Haiti

Dear Friends,

We urgently need your help gathering signatures in support of the Haitian Women’s Petition calling for the return of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his family.

Please sign online: http://www.petitiononline.com/haitiwom/

Eight months after the earthquake the catastrophe continues: while US, UN, Canada, France and a myriad of corporations and NGOs try to carve up ‘Haiti’s future’, over 1.5 million women, children and men are still homeless, many near starvation.

Remember Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine

Support Haitian women's demand

Haiti: survival and reconstrucion

http://www.haitiaction.net/About/HERF/HERF.html

Most aid bypasses self-organized communities, usually led by women, in favour of big NGOs. That’s a major reason why, six months after the most devastating earthquake, water, food, shelter and medical supplies are still scandalously scarce. Only about 2% of the billions promised has been delivered.

GIVEN our debt to Haiti whose 1804 revolution led the way for the abolition of slavery in the Americas, defeating Napoleon’s Army, the most powerful of its day, and establishing the first Black republic; and

GIVEN that after the revolution Haiti gave refuge to Simon Bolivar, the liberator of Latin America, and gave him ships and fighters, and that Haiti intercepted slave ships and freed their human cargo; and