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The Struggle For the Safe Return of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, Haitian Human Rights Activist
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Mumia Abu-Jamal | 08.11.2008
Pierre-Antoine Lovinsky comes from the popular mass movements. He was snatched off the streets of Haiti a year ago, and the movement is building to bring him back home to his family, his community, and the popular movements of which he was a part. PLEASE SIGN PETITION! Mumia Abu-Jamal's Radio BroadcastsHigher Quality Audio files available info@prisonradio.orgCopyright 2008 Mumia Abu-Jamal/Prison RadioThe Struggle For the Safe Return of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, Haitian Human Rights Activistrecorded 8-3-08
The Struggle for the Safe Release of Lovinsky, Haitian Human Rights Activist [col. writ. 7/30/08] (c) '08 Mumia Abu-Jamal
For Haitians, this coming August is a reminder of the kidnapping and disappearance of their brother, Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, who was taken after a meeting with a US-Canadian human rights delegation visiting Haiti in mid-August, 2007. Pierre-Antoine was a co-founder of the Fondayson Trant Septenm, (Kreyol for September 30th Foundation), a group which assisted and supported the people who during (and especially after) the 1991 and 2004 coups against the democratically-elected president, Bertrand Aristide. Members of the Fondayson have been targeted for years. Around the world, activists have been organizing in Lovinsky's support, calling on various governments, from Haiti's President Rene Preval, Brazil (which forms the bulk of the United Nations forces in the country), Canada, the US and France, which organized the latest coup against Haitian democracy. When Pierre-Antoine was abducted, it forced other democracy and human rights activists in Haiti to go into hiding to avoid waves of state repression. Haiti has a proud and illustrious career on the world's stage, becoming the first free Black republic in the West after its 1804 revolution against France, which abolished slavery almost 70 years before the US Civil War spelled the end to human bondage in the US. Their freedom spread the bright lights of liberty and independence throughout the Caribbean, and when South America rose against Spain, it was to Haiti that their Liberator Simon Bolivar turned for support, arms, and a place to rest. For their bold struggle to bring Black freedom to the West, the US and Europe have unleashed an unholy war. France forced reparations (!) on Haiti -- an act unprecedented in history, forcing the victor in war to pay away it's wealth for almost a century. The US repeatedly invaded the country, brutalized its people, and imposed an assortment of puppet dictators to exploit the country for foreign benefit, and national impoverishment, for generations! Because Haiti's popularly elected Bertrand Aristide dared to oppose Haiti's rich elite, and tried to make things nominally better for its peasantry, US Marines forced him into exile. Because Lovinsky comes from the popular mass movements, he was snatched off the streets of Haiti a year ago, and the movement is building to bring him back home to his family, his community, and the popular movements of which he was a part. Haiti must never be forgotten, and neither must we forget Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine. [For petitions to circulate and sign, contact: womenstrike8m@servor101.com; or call: (215) 848-1120. www.globalwomenstrike.net Or sign online:www.petitiononline.com/lovinsky/petition.html
--(c) '08 maj
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