DR. MARYSE NARCISSE, Haitian Grassroots Leader and Fanmi Lavalas Presidential Candidate

SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 3-5PM, First Presbyterian Church of Oakland, 27th and Broadway
with music by Vukani Mawethu, Phavia Kugichagulia and Val Serrant

A Benefit for the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund

$10-25 sliding scale, no one turned away

MONDAY, APRIL 24th, 7-9pm, Balch Auditorium, Scripps College

Please join Haiti Action Committee in welcoming Dr. Maryse Narcisse, spokeswoman and presidential candidate of Fanmi Lavalas, the party of Haiti’s first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. As a medical doctor, Dr. Narcisse led the Aristide Foundation’s medical response after the 2010 earthquake and Hurricane Matthew. This is her first visit to the Bay Area.

 
Over the past two years, Haiti’s popular movement has fought a relentless campaign for free and fair elections. Tens of thousands of Haitians demonstrated for months in support of Dr. Narcisse’s candidacy. They fought to overturn the results of fraudulent elections that gave the presidency to a U.S.-backed right wing candidate. A long-time Lavalas militant, Dr. Narcisse has been in the streets with the people day after day throughout the campaign, as they faced police bullets, tear gas, water hoses and clubs.

For more information, contact Haiti Action Committee at action.haiti@gmail.com or www.haitisolidarity.net, http://www.haitiemergencyrelief.org/Haiti_Emergency_Relief_Fund/home.html