Posted: February 12th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Actions & Activism, Haiti | No Comments »
Feb 13-London/Brixton-Our Debt To Haiti– Haitian History Lessons (Part 1)-Talk by John Cussans
Our Debt To Haiti– Haitian History Lessons (Part 1)
Sat 13th , 2-4pm
The recent earthquake in Haiti brought the country an unprecedented amount of media attention, however briefly. Amidst the clamour of powerful nations pledging aid and assistance to the beleaguered nation, we began to hear stories about Haiti’s great debt burden that caused the nation to be so vulnerable and unprepared for a disaster of such proportions. But how did this ‘burden’ come about? How did Haiti become a nation so socially brutalized by debt? This is the history I will sketch out at the Free School event at Andrew Cooper’s show ‘The Rabbles Furious Struggle Against Inequality’ on Saturday 13th February at Shop 76, 5thAvenue in Brixton Market between 2 and 4 pm.
We will question how the language of international debt functions to conceal and legitimate the continued imperial domination of the first independent Black republic of the modern age. We will propose that, in fact, it is the first world that owes an immense social, historical and economic debt to Haiti.
“Haiti has no debt with Venezuela - on the contrary, it is Venezuela that has a historic debt with Haiti” President Hugo Chavez the announcement of the cancellation of Haiti’s monetary debt to Venezuela, January 2010
Held in the temporary shop space of “The Rabbles Furious Struggle Against Inequality”
Shop 76
5th Avenue Brixton village Market SW9
of Coldhabour Lane and Atlantic road .
Near Brixton tube victoria line
Posted: February 6th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Actions & Activism, Haiti | No Comments »
Please find latest info on The Haiti Kids Cinema Project:
Extending the reach of its film program, the Cube is travelling to Dominican
Republic to set up temporary social cinemas for refugee children affected by the
Haiti earthquakes.
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Organised through the Cube’s children’s wing, Nanoplex, The HAITI KIDS KINO
PROJECT will screen films, while providing workshops and equipment for or
Haitian children to make their own films.
These will be screened and then exchanged with films made by children here in
Bristol, through Nanoplex.
PLEASE DONATE, OFFER HELP and SPREAD THE WORD.
Sharing the experience of making and watching films, while offering temporary
childcare facilities, this is a micro-humanitarian goodwill project to provide a
small opening for escape, community, emotion and social occasion.
Children are experiencing untold damage and despair. Further anxiety grows
through inaction, loneliness and boredom. The HAITI KIDS KINO PROJECT is working
in dialogue with established NGOs, to contribute to quality of life through
creating, sharing, forging friendships and connections.
Two Cube volunteers will be going out to the Dominican Republic to work with
Haitian Refugees at the end of February 2010, and we are raising funds for
screens, cameras, films, vaccines, flights, etc.
This is a big mission for a microplex, and we would love to have your support.
Do spread the word and dip into your magic pockets of love.
‘Cinema Kib ape organiz ene banne cinema socyal temporer a kot pu vinne en l
aide banne zanfan ki finne soufer dans tremblement la t erre dans Haiti.’
FFI http://nanoplex.cubecinema.com/haiti_kids_kino.php
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DONATE
- To donate the old fashioned way, please send cheques made out to
“Cube Cinema Ltd”, The HAITI KINO KIDS PROJECT c/o The Cube Cinema, 4 Princess
Row, Bristol, BS2 8NQ
- Or donate this way : The HAITI SCREENINGS
http://www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop.cgi?group=Haiti
You can buy tickets online, by phone or in person from Bristol Ticket Office
http://www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop.cgi?group=Haiti for a screening
in Haiti or The Dominican Republic. And, if you can’t make it yourself (!),
don’t worry because your seat will go to a Young Haitian Person, and the £5
price of a ticket, goes to raising funds for The HAITI KINO KIDS PROJECT. Its
another, quick and easy way to donate.
BRISTOL TICKET SHOP 0870 4444 400 / 0117 929 9008, 26 Union Street Broadmead,
Bristol, BS1 2DP, or go direct to
http://www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop.cgi?group=Haiti
Please buy as many tickets as you can. Its a great way to donate.
If you want to make a greater donation, please get in touch directly at
haitikidskino@cubecinema.com
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FUNDRAISING EVENTS
Event 1
Nanoplex Presents… Haiti Kids Kino Fundraiser
21 February, Cube Cinema, Bristol
2pm – 6pm KIDS KINO CLUB SPECIAL (film + games + fun)
8pm – 11pm KATH BLOOM + SLOW (music)
£8 for joint ticket Kath Bloom and Nanoplex Haiti Fundraiser
£4 per child and adult for only Nanoplex Haiti Fundraiser
http://microplex.cubecinema.com/cgi-bin/diary/programme.pl#4901
Children’s afternoon cinema and workshops, including short and long films,
demonstrations on how to project in public spaces and making film postcards for
Haitian children, followed by extraordinary evening gig by blues/folk legend
Kath Bloom (http://www.qujunktions.com/asp/main.asp?style=gigs
KIDS KINO CLUB includes
- Screening Azur and Asmar- The Princes‘ Quest (90 mins, Cert U, 2.15PM)
- Outdoor projector and children’s film workshops
- Encounters Shorts for Children
- The Red Balloon (34 mins, Cert U, 5.15pm)
All day: cake sale, raffle (win an afternoon at the Cube with your favourite
film screened, just for you)
Event 2
HOW COME… Presents… A Multi Venue Night of Music, Film and Djs
with JOHN PARISH + GET THE BLESSING + THE MOLES + ZUN ZUN EGUI + SHOGUN KUNITOKI
+ MEN DIAMLER + AYE AYE + SPIN SPIN THE DOGS + ¨World Beatz co-hosting the bar
with World Beatz DJs + Chew Magna + Young Master + Fat Paul + The Janitor + a
secret special guest.
6 March / The Cube (6 - 1am ) & The Croft (8 - 3am) / £8 advance
For more info: http://www.qujuktions.com
NOTE: As this is a multi-venue show, a ticket does not guarantee that you will
get into the venue of choice.
For both events you can buy tickets at:
- BRISTOL TICKET SHOP http://www.bristolticketshop.co.uk
- THE HERE SHOP, Stokes Croft (in person)
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Help towards this, however small or large, makes a crucial difference to getting
this project under way. Please forward this email on.
The Cube Cinema is a non-funded, volunteer-run organisation - and help towards
this, however small or large, makes a crucial difference to getting this project
under way.
Press and Publicity enquiries abigail@damsonpr.com
To get involved and FFI haitikidskino@cubecinema.com
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD, DONATE, OFFER HELP and ASSISTANCE.
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Artists Unite for HAITI Call For Artists!
Help the Disaster Relief efforts in Haiti by donating artwork to the Artists Unite for Haiti art sale
Exhibition and sale of work will be on February 5th-7th at the LoDi Project 1126 North Blount Street, Raleigh, NC
Open to artists of any level- everyone is welcome to contribute
*Each artwork will be sold for $25.00
*The artists will remain anonymous until after sale
*All funds will be donated directly to Mercy Corps (www.mercycorps.org) and designated to the immediate relief of the Haitian people
SPECIFICATIONS:
Work on paper or light board no larger than 11 x 17 inches
Any medium such as: drawing, painting, collage, photography
Work must be unframed and unsigned- the work can be signed and numbered on the back
Work will be hung using clips- avoid using heavy materials
SUBMISSIONS:
Multiple submissions are welcome
Work must arrive to gallery by Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Send work to: The LoDi Project
Attn. Artists Unite for Haiti
1126 North Blount Street, Raleigh NC 27604
The organizers reserve the right to refuse any unsuitable work.
For more information please contact:
Peter Eversoll at peversoll[at]yahoo.com or Georges Le Chevallier at george[at]thelodiproject.com
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Two events for Haiti:
Radical Activist Network public meeting
No Shock Doctrine for Haiti
Thursday 11 February 2010
7.30pm-9.30pm
Brockway Room, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square
London WC1 (googlemap)
Speakers:
Peter Hallward, author of Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment
Selma James, writer and solidarity activist, Global Women’s Strike
Nick Dearden, director of Jubilee Debt Campaign
Haiti was the first independent nation in Latin America, freed as a result of an inspiring revolution. Yet it has been subject to domination ever since, from US occupations, to the crippling 135-year debt imposed by former colonial master France, to Western-backed dictatorships and IMF-imposed free market economic ‘reforms’. The last US coup was in 2004 against much loved democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide who lives in forced exile and has been prevented from returning.
Now, as US troops patrol the country, free market economists are seeing new opportunities to privatise and ‘restructure’ Haiti’s economy, while its external debts have still not been cancelled by rich donors. The ’shock doctrine’ looks to be striking again. Join the discussion about what solidarity we can offer to those in Haiti seeking an alternative future.
Organised by the Radical Activist Network
Supported by War on Want and Climate Camp London
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=281283087948&ref=nf
Please invite your friends!
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The Tragedies of Haiti:
Reflection on the Earthquake and Interventionism
Friday 12 February, 6.30pm
VIDEO + Speakers: Encuentros Latinoamericanos and
Women of Colour in the Global Women’s Strike
followed by discussion
Venue: Inca Arch, 202 Coldharbour Lane SE5
Entrance by £2 donation for victims of the earthquake to go to
Haiti Emergency Relief Fund.
Organised by Encuentros Latinoamericanos (Café filosófico) & Global Women’s Strike
Contacts: 07854185741 (Encuentros) (020) 7482 2496 (GWS)
Email: c_filos@yahoo.co.uk (Encuentros)
womenstrike8m@server101.com www.globalwomenstrike.net
Video Foro: Las Tragedias de Haiti: Reflexiones sobre el Terremoto e y el Intervencionismo
Habrán ponentes y un foro con el publico asistente
Lugar: Inca Arch 202 Coldharbour Lane SE5
Día: 12 de febrero
Hora: 6 y 30 pm
Entrante: £2 donación para las víctimas del terremoto a
Haiti Emergency Relief Fund
Organizado por Encuentros Latinoamericanos (Café filosófico) y
la Huelga Mundial de Mujeres (Global Women’s Strike)
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Haiti benefit and screening of ‘Atis-Rezistans: the Sculptors of Grand Rue’ at 8pm it’s at 1a Westgate St just before the rail bridge at Well St and Mare St junction…
RISE UP HAITI
@ THE NEW EMPOWERING CHURCH
Help raise money for Haiti with a collective of London’s finest Afro Funksters.
This party has been specifically produced to aid Haiti and has been organised and managed by the musicians and DJs taking part and in conjunction with New Empowering Church.
IN ORDER TO MAXIMISE ITS BENEFIT ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS EVENT WILL BE SPREAD BETWEEN DEC (Disasters Emergency Committee, http://www.dec.org.uk) AND UHUK (United Haitians in the United Kingdom) http://www.uhuk.org/aboutus.html.
Rise Up Haiti! Will be a celebration of African music and that of its diaspora.
Featuring:
**** YAABA FUNK - a 10-piece Hi-Life/Afro-Funk explosion. A product of Brixton and influenced by 1970’S Ghanaian hi-life. A floor-filling extravaganza combining the tightest rhythm section this side of Accra, with fat analogue basslines, blazing horns, and sparkling African guitars.
http://www.myspace.com/yaabafunk
**** GRUPO LOKITO - Fusing Salsa and Congolese Rumba in an exuberant explosion of sound Grupo Lokito features musicians from diverse backrounds including DRC and Colombia who have chosen to make London their home.
http://www.myspace.com/grupolokito
**** AFRIKBAWANTU - Audiences present at an Afrikbawantu gig experience the full blown excitement and energy of classic West African Afro Beat and Afro Funk with the best stage garb this side of Rio Carnival.
http://www.myspace.com/afrikbawantu
**** SOOTHSAYERS - Classic afrobeat meets dub, a cultural collision of music for all people from all cultures and nations.
http://www.myspace.com/soothsayers
DJ’s on the night
AFRICATHY
MANVWIFE
CAL JADER
CHIEF COMMANDER YAABA
MR BRETT
VOLTA45
SUGA KAN’N
& JEROME MANICOM
Doors 8pm til late
A film screening about the Sculptors of the Grand Rue and Q&A with the director, Leah Gordon, fresh back from Haiti, will take place at 8.15pm sharp. More deteails on http://www.atis-rezistans.com/
The New Empowering Church
1A Westgate Street
Hackney
E8 3RL
ENTRY £10.00
Art & publicity sponsored by Kamben Design.
NB Band and DJ timings are approximate.
8pm Chief Commander
8.15 to 9.15 Film screening and director Q&A
9.15 to 10 Manvswife and Mr Brett
10 to 10.40 Grupo Lokito
10.40 to 11.20 Sun Bailante Sound
11.20 to 00.00 Yaaba Funk
00.00 to 00.30 Africathy
00.30 to 01.10 Soothsayers
01.10 to 01.40 Suga Kan’n
01.40 to 02.20 Afrikbawantu
02.20 to 02.50 Cal Jader
02.50 03.20 Volta 45
03.20 Gervais and freestyle to the sweet end :
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Event: haiti benefit @ the foundry
“all money going directly to Haiti”, specifically community and artists of the Grand Rue
Start Time: Wednesday, January 27 at 7:00pm
End Time: Wednesday, January 27 at 11:00pm
Where: the foundry, 86 great eastern street, old street, EC2A 3JL
a benefit do for HAITI:
Poets- Artists - Zines - Bring and Buy
There will be stalls with everything from records & CDs to clothes.
All proceeds will go to Foundry’s fund for Haiti http://www.foundry.tv/haiti and directly to our friends the ghetto artists community of Grande Rue, Port-au-Prince.
if you want to set up a stall, auction or raffle an item…get more info from
tracey@foundry.tv
tel 07951608787
music by:
* NOW
* disco_r.dance dj’s dancon1 + pete stormcrow
* Viv Albertine (ex-The Slits)
* Kirsty Hawkshaw
* Little Eris
* Andrew Bailey
* DJ Spike Spiegel
Myles Hayden - Sound
********FREE ENTRY ALL DONATIONS WELCOME********
We’re just gathering info/prizes/etc If you want to run a stall/table send us your name & we’ll add you to the list if you have anything for a raffle or auction please text details & name to 07951608787 or facebook us & we will add…
Kirsty Hawshaw (ex-Opus 3) &Justin Elswick from ‘SLEEPTHIEF’ have given us a free download, ‘donations’ to the Foundry/Haiti fund
TABLES:
(1) Ilana Rehavia - clothes/shoes
(2) Elle - clothes
(3) NOW - records/CDs/DVDs/clothes/stuff
(4) Radio Joy - art & CDs
(5) The Drummonds - cakes/books/misc
(6) Marie (Zine stall x 3)
(7) Anna – felt objects
(8) Angela Last - Notebook of a Mermaid - Ocean stall
(9) John Cussans -Misc
(10) Julia Ridlington - cake
(11) Giuseppe Mele - Bruschette
(12) Jess Hurd - Photography selection sale
HAPPENINGS:
(1) Andy Punk - Knocking Nail challenge
(2) Mark Rathmell - Instant drawn portraits
(3) Leo - Kay pen/paper performance
(4) Nicola Le Sueur
Items to raffle:
(1) Bottle of whiskey
(2) Bottle sambucca
(3) 4 x London Eye tickets
Items for auction:
(1) John Sinclair (MC5’s manager, co-founder of the White Panther Movement;the man of John Lennon’s song about him John Sinclair) book signed for Foundry Haiti Benefit
(2) Artwork by Tristan Schoonraad
(3) Artwork by Paul Sakoilsky
(4) Carrie Reichardt - Ceramic slip cast spray can - digital transfer/vintage masonic transfer (see photos)
(5) Dave Sinclair - Photograph ‘Black Copper Newham 1985′
(6) Jess Hurd - Photographs/various
(7) Bill Drummond’s 17 book Haiti Benefit signed copy
(8) Cluster Fits - sensational illustration graffiti work …
(9) Patrick Vale - illustration
(10) Kurt Levi Jones - monkey
(11) Mary, The Island - Postcards on photographic paper
(12) Tony Benn - The former Secretary of State for Energy’s pipe complete with ash, teeth marks & signature…
Bringing tables to set up:
Georgina (bringing folding table on Tuesday night)
Maggie (bringing folding table)
Roni (table for Wednesday)
