Toronto Haiti Action Committee (THAC)

Public forum hosted by:
Internal Education and Political Development Committee and the International Solidarity Committee of the Greater Toronto Workers Assembly; Toronto Haiti Action Committee; and Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network

Date: Friday February 17, 7pm
Location: Steelworker’s Hall, 25 Cecil St.

• Updates on the ongoing legal efforts to try Jean Claude Duvalier for human rights abuses against the Haitian people and the strong legal action against the United Nations on behalf of 5,000 victims of cholera for its role in the introduction of cholera into Haiti.
• Evaluation of the aid and recovery effort in Haiti, two years following the earthquake. Has it met the expectations of the Haitian people, and if not, why not?
• What is Canada’s role in aid and recovery in Haiti?
• The future of the United Nations police and military occupation force in Haiti.

SPEAKERS:
• Nicole Phillips, staff attorney for the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, adjunct professor at University of San Francisco and assistant director for Haiti programs at the university.
• Roger Annis, coordinator of the Canada Haiti Action Network in Vancouver and director of a ten-day fact-finding and solidarity mission to Haiti in June, 2011

FOR MORE INFO:
• Greater Toronto Worker’s Assembly: http://workersassembly.ca/
• Canada Haiti Action Network: www.candahaitiaction.ca
• Toronto Haiti Action Committee: www.thac.ca
• Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network: http://lacsn.weebly.com/
• Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti: www.ijdh.org

Canada's 1% vs the Haitian Majority: Sweatshops, coups, and human rights abuses
When: Sunday, November 6th 2-5pm
Where: St. James Park (Jarvis & Adelaide)

Come down to the Occupy Toronto Community Outreach day where members of the Toronto Haiti Action Committee will be discussing the role of Canada's 1% in:

- helping prop up the past Duvalier dictatorships in Haiti
- landing Canadian troops in Haiti in support of the coup that forcibly kidnapped Haiti's popular president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, overnight and forcibly exiled him to South Africa

Public Forum

Coups, free trade and human rights
The changing face of Canadian foreign policy in Latin America and the Caribbean

Guest speakers:

CARIBBEAN STUDIES AT U OF T and TORONTO HAITI ACTION COMMITTEE HOST FREE PUBLIC FORUM

• Eyewitness reports on weak and inadequate post-earthquake reconstruction
• Paralysis of the presidency of Michel Martelly
• Wikileaks documents exposing role of U.S. government and its allies in subverting Haiti’s sovereignty and development
• Crimes of UN intervention and Haitian resistance to UN military occupation

Free public forum hosted by the Toronto Haiti Action Committee with special guest Brian Concannon

When: Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Where: OISE (252 Bloor Street West) Room 5-230
Time: 7 pm - 9 pm

UNFORTUNATELY, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO FAMILY MEDICAL EMERGENCY.

A first-hand account of Cuba's internationalist health brigades. Join us for an evening of story-telling, cultural events, music, food and refreshments.

With Guest Speaker: Dr. William Alvarez Consuegra, Cuban Doctor and member of Henry Reeves Medical Brigade in Haiti on a coast-to-coast tour of Canada.

Friday, March 25th, 7:30
Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil St. Toronto

Castro's doctors and nurses are the backbone of the fight against cholera

By Nina Lakhani

Sunday, 26 December 2010

They are the real heroes of the Haitian earthquake disaster, the human catastrophe on America's doorstep which Barack Obama pledged a monumental US humanitarian mission to alleviate. Except these heroes are from America's arch-enemy Cuba, whose doctors and nurses have put US efforts to shame.

http://www.eurasianminerals.com/s/haiti.asp

By Pierre Dubuc, Editor of L’Aut’Journal
January 27, 2011

The following is a translation of an article that appears in L'aut'Courriel, the weekly web journal of L’Aut’Journal, a print monthly published in Montreal.

L’Aut’Journal met with Haitian lawyer Mario Joseph during his recent visit to Montreal. Mr. Joseph said he was flabbergasted when he learned that not a single member of Canada’s parliament has questioned the recent electoral process in Haiti.

MONTREAL, JANUARY 21--Days after former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier returned to Haiti, a leading Haitian human rights lawyer blasted the Canadian government’s role in what he criticized as a climate of “impunity” in Haiti.

In a Montreal press conference on January 21, Mario Joseph—who the New York Times has referred to as “Haiti’s most prominent human rights lawyer”—spoke about the legal case for the prosecution of Jean-Claude Duvalier for crimes against humanity.