Abolition requires a global lens: In 2022, thousands of Haitians took to the streets in Port-au-Prince to protest Canada and the United States for equipping the island nation’s police force with policing and military supplies, including tactical armoured vehicles. 1/4
Protesters described the presence of both nations as a colonial imposition and an impediment to Haiti’s liberation. As one said:“No to the Canadians, no to the Americans! You are monsters. You don’t make solutions. You are chaos. You are behind the gangsterization of crime.” 2/4
In 2019 in Montreal, around the same time that Haitian protesters were hurling rocks at the Canadian embassy in Port-au-Prince, the police arrested a Haitian feminist who took part with other Haitian organizers. 3/4
They were occupying Justin Trudeau’s office to protest Canada’s diplomatic and police support of Jovenel Moïse, a ruler whom most Haitians deemed a corrupt, undemocratically installed Western puppet. Policing functions in the service of imperialism. 4/4
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