March 2, 2004
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Hey mister, can ya spare a clue?
According to an AWC mailing I received:
This weekend, armed US troops invaded Haiti, and forcibly removed President Aristide from office. Full news reports are just coming out now. We will try to make more information available when we have time. Please join us, for an important action in solidarity with the Haitian people.
What I had picked up from news (mainly TVs in bars and bus stations) as well as from some of the web based news feeds was that there had been something along the lines of a popular revolutions.
There were however, a couple things that contradicted that, such as an intimation that the thing that spurred the revolt was Aristide wanting to raise minimum wage from $1.00 to $1.50 (not generally the sort of thing that starts a revolution of the masses). Then the guardian had the following cartoon (ouch).
Anyway, does anyone know what is happening?
Comments (2)
Great cartoon link, I’m passing that on. Yeh, I could hardly believe that you could read about America kidnapping Aristide in the St. Paul Pioneer Press! Now my father finally has to believe America would do these things, after all it’s in a mainstream newspaper.
Speaking of papers…they just had something on one of those specials about a guy who was making up all these articles for the New York Times, claims he has a bi-polar disorder that basically made him do it. Sheesh…. Anyhoos, had a great time on Saturday too.
Thurs. should be fun as well.