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About Seth Donnelly

Seth Donnelly is a public high school teacher in the Bay Area of California, where he has taught social studies for nearly two decades. He has been an activist with the Puerto Rican independence and Black liberation movements, doing solidarity work with prisoners from those movements. He has also been involved in the Haiti Action Committee since 2004. He is the author of the 2005 report Growing Evidence of a Massacre by UN Occupation Forces in Port-au-Prince Neighborhood of Cité Soleil: a Summary of Findings of the U.S. Labor and Human Rights Delegation to Haiti (Berkeley: U.S. Labor and Human Rights Delegation to Haiti, July 12, 2005). Donnelly has also co-authored 2005 human rights petitions filed with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights censuring the U.S. and Brazilian governments for their roles in the killings of Haitian civilians following the 2004 coup.
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    The Lasalin massacre and the human rights crisis in Haiti

    Originally published: National Lawyers Guild on July 16, 2019 (more by National Lawyers Guild)  |

    Based on remarks by Mr Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Deputy General Manager of the BIS, at the Conference of the Central Banks and Supervisors Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), Paris, 17 April 2019.

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  • The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation August 21, 2019

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