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ideals as well as to the promises in our founding documents. It brought the public pressure that compelled LBJ to use the powers of his office to pass civil rights and voting rights legislation.
I was proud to stand outside the White House with so many religious leaders: a Catholic nun representing thousands of
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rights. These migrants many times have been denied the possibility of accessing food or hygiene items, and when they sell any to them, they do so at ridiculous prices, almost 10 times above their commercial value. “Even street vendors raise our prices, they don’t want to rent us to sleep because we are Haitians, not even with our babies.” The non-possibility of a place to stay to rest from the long days of travel, during which many have died on the way, such as the young pregnant Haitian who died on a bus while traveling from the city of Pasto to the city from Cali on Aug. 14, 2021.
The refusal of the Colombian government has gone beyond the rules and has not allowed, nor guaranteed a dignified treatment in which women, men, youth, girls, and boys of Haitian origin are treated as human beings and not as animals.
Despite the situation generated by COVID-19, we can say that there is no political will on the part of governments to provide decent living conditions, far from any act that promotes racism and xenophobia.
If at present a minimum of transit conditions have been provided for the Haitian migrant population, it is due to the economic factor, since the confluence has been massive, according to reports from the terminal, they have managed to have almost 800 migrants within their facilities per day with initial transit to the city of Cali, however, currently they have enabled a direct route to the city of Medellín and then move to Necoclí, then go in a fleet or canoe to Capurganá, and then enter the Darién Gap. Also called the jungle of death, where more than 500 kilometers of dense jungle full of poisonous and dangerous animals, rivers and streams, etc. await them. They will walk through, with suitcases, with their children, pregnant women, sick women and men, to all of the above are added rapes of women, robberies and murders, but their desire to have better living conditions for themselves and their families coupled with a state of mind that is only fueled by hope can more than hold back that degree of desolation that is felt when one of their loved ones stays or is forced to stay on the road.
The authorities are aware of many of the negative events experienced by migrants during their journeys, but there is no real will, nor a policy aimed at protecting the integrity of migrants. There is no racial justice policy, neither in Colombia, nor in the Americas nor in the Caribbean region. There is also no gender policy, where women and girls have all their rights protected nor guaranteed. So, it follows that there is no real policy to protect our brothers and sisters in a country as important to Black people as the Republic of Haiti.
Haitians, apparently, are not people who boost the internal economies of the countries to which they are directed, nor are they part of the general interest of the world. But they are to me, and to groups like AfroResistance and other Black led groups. And that commits and recommits me on a daily basis.
We at AfroResistance are calling out the anti-Blackness, government hypocrisy, and human rights violations against the Haitian people in the United States and worldwide. We are urging governments to uphold international laws and norms that govern the asylum process.
For more information on Haiti and Black Migration AfroResistance’s Black Migration Working Group contact https://us02web.zoom.us/ meeting/register/tZUsd-yopjojE9R2Hx9aezoRy37OHbhmO20p.
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her sisters; a Jewish rabbi in whose organization’s office the original Voting Rights Act was drafted; Black Baptist and AME clergy taking their place in the Black church’s long legacy of working for justice. We were joined by representatives of secular social justice and voting rights organizations.
The Rev. Timothy McDonald, who pastored in Martin Luther King Jr.’s church and who serves as the co-chair of People For the American Way, the organization I lead, led us in singing and prayer and brought powerful words of truth. I choked up a bit with gratitude for their leadership, and with gratitude for all the members of the movement, including members of my own family, who risked their lives over the years to secure the right to vote for all Americans. Before I was arrested and spent the night in jail, I delivered a message to President Biden: When the president of the League of Women Voters is willing to risk arrest, when pastors in Dr. King’s lineage are willing to risk arrest, when Catholic nuns are willing to risk arrest to call you to fulfill your promise
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