25025: Simidor (PSA) : Haiti after Aristide: a grassroots perspective (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: daniel simidor <danielsimidor@yahoo.com>

HAITI AFTER ARISTIDE:
a grassroots perspective

In US solidarity  circles, the situation in Haiti has
largely been reduced to a struggle between US-led
interests and forces aligned with ousted president
Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his Lavalas Family party.
But for the majority of grassroots activists in Haiti,
the Aristide regime was not an ally but an obstacle to
organizing for radical change. Today, under extremely
difficult circumstances, the grassroots movement
continues to organize against foreign occupation and
the neoliberal economic policies of the US, the IMF
and the World Bank. Haiti's grassroots sector is
looking for support from the US solidarity movement in
this truly revolutionary struggle.

Join us in a forum to debate these issues:

Saturday, May 21, 2005 - 6:00 PM

at the Brooklyn Greens / Green Party of NY

388 Atlantic Avenue (and Hoyt Street) – Trains #2,3,4,
5 to Nevins; A,C,G to Hoyt/Schermerhorn.

Speakers:

– Paul PHILOME, a representative of Batay Ouvriye, a
workers’ movement organizing throughout Haiti and in
Dominican-owned maquiladoras in the border “free trade
zone” set up by Aristide and backed by international
lending institutions.

– Sandra QUINTELA, a member of the International Fact
Finding and Solidarity Mission headed by Nobel Peace
laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel, which recently visited
Haiti in April. Sandra is also a member of Jubilee
South, Brazilian Campaign against the Debt, FTAA and
Militarization.

For information: 718-284-0889 - bosolidarity@yahoo.com

Organized by the Grassroots Haiti Solidarity
Committee.
Co-sponsored by the Batay Ouvriye Solidarity Network,
SELA (the Haitian Information Center), the Nicaragua
Solidarity Network, NYCISPES, Socialist Action, the
Brooklyn Greens.




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