RESOURCES, LINKS AND ACTIONS FROM HAITI BETRAYED WEBINAR
DONATE:
Please consider making a donation for Gaby’s organization “Foundation Julie & Jade”: https://www.facebook.com/FondationJulia.Jade/
Through the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace: https://vowpeace.org/join-renew-donate/ If you have any problems, please email: info@vowpeace.org
MEDIA RELEASE:
NO CANADIAN MILITARY TO HAITI
https://www.foreignpolicy.ca/haiti-military-intervention
WATCH THE FILM:
If you haven’t already, you can watch the film “Haiti Betrayed” for free on on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/447024354
Use the passcode HB1915.
Read:
Jafrikayiti Jean Saint-Vil’s latest article “A Legacy of Canadian Intervention in Haiti, 20 Years On”: https://nacla.org/legacy-canadian-intervention-haiti-20-years
COMMENTARY: Canada is one of ‘the biggest gangsters in Haiti’ by Catherine Hughes for the Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network, with contributions by Jackie McVicar: https://nbmediacoop.org/2023/02/06/commentary-canada-is-one-of-the-biggest-gangsters-in-haiti/
Last thing Haiti needs is more Canadian gunboat diplomacy ( Yves Engler) https://yvesengler.com/2023/02/17/last-thing-haiti-needs-is-more-canadian-gunboat-diplomacy/
FOLLOW:
Elaine Briere Twitter: https://twitter.com/briere_elaine
Jafrikayiti Twitter: @jafrikayiti
Jafrikayiti’s web site: https://jafrikayiti.com/
Twitter: @AugusteGarry
Canadian Foreign Policy Institute: https://www.foreignpolicy.ca/
Twitter: @ForeignPoli_C
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace: https://vowpeace.org/
Twitter: @vowpeace
WILPF Canada: https://wilpfcanada.ca/
Twitter: @wilpfcanada
Upcoming events:
(1)
WEBINAR: No to War, No to NATO: North American perspectives on Ukraine, Russia, and the Alliance
Sunday, February 19, 2023 • 12:00-1:30 PM ET
Register: https://tinyurl.com/NoToNATOWebinar
(2)
INTERNATIONAL WEEKEND OF ACTION “PEACE NOW! STOP THE WAR, STOP NATO”
February 23-26
Join us on the streets & at online events. Plan or find an action in your city.
In Canada: http://peaceandjusticenetwork.ca
(3)
WEBINAR: Colonial Canada and the Caribbean - Past and Present
Feb 23, 2023 07:00 PM ET
On February 23 CFPI is hosting "Colonial Canada and the Caribbean - Past and present" featuring authors Peter James Hudson and Paula Hastings. Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Aw1N_pRlTOaZxzaa0ZGHAA
To mark Black History Month, we are hosting a webinar discussion on Canada's colonial role in the Caribbean, past and present, from Canadian trade relations with the slave plantation economy to gunboat diplomacy and Canadian banking power in the late 1800s. This event will feature discussion and Q&A with Paula Hastings (author of Dominion over Palm and Pine: A History of Canadian Aspirations in the British Caribbean) and Peter James Hudson (author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean).
Hosted by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute
Moderated by Bianca Mugyenyi, CFPI
TAKE ACTION
(1) No Military Intervention in Haiti: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/no-canadian-military-intervention-in-haiti/
(2)Please sign & share our parliamentary petition and to tell the Trudeau government to #DropTheF35Deal fighter jet deal (deadline March 6): https://bit.ly/3Jvrawb
(3) If you are a youth below the age of 30 years old, please be sure to sign the link to the letter to Prime Minister Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Joly to get Canada to join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OI3zS20sSP632A7vg99esMsrYwb7QSz1oeQqiN-GDlo/edit
(4)Take a minute to email the CRA to demand they audit the charitable status of Ne’eman Foundation Canada, which funds organizations promoting West Bank settlements, racist policies and the Israeli military: https://bit.ly/3S1X061