What’s Really Going On in Haiti?

You’re invited to a Public Forum

What’s happening on the ground in Haiti now?

Robert Roth of the Haiti Action Committee and member of the board of the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund, has just returned from Haiti and brings us the latest news:

• How the Haitian grassroots are organizing in the wake of the devastating earthquake and the militarization of post-earthquake aid.

• What demands are coming from the grassroots, including the demands of women in the temporary encampments who have been pressing for the return of President Aristide.
   
• What protests and marches are not being shown on US TV.
   
• What scheming by US and other government/business interests is being disguised as “reconstruction”.
   
• What role the NGO’s have been playing.
   
• What contributions Cuba and Venezuela have made to relief and reconstruction. How their respectful actions contrast with those of other Latin American governments whose forces are part of the UN occupation of Haiti.
   
• How the coup in Haiti opened the way for the coup in Honduras.

Documentary film Lafanmi Selavi (Kreyol for “family is life”) about the group home and school for children from the streets founded by Jean-Bertrand Aristide when he was president of Haiti in the 1990’s. See the movement that elected President Aristide with 90% of the vote, and hear from young people who say that grassroots Haitians know best what paths work for them. See what the US has tried to destroy with the coups that removed Aristide in 1991 and again in 2004.

Haiti - like Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan - is an occupied country.
Discuss the global campaign in support of the Haitian grassroots demand for President Aristide to return for Haiti’s post-earthquake reconstruction. What can we do in the US?

 Refreshments u $10 donation, no one turned away
^{_{Funds raised will go for travel for a grassroots delegation from Haiti and from LA to get to the US Social Forum, where they will present in workshops including on Haiti, and also for the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund which ensures that needed resources get to grassroots communities and women.}}

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Coordinated by Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike and GWS/LA
^{Co-sponsors to date include: Alexandria House, Coalition for Peace & Democracy in Honduras, Eastside Café Echospace, IAC/Bail Out the People Movement, Pastor Lewis Logan, Southern California Library, Utility Workers Union Local 132}

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