| Haiti Relief Fundraiser Sunday, January 24, 7 p.m. Black Dot Cafe 1195 Pine St. West Oakland |
The San Francisco Bay View, the POCC and the Haiti Action Committee will host a Haiti Relief Benefit at the Black Dot Cafe in West Oakland Sunday, January 24.
THe featured speaker is Pierre Labossiere, co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee. The event will also include Oakland attorney Walter Riley, co-founder of the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund (HERF) and a survivor of the 7.0 Earthquake that rocked the nation.
Funds raised at the event will support the continued efforts of the Haiti Action Committee, as well as put a media-medical team on the ground. The team will not only provide immediate aid to the Haitian people, but give a real account of the Haitian people's plight, opposed to the subliminally racist coverage that distorts truth that is taking place now.
"You know they’ll go where the needs are greatest and the stories most compelling," writes Mary Ratliff, editor of the San Francisco Bay View newspaper.
