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<div style="text-align:center"><span
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><b>THIS
AUGUST 12 MARKS TEN YEARS SINCE THE KIDNAPPING
AND DISAPPEARING OF HAITIAN REVOLUTIONARY
LOVINSKY PIERRE-ANTOINE</b></span><br>
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<span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> On
the eve of Bwa Kay Iman (Bois Caïman, Aug. 14),
and on International Youth Day (Aug. 12),
we dedicate this forthcoming issue of Haiti
Solidarity to this remarkable, powerful brother.
Father, husband, friend, psychologist, human
rights activist, Lavalas leader—Lovinsky loved his
people, and they love him. Not a year has gone by
that he hasn’t been sorely missed.<br>
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On July 28, 2007, just three years into the
2004 coup and the 92-year anniversary of the first
US occupation of Haiti of 1915-1934, a crowd of
protestors and witnesses watched Lovinsky lead a
demonstration in front of UN headquarters in
Port-au-Prince. We listened to his speech, in
which he made the connection between the current
occupation and the first US occupation. Lovinsky
invoked the Haitian revolutionaries, like
Charlemagne Péralte, who fought to end the 1915
invasion, and he said that that legacy of
revolutionary struggle lives on in the people
today. He said the people would always fight to
uproot neo-colonialism and exploitation—they would
always fight for their freedom. Two weeks after
this speech, Lovinsky was kidnapped.<br>
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Lovinsky dedicated his life to fighting
against the restoration of the Haitian Army.
Today and into the future, we honor his work with
victims of the Haitian Military, police forces and
of the United Nations troops, who have occupied
Haiti since 2004. We must hold the UN occupying
force accountable for the disappearance of
Lovinsky under their watch and for all the crimes
it has committed against the Haitian people. <br>
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As we echo his voice against the violence of
the police, occupation forces and the restoration
of the Haitian military, let us also demand
justice for Lovinsky <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/HaitiActionCommittee/posts/10155591278684886"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.facebook.com/HaitiActionCommittee/posts/10155591278684886</a><br>
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Lovinsky, and all of those who have fought,
suffered, and died in the struggle—in Haiti and
elsewhere—leave us a legacy. To honor that
legacy, we too must struggle to build a new
society in which humanity, justice, empathy, and
love are the prevailing values. Little by little,
we must have faith, like Lovinsky, that we will
make progress. But we must help each other. We
must follow the example of our Haitian brothers
and sisters who say, “Nou pap obeyi!” We do not
obey! We resist! We believe in the power of
collective struggle. Little by little, together,
we will make a difference.<br>
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<span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">In
solidarity,<br>
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Haiti Action Committee<br>
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<span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><a
href="http://www.haitisolidarity.net"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">www.haitisolidarity.net</a>
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<span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">@HaitiAction1
and on Facebook</span><br>
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