30302: Pierre (Comment) Re: 30294: Minsky (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Kawonabo1500@aol.com

Why after all this work that Sonia Pierre has done to uplift the Dominican
Republic from the dungeons of racism and barbarism in the way the government
and  bourgeois treat Haitian Immigrant Workers that they want to revoke her
Birth  Certificate and her right to Dominican nationality? It is clear that 
those
folks, starting with the Dominican foreign minister Carlos  Morales Troncoso
have absolutely no shame to say that there is misinformation  about DR's
treatment of Haitian Workers. Troncoso lied with a straight face when  he said 
that
his "country of nearly 9 million could not handle the scores of  illegal
Haitian immigrants". The Dominican Republic does not have an "illegal  Haitian
Immigrant" issue but a slavery problem. The whole economy of the DR  rests on
Haitian Cheap Labor. After they suck the workers' blood dry for years,  they
refuse to give those workers proper papers to live decently as Human  Beings. 
The
Dominican capitalist savages want to keep those workers "illegal" to  justify
the extreme exploitation and the violent and racist deportations  they are
subjected to everyday. Those racists and slavers need to  understand we are
living in the year 2007, the Twenty-First Century and not  1503. They must 
learn
some basic elements of civilization.
It is not much of a surprise that the ultra-racist and ultra-reactionary
Dominican ruling classes and government would go to such lengths as attacking
the Birth Rights of Sonia Pierre, a leader of MUDHA (Movement for
Dominican-Haitian Women) who has done so much to fight discrimination against 
poor
Dominicans of Haitian descent. The Dominican Republic's Electoral  board's 
(JCE)
threat to strip Sonia of her human rights to nationality  without due process 
is
unfair, illegal and criminal.
What the Dominican government needs to do is comply fully with the
Inter-American Court of Human Rights to end its long-lived discrimination 
against
ethnic Haitians in its immigration and birth registration system.
Come protest in front of the Dominican Consulate Thursday April 5, 2007,
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm,
1501 Broadway between 43rd & 44th Streets in Manhattan.
* Demand Citizenship Rights to Dominicans of Haitian Descent
* Respect the rights of Haitian Workers by formulating a clear pathway for
legalization and citizenship
* Stop Racist deportations of Haitian Workers
* Stop Racist persecution of Haitian Workers
* Stop xenophobic violence against Haitian  Workers



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