[News] Vigil for Iraq and Haiti, Oakland - Tuesday August 12, noon-1 pm

[Anti-Imperialist News]

From: "haiti action" <action.haiti at gmail.com>

Subject: Vigil for Iraq and Haiti, Tuesday August 12, noon-1 pm


You are invited to join a vigil at the Oakland 
Federal Building, Tuesday August 12th, noon to 
one p.m., 1301 Clay Street, two blocks from 12th 
Street, Oakland City Center BART Station.


The weekly vigil to end the U.S. occupation of 
Iraq will have an additional focus on August 12, 
to mark the one year anniversary of the 
disappearance of Haitian human rights hero 
Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, who is presumed 
kidnapped after meeting with a US human rights 
delegation on August 12, 2007. This anniversary 
will be commemorated in Haiti and elsewhere around the world.


Members of the Haiti Action Committee invite you 
to participate in a fast on this day, for however many hours you are able.


The regular Tuesday vigil is co-sponsored by 
Ecumenical Peace Institute 
<http://www.epicalc.org/>http://www.epicalc.org/ 
together with Berkeley Women in Black, Mustard 
Seed Affinity Group, East Bay Coalition to 
Support Self-rule for Iraqis, Bay Area Labor 
Committee for Peace and Justice, Peace & Freedom 
Party, and Buddhist Peace Fellowship.




Biographical information for Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine:


Lovinsky is a member of Fanmi Lavalas, the party 
of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was 
forced into exile after a coup led by the United 
States, France, and Canada on February 29, 2004. 
He's a founding member 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), and named for 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 is also 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 (many from torture) of the 1991 coup.


Lovinsky is a psychologist, a father, a husband, 
an uncle, and a member of an extended family; a 
soft-spoken man of great compassion with a big 
heart and a sense of humor. He is an 
extraordinary grassroots leader and a fierce 
activist who stands with his people in the 
streets.  Members of the Haiti Action Committee 
last witnessed him demonstrating, speaking and 
leading chants in front of the UN military 
complex in Port-au-Prince during the 92nd 
anniversary of the 1915 US Marine Invasion of 
Haiti in July, 2007. He has visited the Bay Area on several occasions.


Sign the online petition for the safe return of Lovinsky:


<http://www.petitiononline.com/lovinsky/petition.html>www.petitiononline.com/lovinsky/petition.html


Mumia Abu-Jamal's statement on Lovinsky:


<http://mumiapodcast.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=365974>http://mumiapodcast.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=365974


for further information:


<http://www.haitisolidarity.net/>www.haitisolidarity.net
www.globalwomenstrike.net



Freedom Archives
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

415 863-9977

www.Freedomarchives.org  
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://freedomarchives.org/pipermail/news_freedomarchives.org/attachments/20080811/f2212beb/attachment.htm>