<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><span class="ecxecxecxecxecxecxapple-style-span"><b><font face="Tahoma" color="black" size="5"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; ">Our Debt To Haiti</span></font></b></span><span class="ecxecxapple-style-span"><font face="Tahoma" color="black" size="5"><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; ">– Haitian History Lessons (Part 1)</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><b><font face="Tahoma" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; "> </span></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><span class="ecxecxecxecxecxecxapple-style-span"><b><font face="Verdana" color="black" size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; ">Sat 13th , </span></font></b></span><span class="ecxecxecxecxecxecxapple-style-span"><b><font face="Verdana" color="black"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: black; font-family: Verdana; ">2-4pm</span></font></b></span></div><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><b><font face="Verdana" color="black" size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; ">Talk by John Cussans</span></font></b></div></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font face="Tahoma" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; "> </span></font></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Verdana" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; ">The recent earthquake in </span></font><font face="Verdana" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; ">Haiti</span></font><font face="Verdana" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; "> 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 </span></font><font face="Verdana" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; ">Haiti</span></font><font face="Verdana" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; ">’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 </span></font><font face="Verdana" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; ">Haiti</span></font><font face="Verdana" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; "> become a nation so socially brutalized by debt? This is the history I will sketch out at the </span></font><font face="Verdana" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; ">Free</span></font><font face="Verdana" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; "> </span></font><font face="Verdana" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; ">School</span></font><font face="Verdana" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; "> event at </span></font><font face="Verdana" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; ">Andrew Cooper</span></font><font face="Verdana" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; ">’s show ‘The Rabbles Furious Struggle Against Inequality’ on Saturday 13<sup>th</sup> February at Shop 76, 5<sup>th</sup>Avenue in Brixton Market between 2 and </span></font><font face="Verdana" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; ">4 pm</span></font><font face="Verdana" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; ">.</span></font></div></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Verdana" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; "> </span></font></p></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Verdana" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; ">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.</span></font></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Verdana" color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; "> </span></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Verdana" color="red" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: red; font-family: Verdana; ">"</span></font><font face="Verdana" color="red" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: red; font-family: Verdana; ">Haiti</span></font><font face="Verdana" color="red" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: red; font-family: Verdana; "> has no debt with </span></font><font face="Verdana" color="red" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: red; font-family: Verdana; ">Venezuela</span></font><font face="Verdana" color="red" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: red; font-family: Verdana; "> - on the contrary, it is </span></font><font face="Verdana" color="red" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: red; font-family: Verdana; ">Venezuela</span></font><font face="Verdana" color="red" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: red; font-family: Verdana; "> that has a historic debt with </span></font><font face="Verdana" color="red" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: red; font-family: Verdana; ">Haiti</span></font><font face="Verdana" color="red" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: red; font-family: Verdana; ">" President Hugo Chavez the announcement of the cancellation of </span></font><font face="Verdana" color="red" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: red; font-family: Verdana; ">Haiti</span></font><font face="Verdana" color="red" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: red; font-family: Verdana; ">’s monetary debt to </span></font><font face="Verdana" color="red" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: red; font-family: Verdana; ">Venezuela</span></font><font face="Verdana" color="red" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: red; font-family: Verdana; ">, January 2010</span></font><font face="Verdana" color="red" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: red; font-family: Verdana; "> </span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><b><font face="Tahoma" color="#444444" size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Tahoma; "> </span></font></b></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><span class="ecxecxecxecxecxecxapple-style-span"><b><font face="Tahoma" color="#444444" size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Tahoma; "> Held in the temporary shop space of "The Rabbles Furious Struggle Against Inequality" </span></font></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong><b><font face="Tahoma" color="#444444" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Tahoma; ">Shop </span></font></b></strong><span class="ecxecxecxecxapple-style-span"><b><font face="Tahoma" color="#444444" size="5"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Tahoma; ">76</span></font></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong><b><font face="Tahoma" color="#444444" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Tahoma; ">5th Avenue</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font face="Tahoma" color="#444444"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Tahoma; "> Brixton village Market SW9</span></font></b></strong></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><strong><b><font face="Tahoma" color="#444444" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Tahoma; ">of </span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font face="Tahoma" color="#444444"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Tahoma; ">Coldhabour Lane</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font face="Tahoma" color="#444444"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Tahoma; "> and Atlantic road </span></font></b></strong><span class="ecxecxecxecxecxecxapple-style-span"><font face="Tahoma" color="#444444"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Tahoma; ">. </span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><span class="ecxecxecxecxecxecxapple-style-span"><font face="Tahoma" color="#17365d" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); font-family: Tahoma; ">Near Brixton tube victoria line </span></font></span></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><span class="ecxecxecxecxecxecxapple-style-span"><font face="Tahoma" color="#17365d" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); font-family: Tahoma; "> </span></font></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="ecxecxecxecxecxecxapple-style-span"><font face="Tahoma" color="#17365d" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); font-family: Tahoma; "><img height="263" width="417" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CAA9AB.C3220990">1930’s covered market Brixton village</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="ecxecxecxecxecxecxapple-style-span"><font face="Tahoma" color="#17365d" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); font-family: Tahoma; "><img height="392" width="485" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CAA9AB.C3220990">Sketch map of Brixton Village Market</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="ecxecxecxecxecxecxapple-style-span"><font face="Tahoma" color="#17365d" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); font-family: Tahoma; "><img height="265" width="407" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CAA9AB.C3220990">The shop </span></font></span><span class="ecxecxecxecxecxecxapple-style-span"><font face="Tahoma" color="#17365d"><span style="color: rgb(23, 54, 93); font-family: Tahoma; ">76 5<sup>th</sup> Ave</span></font></span></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "> </span></font></p></span></body></html>