13862: : Photos up of recent demonstration, Nov. 25, 2002

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: kevin pina <kpinbox@hotmail.com>

The event  AP and Reuters don’t want you to know about.


On Monday, November 25, 2002, more than 30,000 people demonstrated in front
of Haiti’s national palace in downtown Port au Prince. The Associated Press
and Reuters under reported the event only mentioning it in passing. Instead,
all the lead stories focused on much smaller demonstrations against
President Aristide's government. Not one single photo of this event appeared
in the international press while dozens were filed featuring shots of
anti-Aristide protests.

The event began with a rally in Haiti’s National Theater. The over capacity
crowd, estimated at 7000, came mostly from the poor slums throughout the
capital. Lavalas members from Belair and Cite Soleil could be seen standing
side by side with Lavalasien from Canape Vert and Petionville singing to the
strains of two traditional rara bands. One woman who said she was from Bois
Verna shouted, "Nobody paid me to be here. I walked here because I did not
have money for the bus. Let's keep walking!!. " The crowd then spilled into
the streets for a peaceful march past the U.S. Consulate.

[Corbett inserts:  to see photos which Kevin Pina took of the
demonstration see:]

http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/misctopic/texts/pina-photos.htm

Pina continues:

As the march continued towards the palace the crowd coalesced with
thousands more along the route. By the time the march reached the
national palace the crowd was estimated to have swelled to well beyond
30,000.


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