A SPECIAL BROADCAST TO INVESTIGATE HAITI SINCE THE COUP: FIVE YEARS OF RESISTANCE.
* On Operation Wake Up
* CKDU 88.1fm
* from Tuesday to Friday
* March 10th to 13th
* 8 AM to 9 AM.
Five years ago, Canadian soldiers participated in a military operation to overthrow Haiti’s elected government. In the weeks following the 2004 coup d’état, minimum wages were rolled back, ministries were closed, corporate taxation was canceled, and Haitian activists who criticized the new order did so at the risk of their liberty or their lives. Today, after five years of neoliberal “shock therapy”, Canadian personnel remain in Haiti under the cover of a UN mission. Haiti remains Canada’s other, untalked-of, occupation, along with Afghanistan.
The shows will feature in-depth interviews with Haitian union leaders, progressive politicians, and rights advocates, and a panel discussion with members of the Canada Haiti Action Network (CHAN). This special programme will aim to explore Canada’s strategy and praxis in Haiti as indicative of its broader imperialist designs through the Caribbean and the Latin American regions, and to highlight and celebrate the patterns of the Haitian people’s resistance to those designs.
For more information, please call the CKDU News Collective at 494-2585.
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