The crisis in Haiti is no accident. Its roots lie in the United States’ centuries-old assault on Haitian sovereignty. Speakers will give a brief history of the first Black Republic from its origins in the defeat of French colonialism to the present. Decades of US/foreign intervention and plunder has produced the current crisis of death squad violence, internal displacement, starvation and fleeing refugees.
What You Can Do To Support Haiti’s Grassroots Struggle For Democracy:
- Join the Haiti Action Committee mailing list: contact action.haiti@gmail.com
- Follow Haiti Action on social media: Website [www.haitisolidarity.net] Youtube channel Facebook X Instagram
- Support Haiti Action campaigns; protests; share action alerts and social media posts
- Invite Haiti Action speakers
- Support the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund [www.haitiemergencyrelief.org] – projects aid Haiti’s grassroots movement supporting a population under daily attack and sustaining community programs to build a new, just and democratic Haiti.
Recommended Reading:
- What’s Behind the Crisis in Haiti? – Brief background primer
- Terrorizing Haiti: Eliana Telemaque – Update on recent developments by Pierre Labossiere
- Haiti and the Global Movement for Reparations – Keynote address given by Haiti’s former First Lady Mildred Aristide at the April 8th, 2025 Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights: Truth, Solidarity and Repair.
- We Will Not Forget The Achievements of Lavalas In Haiti – Summary of the economic and social progress accomplished during Haiti’s ten years of democratic government headed by the Fanmi Lavalas political party before its 2004 violent overthrow by the US, France and Canada
- The Lasalin Massacre and the Human Rights Crisis in Haiti – Report by Judith Mirkinson and Seth Donnelly
- The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers – New York Times report tracing Haiti’s impoverishment to the so-called “independence debt,” estimated at $21 billion in today’s currency, the young nation was forced to pay to its former French colonial masters. Haiti is not poor; it is robbed.
Recordings:
Keynote address of Haiti and the Global Movement for Reparations given by Haiti’s former First Lady Mildred Aristide at the April 8th, 2025 Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights: Truth, Solidarity and Repair.
Books:
- Eyes of the Heart by Jean Bertrand Aristide
- The Uses of Haiti by Paul Farmer
- An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President by Randall Robinson
- Detain and Punish: Haitian Refugees and the Rise of the World’s Largest Immigration Detention System by Carl Lindskoog