Aristide and the Endless Revolution

Best Documentary 2006 Pan African Film Festival. Come and learn about Canada's ongoing crimes in Haiti, in preparation for "Our Arms do Not Kill: The UN pacification of Haiti" and the Haiti presentation with the film maker to be shown in Activism Course the following Wednesday, October 4th. All are welcome to the Activism Course talk in Marion Auditorium (University of Ottawa) at 7 pm.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the former president of Haiti, was twice removed from office with the complicity of the international community. An investigation into the events that led to his most recent ouster, ARISTIDE AND THE ENDLESS REVOLUTION exposes the geopolitical intrigue, the economic alliances between the Haitian and U.S. elite, the armed criminals posing as freedom fighters and other factors that have consistently threatened this young democracy.

The film includes physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer, Presidet Aristide himself, UN goodwill ambassador Danny Glover, Noam Chomsky, Roger Noriega (recently Assistant Secretary of State under George W. Bush), Congresswoman Maxine Waters, James Dobbins (director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at Rand and former U.S. Special Envoy in Haiti), John Shattuck (former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor) and many Haitian voices.

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