Special to Canadian Dimension April 12, 2008

Over the past century, a line has divided the left around the world. On one side sit “progressive forces” willing to support imperialism and war, usually in return for a “seat at the table” or some other perk of power. The most discussed example of Left support for imperialism was at the beginning of the First World War when most parties of the Second International sided with their own ruling class and governments in the slaughter that followed. On the other side of the Left divide, are those individuals and organizations that take a principled position in favour of real democracy for all the world’s people and oppose imperialism and colonialism in all its forms, especially when it is their ruling class involved. Some might say the former is the “pretend Left” and the later the “authentic Left.” (Keep reading…)

An Unbroken Agony Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President By Randall Robinson Basic Civitas Books 280 pages, $26.00 US (Keep reading…)

Special to Canadian Dimension September 19, 2007

On August 12, one of Haiti’s best-known and respected advocates of human and social rights, Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, disappeared. The Haitian National Police later confirmed that he was kidnapped. (Keep reading…)

The Dominion March, 2007

The 2004 coup reversed years of progress in Haiti. Photo: Joseph Wenkoff Brian Concannon is the director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH). He founded IJDH after the 2004 Canada-US-France coup d’état that ousted Haiti’s democratically elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Concannon formerly co-directed the Bureau des avocats internationaux (BAI) , the most prominent legal group prosecuting human rights cases in Haiti, and worked for MICIVIH, a UN human rights mission in Haiti. Darren Ell interviewed him in the offices of the BAI in Port-au-Prince on February 28th, 2007, the third anniversary of the 2004 overthrow of democratically elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. (Keep reading…)

ZNET February 06, 2007

Canadians of conscience who pay attention to Haiti continue to be ashamed of what is being done in our name. (Keep reading…)

Thursday, August 31st, 2006 http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/31/144231  A shocking new report published in the British medical journal The Lancet has found widespread and systematic human rights abuses in Haiti following the ouster of democratically-elected president Jean Bertrand Aristide in February 2004. New figures reveal that during the 22-month period of the U.S.-backed Interim Government, 8,000 people were murdered in the greater Port-au Prince area alone. 35,000 women and girls were raped or sexually assaulted, more than half of the victims were children. Kidnappings, extrajudicial detentions, physical assaults, death threats, and threats of sexual violence were also common. (Keep reading…)

http://www.medialens.org/bookshop/guardians_of_power.php September 11, 2006

Kidnapping Aristide

In a series of alerts in 2004 we examined media coverage of events surrounding the military coup that forced Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide into exile on February 29, 2004. (Keep reading…)

YANKEE GOVERNMENT ORDERS SECOND ROUND UN BLUE HELMETS REPRESS THE HAITIAN PEOPLE

(This Editorial was published the February 14 issue of Granma, the daily newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.) (Keep reading…)

Seven Oaks January 21, 2006

Port au Prince — As pressure from Haiti’s elite on MINUSTAH (United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti) continues to escalate, so too does the violence perpetrated by UN forces against civilians in Cite Soleil. (Keep reading…)

National Post Monday, January 09, 2006

Agence France-Presse

Montreal - Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew is facing an unexpected backlash from Haitian expatriates who accuse Canada of interfering in the Caribbean country’s internal politics. (Keep reading…)