Another Shock for Haiti

Guest Co-Host:


Yoav Elinevsky, Latin America Working Group
coordinator for Massachusetts Peace Action


Guests:


Pierre LaBossiere, Haitian born and from the
region hit hardest by Saturday's earthquake. He is a veteran
labor and human rights activist, a co-founder of Haiti Action
Committee and a board member of the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund.


Robert Roth, co-founder of the Haiti Action
Committee. Robert was a high school history teacher in San
Francisco for 30 years and is now an instructional coach for new
teachers. He was active in the Central America solidarity
movement in the 1980s and 1990s and has worked for years to free
political prisoners in the United States.


Background:


On Saturday, August 14 a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Haiti in
the southwest region of the country destroying more than 7,000
homes and damaging nearly 5,000 leaving about thirty thousand
families homeless. Hospitals, schools, offices and churches also
were demolished or badly damaged. The quake wiped out many of the
sources of food and income upon which the population is
dependent. The earthquake struck a nation still struggling with
the corona virus, gang violence and the July 7 assassination of
President Jovenel Moise.


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America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force
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