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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

Seth Donnelly and Judith Mirkinson

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.

Monthly Review Essays

Tokyo olympics and Fukushima ‘revival’
by Lau Kin Chi
At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics a young man born on the day of Hiroshima nuclear bombing was selected to be the last torch bearer on the relay, to signify that Japan had stood up from nuclear ruin. In an attempt to replicate the 1964 Olympic theme, the Abe government has constructed the idea of a Fukushima “revival,” a returned to normal. Exposing this illusion is an important cultural war.
Rinky-Dink Revolution
by Howard Waitzkin
During this fierce period of history, many people want clarity and leadership in suggesting concrete steps toward ending the daily oppressions of capitalism. We seek a path leading to a post-capitalist society that aims not to destroy mother earth, humanity, and other life forms. If that doesn’t happen, we face an ongoing transition to fascism and an accelerating environmental catastrophe.

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