Monday, February 15, 2010
(One day from "A Chronology of Haitian Protest and Resistance since the Earthquake")
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Lavalas Party protest

Haiti leaders face public anger

Al Jazeera, February 15

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Almost five weeks after Haiti's earthquake, the fallout from the disaster is spilling into the political arena.

Haitians angry at what they feel is the government's mishandling of the crisis, are rallying for the return of the former president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Al Jazeera's Sebastian Walker reports from Port-au-Prince.

[Note: This news item contains interviews with Lavalas Party activists and supporters living and working in Bel Aire, a very poor neighbourhood in Port-au-Prince.  One activist, Rene Jaquet, says: "Now is the moment for Lavalas to wake up... and to ask for the return of Jean Bertrand Aristide." The journalist notes that "In Cite Soley, where those demonstrators were mostly from, it's hard to find people who don't want Aristide to come back..."
 

The video includes a protest with about 200 Lavalas supporters in downtown Port-au-Price demanding aid and chanting support for Aristide.

The journalist concludes his report by saying that: "It seems that the number of political demonstrations is growing" and "there are growing calls on the streets for Aristide's return and they are likely to get louder."]

CONOCS protest

Democracy Now,
February 16, 2010

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"On Monday approximately 200 Haitians took to the streets of Port-au-Prince to protest the government’s response to the earthquake.

Jean Enock Joseph called on the Haitian government, church and civil society to take responsibility for the care of the local population.

Jean Enock Joseph: “Two hundred and fifty thousand wounded Haitians is something extraordinary. We say, and we say again, that the state has to take responsibility, the church has to take responsibility, civil society has to take responsibility.”

[Note: The protest was organized by Le Collectif des Notables de Cité Soleil (Leaders from Cite Soleil)]

People march to the head quarters of the Haitian government in Port-au-Prince during a demonstration demanding attention to the victims of the earthquake February 15, 2010. World leaders have promised massive amounts of assistance to rebuild Haiti since the January 12, 7.0 magnitude quake that killed as many as 200,000 people and left Port-au-Prince in ruins.

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Pasqual Gorriz/
UN Photo/Handout

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UN peacekeeping police observe February 15, 2010 a demonstration in Port-au-Prince. Officials warn that the rainy season threatens to worsen already squalid conditions in camps where an estimated 1.2 million people made homeless by the earthquake now live in and around the capital.

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Thony Belizaire

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People protest outside of the temporary presidential office in the capital city of Port-au-Prince, Monday Feb. 15, 2010. Hundreds of people protested holding up brooms demanding jobs and food in the wake of last months magnitude-7 earthquake that left thousands homeless.

AP Photo/
Javier Galeano

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People protest outside of the temporary presidential office in Port-au-Prince, Monday Feb. 15, 2010. Hundreds of people protested holding up brooms demanding jobs and food in the wake of last month's magnitude-7 earthquake.

AP Photo/
Javier Galeano

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Haïti-Séisme : Nouvelle manifestation, les ratés de l’aide alimentaire provoquent la frustration populaire
[Haiti-Earthquake: New protest, the failures of food aid causing widespread frustration]
15 février 2010

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The protesters, numbering several hundreds, were demanding better distribution of food aid and shelter...

Monday, February 15, 2010
(One day from "A Chronology of Haitian Protest and Resistance since the Earthquake")
A resource produced by Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade