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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Haiti: Ten Point Action Plan

1) Grants, not loans.
2) Keep corporations and corporatist policies OUT. Stop disaster capitalism in its tracks.
3) Cancel ALL Haiti's debt to the Inter-American Development Bank.
4) Let Aristide return to Haiti.
5) Lift the ban on Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas political party.
6) Rip up the neoliberal pre-earthquake Clinton-Obama program for Haiti: tourism, sweatshops, privatization, deregulation.
7) Do not allow US military or UN "peacekeepers" to point guns at desperate Haitians.
8) Allow all Haitians in the US to work, and remit money home.
9) Release all 30,000 Haitians held in US jails for deportation, and grant them Temporary Protected Status.
10) Demand that France start repaying the $21 billion it extorted from Haiti in 1825, to "compensate" France for loss of Haiti as a slave colony.

3 Comments:

Blogger arthur said...

way to go shailja, impressive attemmpt to leverage the moment, to transform tragedy into strength and avoid disaster capitalism leaving haiti in shape its been - a luta continua

1/14/2010 8:21 PM  
Anonymous Dan said...

Thank you for this. Brilliant. Now ... the work of accomplishing its points and vision.

1/15/2010 9:57 AM  
Blogger shailja said...

Temporary Protected Status has just been conferred, for the next 18 months, on all Haitians who were in the US on January 12th.

Half a point down, nine and a half to go......

1/15/2010 5:02 PM  

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