RESISTANCE CINEMA Presents “ARISTIDE AND THE ENDLESS REVOLUTION” First Run Features, Produced and Directed by Nicholas Rossier, (2005, 76 minutes)
WHEN: Sunday April 18, 2010 1:15 pm
WHERE: Community Church NYC, Gallery 28 East 35th st. @ Park Ave.
ADMISSION: Free, donations appreciated
SPECIAL GUEST: Doctor Karen Hoover
An hour south of Miami is the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation, Haiti. In 1991 its citizens elected a former
Roman Catholic priest and exponent of liberation theology, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, as president. Popular among Haiti's poor and disenfranchised, Aristide become a target of Haiti's business interests (and the political parties that served those interests) because of his daring policies which tried to raise the standard of living for the huge majority of Haitians.
During his second term in office, his government came under increasing pressure from many sides and by 2004 political violence had escalated sharply. On February 29, 2004, Aristide and his family left Haiti on a US-dispatched airplane -- according to Aristide, against his will; the US claims with his full cooperation.
Nicolas Rossier's powerful and informative documentary focuses on Aristide's later
years as president, as he struggled to fulfill his promises of reform in the face of mounting domestic opposition (driven in large part by business and military interests) and, simultaneously, an increasingly hostile relationship with the United States.
Featuring an exclusive interview with Aristide from his exile in South Africa as well as the views of a wide range of supporters and critics including US Assistant Secretary of 
State Roger Noriega, Colin Powell, and Noam Chomsky, and intermixed with searing glimpes inside strife-torn Haiti, Aristide and the Endless Revolution offers a moving testimony to the Haitian peoples' struggle against oppression and exposes the tangled web of hope, deceit, and political violence that brought the world's first black republic to its knees.
DR. KAREN HOOVER: Community Church’s own Karen Hoover went to Haiti with The International Medical Group in February/March as part of the relief effort after the epic
earthquake that struck the island in January. She will share her experience with us and lead a discussion.