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Thousands
of protestors decrying massive fraud in
Haiti’s recent Presidential and legislative elections
have taken to the streets daily since the November 20th
election. They are being met with violence and other repression by UN
trained/supervised police including tear
gas, bullets, batons and rifle butts. |
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Three major candidates formally protested the fraudulent election results including Dr. Maryse Narcisse, the candidate of Fanmi Lavalas the political party and movement headed by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected president. But the protesting candidates and their legal representatives were denied access by CEP judges to the tally sheets - this after they discovered and objected to massive discrepancies in the tally sheets they initially had access to. The fraud was so grossly blatant and massive that, in a sample being verified before access was denied, 85% of the votes for Jovenel Moise were disqualified. Lavalas has issued a communique rejecting the fraudulent results of the CEP and calling on people to mobilize against this massively orchestrated fraud/electoral coup d/etat.
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The Haitian grassroots are yet again risking their lives for the right to choose their own president. In the lead up to the election, 68 Haitian grassroots organization issued a a statement calling for solidarity with Haiti's struggle for free and fair elections, dignity and justice under the banner, Nou Pap Obeyi - We Will Not Obey Illegitimate Authority. Excerpt from the Statement of 68 Grassroots Organizations: "Right after the earthquake, the internationals took advantage of our momentary state of helplessness to occupy the political space. Today, the Haitian people are engaged in an all out struggle to reclaim that space and to exercise their right to vote. The very ones who hijacked the reconstruction money want to prevent the people from choosing their government, in a wide scale conspiracy to continue the looting of the country’s resources... The Haitian people…are in a fight for their very existence. We say NO, WE WILL NOT OBEY ILLEGITIMATE OFFICIALS... Today, confronted by the danger presented by local and international colonialists, the Haitian people have started a RESISTANCE FOR EXISTENCE movement. We ask for people to people solidarity from everywhere on the planet."
“Nou Pap Obeyi” is a powerful slogan for all as we approach the new and challenging years ahead. Stand with the people of Haiti and their resistance to this electoral coup - we all owe Haiti a great debt beginning with their 1804 revolution that defeated the powerful French army of Napoleon and led the way for the ending of slavery in the Americas.
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· Circulate this information, not covered by corporate media, to your friends and networks · Contact US officials to protest US complicity in voter suppression and fraud, and to urge the US not to recognize this fraudulently-elected leader of Haiti - President Obama: 202-456-1111 - US State Department: haitispecialcoordinator@state.gov, Secretary Kerry @John Kerry - Your Member of Congress: 202-224 3121 ·
Protest to the UN Mission in Haiti and demand an end to violent
suppression of free speech: ·
Donate
to the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund, which supports democracy, independent
media, education and more in Haiti
at: www.haitiemergencyrelief.org |
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Issued by: Haiti Action Committee, Global Women’s Strike & Women of Color/GWS
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