For Immediate Release
February 18, 2010

Documentary Film Looks at Haitian Politics

"Haiti: Aristide and the Endless Revolution" offers a moving testimony to the Haitian peoples' struggle against oppression.

Phi Theta Kappa and the Black Student Union at Cañada College are co-sponsoring a showing of the powerful documentary "Haiti: Aristide and the Endless Revolution." The documentary film by Nicolas Rossier will be shown on Wednesday, Feb. 24 at 6 p.m. in Building 3, Room 148. It is free and open to the public. This informative documentary focuses on Aristide's later years as president, as he struggled to fulfill his promises of reform in the face of mounting domestic opposition (driven in large part by business and military interests) and, simultaneously, an increasingly hostile relationship with the United States. "Haiti: Aristide and the Endless Revolution" offers a moving testimony to the Haitian peoples' struggle against oppression and exposes the tangled web of hope, deceit, and political violence that brought the world's first black republic to its knees.

For more information, contact Robert Hood, Director of Marketing and Public Relations, at hoodr@smccd.edu or 306-3340