[WAsummit] Fwd: Caricom Blocked

[monacardell at aol.com]

Thanks, Sharon.
 
Mona
 
 
In a message dated 1/18/2010 9:26:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
cws at igc.org writes:

Dear  Mona,  


Please forward  it widely.  I'll also be sending a powerful historical 
analysis and  strategy perspective from anti-racist organizer and journalist 
Jordan  Flaherty, based in New Orleans.


sharon

On Jan 18, 2010, at 2:05 PM, _monacardell at aol.com_ 
(mailto:monacardell at aol.com)  wrote:



Dear Sharon,
 
This is very disturbing. May I forward this on to another listserv of  
which I am a member?
 
Mona Cardell
 
 
In a message dated 1/17/2010 11:48:18 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
_cws at igc.org_ (mailto:cws at igc.org)   writes:

A  little more on the situation in Haiti.   Not only has Caricom been  
blocked from landing in Haiti, as indicated in this email which reflects  the 
factual information of people on the ground; but at this point the US  
military is responsible for blocking all food, water and medicine from  getting 
into the suffering population of Port au Prince until the area can  be made 
'safe from looters.'   

This is  being done in two ways:  (1) All military planes have priority 
over  humanitarian planes for landing rights at the Port au Prince airport, and 
 (2) the huge amount of supplies of medicine, food and water that has  
already arrived in the airport is not being distributed to the people of  Port 
au Prince until there are 'sufficient' military there to stop the  people 
from 'looting of supplies.'


New  Orleans all over again.  



Please  please turn of NPR and CNN and turn on to sources from 
organizations with  links to grassroots organizations on the ground.   For example, 
check  _www.haitisolidarity.net_ (http://www.haitisolidarity.net/)  for one  of 
many accurate sources for information.  and there are many  more.



with rage,  frustration and love, sharon





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From: KA <_kaliakuno at gmail.com_ (mailto:kaliakuno at gmail.com) >
Date: January 17, 2010 5:02:19 PM PST
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Subject: Fwd: [BlackLeftUnity:2535] Caricom  Blocked
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We must fight  against the US tightening its grip on Haiti. We must demand 
that the  Obama administration let all aid in now and withdraw the military  
immediately!   


In Unity and Struggle,
Kali 

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Date:  Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 7:33 PM
Subject: [BlackLeftUnity:2535] Caricom  Blocked
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    (http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/io_index)    FULL STORY
CARICOM BLOCKED
...as US takes control of airport
Rickey Singh Barbados
Sunday, January 17th 2010
         

      IN DIRE NEED: A woman reacts in  a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 
yesterday.  Relief groups and officials are focused on  moving aid flowing 
into Haiti to survivors of  the powerful 7.0 earthquake that hit the country  
on Tuesday. -Photo: AP 
 
THE CARIBBEAN Community’s emergency aid mission  to Haiti, comprising Heads 
of Government and leading  technical officials, failed to secure permission 
 Friday to land at that devastated country’s airport,  now under the 
control of the United States.  
Consequently, the Caricom ’assessment mission’,  that was to determine 
priority humanitarian needs  resulting from the mind-boggling earthquake 
disaster  of Haiti last Tuesday, had to travel back from  Jamaica to their 
respective home destinations. .  
On Friday afternoon the US State Department  confirmed signing two ’
Memoranda of Understanding’  with the Government of Haiti that made ’official  
that the United Stateas is in charge of all inbound  and outbound flights and 
aid off-loading. ..’  
Further, according to the agreements signed, US  medical personnel ’now 
have the authority to operate  on Haitian citizens and otherwise render medical 
 assistance without having to wait for licences from  Haiti’s government... 
.’ 
Prior to the US taking  control of Haiti’s airport, a batch of some 30 
Cuban  doctors had left Havana, following Wednesday’s  earthquake, to join more 
than 300 of their  colleagues who have been working there for more than  a 
year. 

Last evening the frustration suffered by the  Caricom mission to get 
landing permission was  expected to be raised in a scheduled meeting at  Jamaica’s 
Norman Manley International Airport with  US Secretary of State, Hilary 
Clinton. 
Jamaica’s  Prime Minister Bruce Golding who was making  arrangements for 
the meeting with Clinton, following  her visit earlier in the day to witness 
the  devasation of the capital Port-au-Prince, said he  could not comment on 
details to be discussed.  
He, however, told this correspondent: ’I  appreciate the chaos and 
confusion at Haiti’s  airport, where there is just one operational runway.  But 
Haiti is a member of Caricom and we simply have  to be facilitated and the truth 
is, there is hardly  a functioning government in Haiti...’ 
Asked  whether the difficulties encountered by the Caricom  mission may be 
related to reports that US  authorities were not anxious to facilitate 
landing  of aircraft from Cuba and Venezuela, Prime Minister  Golding said he 
could ’only hope that there is no  truth to such immature thinking in the face 
of the  horrific scale of Haiti’s tragedy...’ 
Golding,  who has lead portfolio responsibility among Caricom  leaders for 
external economic relations, had a  personal first-hand assessment when he 
flew to Haiti  on Thursday. 
A contingent of some 150 members of  the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF has 
since established  a camp with medical facilities in the vicinity of  Haiti’s 
airport. 
Ahead of last evening scheduled  meeting with Secretary of State Clinton, 
Prime  Minister Golding had discussed on Friday in Kingston  some of the 
problems to be overcome at a meeting he  held in Kingston on Friday with the 
Prime Ministers  of Barbados and Dominica and including the  Community’s 
Secretary General... 
Among urgent  matters to be discussed with Secretary Clinton was  to be 
possible use of the Norman Manley Airport as a  primary hub, given its short 
distance from Haiti (45  minutes), for all emergency missions. 
The  Community’s Secretary General (Edwin Carrington)  explained that 
proper use of the Norman Manley  Airport would be consistent with a decision last 
 week for Jamaica to serve as the Sub-regional  Operational Focal Point 
(SOFP) responses to the  Haitian humanitarian crisis.







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