[Haiti-London-Konbit] Our Debt To Haiti - Free School Talk

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Our Debt To Haiti– Haitian History Lessons (Part 1)

Sat 13th , 2-4pm
Talk by John Cussans

The recent earthquake in Haiti brought the country an unprecedented  
amount of media attention, however briefly. Amidst the clamour of  
powerful nations pledging aid and assistance to the beleaguered  
nation, we began to hear stories about Haiti’s great debt burden that  
caused the nation to be so vulnerable and unprepared for a disaster of  
such proportions. But how did this ‘burden’ come about? How did Haiti  
become a nation so socially brutalized by debt? This is the history I  
will sketch out at the Free School event at Andrew Cooper’s show ‘The  
Rabbles Furious Struggle Against Inequality’ on Saturday 13th February  
at Shop 76, 5thAvenue in Brixton Market between 2 and 4 pm.

We will question how the language of international debt functions to  
conceal and legitimate the continued imperial domination of the first  
independent Black republic of the modern age. We will propose that, in  
fact, it is the first world that owes an immense social, historical  
and economic debt to Haiti.

"Haiti has no debt with Venezuela - on the contrary, it is Venezuela  
that has a historic debt with Haiti"  President Hugo Chavez the  
announcement of the cancellation of Haiti’s monetary debt to  
Venezuela, January 2010

  Held in the temporary shop space of "The Rabbles Furious Struggle  
Against Inequality"
Shop 76
5th Avenue Brixton village Market SW9
of Coldhabour Lane and Atlantic road .
Near Brixton tube victoria line

1930’s covered market Brixton village
Sketch map of Brixton Village Market
The shop 76 5th Ave
  
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