WEEK OF SOLIDARITY WITH HAITI 2025
Our deepest thanks to our friends, comrades and allied organizations** who participated in the Week of Solidarity with Haiti, July 15-22nd, to demand Reparations for Haiti, no to Deportations! Thanks to all who amplified our call to action by sharing it, publicizing it, inviting your circles to join. Big thank you to those who placed banners in public spaces from Philadelphia to the Bay Area, invited us to speak about Haiti, made solidarity videos, and created and shared posts on social media. Thank you to the many justice-minded folks who wrote to the French embassy, liked and shared our posts, subscribed or followed Haiti Action Committee on social media. We know that our fight for justice is far from over. Solidarity with Haiti demands our attention, our voices, and our action every day, not just for a single week.
On the 200th anniversary of the independence ransom Haiti was forced to pay France, Haitian grassroots activists are demanding once again that France pay it back. At UNIFA (University of the Dr. Aristide Foundation), for example, students and faculty highlighted this demand throughout the recent school year. Haiti Action Committee is part of this campaign, along with Haitians throughout the diaspora and Haiti solidarity activists around the world. We are linking the demand for reparations and restitution from France with our opposition to the mass deportations being instituted by the Trump Administration. We urge you to join the campaign! Demand REPARATIONS FOR HAITI, NO TO DEPORTATIONS.
Please continue to share widely and write to the French Embassy in DC to press for the restitution of the money paid by the people of Haiti after their successful revolution that ended slavery in Haiti and paved the way for ending slavery throughout the Americas.
Send a message to the French Embassy in Washington, DC:
- Use [this link] to access the contact form.
- In the “Topic” field, scroll down and select “Message to the Ambassador.”
- Copy and paste your message into the “Message” field. Use [this template] or write your own.
Share the keynote address by Haiti’s former First Lady Mildred Aristide, “Haiti and the Global Movement for Reparations.”
**ANSWER Bay Area, APTP [Anti-Police Terror Project], Caribbean Labour Solidarity, CLAP [Community Lead Advocacy Program], Community Liberation Program, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, Freedom Archives, Global Exchange, Global Women’s Strike Philadelphia, Haiti Justice Committee of Minnesota, Haiti Support Group – Guyana, Haitian Women For Haitian Refugees, Payday Men’s Network, Peoples Eye Photography, Poor People’s Campaign Sacramento, QUIT [Queers Undermining Israeli Terror], Que Ondee Sola, Resist-U.S. Led War SFSU and Santa Cruz, Revolutionary Love Brigade, Sacramento Congress of African Peoples, Taxpayers Against Genocide, Thousand Grandmothers Anti-Militarism Working Group, UBAD Educational Foundation – Belize, WBAI Equal Rights & Justice Radio, Women of Color Global Women’s Strike – London, Women United Against Genocide
