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CHOMSKY on HAITI, Sat 1pm, MIT 54-100

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jose jimenez)
Wed Nov 16 22:16:37 1994

Date: Wed, 16 Nov 94 21:53:05 -0500
From: jose@abc.mit.edu (jose jimenez)
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        BUILDING BRIDGES TO HAITI'S MOVEMENT FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE


        SATURDAY NOVEMBER 19
        MIT building 54, room 100
        1pm-5:30pm

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Program
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        1-2:30pm: guest speaker NOAM CHOMSKY
                  "The ABC of US policy towards Haiti: Past, Present, and Future"

        2:30-4:30: keynote speaker: JEAN-BAPTISTE CHAVANNES
                  Founder of Haiti's largest peasant organization (MPP- the
                  Papaye Peasant Movement)
              "What is Haiti's Popular Movement and what is its Future?

        3:30-5:30: report back of the NEW ENGLAND OBSERVERS DELEGATION TO HAITI
                  Rose Toussaint, Marie Kennedy, Jean-Baptiste Bazelais, Jean-
                  Baptiste Chavannes, Tracy Hunt, Byron Rushing, Mel King, Cathy
                  Hoffman, Melinda Mann, Charles Hetzel, Chris Tilly, Tom Reeves,
                  Peter Elikann, Van Hardy, Zachary Dowdy.

                  Just returned from an extraordinary 6-day visit to Haiti, where
                  they attended the celebration of president Aristide's return to
                  presidential palace, witnessed the welcoming demonstrations in
                  Port-au-Prince, and participated in the homecoming of MPP leaders
                  Chavannes and Bazelais in Hinche.

                  Analysis: Bazelais Jean-Baptiste, Director MPP-EDF
                            "key aspects of US intervention, and a call for US
                            troop withdrawal"

                  Slide Show and Video Footage: Van Hardy and Cathy Hoffman.

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Sposored by the Haiti Anti-Intervention Network, The New England Observers
Delegation to Haiti, the Papaye Peasant Movement, and the Thistle (Alternative
News Collective at MIT).

For information call 617-354-0008 or 617-497-5273

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