Batay La Film Screening

Join One Struggle in Tallahassee, FL for two events! In 2012, One Struggle traveled to Haiti to meet with textile workers organized with Batay Ouvriye (Workers' Struggle), an independent organization known throughout Haiti as a fierce, uncompromising movement dedicated to reconstructing Haiti in the interests of workers, peasants, and the poor. Following the trip OS set up [...]

Lessons from Haiti: Demarcate to Unite

 Around the world, people are mobilizing, protesting, even revolting. The failings of capitalism and imperialism in its most recent form of neoliberal policies are clear - extreme inequality, austerity, privatization, exploitation and domination of people and planet. In Chile, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong and Haiti, record numbers of people have taken the streets [...]

Haiti Workers’ Movement: We Won’t Take it!

On July 7th Haitians filled the streets, burned and looted stores, and erected barricades to block roads. Despite the government’s efforts to use the Brazil vs Belgium World Cup match as a distraction from their 30 - 50 % increases in fuel prices, Haitians clearly were not fooled. Protests went on across the country for [...]

May Day! Solidarity w/Haitian Garment Workers

May 1st is International Workers Day! Today, One Struggle wants to bring attention to the struggle of Haitian garment workers and the Rapid Response Network – a solidarity network that supports autonomous workers’s struggles. One Struggle will be participating in May Day events in South Florida, and in Haiti, garment workers across the country will [...]

Sweet Micky Hocks Autobiography as Haitian Garment Workers Continue to Fight Exploitation

PLASIT-BO Garment Workers Conference (top). Sweet Micky (bottom). By las hermanas Cruz Wednesday, May 18th, The Miami Book Fair, Miami Dade College and Imaginart Media Productions will host former Haitian president, Michel Martelly, at the MDC Wolfson campus for a book signing and discussion of Martelly’s new autobiography, Michel Martelly Autobiographie. “Sweet Micky,” [...]

An Interview with an Organizer for Batay Ouvriye (Workers Struggle)

By One Struggle One Struggle: Can you give me a brief description of what Batay Ouvriye* is and a little bit of the history of it? Batay Ouvriye: Batay Ouvriye is part of a whole current that had roots in Europe and the United States where many of the resistance, many of the leftist people, [...]