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Los Angeles Weekly Vigil on Thursdays 12 Noon - 1pm Brazilian Consulate  (Wilshire at la Cienega) Take action for Haiti: Call for the safe return of Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, Haitian human rights activist missing since August '07; we pay tribute to Don White, who brought his creativity & commitment to justice for all those imprisoned or disappeared.

Los Angeles 13 June Vigil for Haiti: South Central Farmers - Two Years Later (after the eviction) Vigil, Potluck and Fandango.

Oakland, US,  29 March: Event focusing on resistance by women and men against repression in Haiti and Oaxaca, Mexico. 

Update on fast & London vigil
International concern grows
for disappeared Haitian human rights defender Lovinsky Acclaimed actress Vanessa Redgrave joins a growing list of prominent people worldwide who have expressed concerned with the safe return of Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine
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meeting at the Brazilian Embassy in LondonPrevious letter to the embassy.
US Human Rights Award for Lovinsky & testimonials by President Aristide and others
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL APPEAL CASE

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Berkeley (California) City Council Resolution:  Supporting the People of Haiti

Letter to President Lula re violence by UN forces + in Portuguese.

Letter to the US Ambassador of Brazil

SIGN, CIRCULATE and RETURN Open letter to Latin American governments which are part of the UN mission in Haiti (& in Spanish)

108 Lankan soldiers in Haiti sex scandal Sri Lankan Sunday Times On-Line, 7 November 07
U.N. Faces More Accusations of Sexual Misconduct Officials Acknowledge 'Swamp' of Problems and Pledge Fixes Amid New Allegations in Africa, Haiti.  Washington Post 13 March 2005

Raul Zibechi: Let's All Stand With Cite Soleil + Haiti No Es Tibet Trade Unions condemns UN forces’ occupation of Haiti and brutal treatment of Haitians by Brazilian-led UN forces.  Mexico City, 2nd Continental Workers' Conference, 5  April 2008
Amnesty International: Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine & Wilson Mésilien: Urgent Action & Report Spanish
Aristide calls for Lovinsky's release
Watch a short film about Lovinsky Pierre Antoine
human rights activist disappeared in Haiti (2mins 54sec) Friction TV website
British Members of Parliament support Lovinsky

London
International rolling fast & vigil for the safe return by Christmas of Lovinsky. Every Tuesday 5-6 pm outside the Brazilian Embassy
Enlèvement d’un militant haïtien pour les droits humains

Urgent help needed in ensuring the safe return of Haitian human rights activist Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine
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Third International Day of Solidarity with the People of Haiti & for the safe return of disappeared human rights activist
Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine February 29th demonstration in Port-au-Prince Photos of the contingent of Fondasyon Trant Septanm  with Lovinsky banners and T-shirts

Film Premiere “What’s going on in Haiti”, London Fri 29 Feb

Previous Actions:
Vigil calling for his immediate, safe return
Join Danny Glover, Ron Kovic* and others in a 24 Hour Fast for the safe return of Haitian human rights activist Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine Tuesday, Nov. 13 gather at 10:30am outside the Brazilian Consulate

Seventy years of the Black Jacobins one-day conference to mark the seventieth anniversary of the publication of C.L.R. James’s classic history of the Haitian Revolution. London, England.  Selma James, International co-odinator GWS, speaking.

Channel 4 (Uk) “Unreported World: Haiti” – a nasty piece of embedded journalism Selma James, on behalf of the Global Women’s Strike

Strike 2007 Haiti Sit-in & speakout in front of UN building protesting their occupation and the rapes and killings, launching the Strike.  

International Day in Solidarity with the People of Haiti
A Call to Action
Coordinated International Protests on February 7, 2007

Multi-city protests on 4 Continents
LA: Emergency Protest 8 Feb
London: Showing of
“Haiti: Harvest of Hope”
  Sò Anne - Prominent Haitian Activist and Folk Singer Los Angeles
Los Angeles Welcomes Haitian Women Activists
On July 22, 2006, approximately 150 people in South Los Angeles gathered at a public meeting to welcome two Haitian grassroots women activists on their first visit to LA. The event featured Ginette Apollon, a community and union organizer who works with women and youth in urban and rural Haiti, and Rea Dol, who is with a coalition of grassroots women’s organizations in Haiti and also Director of a school in Port-au-Prince...
  Los Angeles - a historic coming together of grassroots movements

From Haiti to New Orleans, Yes to Justice and Relief, Not Death and Occupation Protest September 30th, 2005 outside the Brazilian Consulate in Beverly Hills...

2005: 
Stop the UN Killings of Civilians in Haiti -
Condemn massacre carried out by UN 'peacekeepers'

Unpublished letter from Selma James, Strike co-ordinator & widow of CLR James, to the Guardian in response to an article on Haiti

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