[van-announce] Nov.8: 2 screenings of Aristide and the Endless Revolution

[Derrick O'Keefe]

Additional screenings of:

Aristide and the Endless Revolution, featured at the
Vancouver International Film Festival

2 shows Tuesday, November 8, 7:30 and 9:00p.m.

Pacific Cinematheque, 1131 Howe St.
$5 admission

Anthony Fenton, author of the new book Canada in
Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority and recently
back from a reporting trip to Haiti, will be in
attendance to introduce the film and answer questions
on the
current situation in occupied Haiti.

Co-sponsored by StopWar.ca and Haiti Solidarity BC
For more info, email contact at stopwar.ca or
haitisolidaritybc at yahoo.ca

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Nicolas Rossier's Aristide and the Endless Revolution

A complex historical truth emerges in Nicolas
Rossier’s intelligent examination revealing the
oft-supressed story of the 2004 coup d’etat in Haiti,
as well as the systemic violence and human rights
violations that erupted under the interim government.
An interview with the deposed president, Jean-Bertrand
Aristide in Pretoria, South Africa, is juxtaposed with
the views of a wide range of supporters and critics,
including US Assistant Secretary of State Roger
Noriega. It is not Aristide and the Lavalas supporters
who emerge looking like thugs but international
interests concerned with suppressing popular democracy
and ending the reforms Aristide was capable of making
– despite embargoes and the need to service a debt for
loans Haiti never received.

History repeated itself in Haiti in 2004 in that the
former parish priest had already been deposed as
president in 1991 with CIA support. His kidnapping
marked the fourth American intervention into Haiti in
90 years. This was also not the first intervention by
France. In 1801, Napoleon had the leader of free
Haiti, Toussant L’Ouverture, seized and deported to
prison in France where he died. While faced with the
strangulation of aid, Aristide had begun a campaign
for reparations. This provocative investigation draws
out the central place of international history in the
historical poverty of Haiti.

More info on the film at www.aristidethefilm.com

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