[News] Haiti - Honor Lovinsky: La Pena, Wednesday Aug 20th 7PM event

[Anti-Imperialist News]

Dear friends of Haiti:

As you may know, this coming Wednesday, August 
20th there is a Haiti Action Committee event at 
La Pena to honor Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, as part 
of the world-wide observance of the year 
anniversary of his disappearance. Now that the 
program has been finalized, I am sending you the 
details. I urge you to come and bring your friends!

It promises to be a great event including a rare 
opportunity to see footage of Lovinsky giving a 
speech last summer in front of UN headquarters 
shortly before he was disappeared.

Poet and musician Phavia Kugichagalia will open 
the event, and our speaker is former Chilean 
political prisoner and lifetime human rights 
advocate, Sergio Maraboli. From the SF8, there 
will be solidarity messages from political 
prisoners Jalil Muntaqim and Herman Bell.

Please check the Haiti Action Committee website 
<http://www.haitisolidarity.net/index>http://www.haitisolidarity.net/index 
for messages concerning Lovinsky from his wife, 
Michele Pierre-Antoine, from Dr. Jean-Bertrand 
Aristide, and from Mumia Abu-Jamal.

In addition to attending the event, you can make 
your support for Lovinsky count by signing the 
on-line petition at 
<http://www.petitiononline.com/august/petition.html>http://www.petitiononline.com/august/petition.html.

Regards,

Leslie


THE ANNOUNCEMENT:

Join Haiti Action Committee to honor disappeared 
Haitian human rights activist Lovinsky 
Pierre-Antoine at a Bay Area event featuring 
musician, author and educator Phavia 
Kugichagalia; former Chilean political prisoner 
and lifetime human rights advocate, Sergio 
Maraboli; with messages from SF 8 political 
prisoners Jalil Muntaqim and Herman Bell.

See rare footage of Lovinsky giving a speech at a 
July 2007 grassroots protest denouncing US/UN 
occupation in front of UN Headquarters in 
Port-au-Prince, shortly before he disappeared.

Wednesday, August 20, 7 p.m.
La Pena Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley
(near Ashby BART)

$5-15 Donation. No one turned away for lack of funds.

For more information, phone (510) 847-8657


August 12th marks the one-year anniversary of the 
disappearance of Haitian human rights activist 
Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine. On this day, we remember 
Lovinsky’s work for justice and remind the US, UN 
and Haitian authorities that his family, friends 
and community, and people around the world will 
continue tirelessly to demand his safe return.

Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine is a father, a husband, 
an uncle, a member of an extended family; a 
soft-spoken man of great compassion with a big 
heart and a sense of humor. He is also an 
extraordinary grassroots leader. Lovinsky, as he 
is generally known, is a co-founder of Fondasyon 
Trant Septanm (September 30th Foundation), an 
organization founded by family members and others 
concerned about the victims of the 1991 coup, the 
first against President Aristide; the 
organization's name is the date of that coup. 
Similar to the work of internationally renowned 
Mothers of the Disappeared in Central and South 
America, the September 30th Foundation for over a 
decade held weekly vigils demanding justice for 
victims of human rights violations and the release of political prisoners.

Lovinsky was the co-founder of Fondasyon Kore 
Timoun Yo (Foundation for the Support of 
Children) for young street children in 
Port-au-Prince, FAM (Foyer pour Adolescentes 
Mères), a center for teenage mothers, and Map Viv 
("I Live"), a program designed to give medical 
and psychological aid to the victims of the 
1991coup. His present community-based human 
rights organization Fondasyon Trant Septanm grew 
out of the work of those earlier efforts. He is 
part of the Lavalas movement and a member of the 
Lavalas Party, and was a potential candidate for 
the Haitian Senate.  Ending poverty and human 
rights abuses has been central to his life's 
work. Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine was disappeared and 
presumed kidnapped on August 12, 2007 after 
meeting with a US human rights delegation.




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