NYC Update Honduras- After the Media Spotlight Leaves w/ Dr. Luther Castillo

Join us as we welcome Dr. Luther Castillo to New York City.

“After the Media Spotlight Leaves: Continuing Solidarity with Haiti
and Honduras”

Forum, film and discussion
Friday April 16th
7:00pm
La Resurreccion United Methodist Church
790 Elton Ave @ E 158th St, the Bronx, 10451
(1 Block East of E 158th St and 3rd Ave, take the 2 or 5 train or the
BX19 bus to E 149th St and 3rd Ave or take the BX06 bus to E 161st and
Washington Ave)

We will be showing the new film “Fireflies in the Night” about the
Henry Reeve Cuban Medical Brigade in Haiti.

Dr. Luther Castillo M.D., spokesperson for the People’s Front for
National Resistance in Honduras, joins us once again in New York City
to share his recent experiences in the struggle to defend democracy
and human rights in Honduras following the military coup of June 28th,
2009.

As a graduate of the Latin American School of Medicine (LASM), Dr.
Castillo, a young Garifuna (African and indigenous descendant) doctor,
is the founder and director of the first hospital on the Atlantic
coast of Honduras that provides the Garifuna community with
healthcare.

Dr. Castillo is also the co-coordinator of the Latin American School
of Medicine's International Henry Reeve Brigade, and has spent the
last 2 months in Haiti working alongside more than 1000 Cuban doctors,
LASM graduates from 26 nations, and Haitian LASM students and
graduates providing emergency medicine as well as basic medical and
psychological care to hundreds of thousands of Haitians.

We will also have updates about IFCO’s collaboration with Local 100 of
the Transport Workers Union to organize a container shipment of
medicines, medical supplies, tents and cots to Haiti at the end of
April.

For questions and more information please call 212-926-5757 or e-mail
ifco@igc.org