Listen to an interview with John Macdonald and Patrick Elie in Port au Prince, Haiti. John is a Haiti solidarity activist and independent journalist from Montreal, and Patrick is a long-time grassroots organizer in Haiti. Here they talk about the upcomi
Produced for the CKUT (90.3FM) community news collective in Montreal by Aaron Lakoff (aaron@resist.ca).
Nearly two years after the coup d'etat against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and a few weeks before the scheduled elections, the country of Haiti still finds itself in a state of turmoil.
While the Canadian mainstream media paid heavy attention to the death of Marc Bourque, an RCMP officer stationed in Haiti, in late December, little context was given to the role that Canada is currently playing in the country. As the UN, the USA, and Canada push forth to impose their elections on the Hatian people, Haitians are pushing back, demanding real justice and democracy.
We were joined on the phone with John Macdonald and Patrick Elie in Port au Prince. John is an activist from Montreal, currently in Haiti. He shares with us the current political climate in the country, as well as the reaction of Haitians to the death of Marc Bourque. Patrick is a long-time political organizer in his home country. He explains the problematic aspects of these presidential elections (which many Haitians have dubbed 'selections'), Haitian resistance tactics (such as the recent mass voter registrations to thwart the wishes of the political elite), and Canadian imperial ambitions in Haiti.
For more information, see: www.outofhaiti.ca www.haitiaction.net www.ckut.ca
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