The Fight For Haiti: A Film Screening and Panel Discussion

Madan Sara filmmaker Etant Dupain's newest film,The Fight for Haiti chronicles the Kot Kòb PetroCaribe movement, a unique grassroots social just movement in Haiti.

In 2018 a seemingly innocuous tweet swiftly took the country of Haiti by storm: Kot kòb PetroCaribe a? Where is the PetroCaribe money? Inquiring about billions of dollars in missing development funds, the question ignited a movement unlike any the nation had seen in decades. It became the rallying cry for a people infuriated by rapidly deteriorating living conditions, years of broken promises, and the endemic corruption and impunity of the local and international elite. 

In the face of targeted government repression and devastating state-sanctioned gang violence, the young activists leading the fight are not backing down. As the situation in Haiti evolves at a dramatic pace, the team behind the award-winning film Madan Sara: Pouvwa Fanm Ayisyen captures the defiant and unwavering energy of the next generation of Haitians fighting to build a better future.

The screening will be followed by a panel conversation with Dupain and two Haitian activists also featured in the film Pascale Solages, co-founder of Nègès Mawon, and education access advocate Ilio Durandis.

Host or Publisher NU Africana Studies