WTF is Going on in Latin America:  Haiti Strikes.  An Update on the Situation
Channel: CODEPINK
Date: 2021-02-11

Following days of national strikes, tensions run high in Haiti amid a new anti-government protest calling for US backed president Jovenel Moise to resign.   This episode features and in depth conversation with three members of The Haiti Action Committee:  Pierre LaBossiere, Seth Donnelly and Judith "Mirk" Mirkinson.

Pierre Labossiere is a veteran labor and human rights activist. In 1991, he co-founded the Haiti Action Committee in solidarity with the popular movement in Haiti struggling to restore democracy after the military coup against President Aristide. Pierre is also a board member of the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund.

Seth Donnelly is a veteran high school teacher and member of the Haiti Action Committee. Since 2004, he has done extensive work in Haiti as part of human rights and educational delegations. In addition to co-authoring the report on the Lasalin massacre, Seth is also the author of the book The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation, recently published by Monthly Review Press.

Judith Mirkinson is a long term women’s and human rights activist. She has spent decades doing international solidarity work and is a co-author of the NLG 2007 report: Seeking Answers: Probing Political Persecution, Repression & Human Rights Violations in The Philippines. Her most recent article is: We Are Seeing Ourselves Being Dragged Back Into a Time When Women Were Dehumanized: Sexual Violence As a Tool of Repression in Haiti.

You can get involved here:
Haiti Action Committee:  HaitiSolidarity.net
Haiti Emergency Relief Fund:  HaitiEmergencyRelief.org

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