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Today on Flashpoints: We continue our reporting from the US-sponsored killing fields of Haiti; also the Ambassador to the United States from the Central African Republic admits collaborating with the US to silence Aristide as he remains under armed guard; also excerpts from yesterday's congressional hearings on the US coup against Haiti and the kidnapping of the elected president, and we focus on the situation in Venezuela where the US government's destabilization attempts have failed to date, but continue unabated; and a protest this morning against Bush policy in Haiti, the Middle East, and domestically, as the selected President stumps California for re-selection
Wed March 10th: Haiti Action Committee Event In Oakland
On Tuesday, March 10, at 7:00 pm, Pierre Labossiere, Voleine Amilcar and Tim Suttle will give first hand accounts and analysis of their recent visit to Haiti as delegates who participated in Haitiís Bicentennial celebration. Keynote speaker Pierre Labossiere will discuss the roots of the growing crisis, the connections between the "Rebels", Haitian opposition leaders, and how the U.S. failed in supporting democracy in Haiti.
Haiti Action Committee Event
Wednesday - March 10 - 7:00 PM
Mills College - Oakland
http://www.haitiaction.net/Events/3_10_4.html
Speakers:

Pierre Labossiere, longtime Haitian Activist and one of the founders of Haiti Action Committee
Voleine Amilcar, Mills college student, native of Haiti and member of the Haiti Action Committee
Tim Suttle, member of Haiti action Committee recently returned from Haiti.
Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Mills College in the student Union, 5000 MacArthur Blvd.
Cost: Free
(Wheelchair accessible)
Sponsored by: Haiti Action Committee, and Mills College French and Francophone Studies, Ethnic Studies departments.

01:10  Report from Port-au-Prince: Kevin Pina describes a demonstration by over 1,000 Aristide supporters today demanding his return. Kevin and Dennis also trace the drug connection of the rebel leaders to the CIA-created Haiti National Intelligence Service during the last coup in the early 1990s under the first Bush Administration, which was heavily involved in drug trafficking and eventually forced the US DEA out of Haiti. Read about the CIA model at Serendipity and and the April 1994 report (PDF) of Human Rights Watch / Americas (page 43) detailing CIA complicity and false intelligence on Aristide (remember this was G. H. W. Bush's crowd)

09:30  Strange Bedfellows: International ANSWER Coalition activist Sarah Sloan reveals the collaboration between the Central African Republic and the United States to silence President Aristide.
"We consider this to be complete verification that this is really coming from the Bush Administration to prevent President Aristide from telling the truth, telling his side of the story long enough for the US government to attempt to install a new government in Haiti"

14:50  More from Port-au-Prince with Kevin Pina: Kevin and Dennis discuss the media bias in Haiti and the blackout of Aristide's message to the Haitian people; the Prime Minister scared into submission, accedes to the succession of Supreme Court Justice Alexandre Boniface; the valuable work of Cuban medical professionals training thousands of Haitians during the three years of economic embargo in the late 1990s. Article from Haiti-Progres asks Why Have the Cuban Doctors Left?

26:00  Reaction in Venezuela: Al Giordano of Narco News is interviewed by Dennis, discussing the destabilization campaign still under way in Venezuela. Further information on the Narcosphere Weblog, and also at Venezulanalysis.com

32:00 Wednesday's Congressional Hearings - Western Hemisphere: Congresspersons Charles Rangel, Maxine Waters and others question Roger Noriega about the US role in Aristide's removal.
I want to know, if someone leaves a country (that's elected), because he is fearful of his life, is that not a coup d'etat? - Congressman Rangel

Protesters in Santa Clara - source: http://bayarea.indymedia.org/http://bayarea.indymedia.org/Did we ask him to resign? Was that a condition of helping him to leave the country? - Congressman Rangel

Secretary Roger Noriega said that Aristide was told he had to resign in order to get on the US-chartered airplane, or face the armed rebels unprotected

50:30  Protest Rally in Santa Clara: Flashpoints Roving Producer Miguel Molina interviews protesters outside a Bush fundraiser in Silicon Valley Thursday morning, including Richard Becker of the San Francisco Action Center, cosponsored by South Bay Mobilization and International A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition—S.F. Bay Area.