Haiti information events in Toronto Feb 15, 16 and 17

Roger Annis of the Canada Haiti Action Network, Nicole Phillips of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti and Kevin Edmonds of the Toronto Haiti Action Committee will speak at events in Toronto on February 15, 16, 17, 2012. Details below, more detail to follow.

Classroom seminar at University of Toronto
February 15, 1:15 pm to 4 pm.
Invited speaker: Roger Annis of Canada Haiti Action Network
Guests welcome. At William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks St (corner Spadina, several blocks north of College), University of Toronto.

Seminar at York University
Thursday February 16, 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm
280A York Lanes
Speakers: Roger Annis and Nicole Phillips
Organized by CERLAC (Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean)
Print flyer is attached

Book launch: 'Tectonic Shifts: Haiti After the Earthquake'
Thursday, Feb 16, 7 pm
Location: A Different Booklist - 746 Bathurst St Toronto

'Tectonic Shifts' is a collection of essays by Haitian and international writers and activists in the battle for meaningful post-earthquake aid and reconstruction in Haiti. The Toronto book launch will feature two of the authors in the book: Nicole Phillips, staff attorney of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, and Kevin Edmonds, graduate student at U of T and lead writer of the 2011 study, MINUSTAH: Keeping the Peace or Conspiring Against It?

Contact: (416) 538-0889

Public forum
HAITI: SOLIDARITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

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
* 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:
niraj_joshi@sympatico.ca; or jordycummings@gmail.com
• Greater Toronto Worker’s Assembly: http://workersassembly.ca/
• Canada Haiti Action Network: www.canadahaitiaction.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