Los Angeles Welcomes Haitian Women Activists
On July 22, 2006, approximately 150 people in South Los Angeles gathered at a public meeting to welcome two Haitian grassroots women activists on their first visit to LA. The event featured Ginette Apollon, a community and union organizer who works with women and youth in urban and rural Haiti, and Rea Dol, who is with a coalition of grassroots women’s organizations in Haiti and also Director of a school in Port-au-Prince...