The Toronto Haiti Action Committee (THAC) and Latin America & Caribbean Network’s April Solidarity Month present:

a public forum on the political, economic and social situation in Haiti since the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the United Nations’ cholera outbreak. We will also be sharing ideas on building solidarity between between the people of Toronto and progressive grassroots organizations in this Caribbean island-nation.

FILM SCREENING: HAITI: WHERE DID THE MONEY GO?

“In January 2010, a 7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti. The international community, including one out of two Americans, pledged billions of dollars in aid, yet the nation has seen little improvement. Three hundred thousand died, nearly two million live in ramshackle tent cities. Cholera has swept through the population, killing thousands and hospitalizing many others. In November, we found squalid camps of 9,000 with nine toilets, nearly 3 million displaced persons, and charities living in comparative luxury with an utter lack of accountability.

Is this what you expected when you pledged your aid dollars? Independent journalists Film@11.tv journeyed to Haiti in November 2010 to see the situation for themselves, and dig into the burning question: what happened to all that money?”

PANEL DISCUSSION: BUILDING ANTI-IMPERIALIST, PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE SOLIDARITY WITH HAITIANS

Kevin Edmonds, graduate student, writer on Haiti and Latin America and organizer with the Toronto Haiti Action Committee

Ajamu Nangwaya, organizer, Network for Pan-Afrikan Solidarity and academic worker

WHERE: William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks Street, New College/ University of Toronto (one block south of Harbord Street)

WHEN: Friday, April 12, 2013

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