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</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>Dear friends of Haiti:<br>
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As you may know, this coming Wednesday, August 20<sup>th</sup> 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!<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Please check the Haiti Action Committee website
<a href="http://www.haitisolidarity.net/index">
http://www.haitisolidarity.net/index</a> for messages concerning Lovinsky
from his wife, Michele Pierre-Antoine, from Dr. Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
and from Mumia Abu-Jamal.<br>
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In addition to attending the event, you can make your support for
Lovinsky count by signing the on-line petition at
<a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/august/petition.html">
http://www.petitiononline.com/august/petition.html</a>.<br>
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Regards,<br>
<br>
Leslie<br>
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</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>THE ANNOUNCEMENT:<br>
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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.<br>
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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. <br>
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Wednesday, August 20, 7 p.m. <br>
La Pena Cultural Center <br>
3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley <br>
(near Ashby BART) <br>
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</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>$5-15 Donation. No one turned
away for lack of funds.<br>
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For more information, phone (510) 847-8657<br>
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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. <br>
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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.<br>
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Lovinsky was the co-founder of <i>Fondasyon Kore Timoun Yo</i>
(Foundation for the Support of Children) for young street children in
Port-au-Prince, FAM (<i>Foyer pour Adolescentes Mères</i>), a center for
teenage mothers, and <i>Map Viv</i> ("I Live"), a program
designed to give medical and psychological aid to the victims of the
1991coup. His present community-based human rights organization
<i>Fondasyon Trant Septanm</i> 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. <br>
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