"HAITI: OCCUPATION, EXPLOITATION, AND RESISTANCE"
DATE: Wednesday, May 1st 7 PM
WHERE: University at Stony Brook's Javits Center Rm. 100
Guests will include:
Capt. Lawrence Rockwood, the US Army officer who was arrested and
court-martialed for attempting to defend the human rights of
prisoners in Haiti's National Penitentiary. He will tell about his
on-going campaign to expose the US Army's subversion of its official
mandate to protect human rights in Haiti. His remarks will be
introduced by a short film by Crowing Rooster Productions on the
September 1994 US military intervention into Haiti.
Charles Kernagan, of the National Labor Committee (NLC), which has
recently released a report on how US companies in Haiti are
exploiting workers in assembly industry sweatshops for about 11 cents
an hour.
Ben Dupuy, co-director of HAITI PROGRES and a founding member of the
National Popular Assembly (APN), will address the continuing
resistance of the Haitian people to the new-liberal austerity
measures such as privatization of the state industries which is
presently being forced on Haiti by the World Bank and International
Monetary Fund.
For further info or directions:
Maryann Bell
Assistant Dean
Social & Behavioral Sciences
Melville Library - 2nd fl.
University at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3391
Phone: 516-632-6190
FAX: 516-632-6900
E-Mail: mabell@provos2.prov.sunysb.edu