Chavannes Jean-Baptiste will be in New York this week speaking about the campaign against the Monsanto seeds in Haiti. Jean-Baptiste is the coordinator of the Mouvman Peyizan Papay (MPP), the Papaye Peasant Movement; a leader in the international Via Campesina movement, he was one of the winners of the 2005 Goldman prize for environmental activism.
Saturday, June 12, 2010 - 5:00 pm
Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, 85 South Oxford Street in Brooklyn
http://nycal.mayfirst.org/node/622
Monday, June 14, 2010 - 6:00-8:00 pm
Martin Luther King, Jr. Labor Center, 310 West 43rd Street in Manhattan, between 8th & 9th Avenues
http://nycal.mayfirst.org/node/671
Contact: Seeds for Haiti, http://seedsforhaiti.org/ , seeds@seedsforhaiti.org , (917) 378-2192
For more information on Monsanto in Haiti:
Haiti: Thousands of Farmers Reject Monsanto Seeds
http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/2010/06/wnu-1036-haitian-farmers-reject.html
Groups Around the U.S. Join Haitian Farmers in Protesting "Donation" of Monsanto Seeds
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/beverly-bell/groups-around-the-us-join_b_600941.html
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