22039: erzilidanto: Lock Sister Anne up in prison and she will feed the prisoners (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Erzilidanto@aol.com

"Lock Sister Anne up in prison and she will feed the prisoners."

©2004 Haiti Information Project - Sò Anne leading a song at the rally
commemorating the First Anninversary of President Aristides Election - November 26,
2002. Frames from Kevin Pina's Documentary: "We Will Bend But We Shall Not
Break."
by Haiti information Project

May 24, 2004

Port-au-Prince - While on the outside the US Marines are trying to turn Haiti
into a prison. Lavalas leader—Sò Anne—is using her time to organize inside
the Penitentiary...

Annette Auguste has been imprisoned for her political beliefs since her home
was violently invaded by U.S. Marines on May 10th. The U.S. government has
done everything it can to insure she remains a prisoner of conscience including
accusing her of having contact with Haitian muslims and planning to attack U.S.
Marines.

This unilateral invasion of a respected peaceful activist for Lavalas was so
outrageous that U.S. Congesswoman Maxine Waters wrote these two letters to
Secretary Colin Powell in protest to the arrest of Sò Anne.

It is hard to understand why the U.S. government considers Auguste so
dangerous when you see her sitting in her jail cell receiving visits from the poor
who have come to revere her. They come in droves and just want to spend a little
time talking with her to make sure she is alright and bring small gifts of
food. It is perhaps easier to understand why the Bush administration considers
her to be a "risk to stability and security in Haiti" when you see the
assistance and help she gives to other prisoners who are less fortunate to have her
popularity and reputation. It is reported that she was transferred from the
National Penitentiary a week ago because her jailers were concerned with her
growing influence because of her helping to give small amounts of money to free
some wrongfully incarcerated while generously sharing her gifts of food from
admirers and family with other less fortunate prisoners. Since then, they have
transferred her to a smaller prison in Petion-Ville but to the angst of the U.S.
and their puppets in the judicial system, she continues to gain in popularity
as she refuses to stop organizing and helping others from within her concrete
and bare jail cell.

This is a salute to Auguste who is an indomitable prisoner of conscience who
will never stop her work on behalf of the poor even from behind prison bars.



Emergency Action Alert

Demand the immediate release
of Anne Auguste (So Anne)