Forum: "Haiti: Elections Under Occupation, a Grassroots Perspective"
With guest speaker Yannick Etienne, of Batay Ouvriye ("Workers' Struggle")
At Church of the Evangel Community Hall 1950 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY (between Winthrop and Hawthorne Streets; take the 2 train to Winthrop Street)
Friday, November 25, 2005, 6 pm
What is at stake in the US-backed elections currently scheduled for early December? How is the popular movement organizing to oppose the ongoing US-UN military occupation? How should people here support the popular struggles? Why are Haitian immigrants being massively deported from the Dominican Republic at this time?
Yannick Etienne--a representative of Batay Ouvriye, the Haitian labor movement that has been organizing workers and peasants throughout Haiti and in the Dominican-owned maquiladoras in border "free trade zone"--will discuss these questions with the audience and with other speakers to be announced.
$5 donation -- you won't be turned away if you can't afford it, so COME!
Organized by the Grassroots Haiti Solidarity Committee
Co-sponsored by the Batay Ouvriye Solidarity Network, the Brooklyn Greens/Green Party, New York CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador), Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York, SELA (the Haitian Information Center), Socialist Action
For more information: phone 718-284-0889, email info at grassrootshaiti.org, website www.grassrootshaiti.org