[News] Return President Aristide to Haiti

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urgent call: Return former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Haiti

Full Page Ad in the Sunday Miami Herald - January 23, 2011

Haiti Action Committee is honored to post this 
full-page ad that appeared Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011 
in the Miami Herald, echoing the call of Haiti’s 
democratic movement for the return of President 
Aristide. Signed by hundreds of people, it 
demands that the United States, the United 
Nations and the Haitian government stop blocking 
President Aristide from returning to the land of his birth.

The text of the ad and a list of signers appear 
below. To see the ad as it appeared in the Miami Herald, click attachment.

In the aftermath of the terrible earthquake that 
shook Haiti on January 12th, 2010, calls for the 
return of former President Aristide have been 
growing louder. Last July 15, 10,000 people took 
to the streets in Port-au-Prince to commemorate 
President Aristide’s birthday and call for his 
return. A broad sector of Haitian grassroots 
organizations, women’s groups, human rights 
activists and educators have made it clear that 
now is the time to end President Aristide’s 
forced exile in South Africa. A petition 
circulating among Haitian women gathered well 
over 20,000 signatures within a few days, calling for the return.

President Aristide has publicly stated that he 
wishes to return home to Haiti to participate in 
Haiti’s recovery. President Aristide’s support 
among Haiti’s poor, who elected him twice as 
president, and who represent the vast majority of 
the Haitian population and are those most 
affected by the recent devastating earthquake, 
remains strong. There are no legal obstacles to 
his return; in fact Article 41 of Haiti’s 
Constitution, declares that “no individual of 
Haitian nationality can be deported or forced to 
leave the country for any reason whatsoever,” and 
Article 41-1 states that “no Haitian needs a visa 
to leave the country or to return to it.”

Nevertheless, President Aristide remains in exile 
because the Haitian government, the United 
States, France, Canada, and the United Nations 
forces in Haiti have blocked his return. The 
Haitian government has not responded to President 
Aristide’s request for the issuance of a 
passport. U.S. and UN officials have issued 
public statements opposing his return.

But they do not speak for the people of Haiti. As 
demonstrations for President Aristide’s return 
continue in Haiti, as broad sectors of Haitian 
society echo this call, as the voices of those 
living in refugee camps across the devastated 
city of Port-au-Prince and throughout Haiti reach 
us, we reiterate and support their demand.
We call on the Haitian government to immediately 
renew President Aristide’s passport as he has 
requested, and to facilitate his return, without 
any conditions, to the country of his birth. We 
call on the international authorities, 
particularly the United Nations and the United 
States government, to end their opposition to 
President Aristide’s return. Justice, humanity 
and respect for self-determination are at the 
heart of this issue. All hands are needed in Haiti at this difficult moment.

Andaiye, International Coordinator, Red Thread • 
Harry Belafonte, Actor/Activist • Dr. Paul Farmer 
• Eduardo Galeano, journalist, author, Uruguay • 
Danny Glover, Actor/Activist • Bishop Thomas 
Gumbleton, Archdiocese of Detroit • Selma James, 
Global Women’s Strike • Reverend Jesse Jackson • 
Tony Jeanthenor, Veye Yo, Miami, FL • Farah 
Juste, artist/activist, Miami, FL • Pierre 
Labossiere, co-founder, Haiti Action Committee • 
Margaret Prescod, Women of Color/Global Women’s 
Strike • Randall Robinson, author • Alina Sixto, 
radio host, Fanmi Lavalas • Oliver Stone, 
Filmmaker • Kali Akuno, Malcom X Grassroots 
Movement • Bernadene Allen, Professor of 
Anthropology, College of Marin • Roger Annis, 
Canada Haiti Action Network • Dr. Molefi Asante, 
Department of African American Studies, Temple 
University • Orlando Aupont, Multi-Cultural 
Family Nexus • John Avalos, San Francisco Board 
of Supervisors • Bay Area Labor Committee for 
Peace and Justice • David Bacon, Labor activist, 
photojournalist • Medea Benjamin, CODE PINK • 
Brian Becker, National Coordinator, ANSWER • 
Dennis Bernstein, KPFA Flashpoints • Johanna 
Berrigan, House of Grace Catholic Worker • Steve 
Bingham, Attorney • Annie Bird, co-Director, 
Rights Action • Hugo Blanco, La Lucha Indígena, 
Perú • Blase Bonpane, Ph.D, Director, Office of 
the Americas • Serge Bouchereau, 
educator/activist, Canada • Fr. Roy Bourgeois, 
founder, SOA Watch • John H. Bracey, Jr., 
Professor, University of Massachusetts • Rev. Dr. 
Lea Brown, MCC Church • Richard Brown, San 
Francisco 8/Committee for Defense of Human Rights 
• Dr. Siri Brown, Chair of Social and Behavioral 
Sciences, Merritt College, Oakland • Keith 
Carson, Alameda County Board of Supervisors • 
Mike Casey, President of Local 2, Hotel and 
Restaurant Employees Union and President of SF 
Labor Council • Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, 
President, National Council for Black Studies • 
Ward Churchill, author, educator • Ramsey Clark, 
former U.S. Attorney General • Marjorie Cohn, 
Deputy Secretary General, International 
Association of Democratic Lawyers • Brian 
Concannon, Jr., Esq., Director, Institute for 
Justice & Democracy in Haiti • Rabbi David J. 
Cooper • Peter Dahlen, President, Labor 
Arbitration Institute • Ezili Dantò, President, 
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network • Bob and 
Adele DellaValle-Rauth, Coordinators Pax Christi 
Virginia • Jacques M F Depelchin, Ota Benga 
Alliance for Peace, Healing and Dignity • 
Jean-Claude Derose, Haitian activist, Canada • 
Tom F. Driver, The Paul J. Tillich Professor of 
Theology and Culture Emeritus, Union Theological 
Seminary in New York • Emory Douglas, artist, 
former Minister of Culture, Black Panther Party • 
Sister Maureen Duignan, OSF, Executive Director, 
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant • Berthony Dupont, 
director, Haiti Liberte • Claudio Duran, 
Professor of History, Merritt College • James 
Early, board member, Institute for Policy Studies 
• Matt Eisenbrandt, Human Rights Attorney • Joe 
Emersberger, editor, haitianalysis.com • Minister 
Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam • Moira Feeney 
Esq., Attorney at Law • Leslie Fleming, Professor 
of Anthropology, Merritt College • Bill Fletcher, 
Jr., BlackCommentator.com • Sara Flounders, 
International Action Center • Laura Flynn, 
writer, educator • Willy Forges, Haitian 
activist, Canada • Harry Fouche, former Consul 
General of Haiti to NY • Nancy M. Friedman, Bay 
Area Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club • Paul 
George, Director, Peninsula Peace and Justice 
Center, Palo Alto, CA • David Gespass, President, 
National Lawyers Guild • Ann Fagan Ginger, 
attorney & author, Meiklejohn Civil Liberties 
Institute • Jackie Goldberg, California State 
Assembly Member, Chair of Assembly Education 
Committee, retired • Sister Stella Goodpasture, 
OP, Justice Promoter, Dominican Sisters of 
Mission San Jose • Rashidah Grinage, Executive 
Director of PUEBLO (People United for a Better 
Life in Oakland) • Peter Hallward, Professor of 
Philosophy, Kingston University London • Peter 
Hardie, Executive Director, Pushback Network • 
Tom Hayden, Peace and Justice Resource Center, 
Culver City, CA • Ed Herman, Wharton School of 
Business, University of Pennsylvania • Aileen 
Hernandez, community activist, former President, 
National Organization for Women (NOW) • Gerald 
Horne, historian and author • Phil Hutchings, 
Civil Rights activist (SNCC), Black Alliance for 
Just Immigration • Nehanda Imara, All-African 
People’s Revolutionary Party • Kim Ives, 
filmmaker & journalist with Haiti Liberté • Rabbi 
Burt Jacobson • Jafrikayiti (Jean Saint-Vil), 
author • Baba Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at, 
past National Co-Chair of N’COBRA • Borgella 
Jeantine, Konbit Verite • Frantz Jerome, 
educator, activist • Avotcja Jilconilro, artist • 
Linton Kwesi Johnson, reggae poet, & recording 
artist, Jamaica/UK • Charles Jones, Professor, 
Department of African American Studies, Georgia 
State University • Hank Jones, SF 8/Committee for 
the Defense of Human Rights • Rose-Marie Joseph, 
Baz Fanmi Lavalas • Marie-Claire Junelle, Public 
Health educator, Montreal, Canada • Hekima 
Kanyama, Acting Center Director, Unity Council of 
the African Community Center for Unity and 
Self-Determination/Atlanta • Dr. Maulana Karenga, 
Professor of Africana Studies, California State 
University, Long Beach. • Michelle Karshan, Haiti 
Dream Keeper Archives • Susan Roberta Katz, 
Professor of International & Multicultural 
Education, University of San Francisco • 
Katharine Kean, filmmaker • Nunu Kidane, 
director, Priority Africa Network • Jonathan 
Kozol, National Book Award-winning author and 
educator • Ira Kurzban, Esq. • Eusi Kwayana, 
teacher, activist, author, Guyana • Ronald 
Laborde, RALIH, Haitian youth organization, 
Montreal, Canada • Marilyn Langlois, community 
advocate, Mayor’s Office, Richmond, CA • Dr. 
Frantz Latour, editor, Haiti Liberte • Rev. James 
Lawson, United Methodist pastor, civil rights 
activist • Rev. Phil Lawson, Interfaith Program 
Director for East Bay Housing Organizations 
(EBHO) • Jacques Elie Leblanc, columnist, Haiti 
Liberte • Gerald Lenoir, Director, Black Alliance 
for Just Immigration • Dr. Mark Lomax, First 
African Presbyterian Church • Nina Lopez-Jones, 
Global Women’s Strike • Picard Losier, Esq., 
Philadelphia, PA • Sharon Losier, Esq., 
Philadelphia, PA • Chokwe Lumumba, Esq., Member, 
City Council, Jackson, Mississippi • Ian 
Macdonald, Queen’s Counsel, UK • Moshé Machover, 
Professor Emeritus, University of London, UK • 
Eric Mar, San Francisco Board of Supervisors • 
Frank Martin del Campo, President, Labor Council 
for Latin American Advancement-AFL-CIO, San 
Francisco • John McDonnell, Member of Parliament, 
UK • Gayle McLaughlin, Mayor of Richmond, CA • 
Cynthia McKinney, former U.S. Congresswoman, 2008 
Green Party Presidential candidate • Rose-Marie 
Milford, Konbit Pou Fanm Lakay, Canada • Paul W. 
Miller, Director, Haiti Justice Alliance, 
Northfield, Minnesota • Tom Miller Esq., General 
Counsel, Global Exchange • Judith Mirkinson, San 
Francisco Women’s International League for Peace 
and Freedom • Alejandro Molina, Secretary, Board 
of Directors, Puerto Rican Cultural Center • 
George Monpremier, Fanmi Lavalas NY • Darryl 
Moore, City Council, Berkeley, CA • Joia S. 
Mukherjee, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, 
Partners In Health • Mumia Abu-Jamal, 
journalist/author • Karen Musalo, Clinical 
Professor of Law & Director, Center for Gender & 
Refugee Studies, University of California, 
Hastings College of the Law • Gus Newport, former 
Mayor, Berkeley, CA • Marlene A. Noel, Fanmi 
Lavalas NY • Pedro Noguera, Ph.D, Professor, 
Steinhardt School of Education, N.Y.U. • Kiilu 
Nyasha, host of Freedom is a Constant Struggle • 
Tim Paulson, Executive Director, San Francisco 
Labor Council • Fritzner Pierre, Dyalog Popilè 
(Popular Dialogue) • Wadner Pierre, journalist, 
Inter-Press Service • Kevin Pina, educator and 
filmmaker • Honorable Jim Prola, San Leandro City 
Councilmember • Eric Quezada, Immigration and 
Human Rights Activist, Executive Director of 
Dolores Street Community Services • William 
Quigley, Esq., Center for Constitutional Rights, 
Professor of Law, Loyola New Orleans Law School • 
Maisha Quint, Eastside Arts Alliance, Oakland CA 
• Barbara Ransby, Professor of History and 
African American Studies, University of Illinois 
at Chicago • Karen Ranucci, journalist • Kate 
Raphael, KPFA Women’s Magazine • Mary & Willie 
Ratcliff, editor and publisher, San Francisco Bay 
View • Laura Raymond, Education and Outreach 
Coordinator, Center for Constitutional Rights • 
Barbara Rhine, Attorney • Blanche Richardson, 
Marcus Books • Dr. Rae Richardson, Marcus Books • 
Walter Riley, Attorney, Chair of Board, Haiti 
Emergency Relief Fund • William I Robinson, 
Sociology Professor, University of California, 
Santa Barbara • Jamala Rogers, Organization for 
Black Struggle, St Louis, MO • Nicolas Rossier, 
independent filmmaker and journalist • Maggie 
Ronayne, Acting Head of Archaeology, National 
University of Ireland • Lisa Roth, co-founder San 
Francisco Dyke March • Robert Roth, co-founder, 
Haiti Action Committee • Grahame Russell, 
co-director, Rights Action • Natsu Taylor Saito, 
Professor of Law, Georgia State University 
College of Law • Carolyn S. Scarr, Ecumenical 
Peace Institute/CALC: program coordinator • 
Amilcar Shabazz, Chair, W. E. B. Du Bois 
Department of Afro-American Studies, University 
of Massachusetts • Susan Scott, co-Chair, 
International Committee, National Lawyers Guild • 
Jean Senat-Fleury, Av., Former Juge 
d’Instruction, Haiti and Former Academic Director 
of the Haitian Magistrates’ Academy • Dan Siegel, 
Attorney, former president of Oakland School 
Board • Judy Somberg, Esq., Chair, National 
Lawyers Guild Task Force on the Americas • Jean 
Sorel, Haitian activist, Canada • Jeb Sprague, 
University of California, Santa Barbara • Larry 
Stephens, Chair of African American Caucus 
(AFRAM) of Service Employees Union Local 1021 • 
James B. Stewart, Professor Emeritus, Penn State 
University, former President of National Council 
of Black Studies • Irwin Stotsky, Esq. • Lisa 
Sullivan, Latin America Coordinator, SOA Watch • 
Phil Taylor, “The Taylor Report” CIUT 89.5 
Toronto. • Makani Themba-Nixon, Executive 
Director, The Praxis Project • Michael Theriault, 
Secretary Treasurer, San Francisco Building & 
Construction Trades Council • Bret Thiele, 
International Human Rights Lawyer • Lucie 
Tondreau, Caribbean Pan-African Network • Walter 
Turner, Professor of History and Ethnic Studies, 
College of Marin, host/Africa Today, KPFA • 
Franklin Ulysse, political analyst, Canada • 
Akinyele Umoja, Professor of African American 
History, Georgia State University • Unity Council 
of the African Community Center for Unity and 
Self-Determination/Atlanta • James E Vann, 
Community Activist & Co-founder, Oakland Tenants 
Union • Dave Welsh, Letter Carriers Union #214 
and delegate, SF Labor Council • Sam Weinstein, 
Assistant to the President, Utility Workers Union 
of America • Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of the 
Center for Economic and Policy Research • Burton 
Victor Wides, Esq., Former Counsel to President 
Carter for Oversight of U.S. Intelligence 
Activities, Former Washington, D.C. counsel to 
the Constitutional Government of Haiti • Raymond 
A. Winbush, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Urban 
Research, Morgan State University • Rev. Dr. 
Jeremiah Wright, Pastor Emeritus, TRINITY UCC, 
Chicago, Illinois • Karen Zapata, Teachers for 
Social Justice • Joe Zelenka, Chairperson. St. 
Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church Haiti Committee, 
President, Board of Directors, Parish Twinning 
Program of the Americas • Benjamin Zephaniah, writer, poet, UK •

Institutional affiliations are listed for 
identification purposes only. 
<http://www.haitisolidarity.net/article.php?id=493>This 
full page ad, which appeared in the Miami Herald 
Jan. 23, 2011, was paid for by Haiti Action 
Committee, P.O. Box 2040, Berkeley, CA 94702, 
<http://www.haitisolidarity.net/>www.haitisolidarity.net. 
For those interested in joining this campaign, 
please sign the petition 
<http://www.petitiononline.com/haitiwom/petition-sign.html>HERE.



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