[R-G] Mumia on Haiti's Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine

[Anthony Fenton]

4 THE LIBERATION OF KEMET
11 AUGUST 2008


FROM:
MUMIA ABU-JAMAL


THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SAFE RETURN OF LOVINSKY PIERRE-ANTOINE: HAITIAN  
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST

5 August 2008
Tuesday

http://mumiapodcast.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=365974
For Haitians, this coming August is a reminder of the kidnapping and  
disappearance of their brother, (DR.) 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 JEAN 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.

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