Haiti's Debt
http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/emersberger040108.html
by Joe Emersberger
Despite being the most impoverished country in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti
lags behind many countries in the Americas in obtaining debt relief through
a program run by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.

Did He Jump or Was He Pushed? Aristide and the 2004 Coup in Haiti
by Peter Hallward
December 15, 2007
haitianalysis.com

November 24th, 2007
Confédération des travailleurs haitiens: Launches Website and New Campaigns
By: Nazaire St Fort and Jeb Sprague - HaitiAnalysis.com
The Confederation of Haitian Workers (CTH), which is made up of eleven labor federations and three national commissions, has officially launched a website according to its General Secretary Paul Chery. Haiti, just south-east of Cuba and bordering the Dominican Republic, is host to a long thriving labor movement.

Union launches call for general strike in Haiti
By Roger Annis
PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI--At a press conference here on August 17, one of Haiti's transport unions, the Association des propriétaires et chaffeurs d'Haiti (APCH—Association of Owners and Drivers of Haiti), launched an appeal for unions and popular organizations to hold a two-day, country-wide general strike to protest the disastrous economic situation facing working people in this country.
In an interview following the press conference, the communications director of the union, Fortune Patrice, explained that the initial appeal is supported by many trade unions, student organizations and other popular movements. The union will hold discussions with more unions and popular organizations in the coming week to broaden support for the strike, set for August 27 and 28.

HAITI: Pain at the Pump Spurs Strike Actions
By Jeb Sprague and Wadner Pierre
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=38228
[Photo]A normally bustling street in Port-au-Prince on Jun. 13, 2007 during the two-day transport strike.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jun 19 (IPS) - A two-day transport strike last week gripped Haiti's major cities and underscored a mounting crisis over fuel prices, which rose nearly 20 percent in just two weeks.
On Jun. 12 and 13, transport workers shut off their engines, leaving residents of Port-au-Prince and other urban centres largely without the services of taxis or the colourful buses and pick-up trucks known as tap-taps.
A spokesperson for the Initiative de Secteur de Transport, an ad hoc strike committee representing 18 transport unions, Benissoit Duclos, said the action was driven by three pressing issues.

Massive demonstrations in Haiti catch UN by surprise
(HIP) — Challenging recent assertions made by the United Nations that the
Lavalas movement is dead, crowds estimated at well over 100,000 took to
the streets of seven major cities throughout Haiti on February 7 to
demand an end to the UN occupation, freedom for political prisoners and
the return of exiled president Aristide. Lavalas is the political
movement of Haiti's desperately poor majority and the political party
of president Jean-Bertrand Aristide who was ousted on February 29, 2004
in a coup reportedly backed by the United States, France and Canada.

Take hard look at Haiti if you think Canada is building democracy
By CHRISTIAN HEYNE
Halifax Chronicle Herald, Pg A11
http://www.halifaxherald.com/Search/548180.html
WE ALL are concerned about democracy and human rights. Especially around the time of celebration of Christmas, a time for extra compassion. When Afghanistan comes up in Canadian debate, it is the military method that is questioned by many, not the idea of helping Afghanis to have a life. Democracy we support, officially, and privately anyway. Or do we? I am afraid some Canadians at the top are speaking with "forked tongue."
There seems to be a disconnect between the leading lights of our country and the population at large. While most Canadians see themselves as peacemakers still – even the footsoldiers – there is a little problem in the real world of our actions abroad. Canadian CEOs, think tanks, fast-talking military brass, the politicians, all seem to have little respect for the Canadian majority when it comes to foreign policy actions.

Haiti's Deadly Class Divide:
Class war takes on a new meaning in Cite Soley
by Leslie Bagg and Aaron Lakoff
Port-au-Prince, January 10/06 - Driving into Cite Soley on January 8th, the day Haitians were supposed to go to the polls in a presidential election, there is no mistaking the fact that we are entering an occupied zone. The streets are almost deserted, the atmosphere tense, and UN armored personnel carriers patrol the streets.
Cite Soley, one of Port-au-Prince's poorest neighborhoods, is home to around 500,000 people living in abject poverty. According to Jean-Joseph Joel, the Secretary General of the local branch of Fanmi Lavalas, the area's residents are virtual prisoners, and their movements restricted by armed police at checkpoints. Vilified as bandits or chimeres by the elite-run press, he says they face persecution if they do manage to escape the neighborhood. There is no work and signs of malnutrition are obvious in the children.

"A Situation of Terror" - A Haitian trade union leader speaks out on Canada and the 2004 coup
[CHAN] October 29 2005
Original posted at: http://www.canadahaitiaction.ca/article.php?id=99
In late September 2005, the General Secretary of the Confederation des travailleurs haitiens (CTH - one of Haiti's biggest unions), Paul "Loulou" Chery, visited Ottawa and Montreal. Chery was on a speaking tour organized to allow Canadian and Quebecois trade unionists direct access to a trade union voice from Haiti.
Kevin Skerrett, from Canada Haiti Action Network, interviewed Loulou on September 26 in Ottawa.

'We won't be peaceful and let them kill us any longer'
Bel Air interview with Rosean Baptiste
by Lyn Duf
(Originally appeared in San Francisco BayView 'National Black Newspaper,' http://www.sfbayview.com)

Since U.S.-funded death squads and "rebels" overthrew Haiti's popular democracy in February 2004, media reports have been filled with the voices of those with power, influence and money in Haiti. What's been missing are the voices of ordinary Haitians, members of the pro-democracy movement, who overwhelmingly oppose the new regime of Florida businessman turned prime minister, Gerald Latortue.
SF Bay View correspondent Lyn Duff spoke with Rosean Baptiste, a resident of Bel Air in Port-au-Prince, whose neighborhood has been targeted since 2004 for mass arrests and killings by both the United Nations and the Haitian National Police.