[News] Haiti - Honor Lovinsky: La Pena, Wednesday Aug 20th 7PM event
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Fri Aug 15 19:17:13 EDT 2008
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
Lovinskys 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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