Café La Petite Gaulle
2525 rue Centre (Metro Charlevoix)

Canada: GET OUT!
End colonialism from Kanehsatake to Haiti

Café La Petite Gaulle, 2525 rue Centre (Metro Charlevoix)
January 25, 2005.
Doors: 18h30. Panel: 19h00.
Open to all

With speakers:
Madame Magalie
Arihwakehte (Clifton Nicholas)
Jean St-Vil (Jafrikayiti)
Yves Engler

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Pay what you can
Whisper translation (English-French and French-English) will be provided
The location is wheelchair accessible.
Sorry, childcare will not be available.

For further information, please contact:
Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement
ipsm at resist.ca
514.398.7432

Speaker profiles:
Madame Magalie is the coordinator of the Vwa Zanset association (Voices of the
Ancestors), www.vwazanset.org. She is a jurist (licensed in civil law) and
received her B.A in political science.

Arihwakehte (Clifton Nicholas) is a Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) living in
Kanehsatake. He has been an active member of the resistance to James Gabriel,
his policies and the KMP in Kanehsatake.

Jean St-Vil (pen name Jafrikayiti) was born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
now residing in Ottawa. He is an active member of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership
Network and is also the founding president of REKA, an internet-based network of
Haitian Kreyol promoters (www.kreyol.org).

Yves is a Montreal-based activist and writer. He recently traveled to Haiti.

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Backgrounder:
The Canadian government played a leading role in planning, supporting and
orchestrating the coup that overthrew Haiti’s popular and
democratically-elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, in February 2004. A
justification of such disregard for another nation’s sovereignty, autonomy and
democracy was afforded the Canadian government by the United Nations’ new
“Responsibility to Protect