Haiti: The Betrayal of Democracy
an evening with Kevin Pina
Excerpts from a new documentary by Kevin Pina
Monday, July 25, 2005 - 7pm
Plymouth Congregational UCC
5301 North Capitol Street at Missouri/Riggs
N.W. Washington, DC
See rare footage of Haiti's 2004 coup d'etat against the democratically
elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide. Freshly returned from Haiti
to continue editing his next project, documentary filmmaker Kevin Pina will
describe the current reality in Haiti today and screen new material
containing unique footage that Pina, as one of the only independent foreign
journalists on the ground, took as the coup unfolded.
Kevin Pina is a documentary filmmaker and freelance journalist living in Haiti since 1999. He is also the Haiti correspondent for FLASHPOINTS on KPFA and Pacifica and serves as editor for theHaiti Information Project(HIP) featured at www.HaitiAction.net
Endorsed by: Black Voices for Peace, Critical Resistance, D.C. Healthcare Coalition, D.C. Metropolitan Chapter of NCOBRA, Ecumenical Program on Central America and the Caribbean (EPICA), Fondasyon Mapou, Left Turn D.C., Organized COUP, Project South, Quixote Center/Haiti Reborn, TransAfrica Forum
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