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Today on Flashpoints:
Haiti's US-supported coup leaders continue their rampage against
democracy and the people's will; we'll continue our reports
from Haiti and also get background from Washington on the
Bush connection to the Haitian killing fields. Also, 25% of
the Palestinian population of East Jerusalem are slashed away
from their land by the apartheid wall even as talks contesting
its legitimacy continue in the Hague;
and from Greensboro NC, the Knight Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report: Haiti's President Aristide calls for international
defense to halt a coup in the making as the Bush Administration
looks the other way; and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
is in Baghdad this week looking to annex Uzbekistan
for the American Empire in Iraq, where "He saw; he conquered;
he came." And recently obtained classified documents
reveal that on February 16, 2002, George Bush signed a secret
Security Council directive establishing the goals and objectives
for going to war with Iraq, and a month later General Tommy
Franks conducted a major Iraq war exercise code-named Prominent
Hammer - a year before the public knew anything about the
planned invasion.
5:05 PM PST
Haiti Crisis Worsens: Special Correspondent Kevin Pina gives
another phone report from Port-Au-Prince where he spoke today
with President Aristide; On the phone from Washington DC,
Larry Birns, Executive Director of the Council
on Hemishperic Affairs joins Dennis and Haiti
Action Committee founder Pierre LaBossiere with updated
information about the crisis and Washington's role in the
turmoil. Today so-called opposition leaders rejected the international
proposal for a peaceful resolution to the crisis; roads into
the Capital are blocked; Rebels enter Port-De-Paix, but are
expelled from Cap-Hatien. Washington continues its stall tactics,
Powell awaits a political resolution before sending peace-keepers,
and refuses even to allow the Haitian police force to purchase
tear-gas and riot-control supplies. The French are prepared
to help, but are looking for a signal from Washington. Media
continue to blame Aristide for minor flaws in the legislative
election in May, 2000 (before Aristide was even elected in
November, 2000 by a huge majority) A half-million impoverished
Haitians have taken to the streets in Port-Au-Prince in support
of their popularly-elected President and their Constitution
(see The Security Bugaboo section in COHAs Press
Release. Pierre LaBossiere provides horrifying background
on the convicted mass-murderers now terrorizing the country,
including the Roboteau massacre of April 22,1994. Join the
DEMONSTRATION
3PM-5PM outside the San Francisco Federal Building at Golden
Gate and Polk.
5:45 PM PST
Neigborhoods, Families Divided by Apartheid Wall: Siham Rasheed
with the Palestinian
Counseling Center in East Jerusalem is interviewed by
Nora Barrows-Friedman. Palestinians are holding demonstrations
to appeal to the international community for an end to the
paralyzing restrictions and extreme hardships caused by the
wall. Palestinians have lost their land, and source of income,
and all water resources - in direct violation of Geneva Conventions
and numerous UN Resolutions
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