Update: Jubilee USA Press Release

Sort of good news: immi­gra­tion lawyers have reported that non-criminal depor­ta­tions of Haitians have stopped. Dur­ing a visit to Haiti on April 16, Sec­re­tary of State Clin­ton acknowl­edged the bur­den that depor­ta­tion would place on Haitians, and promised to study the pos­si­bil­ity of TPS.

www.HaitiJustice.org with the best arti­cles and analy­ses by the end of the day.

Upcom­ing Events: Mario Joseph of the Bureau des Avo­cats Inter­na­tionaux and Brian Con­can­non of IJDH are speak­ing twice in New York next week, Wednes­day May 6 in Brook­lyn and Thurs­day May 7 in Man­hat­tan. We also have a fundraiser in Rose­land New Jer­sey on Mon­day May 4.

Past Events: Mario Joseph gave a great speech (in Eng­lish) at the 10th Annual Event on March 17. The text is avail­able here. IJDH joined Part­ners in Health, the RFK Memo­r­ial Human Rights Cen­terCen­ter for Human Rights and Global Jus­tice in Wash­ing­ton for a standing-room-only Con­gres­sional Staff brief­ing titled A Human Rights Approach to Devel­op­ment Assis­tance on April 15. The Brief­ing Paper is here. IJDH Board Mem­ber Dr. Paul Farmer and Brian Con­can­non wrote Time to Deal With Haiti

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TODAY

Early last Fall Haiti was dev­as­tated by four cat­a­strophic hurricanes/tropical storms hit­ting within a month, killing hun­dreds, leav­ing thou­sands home­less and hun­gry, inun­dat­ing towns and cities, destroy­ing 15% of Haiti s GDP, caus­ing over $1 bil­lion in damages.

Now is the time.

South Florida lead­ers of both par­ties sup­port TPS, as do the edi­to­r­ial boards of the Miami Her­ald, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Tampa Tri­bune, Orlando Sen­tinel, Wash­ing­ton Post, New York Times, Chicago Tri­bune, Boston Globe, and San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle; the Con­gres­sional Black Cau­cus and many oth­ers (click here for fact sheet on deportations).

Thou­sands of Hait­ian immi­grants have final orders of depor­ta­tion and no work per­mits, mak­ing it dif­fi­cult to sup­port fam­i­lies here or rel­a­tives in Haiti.

And be on the look­out for infor­ma­tion about a May 13 rally in Wash­ing­ton, D.C. activists are orga­niz­ing to push for TPS!

For more infor­ma­tion, e-mail Steven Forester at steveforester@aol.com.