<font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Solidarity From Haiti: </span><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Haitian Trade Union Organizers Speak Out
</span></font><br><br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">An
evening of solidarity with Paul "Loulou" Chery, director of the
Federation of Haitian Workers (CTH), the biggest trade union federation
in Haiti. Chery will be travelling across Canada, along with other
women's rights and trade union activists, throughout the months of May
and June to speak about working conditions in Haiti in the wake of the
2004 coup of Jean Bertrand-Aristide.
</span><br><br style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">Friday, May 25 at 7:00 PM</span><br style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">
Dalhousie SUB, Rm 303</span><br style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">6136 University Ave</span><br style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">
By Donation, $5 Suggested</span><br style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">(All Proceeds to the CTH)</span><br><br><span style="font-family: verdana;">Presented by Haiti Action Halifax, the Black Student Advising Centre, and NSPIRG.
</span><br style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Local
sponsorship provided by the Public Service Alliance of Canada, the
Halifax/Dartmouth District Labour Council, and the NS Federation of
Labour. </span><br><br><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">(An
afternoon forum with Paul Chery and trade unionists in Halifax will
also take place May 25th at 1PM. If interested in attending, please
contact <a href="mailto:hah@nspirg.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
hah@nspirg.org</a>)</span><br><br><span style="font-family: verdana;">Wage workers in Haiti earn as little as $2 (US) per day. The unemployment rate is 60% to 70%. Women struggle on the edge of</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">
survival to find work, feed families, and send children to school or
scramble for health care when emergencies arise. The 2004 foreign</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">
invasion and coup against the elected government of President Aristide
was a huge setback to workers rights and womens rights. Minimum wage
rates were slashed, schools and health care facilities were closed, and
legal and extra-legal violence has risen sharply, including that which
targets women. Canada took part in the invasion and coup, and since
then it continues to fund institutions and agencies that do nothing to
improve the lives of ordinary Haitians.
</span><br style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span><br style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For More Information: (902) 405-9480, </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="mailto:hah@nspirg.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
hah@nspirg.org</a><br style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br>This
tour has been endorsed by, among many others, the Canadian Labour
Congress, the Public Service Alliance of Canada, the Canadian Union of
Postal Workers, the NS Federation of Labour, the National Union of
Public and General Employees, and the District Labour Councils of
Ottawa, Halifax/Dartmouth, Vancouver, Calgary, and Victoria.
</span><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Check out the Haiti Art School Project<br><a href="http://users.eastlink.ca/~northstar">users.eastlink.ca/~northstar</a>