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Haiti Support Network
HSN contacts
2007 contacts for the Haiti Support Network were Ray LaForest and Lauren Melodia.[1]
Supporting Aristide
On April 7 2004 in the Whitman Theatre at Brooklyn College. A multinational crowd of 2,000, mainly people from Haiti and the English-speaking Caribbean, packed the hall to hear a program entitled "An Evening with Friends of Haiti: The Truth Behind the Haiti Coup." From Monica Moorehead:[2],[3]
- A broad range of speakers and cultural performers ignited the stage for three-and-a-half hours to express heartfelt anti-imperialist solidarity with the besieged Caribbean country. Haiti has once again suffered a horrific atrocity with the U.S.-orchestrated kidnapping of its democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, on Feb. 29.
- The rally was co-chaired by Kim Ives and Karine Jean-Pierre from Haiti Support Network (HSN), with Pat Chin and Sara Flounders from the Workers World Party controlled International Action Center.
- Other speakers included Alina Sixto, Family Lavalas New York/Tri-State Area; Rep. Major Owens of Brooklyn; Mario Dupuy, Aristide's state secretary of communication; Don Rojas, Amy Goodman and Bernard White, WBAI-Pacifica Radio; Ray LaForest, Haitian labor organizer, District Council 1707; Brian Concannon, human-rights attorney; Brooklyn College student Starr Bernard; Serge Lilavois, Support Committee for PPN; Los Angeles anti-police brutality activist Michael Zinzun; Dominican activist Marc Torres; and Haitian performers Marguerite Laurent and Phantoms.
Names referenced in the article:
- Monica Moorehead
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Toussaint L’Overture
- Karine Jean-Pierre
- Kim Ives
- Pat Chin
- Sara Flounders
- Ossie Davis
- Frederick Douglass
- Dr. Luis Barrios
- Teresa Gutierrez
- Maxine Waters
- Mildred Trouillot
- Colin Powell
- Condoleezza Rice
- Ben Dupuy
- Johnnie Stevens
- Ramsey Clark
- Omar Sierra
- Alina Sixto
- Major Owens
- Mario Dupuy
- Don Rojas
- Amy Goodman
- Bernard White
- Ray Laforest
- Brian Concannon
- Starr Bernard
- Serge Lilavois
- Michael Zinzun
- Marc Torres
- Marguerite Laurent
- Phantoms
- Jose Serrano
- Kwame Abayomi
- Katherine Kean
- Mumia Abu-Jamal
References
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20080513131444/https://iacenter.org/Haitifiles/haiti-rally04rept.htm 2,000 RALLY IN BROOKLYN TO DENOUNCE U.S. COUP IN HAITI
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20050220084051/https://www.workers.org/pdf/2004/ww042204.pdf 2000 Rally In Brooklyn To Denounce U.S. Coup In Haiti