Solidarity and Revolutionary Perspectives for Haiti
Jennie-Laure Sully
In this video, Jennie Laure-Sully is a brown-skinned person with dark brown hair and parted in the middle. Laure-Sully presents in front of a faded yellow wall wearing a dark green shirt with white flowered designs, and a solid-black open front sweater.
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Solidarity and Revolutionary Perspectives for Haiti
with Jennie-Laure Sully
Jennie-Laure Sully is a Montreal activist with Solidarité Québec-Haïti. She advocates for Haitian sovereignty as well as Haitians’ human rights.
In this video
Themes
Anti-Black racism
Institutional Change
Jennie-Laure discusses Canada’s imperialistic foreign policies that systemically bar Haiti from sovereignty including funding prisons and sabotage – impeding in the human rights of Haitians internationally. Through a personal anecdote on being a Black woman and Haitian activist, she illuminates her work on Solidarite Quebec-Haiti mobilizing in Montreal to illuminate Canada’s complicentcy in perpetuating systemic racism across borders; and support Haitian Canadians and migrants.
Taking action
Become a member of Solidarite Quebec-Haiti (all our welcome) join the discussion and efforts to cultivate anti-racist and anti-imperialist foreign policies
Educate yourself on the ways that Canada has and continues to interfere with the politics of international countries as a colonial legacy of Global North dominance over the Global South.
Resources
Solidarité Québec - Haïti: https://www.facebook.com/SolidariteQuebecHaiti/
Yves Engler’s blog Solidarité – Québec Haïti : https://yvesengler.com/tag/solidarite-quebec-haiti/
Pour une réelle solidarité entre le Québec et Haïti : https://journal.alternatives.ca/Pour-une-reelle-solidarite-entre-Quebec-et-Haiti