Free Screening of Aristide and the Endless Revolution

The next BMI Movie Night will be this tonight March 10, 2010 at 7:00 PM in the Nyumburu Multipurpose Room (www.nyumburu.umd.edu www.umd.edu).

The featured film will be Aristide and the Endless Revolution

An hour south of Miami is the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. The nation’s people are economically poor, however their land and their legacy is very RICH! The key question everyone should ask themselves is, “how did they get that poor”! In 2004, the democratically elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was taken against his will from Haiti in an American helicopter. Having been deposed once with CIA backing in 1991, the 2004 coup d'etat was not the first American intervention into Haitian politics, nor will it likely be the last.

Featuring exclusive interviews with Aristide, commentary from a wide range of supporters and critics, and searing glimpses inside strife-torn Haiti, this award-winning documentary exposes the tangled web of hope, deceit, and political violence that has brought the world's first black republic to its knees.

There will be a Talk-Back Session Immediately Following the Film