup. This was the second U.S.-sponsored coup against a…
September 7, 2019
The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation by Seth Donnelly
$17.00 – $89.00 “We’re making headway on global poverty,” trills billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates. “Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues,” reports the World Bank. And “How did the global poverty…
April 4, 2019
The Lasalin Massacre: Is it an accidental event, a fight between rival gangs to control an area, or a calculated and planned political act? by Vladimir Durace.
This article, originally written in Haitian Kreyol for Haiti Solidarity in February 2019, was translated by Haiti Action Committee. Lasalin, a shantytown in the capital of Haiti, is…
November 20, 2018
Haiti: Police Repression Escalates on Anniversary of the Battle of Verieres
Sunday November 18, 2018, was the 215th anniversary of the victory at the battle of Vertieres when Haitians won a decisive battle against French forces in 1803, leading…
October 31, 2017
The Unreported News from Haiti
The relentless attacks on democracy in Haiti continue as Haitians, who have lived under United Nations MINUSTAH military occupation since the 2004coup d’etat against popularly elected president Jean-Bertrand…
February 27, 2017
Haiti 2017: From Demonstration Election to Electoral Coup by Charlie Hinton
On January 3, Haiti’s Electoral Council (CEP) sealed the steal by confirming Jovenel Moïse as president of Haiti. A massive police presence resembling martial law has suppressed street…
January 4, 2017
Resisting the lynching of Haitian liberty! By Malaika Kambon
It should be obvious by now that the U.S.-U.N., E.U., OAS and various hired paramilitary police have engineered a second fraudulent election in as many years in Haiti.…
December 7, 2016
HAITI RISES: A TIME FOR SOLIDARITY by Nia Imara and Robert Roth
Haiti Rises: A Time for Solidarity was first published in February 2016. Since that time, Haiti’s interim president, Jocelerme Privert, appointed an Election Verification Commission to investigate the…
October 3, 2016
Meanwhile–Around the World
The Debate: Somebody said the problem is Trump possibility and Clinton probability. A very poor choice between an autistic person in his own bubble and a war criminal…
September 17, 2016
HAITI RISES: A TIME FOR SOLIDARITY by Nia Imara and Robert Roth
HAITI RISES: A TIME FOR SOLIDARITY by Nia Imara and Robert Roth Haiti Rises: A Time for Solidarity was first published in February 2016. Since that time, Haiti’s…
May 13, 2016
Haiti’s Election Verification Commission: A Step in the Right Direction By Marilyn Langlois
6 May 2016 – On a visit to Haiti in late April with Task Force on the Americas, a California-based organization in solidarity with the social justice movements of…
February 21, 2016
HAITI RISES: A TIME FOR SOLIDARITY by Nia Imara and Robert Roth
Reflecting on struggles everywhere, we came to the conclusion that a people can’t be sovereign if they don’t have the right to vote. No people can retain their…
January 29, 2016
Statement from Haiti’s Popular Movement
In this statement, written right before the postponement of the January 24th presidential “run-off” election, 68 grassroots organizations in Haiti issue an urgent call for solidarity with their…
January 29, 2016
Sure, Washington Has Always Supported Democracy in Haiti American politicians’ rhetoric on Haiti remains woefully disconnected from reality. By Greg Grandin
“As in the past, the United States is taking great interest in how elections in Haiti are unfolding,” a State Department spokesperson announced a few days ago; “The…