Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees
Present
Free Film Screening & Community Discussion
On Deportation & Displacement of Haitians in the Dominican Republic
Date/Time: Saturday, December 17th from 3 - 4:30pm
Venue: Queens Museum of Art
NYC Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, NY 11368-3398
718.592.9700 x222, preddy@queensmuseum.org
www.queensmuseum.org
About the Films
Under the Sun (Miriam Neptune, 2005, 22 min)
In May 2004, after a flood ravaged the town of Jimani, Dominican
Republic, an entire community of Haitians and Haitian-Dominicans were
displaced and forced to relocate. 19 year old Daniel and his neighbors
talk about how they were excluded from the government's flood relief,
and what they will do next.
The Birthright Crisis (2005, 15 min)
Over 10,000 Haitians and Haitian Dominicans have been deported from the
Dominican Republic this year, many of them children. This video includes
testimonies from deportees, and calls to action from Haitian and
Dominican activists.
About the Presenter
Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees (HWHR) was founded in 1992 to help
Haitian refugees resettled in the Brooklyn/New York area to effectively
navigate immigration bureaucracy, organize the Haitian community to
advocate for itself, and work to obtain legal permanent residency for
Haitian refugees. HWHR is one of the few community-based organizations
by and for Haitian immigrants, which educates and organizes Haitian
immigrants of the working class to understand their rights as workers
and immigrants by providing comprehensive and culturally sensitive
programs that include popular education and adult literacy, to counter
worker exploitation and anti-immigrant policy. HWHR works closely with
other organizations who are committed to a broader social justice
movement both locally and globally.
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