30761: HOlmstead (news) FWD: Haiti: An Unbroken Agony (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

FROM: John Holmstead

HIP - Flashpoints/KPFA on the Pacifica radio network,
will devote most of its program on Monday, July 16 at
5 PM PDT, to Haiti.

Host Dennis Bernstein and filmmaker and journalist
Kevin Pina, will interview former civil rights
activist and founder of TransAfrica Forum, Randall
Robinson from his home in St. Kitts in the Caribbean.
Robinson has released a new book entitled "An Unbroken
Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a
President. "

The book is the first detailed account of how the
democratically elected president of Haiti,
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was forced to leave the
country. Robinson details how the twice-elected
President was kidnapped along with his
Haitian-American wife by American soldiers and flown,
against his will, to the isolated Central African
Republic.

Robinson majestically chronicles the convulsive saga
of Haiti-from Columbus's arrival to the fearlessness
of the slave revolutionaries who defeated the armies
of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1804, wresting from France
the most valuable colony of any European power
anywhere in the world; from the ideals of the young
republic, to the foreign backed dictators who
corrupted those ideals, culminating in the
American-led operation removing from power Haiti's
first democratically-elected president and his entire
government in 2004.

Also, joining Bernstein and Pina live from Haiti will
be Canadian journalist Jean St. Vil reporting on
recent demonstrations demanding Jean-Bertrand
Aristide's return from exile. Catholic priest Father
Gerard Jean-Juste will join the discussion live from
Miami where similar actions are planned for this
weekend.

Flashpoints can be heard live every weekday at 5 PM
PDT
in the San Francisco Bay Area ? 94.1 FM.
It can also be streamed live or in archived format
over the web at www.flashpoints.net.




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