By James Patrick Jordan Trying to understand the complexities of Haiti and its struggle for real democracy can be difficult. However, the most basic point to grasp is this: since the US directed overthrow of President Jean Bertrand Aristide 20 years ago, Haiti has endured relentless electoral interference, exploitation, invasion, and occupation by or on…
Send an Email to Congress to Stop the Biden “Permanent War” Funding Requests! By James Patrick Jordan (This is an adaptation from a lecture given at the Salt of the Earth Labor College in Tucson, Arizona on October 28, 2023) Send an Email to Congress to Stop the Biden “Permanent War” Funding Requests! If we’re…
Stop the Invasion of Haiti – It’s not too late! Follow this link to sign the petition to the US Congress against funding military forces in Haiti! (Petition is a joint effort of World Beyond War, Black Alliance for Peace, and the Alliance for Global Justice) “Open air prison, entrenched poverty with little opportunity, foreign…
AFGJ’s Tanya Nuñez asks Austin Cole of Black Alliance for Peace if there is any connection between the struggles of the Haitian and the Palestinian people. For more information: blackallianceforpeace.com . This is a production of the Alliance for Global Justice, www.AFGJ.org . Be sure and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more informative videos
In some cases, though, what is most confusing is that there are those who should know better who are still ready to believe that this time this orchestrated intervention can set things right. No, the US and its proxies aren’t suddenly the good guys come to the rescue. US policies are the root of the…
By James Patrick Jordan Three prisoners in the US-built prison in Petit-Goâve, Haiti starved to death between August 23 and September 27, 2022. The website Haiti Libre reports, “…one of the deceased prisoners was from Léogâne imprisoned for having stolen an electric wire and… [another] from the 5th communal section of Petit-Goâve, was serving…
Haitians are in the streets against puppet governments, harsh austerity measures, poverty and neglect, and decades of foreign coups and invasions. Stop the new US led re-invasion and occupation of Haiti! Send an email to US and UN Authorities to demand NO FOREIGN INVASION IN HAITI!!! October 25, 2022 Sacha Llorenti Secretary General of ALBA–TCP…
The following alert was originally circulated by our friends at SOAW. Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of the tragic earthquake in Haiti that left 230,000 Haitians dead, hundreds of thousands injured, and over 1.5 million homeless. In spite of an initial massive out pour of international solidarity, over a million Haitians remain in temporary shelters…
[Today, Jan. 4, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a delegation organized by the Latin America Solidarity Coalition held a press conference to denounce human rights violations in Haiti. Alliance for Global Justice National Co-Coordinators James Jordan and Chuck Kaufman are participating in the delegation. Following is the statement released to the press.] The Latin American Solidarity…
