25032: BAtay Ouvriye: Fwd: News: Haiti after Aristide, A grassroots perspective (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Batay Ouvriye (batay@batayouvriye.org)

Haiti after Aristide
a grassroots perspective

In US progressive circles, the situation in Haiti has largely been reduced
to a struggle between US-led imperialist interests and forces aligned with
ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his Lavalas Family party. But
for the majority of progressive and grassroots activists in Haiti, the
Aristide government was not an ally but an obstacle to organizing for
radical change. Meanwhile, the grassroots movement continues to organize
against foreign military occupation and the neoliberal economic policies of
the US, the IMF and the World Bank, and Haitian activists are looking for
solidarity from US progressives in this 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 (Hoyt Street) - #2,3,5 to Nevins;  A,C,G to
Hoyt/Schermerhorn

Speakers:
- 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.
- A member of the International Fact Finding and Solidarity Mission, headed
by Nobel Peace Laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel, which recently visited Haiti.

For information: 718-284-0889 - bosolidarity@yahoo.com Organized by the
Grassroots Haiti Solidarity Committee . $5 Donation - No one turned away
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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