8.14.05 6:20 pm CST - New Orleans, LA

Dear Friends:

    Thanks to your help, Bill Quigley, a law professor at
Loyola University New Orleans USA, a volunteer lawyer
for Fr. Gerard Jean-Juste with the Institute for
Justice and Democracy in Haiti who is assisting Mario
Joseph of BAI in working for the release of Fr.
Jean-Juste, is hand delivering to U.S. Ambassador to
Haiti:

#1      791 letters and faxes from people from 42 states
and 10 countries (including Brazil, Canada, Jamaica,
France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands,
Nicaragua, South Africa) calling on the U.S.
Ambassador to Haiti to do everything in his power to
gain the immediate release of Fr. Gerard Jean-Juste
from the Haiti National Penitentiary.

Plus

#2     Copy of letter signed by 29 U.S. Representatives
to the U.S. Congress written to President Bush and the
U.S. Ambassador to Haiti calling for the release of
Fr. Jean-Juste.  The letter is signed by
Representatives: Maxine Waters, Jan Schakowsky,
Barbara Lee, John Conyers, Charles Rangel, Barney
Frank, Lynn Woolsey, Sherrod Brown, Maurice Hichey,
Sheila jackson-Lee, Corinne Brown, Earl Blumenauer,
Eleanor Holmes Norton, Edophus Brown, Melvin L. Watt,
Tammy Baldwin, Kendrick B. Meek, Raul Grijalva, Donna
Christensen, Al Green, Julia Carson, Carolyn
Kilpatrick, Gregory Meeks, Dennis Kucinich, Donald
Payne, James P. McGovern, Robert Wexler, Major R.
Owens, and Bob Filner.

Plus

#3       Over 1200 names and emails of people calling
for the release of Fr. Jean-Juste compiled by the US
national human rights group, Human Rights First.

    This is a total of over 2020 people as of 6 pm Sunday
August 14, 2005.  Many other letters and faxes and
emails are known to be directed to the U.S. Ambassador
and Haitian authorities calling for the immediate
release of Fr. Jean-Juste as a result of the
designation of Fr. Jean-Juste as a Prisoner of
Conscience by Amnesty International.

    The 791 people whose letters and faxes are being
delivered are from a very broad range of university,
legal, medical, religious, community, and private
organizations including:

Adelante Youth Center
Adrian Dominican Sisters
Agenda for Children
American University
Aquinas College
Archdiocese of Los Angeles
Archdiocese of New Orleans
Diocese of Kalamazoo
Diocese of Knoxville
Baton Rouge Office of Public Defender
Boyd Productions
Board of Supervisors, Racine County
Buyrite
CARE Management Consultants Inc.
Catholic Peace Ministry
Catholic University of America
CEO Pipe Organs
Century 21 Realty
Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America
Church of Our Lady of Mercy
Church of the Epiphany
Church of the Good Shepherd
City College of New York
Columbia College
Columbia University   
Continental Pacific Lumber       
Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul
Des Moines Catholic Worker
Dominican Sisters
Dominican Sisters of Kansas
Dominican Sisters of Sparkhill
Dominican Sisters of Springfield
EM Ministries
Fairfield University
Fancy Ferns
Federation Novitiate
Fordham University
Forging Alliances South & North
Franciscan Friars Assumption BVM Province
Gannon University
George Washington University
Gespass & Johnson
Goucher College
Gray Panthers of Washington 
Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart
Grand Rapids Dominicans
Haiti Solidarity Network of the Northeast
Harvest Time
Hope House
House of Frace Catholic Worker
Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
John the XXIII Center
Jonah House
Jubilee Center
Lakeview Presbyterian
Dennis W. Lancote Law Offices
Lawyers Rights Watch Canada
Lewis University
Loyola Academy Illinois
Loyola University New Orleans
Maryknoll Sisters
Mayfly Productions
Merritt College
Minute Man Media
National School of Education Johannesburg SA
New Mexico Public Defender
New York Province Society of Jesus
New Orleans Province of Society of Jesus
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
Pacific Southwest School of the Brethren
Passionist Community
Paul Miller Design Inc.
Peace Action Wisconsin
Public Law Center
Quaker Meeting
Quincy University
Raleigh Catholic Worker Community
Regis University
Religious of the Sacred Heart
Resource Center of the Americas
Roger Williams University
Sacred Heart Church
Sacred Heart Franciscan Province
School of the Americas Watch
School of St. Elizabeth
School Sisters Notre Dame
Seasons Hospice
Sinotte Psychological Services
Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth
Sisters of Providence
Sisters of St. Francis
Sisters of St. Joseph of Wheeling
Sisters of St. Joseph
Sisters of St. Joseph of Lagrange
Sisters of St. Joseph of Medialle
Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of St.
Francis
Sisters of the Most Precious Blood
Sisters Servant of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Solidarity Bridge - Chicago Catholic Medical Mission
Spell & Spell
St. Albert and St. Mary Parishes
St. Bartholomew
St. Benedict Center
St. Catherine Episcopal Vicarate
St. Dominic’s Solidarity Group in Brazil
St. Francis Catholic Worker
St. Francis Of Assisi Catholic Worker
St. Joseph Social Service Center
St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Cathedral
St. Patrick Convent
St. Peter’s College
St. Rose of Lima
St. Scholastica Monastery Benedictine Sisters
St. Thomas the Apostle
Stokes, Batholomew, Evans and Petree
Therapy Center
Thomas M. Cooley Law School
Tulane University
Gail Turner Nurses Registry
Margaret Tanon Law Offices
United Church of Christ
University of Maryland
University of New Orleans
University of Southern California
Valentine & Kebarths
Vanderbilt University
Vermont Law School
Voices in the Wilderness
Washington University in St. Louis
Well Center of Spirituality
What If Foundation
Womens International League of Peace & Freedom
Xpressions on Xanadu Natural Art