An appeal from students of the State University of Haiti to CUNY students for your help against the cruel and criminal Michel Martelly regime:
Since this neo-Duvalierist dictatorial régime came to power, students here, like so many other working-class people, have suffered under the jackboots of all sorts of government repression.  Arrests, assassinations, beatings, and other contemptuous criminal acts unworthy of human beings are the deliberate policies of the police and of MINUSTAH, the United Nations “peacekeeper” force.
In February 2012, President Martelly himself arrived at the School of Ethnology campus with an armed group firing guns, beating students, and looting offices.  Well before this, however, the repressive machine had cracked down on us. This year the violence and arbitrary arrests are more and more frequent.  We hate this!  It fills us with rage!
Early one morning last week, the entire School of Ethnology was blanketed with tear gas.  No one could breathe.  People were traumatized — fainting, crying, calling for help — all over the campus. That afternoon, the gangsters in the Haitian National Police struck our comrade, a third-year student at the Teachers College.  He was maimed by a stun grenade that hit him directly on the right hand.  Three surgeries later, in spite of our aid and the doctors’ efforts, it became clear there was no chance of saving the hand.
How many more hateful crimes like this must we endure before we understand the criminal mentality and boundless perversity of this régime, this eater of the men and women of our class?
That’s why we are asking for a whole-souled solidarity from you, our comrades. At CUNY, the militarization of your university exposes the administration’s opposition to your struggle for a good education and a more egalitarian society. In Haiti, we have joined the same struggle to counter this worldwide system of injustice that knows no limits.
We commit ourselves to this struggle knowing its risks and dangers. We ask you for your support, for this is one struggle!  Your struggle is ours!  Let us fight together to denounce and combat these inhuman policies, until we put an end to the capitalist system that has so injured our class.
We fighters in Haiti are of one mind with you, in an international solidarity that can only grow stronger.  In admiration we send you our warmest greetings.  We hope with you to lead a common struggle for the betterment of the working class. Marx said, after all, that the interests of the proletariat are the interests of humanity itself.