Dear Friends,

We are writing to inform you of the Canada-Haiti Labour and Women's Solidarity Tour that will travel to eleven cities across Canada in late May/early June 2007. The tour will feature three trade union and women's rights leaders from Haiti. They are Ginette Apollon and Paul Chéry of the Conféderation des travailleurs haitiens (CTH), and women's rights leader and activist Euvonie Georges-Auguste.

The initial list of sponsors of the speaking tour includes:

* Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW)

* National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE)

* Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)

* Ottawa and District Labour Council

* Halifax/Dartmouth District Labour Council

* Vancouver and District Labour Council

* Hospital Employees Union (division of CUPE)

* CHORHA (Haitian community organization in Hull/Ottawa)

* Canada Haiti Action Network (chaptersin 13 cities)

* LACHASauSHA (Haitian community organization in Hull/Ottawa)

* Nowar-Paix (Network to Oppose War and Racism--Ottawa)

* Rassemblement Outaouais contre la guerre (ROCG)

* Canadian Union of Public Employees,Local 4600 (Ottawa)

* Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group (NSPIRG)

* OPIRG-Carleton

* OPIRG-Toronto

* Hands Off Venezuela - Ottawa

* Café Justicia

* Grupo Apoyo Pueblos de las Americas(GAPA)

* Ottawa Fair Trade Network (OFTN)

* Cross Cultural Sound Exchange

* Global Justice Working Group of First Unitarian - Ottawa

* Halifax Peace Coalition

* Student Coalition Against War (SCAW--Halifax)

* St. Mary's University Women's Centre (Halifax)

* Dalhousie University Women's Centre (Halifax)

* Stopwar.ca (Vancouver)

Our goal in each city is to organize seminars, public meetings and other exchanges with the delegation in order to learn more about the situation in Haiti and to stimulate ongoing contact and solidarity between trade union and women's rights organizations in our two countries. The tour will also serve to raise funds for the difficult and ongoing work of the speakers and the organizations they represent. Any participation and financial support that you can offer to the speaking tour is welcome. All funds raised beyond the travel costs of the tour will go to the CTH's organizing efforts and to the grassroots women's organizations that the speakers represent.