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Packed room for Black History Month meeting
By
Frank Neisser
Boston
Published Mar 2, 2005 1:43 PM
The Feb. 26 Boston Workers World Black History forum featured Imani Henry,
writer for Workers World newspaper and a co-founder of Rainbow Flags for Mumia.
Henry spoke about the history of resistance in the Caribbean, from slavery to
the International Monetary Fund.
Asata Tigrai of the Martin Luther King
Coalition of Rhode Island spoke on the need for solidarity and unity. She said
that if Malcolm X were here today he would be against the war in Iraq and
fighting for socialism.
David Ebony Allen Barkley of the Association of
Black Union Workers sang spirituals sung by Paul Robeson. Josue Renaud of the
New England Human Rights Organization for Haiti spoke of the anniversary of the
coup-napping of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and ongoing repression in
Haiti.
Marcus Jean, a Haitian school-bus driver prosecuted under Homeland
Security on bogus trumped-up "terrorism" charges, described his struggle to
regain his job after being acquitted thanks to organized support from his union
and the anti-war movement. Poetry was presented by Margaret Campbell, Rufini,
and Araya Selassi. The meeting was chaired by Robert
Traynham.
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