22567: Leiderman: Haiti at UMass-Boston, audiotapes available (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Stuart M Leiderman <leidermn@cisunix.unh.edu>


audiotapes of this timely and informative recent event are now available
from Stuart Leiderman <leidermn@christa.unh.edu>  thank you.

LAKOU ASSOCIATION PRESENTS

"TRANSFORMING THE MOMENT: HAITI 2004
DEATH TO DEMOCRATIC RULE, OR NEW OPPORTUNITIES?"
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS-BOSTON
JUNE 25, 2004

This panel is an open dialogue on Haiti's historical developments across
two centuries.  The discussion will focus on the challenges of Haiti's
complex past, the impact of the controversy surrounding former president
Jean Bertrand Aristide's departure in the current socio-political
situation of Haiti and the challenges and opportunities presented by this
transition.

Speakers (in order):

Alexandra Clestin
Executive Director, Lakou Association
914 Canterbury Street, Roslindale, MA 02131
ph 617.469.9377, www.lakouassociation.umb.edu, alexandra.celestin@umb.edu

James Reginald Colimon
Community Outreach Coordinator
Mayor's Office of New Bostonians, ph 617.635.2980,
james.colimon@cityofboston.gov, and
Executive Officer, Global Villages
4 Fairmont Avenue, Hyde Park, Massachusetts 02136, ph 617.838.0760,
http://www.globalvillages2u.com

John Shattuck
CEO, John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
Columbia Point, Boston, Massachusetts 02125
ph 617.514.1550, http://www.jfklibrary.org, kennedy.foundation@nara.gov

Stuart Leiderman
"Environmental Refugees and Ecological Restoration", Environmental
Response/4th World Project, c/o Natural Resources Dept., Univ. of New
Hampshire-Durham 03824
ph 603.776.0055, leidermn@christa.unh.edu

Charlot Lucien
10 Blake Street, #2, Hyde Park, MA 02136
ph 617.276.3174   charlotlucien@yahoo.com

This event was hosted by the Lakou Association and sponsored by the
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, the Haymarket Foundation,
Haitian Studies Association and Eritaj Foundation.

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