[Radical_childcare] Fw: Haiti & Honduras Vigil: Wednesday 11 November, 6-7pm, Parliament Sq, SW1

[faith Kenrick]

The vigil  is soon and in the evening - there may bo some who are able to get along and want to support this.  Is anyone planning to go and has a banner to share that I can hold the other end of?
It gives a feeling of inclusivity to have banners and signs from support groups associated with families. Faith 



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--- On Fri, 6/11/09, Global Women's Strike <womenstrike8m at server101.com> wrote:


From: Global Women's Strike <womenstrike8m at server101.com>
Subject: Haiti & Honduras Vigil: Wednesday 11 November, 6-7pm, Parliament Sq, SW1
To: faircraft2002 at yahoo.co.uk
Date: Friday, 6 November, 2009, 18:42















HAITI and HONDURAS:
END MILITARY COUPS & OCCUPATIONS  
 
Wednesday    11 November     6-7pm
Parliament Square (opp Parliament), Westminster SW1





 


Zelaya speaking from Brazilian embassy


Haitians demand return of Aristide


HAITI 2004  Elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is forced into exile by US military coup backed by Canada and France. Two months later UN troops occupy Haiti. They rape and kill many, including children. Human rights activist Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine is disappeared in 2007.
 
HONDURAS 2009  Elected President Manuel Zelaya is removed from the country by the military. Thousands take to the streets to demand his reinstatement. The coup is universally condemned. Zelaya secretly returns, taking refuge in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, the capital.  
WHY?  HAITI & HONDURAS have the lowest minimum wages, setting the standard for slave wages in the region – from sweatshops to banana production. Aristide and Zelaya enraged multinationals by raising the minimum wage and increasing spending on health and education.      
HOW?  The US has funded paramilitaries and NGOs to oppose Aristide in HAITI. The US and Israel work closely with the military in HONDURAS, while friends of the Clintons speak for the coup. International media censor the truth while propagandists like Rory Carroll (Guardian) slander governments that act independently of the US, IMF & World Bank. 
WHAT NOW? HAITI is still occupied with Aristide in exile. Earlier this year people organised to boycott elections which excluded his party – only 3% voted! Bill Clinton, special UN Envoy to Haiti, urges ‘development’ – more sweatshops. 
HONDURAS since the coup, many people have been killed, detained and tortured, including children, and women have been gang raped by the military. Hospitals have been raided.  People's resistance -- through march, pots and pans demonstrations, general strikes -- and international pressure have forced the coup government to agree to reinstate President Zelaya. But his reinstatement is conditional on a decision by Congress which has now passed it on the Supreme Court.  Honduras is still under military occupation. 
Add your name to the Call to Latin American Governments to stop collaborating with the US coup in Haiti







Jean-Bertrand Aristide



Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine


Return Aristide – Return Lovinsky
 Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine is co-ordinator of Fondasyon 30 Septanm for survivors of both military coups against President Aristide. An advocate for those with least, starting with women and street children. Lovinsky was kidnapped on 12 August 2007, two weeks after announcing he would run for the Haitian Senate. The grassroots in Haiti hold weekly vigils demanding his return and the return of Aristide.





URGENT APPEAL 
In 2008 Haiti was devastated by consecutive hurricanes and has not recovered. 
To make a donation to survival projects 
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useful link www.Haitisolidarity.net    
The Vigil is supported by the Peace Strike 


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