I’ll be speaking with Dan Freeman-Maloy on Haiti in Toronto on Tuesday Feb 2.
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Relief, Occupations and the Haiti Crisis:
Canada/US policy and the regional response
with Justin Podur and Dan Freeman-Maloy
Tuesday, February 2
Centre for Social Justice
489 College St (W of Bathurst), Suite 303
7 – 9pm
I’ll be speaking with Dan Freeman-Maloy on Haiti in Toronto on Tuesday Feb 2.
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Relief, Occupations and the Haiti Crisis:
Canada/US policy and the regional response
with Justin Podur and Dan Freeman-Maloy
Tuesday, February 2
Centre for Social Justice
489 College St (W of Bathurst), Suite 303
7 – 9pm
On January 12, Haiti was hit with an earthquake 7.0 on the Richter scale, leaving possibly 200,000 dead and 3 million affected. Much of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, is now living in makeshift camps with their water, food, and health at risk. While many countries around the world responded with aid, the US and Canada also quickly deployed troops. This talk will discuss current events and press coverage in the context of the past decade of Western policy towards Haiti, as well as the prospects for constructive relief and solidarity work.
Justin Podur is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at York University and a member of the Pueblos en Camino Collective. He visited Haiti in 2005 to study the UN occupation and the government after the 2004 coup.
Dan Freeman-Maloy is a Toronto-based activist and writer. He studied Canadian media coverage of the 2004 Haiti coup and has written for ZNet and other publications.
Sponsored by
Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG)
Centre for Social Justice
Socialist Project
Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
Toronto Haiti Action Committee
Toronto New Socialist Group
U of T Equity Studies Students’ Union
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