Haiti Action Committee Reportback
Thursday June 26, 2008
$7-$10 sliding scale - 7pm
"Haitian Food Crisis: Report Back from Haiti Action Committee."
Haiti Action Committee members recently returned from a trip to Port-au-Prince with eye-witness news of the food crisis, with information about who profits from the coup, conditions in jails where thousands of political prisoners are still held, and the latest news from Haiti's grassroots movement.
Haiti reached headlines this month as desperate conditions of Haitians after four years of UN occupation were exposed in the media. Haitians are eating mud cookies; the cost of rice, beans, water, cooking oil, and fuel have skyrocketed; the people have had enough. They remember that under the Aristide government social and economic programs were begun that gave people hope and dignity.
For the last two years, the media has reported a slow movement towards democratic government, security, and economic progress in Haiti. Supposedly, the UN occupation and the 2006 election of President Rene Preval had allowed Haitians to move on, and forget that its democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was overthrown in a violent coup in which thousands were killed, displaced, imprisoned, and exiled. The massive outpouring of protest over food prices has shattered this façade.
Join Haiti Action Committee for this in-depth examination of the crisis in Haiti.
For more information on Haiti visit www.haitisolidarity.net
