Join BAP NYC/NJ for a Haitian Flag Day rally at Championship Plaza in downtown Newark.

Each year on May 18th, Haitians in Haiti and around the world celebrate Haitian culture and commemorate the creation of the Haitian Flag, a symbolic representation of their anticolonial revolutionary struggle.

This year, the Black Alliance for Peace New York City/New Jersey Citywide Alliance calls on those in and around Newark to honor Haiti’s revolutionary legacy by uplifting the ongoing struggle of the Haitian masses against imperialist intervention and occupation.

The Haitian masses’ struggle for popular sovereignty has been misinterpreted, devalued, and undermined for centuries (especially since the beginning of the U.S. / Core Group occupation of Haiti in 2004). But the Haitian masses have, for centuries, shown us what it means to fight for self-determination and Black Radical Peace.

At 6:30 on May 18th at Championship Plaza (232 Market St.) in Newark, we will celebrate this living legacy of the Haitian masses and their collective fight for liberation.

Solidarity with Haiti is a critical component of a collective liberation struggle. The deaths of Jean Wilson Brutus and Wali Bey in Newark, of many others in Haiti and around the world at the hands of state and imperialist violence make one thing crystal clear: there can be no liberated Newark, no liberated New Jersey, and no liberated New York City without a liberated Haiti!

Whether in Solino or the West Ward, the collective struggle for liberation must carry on!

Join us on May 18th!

End the WAR on Black people!

Build African/Black working class power for a Zone of Peace!

Justice for Jean Wilson Brutus!

Justice for Wali Bey!