Join the Toronto Haiti Action Committee and Students in Solidarity with Haiti for a free public lecture and discussion on the important lessons learned from Canada's criminal intervention in Haiti.

Featuring Yves Engler - activist, author and journalist.

AT RYERSON STUDENT CAMPUS CENTRE, THOMAS LOUNGE (55 GOULD STREET) ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 STARTING AT 7:00 PM

On February 29, 2004 Canadian Special Forces Commandos called JTF2 “secured” the airport from which Haiti’s democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was taken at gunpoint by US Marines and flown into exile to the Central African Republic. Almost immediately following Aristide’s removal and the dismantling of Haiti’s entire government structure, 500 Canadian troops patrolled the streets of Port-Au-Prince and helped take control of the capital and contain the popular uprising against the “kidnapping” of Aristide. Canada then provided vital support to the interim “illegal” government that killed thousands.

More than Five years after the coup, 9000 foreign troops continue to occupy the country and Haiti remains in crisis.

Yves Engler is a Montreal area activist and author. He has written numerous articles appearing in both mainstream and alternative publications and has published three books: The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy, Playing Left Wing: From Rink Rat to Student Radical and Canada in Haiti: Waging War on The Poor Majority (with Anthony Fenton).

For more information contact the Toronto Haiti Action Committee at torontohaitiaction@gmail.com or Students in Solidarity with Haiti at (647) 992-2654.