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Title: Day of Action for Haiti and Missing Human Rights A
START DATE: 5/8/2008
START TIME: 12:00 PM
Duration: 1 Hours
Location: west los angeles, beaches
Location Details:
The Brazilian Consulate
8484 Wilshire Blvd (at La Cienega), Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Event Topic:
Event Type: demonstration
Contact Name: Ad Hoc Working Group for Haiti
Contact Email: la@crossroadswomen.net
Contact Phone: 323-276-9833
DESCRIPTION:
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lovinsky.jpg, image/jpeg, 241x484 Action Alert!

Make Thursdays a Day of Action for Haiti

Call for the Safe Return of Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine

Haitian human rights activist missing since August ?07

Kickoff May 8, 12 noon, Brazilian Consulate (Wilshire at La Cienega)

Haiti has been in the news recently following the riots reported there. But tragically hunger and poverty in Haiti are nothing new, 78% of Haitians live on less than a day, over half on a day or less. Ending poverty, human rights abuses and getting justice were central to the work of human rights activist Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, who has been missing since August 12, 2007. He founded Fondasyon Trant Septanm, which advocates for victims of the 1991 and 2004 coups d'?tats against Jean-Bertrand Aristide; he also co-founded Fondasyon Kore Timoun Yo for street children in Port-au- Prince, and FAM, a center for teenage mothers. Despite growing international pressure, there has been no or little response from Brazil which heads the UN Forces in Haiti (MINUSTAH), nor from the US which has great influence in what happens in Haiti, or other governments who have taken responsibility for security there. But grassroots people in Haiti remain steadfast and determined in their call for Lovinsky?s safe return and urge all of us to intensify international efforts.



Join global efforts calling for a safe return of Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine. Vigil every Thursday from noon-1pm at the Brazilian Consulate, 8484 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills (at La Cienega), beginning Thursday, May 8th.



Also you can join those in the Caribbean Region, England, LA, San Francisco, and Philadelphia who are fasting once a week until Lovinsky is returned to his family and community. Thursday is fasting day in LA, but you can choose which day is best for you to fast, and can fast for 24 hours or for only part of the day. Wear a red ribbon and let others know why you are fasting. Sign up below to indicate your commitment to fast and if we can include your name in the international roster of fasters.

Recently a man from the trade section of the Brazilian Embassy in London casually told the weekly Vigil there that Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine had been killed but his body had not been found. Questions to the Ambassador in writing and by phone for any information have met a stony wall of silence. Lovinsky?s organisation and others who know and have worked with Lovinsky in Haiti firmly believe that he is still alive and that rumours are being used to discourage his supporters. Clearly Brazil wants to wash its hands of this matter despite its prominent role in Haiti. They have suggested we approach the UN, the IMF, the World Bank and ask them to put resources into reconstructing Haiti to prevent such things from happening again. Not a word on what they are prepared to do to find Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine. We refuse to accept this uncaring and dismissive response.

An enormous debt is owed to the Haitian people whose 1804 revolution ended slavery in Haiti, defeated imperialism and made the way for the emancipation of slaves throughout the region and for liberation movements everywhere. Haiti gave refuge to Bolivar, the liberator of Latin America, and also sent ships and fighters to Latin America; many lost their lives to free Latin America. Haiti has paid a high price for its victory and solidarity with every kind of intervention: France imposed a crippling debt forcing Haiti to pay for its loss of slave labor, the US followed with a succession of economic embargos and sanctions, coups, invasions and dictators. Thousands of people have been killed and imprisoned, and many have been forced into exile. A tiny elite has profited from the grinding poverty of Haiti?s poor majority, including in sweatshops which exploit a population reduced to abject poverty. They have also profited from the destruction of forests as well as the destruction of agriculture to make way for US rice and other subsidised produce. With recent food price increases many now face starvation.

UN forces have been occupying Haiti after the first democratically elected president of Haiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide, was forced to leave the country by US Marines. But the people of Haiti have never given up. Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, beloved father, community organizer and member of Aristide?s Lavalas movement, represents their revolutionary courage and resilience. We must get him back.





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