SUN DAY 4pm Haitian Diaspora, Clergy, Elected Officials Lead Protest at 16th & H Proceeding to the WH, Demand Biden Administration End Support for Corrupt Haiti Regime.
Contact: Heather Cabral, 202-550-6880, hcabral@faithinaction.org
Haitian Diaspora, Faith & Human Rights Leaders Demand Biden Administration Stop Propping up Haiti’s Repressive Regime
The group will host a protest demanding the Biden administration let Haitians decide their own future.
Washington – This Sunday, October 9 at 4pm, leaders from the Haitian Diaspora, Clergy and human rights organizations, joined by elected leaders including U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick and the Chair and Vice Chair of the National Haitian American Elected Officials Network, will convene at Black Lives Matter Plaza and march to the White House to demand the Biden Administration stop propping up a corrupt regime that has plunged Haiti into chaos, and to let Haitians decide their own future, including creating a legitimate Haitian-led transition back to democracy and security.
Haitians have been protesting for months against the current regime. Haitians are demanding an end to a regime that has engaged in rampant corruption, collaborated with gangs, been implicated in the former president’s assassination and made life unbearable for ordinary people. Today, Haiti is shut down, people cannot obtain food or fuel, and more than half of Haitians go hungry each day.
Sunday’s protest follows a September letter to President Biden from 139 prominent U.S. organizations urging Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to stop propping up the repressive regime and let a Haitian solution emerge. Sunday’s action has been endorsed by more than 226 individuals, including author Edwidge Danticat and other prominent Haitian Americans and religious leaders, and by over 101 Haitian-American, religious, human rights and advocacy organizations, including the Haitian Bridge Alliance, Faith in Action International, Pax Christi USA, and the Presbyterian Church USA. A list of many endorsing organizations may be found here.
Leaders from convening organizations are available for interview. Please contact Heather Cabral, 202-550-6880, hcabral@faithinaction.org.
Who: 101+ Haitian American, faith, & human rights organizations
What: March & Rally Demanding the U.S. Stop Propping Up Haiti’s Corrupt, Repressive, and Lawless Regime
When: Sunday, October 9, 4-5pm
Where: Gathering at 16th & H, where speeches will start shortly before or at 4pm, then picketing there and proceeding to protest at the White House
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