Yannick Etienne--a representative of Batay Ouvriye, the Haitian labor movement that has been organizing workers and peasants throughout Haiti and in the Dominican-owned maquiladoras in border "free trade zone"--is in the US this week speaking on the radio and in person about grassroots struggles in occupied Haiti.


1. Tuesday, Nov. 22, 7:25 am

With host Deepa Fernandes on WBAI's popular "Wakeup Call," as part of a weeklong series on the debate within the Haitian progressive community. In English.

Radio: 99.5 FM in New York City.
Live streaming (click on "listen on line"): http://www.wbai.org
Archived: http://www.wakeupcallradio.org


2. Wednesday, Nov. 23, 9-10 pm

On "Fowom Ouvriye" ("Workers' Forum") on Radio Lakay. In Creole.

Radio subcarrier: 96.3 on FM band in New York City
Live streaming: http://www.radiolakay.com
(Radio Lakay is changing its website--the live streaming may not be available, or you may get a different website. We apologize if you are unable to listen.)


3. Friday, Nov. 25, 6 pm

Forum: "Haiti: Elections Under Occupation, a Grassroots Perspective"

At Church of the Evangel Community Hall
1950 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
(between Winthrop and Hawthorne Streets;
take the 2 train to Winthrop Street)

What is at stake in the US-backed elections currently scheduled for early December? How is the popular movement organizing to oppose the ongoing US-UN military occupation? How should people here support the popular struggles? Why are Haitian immigrants
being massively deported from the Dominican Republic at this time? In English.

$5 donation--no one turned away.

Organized by the Grassroots Haiti Solidarity Committee

Cosponsored by the Batay Ouvriye Solidarity Network, the Brooklyn Greens, New York CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador), Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York, SELA (the Haitian Information Center), Socialist Action


For background on Batay Ouvriye's work, visit:

http://www.batayouvriye.org
http://www.grassrootshaiti.org

Yannick wasn't available to appear on BAI's "Wakeup Call" this morning, Tuesday, 11/22/05. We apologize for the last-minute change. The "Wakeup
Call" producer is working to reschedule the interview. We'll announce the new time as soon as the arrangements have been made.

Yannick's appearances on Radio Lakay on 11/23 and at the forum in Brooklyn on 11/25 will take place as planned.