Two Years and Two Weeks After Haiti's Quake

Haiti Earthquake 2-Year Public Commemoration Events

The Haiti Advocacy Working Group would like to make you aware of the work that we, Haitian social movements and Haitian Diaspora groups are doing, as well as the work that our U.S. Congressional allies are doing, to raise attention to the current status of Haiti’s reconstruction process at the 2 year commemoration marker. From January 23-25, 2012, Haitians, Haitian-Americans and other Haitian development experts will bring their voices to Capitol Hill. HAWG allies will advocate for a just reconstruction and development process in Haiti, one that prioritizes the needs of women, internally displaced persons, smallholder farmers, the urban poor, immigrants and other vulnerable Haitians, includes the full participation of Haitian grassroots groups and the Diaspora and holds the US government accountable for delivery of its commitments.

Monday, January 23

4-6pm, House Rayburn Building - B-369
Briefing: Gender-Based Violence.

Sponsors: Rep.’s Frederica Wilson, Barbara Lee, Maxine Waters.

Panelists: Marie Ange Noel, Fanm Deside
Emmania Duchard, KOFAVIV Marguerite Salomon, GCFV Margaret L. Satterthwaite, NYU
Ambassador Melanie Verveer, State Dept (invited)

6-8pm, Capitol House Visitor Center - 215:

Haiti Reception, sponsored by HAWG.

Tuesday, January 24

9am-10:30am, House Rayburn Gold Room
Briefing: Cholera

Sponsors: Rep.’s Barbara Lee, Yvette Clarke, Donald Payne, Frederica Wilson, Maxine Waters.

Panelists: Dr. Louise Ivers, Senior Health and Policy Advisor, Partners In Health; Ralph Ternier, Director, Community Health, Zanmi Lasante/Partners In Health Jordon Tappero, Director, Health Systems, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Dr. Mirta Roses, Director, Pan American Health Organization

Noon-2pm, House Rayburn – 2103
Briefing/Documentary: ‘Where did the money go?’

Sponsors: Rep.’s Yvette Clarke, Barbara Lee Donald Payne.

Panelists: Mark Schuller, CUNY; Sophia Lafontant, Oxfam America Ben Smilowitz, Disaster Accountability Project Michele Mitchell, News at 11 Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Nicole Lee, TransAfrica Forum

2-4pm, House Rayburn – 2103
Briefing: Land and Housing Rights
Sponsors: Rep.’s Barbara Lee, Frederica Wilson, Yvette Clarke, Donald Payne, Maxine Waters.

Panelists: Pierre DouDou, RENHASSA,Colette Lespinasse, GARR Antonal Mortime, POHDH Brian Concannon, IJDH Dominique Toussaint, Mobilize for Haiti Michelle Karshan, Li, Li, Li, Read

6:30-8:30pm: Transafrica Forum and CEPR hosting book event for “Tectonics Shift: Haiti Since the Earthquake, at Busboys and Poets, 14th and V St NW

Wednesday, January 25

9:00am-10:30am, House Rayburn – 2103
Media room for interviews with members present.
Sponsors: Rep.’s Barbara Lee, Frederica Wilson, Yvette Clarke, Donald Payne, Maxine Waters.

10:30am to 12:30pm, House Rayburn – 2456
Briefing: Who Runs Haiti? Governance, Political Power, and Democracy in Haiti

Sponsors: Rep. Maxine Waters, Barbara Lee.

Panelists: Thomas C. Adams, Haiti Special Coordinator, U.S. Department of State
Rene Magloire, USIPS, Previous Haitian Justice Minister Brian Concannon, Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Marguerite Salomon, GCFV Peter Sollis, Inter-American Development Bank
For more info or to RSVP for the reception, email hawgtwoyear@yahoo.com.

6pm, Embassy of Haiti, 2311 Massachusetts Ave NW

Film Screening, "Haiti: Where Did the Money Go?" and Discussion with Michele Mitchell (Fim at 11) and Ambassador Stanley Lucas, Special Advisor to President Martelly