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Whose Beacon of Freedom? U.S. Foreign Intervention
October 24, 2001
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President Bush has said that the United States is a "beacon of freedom," charging that terrorist attacks against the nation are attacks against freedom and democracy everywhere. But in many instances worldwide, the U.S. government has been behind military efforts to undermine democratically elected governments, and has blocked movements for democracy. On this program, we take a look at the U.S. track record on promoting democracy.
Featuring:
Martin Lee, author and investigative journalist; Gloria Loyola-Black, Chilean Anthropologist; Peter Kornbluh, head of the Chile Declassification Project at the National Security Archive; Claudio Duran, Chilean scholar and political prisoner under Pinochet; Kevin Pina, filmmaker; Eugenia Charles, Haiti Reborn; Brian Concannon, Jr., lawyer working in Haiti
- Archive tape of speech by Salvador Allende
- Archive tape from CIA protest in San Francisco, California
- Excerpt from Pina's film about President Aristide's return to Haiti, "Harvest of Hope"
For more information:
The Quixote Center
P.O. Box 5206
Hyattsville, MD 20782
301-699-0042;
fax: 301-864-2182; quixote@quixote.org
www.quixote.org
Chile Declassification Project
National Security Archive
Gelman Library, Suite 701
2130 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037
202-994-7000;
fax: 202-994-7005; nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Martin Lee
Author of The Beast Reawakens
Published by Little, Brown and Company, ISBN: 0-316-90942-4
617-227-0730
www.littlebrown.com
Brian Concannon, Jr.
brianhaiti@aol.com
Freedom Archives
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-863-9977
www.freedomarchives.org