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Oakland, California 94605
United States

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Kevin Pina is a U.S. journalist and filmmaker who has lived and worked in Haiti the past seven
years. He is known for his hard-hitting coverage of the human rights abuses and suppression
of democracy in Haiti following the overthrow of Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the installation of
the U.S.-backed government. Pina reported extensively from Haiti on FLASHPOINTS, a radio
program heard daily on KPFA, the flagship station of the Pacifica Network. He is also an
Associate Editor of the Black Commentator online magazine and the Founding Editor of the
Haiti Information Project (HIP), an alternative news agency operating in Port au Prince, Haiti.
Pina was beaten by an off-duty SWAT officer of the Haitian National Police on June 4, 2005 for
his actions during a demonstration where he and several Haitian journalists blocked poiice
from firing on unarmed protestors. He was arrested on Sept. 9, 2005 and held in a Haitian jail
for three days after covering the attempt of a corrupt judge to plant weapons in the church of
prisoner of conscience Father Gerard Jean-Juste.
Kevin Pina is available to present HAITI: THE UNTOLD STORY in person and provide lectures
and discourses on the following topics: U.S. foreign policy in Latin America and the Caribbean,
The Modern Coup: Media and Non-governmental organizations as tools of U.S. foreign policy,
Haitian history and the current reality, Liberation Theology in the Haitian context, Unembedded
Journalism and Independent Media, Documenting Human Rights Abuses, The Role of the U.N.
in Haiti, Understanding the Lavalas political movement in Haiti, Making documentary films
under fire, Using technology to start an independent news network to effect change, and much
more.

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