From our organization(BAP), we want to invite you to be part of the campaign "Day of solidarity with Haiti and Haitian migration in the Dominican Republic and the world". This campaign seeks to draw international attention to the dramatic situation of violence and rights violations towards migrants of Haitian origin and Dominicans of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic following the latest presidential decree, that legitimizes and promotes mass deportations. We invite you to join this campaign tomorrow, Wednesday, November 30th throughout the day.
To be part of the campaign do the following:
1. Post the attached image on your Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter profile.
2. Use the following hashtag: #RDRasistState #NoMoreDeportationsRD #HaitianLivesMatter #UnityAgainstRacismRD
3. Tag #Tourismrd so the world can see the reality in which many people live outside of their beaches and resorts.
4. Copy and paste the text we leave you here in your networks:
Day of solidarity with Haiti and Haitian migration in the Dominican Republic and around the world
On November 11, the Abinader government of the Dominican Republic approved decree 668-22, which creates a specialized police unit to pursue and expel from the country immigrants living on a state or private lands. Since then, persecution, evictions, and massive deportations, as well as violence against Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent who have been living for decades in batteries in the country's sugar cane zones have increased. Images of destroyed homes, police and citizen violence, denial of medical attention, and hate speech towards the Haitian-origin population have escalated to alarming limits, in an ongoing nationalist campaign, that already totals more than 85,000 mass deportations so far this year.
In the Dominican Republic, there is a danger of perpetrating an ethnic cleansing similar to that committed by the Trujillo dictatorship which orchestrated the Parsley Massacre in 1937 killing more than 15,000 people because of their origin and skin color.
We condemn this policy of mass expulsions and violation of personal safety that affects Haitians and black people in the Dominican Republic and that is based on the ideology of racial and cultural supremacy of the State and the Dominican elite.
IT IS TIME TO ACT!
We call for a united voice against the racist state violence that the Dominican state systematically maintains against the most vulnerable population.
We call on the international community, Haitian and Dominican diasporas, churches, trade unions, cultural and political organizations, and human rights organizations around the world to stand in solidarity with the Haitian people, with the situation of Haitian migrants and their families in the Dominican Republic and elsewhere in the world.
Let us remember that the Dominican Republic is a country that is sustained by tourism. We show the world the reality in which many people live because of their origin and skin color outside its beaches and resorts.
If you want to learn more about this conflict:
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