Let Haiti Live! Kite Ayiti Viv!

Donation: $5-15 sliding scale An Evening with Live Music, Good Food and Fascinating Speakers Direct from Haiti: Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine: Psychologist and founder of Fondasyn Trente Septamin, a foundation working with victims from the September 30, 1991 coup d'etat and Jean Gabriel Fils: Grassroots Lavalas organizer working for Partners in Health hospital in the Central Plateau of Haiti. The hospital specializes in treating AIDS and tuberculosis patients. While the Bush administration wages war on Iraq, attempts to topple the elected government of Venezuela, and undermines civil liberties here at home, hidden from the headlines, is the war on democracy in Haiti. Since the election of Jean- Bertrand Aristide two years ago the US has blocked approved loans that Haiti has paid interest on and also significantly reduced humanitarian assistance to Haiti in an attempt to destabilize the government there. The impact has been devastating. In recent months US animosity toward Aristide and the Lavalas movement has escalated to an all out attempt to destroy the Haitian government. [This information was copied from the Bay Area Events calendar, .]