[Haiti News\U.N. Protest]
Thursday’s protest is organized by the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti (KOMOKODA)–and will start at 3:pm at the US Mission to the United Nations 799 UN Plaza at 45th Street & 1st Avenue in Manhattan.
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[Caribbean\Haiti]
Congresswoman Waters: “I am deeply concerned that one year after the massacre, the state officials implicated in the Lasalin killings remain at liberty…Unfortunately, the U.S. State Department continues to support the current government of Haiti without regard to either official corruption or human rights violations.
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[Caribbean News\Haiti]
Congresswoman Maxine Waters: “As a longtime friend of Haiti, I am deeply concerned that one year after the massacre, the state officials implicated in the Lasalin killings remain at liberty…Early reports suggest that the recent killing of at least 15 people in the Bel-Air neighborhood between November 4-7, 2019, may have been carried out by the very same gang leaders implicated in the Lasalin massacre. ”
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[International Banking\Caribbean]
Senior Bankers from six major U.S. Banks and U.S. Congresspersons gathered with a delegation representing CARICOM at Capitol Hill in Washington, under the Chairmanship of Congresswoman Waters…U.S. legislators expressed alarm at the effect on the Caribbean of de-risking and the loss of CBRs from U.S. banks as well as the effect on U.S. national security if the situation worsens.
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[Housing News\Housing Affordability]
Congresswoman Maxine Waters: “We are in the midst of a housing affordability crisis across the country, caused in part by the lack of affordable and available rental units, rising rents, gentrification, and dilapidated public housing…Studies have shown that neglecting our housing infrastructure will only hurt our economy, so I urge my colleagues to support this legislation to make the necessary investments in rural, suburban and urban housing markets, and ensure all future conversations around infrastructure investments include affordable housing.”
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[Supreme Court News\Comcast Case v. NAAOM]
Senator Harris: “Just one year after the end of the Civil War, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to remove barriers to contracting and Black economic advancement.“It ensured that newly freed slaves enjoyed the same rights as other citizens. This case threatens to limit the effectiveness of our oldest civil rights law and could prevent countless victims– particularly Black people and people of color– from pursuing claims of race discrimination in our courts.
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[Housing News\HUD]
“In its recently published notice to implement the NSPIRE demonstration, HUD states that it is seeking feedback from a ‘diverse, representative group of stakeholders.’[1] However, according to the National Housing Law Project, HUD has only engaged HUD officials, as well as public housing agencies, owners and agents (POAs), to develop the demonstration. The HUD notice is also disconcertingly silent on the issue of resident engagement.[2]”
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[Supreme Court News\ Comcast Corp v. NAAOM]
Congresswoman Maxine Waters: “Nearly ten years ago when Comcast sought to merge with NBC Universal, both companies were forced, under pressure from my efforts in Congress and the FCC, to commit to credible diversity and inclusion initiatives as a condition for the merger. Today, they are seeking to effectively destroy one of our nation’s oldest civil rights statutes dating back to Reconstruction. In doing so, Comcast is opening the flood gates to discrimination in business contracts with no legal remedy or recourse.’
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[Africa News\Commemoration of Oliver and Adelaide Tambo]
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa: “The story of OR Tambo is like a book full of timeless life lessons to all who wish to become better people in service of humanity …
Radical yet polite, and militant yet respectful, Tambo’s dynamism immensely benefited the Youth League when negotiating its way with a rather conservative old guard of the African National Congress…We pay tribute to Mama Adelaide Tambo who – as a revolutionary in her own right – understood and was prepared to pay the personal cost at which national freedom would be achieved.”
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