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media campaign and campaign denouncing UN occupation, UN genocidal
slaughters of Site Soley civilians, dissenters and UN complicity
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Stop the Un troop's Genocidal attacks on
Site Soley: denounce the Dec. 22, 2006 UN slaughter of mostly
civilians in Site Soley. Write, call your civic organizations,
your churches, your local, national and international media. Ask
that they take a position, denounce the UN killings of civilians
in Haiti
and demand that UN soldiers respect Haitian life and livelihood.
See also "The Black Soul live, Denounce the UN slaughter
in Site Soley
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Remembering, on January 15, Martin Luther King's birthday, that
Patrice Lumumba, symbol of African independence and sovereignty,
was assassinated January 17, 1961 - Remembering the UN's complicity
in facilitating the US assassination of Patrice Lumumba basically
began and anchored the UN's role as a neocolonial tool and the
proxy arm of the colonial powers left standing after the European
World Wars had transition into these powers' "Cold War"
then now their "War on Terror!??" upon the human race.
Go to:
The UN complicity in the West's assassination and political murder
of Patrice Lumumba and, ever since, in promoting debt, dependency,
foreign domination and oppression in Africa, on behalf of the
powereful former enslavers and colonial powers, after the "de-colonization"
period: An "Interview with Ludo De Witte - The Assassination
of Patrice Lumumba" hosted by Walter Turner, Africa Today,
KPFA, Nov. 27, 2006 |MP3 - http://aud1.kpfa.org/data/20061127-Mon1900.mp3
, or
http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=17362
The UN is Not For Africans by Magalie X Djehouty-Thot, Haitian
Perspectives,
May 2, 2006 | http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/notforAfricans.html
Ezili Dantò's Note on the Edmond Mulet defense of UN's
Christmas assault on
civilians in Site Soley | Dishing the Dirt by John Maxwell | More
Letters
denouncing UN troops' slaughter, rape and terrorizing of defenseless
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genocidal slaughters of Site Soley civilians, dissenters and UN
complicity in the wholesale incarceration of only political opponents
to the bicentennial coup detat and foreign occupation under the
usual neocolonial masks of "policing/peacekeeping" and
"securing democracy"
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Ezili Dantò's Note: Please don't forget to bcc HLLN at
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on all your letters to the media and denouncing the UN Christmas
massacre in
Site Soley.
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Massacre in Haiti
by Jafrikayiti (Jean St. Vil)
"...These poor people are
being punished because they have the audacity to hold a huge MIRROR
to the face of hypocrites who come to lecture them about democracy
with machine guns in their hands....It
is a KNOWN FACT that the POLICE IS A CORNESTONE OF THE KIDNAPPING
INDUSTRY." Jean
(Jafrikayiti) St. Vil speaking out on the December 22nd massacre
in Site Soley, Dec. 30, 2006,
The U.N. troops are doing same dirty work in Haiti as they did
in Lumumba's Congo. It does not take much analysis to realize
that the December 22, 2006 U.N. attack on Cité Soleil (Haiti)
had NOTHING TO DO WITH COMBATING KIDNAPPINGS. If it did, you would
have seen released hostages and arrested kidnappers whom they
would be too happy to display for the media.
Obviously this latest attack (conducted at 3 in the morning !!)
can happen because a disturbing number of terrorized (shock and
awe) Haitians have lost their common sense due to the recent kidnapping
spree and are willing to condone the sacrifice of thousands of
human beings who happen to be too poor and live elsewhere... So,
with a straight face some are pretending not to understand how
barbaric and illogical this kind of action is.
Aren't there gangs in the U.S?
When have you ever seen a whole neighborhood blasted in the U.S.
on the excuse that they were looking for gangs? If these Site
Soley people, whose assassination is being dismissed as mere "collateral
damage," were blond hair blue eye folks, would they be shot
like this in Haiti? Would their murder be so carelessly dismissed
- as "collateral damage!"
There have been a number of kidnapping cases in Petion-ville.
It is known that some of Haiti's wealthy families have ties to
the kidnapping gangs, should the U.N. forces flying helicopters
at 3 a.m. start blasting Morne Calvaire also?
It is a KNOWN FACT that the POLICE IS A CORNESTONE OF THE KIDNAPPING
INDUSTRY. Is the solution to randomly execute police officers
and claim the innocents caught in the lot are mere "collateral
damage?"
If it is so easy to realize the absurdity of proposing using these
blind strategies on folks who have "status" in the society.
Why is it so difficult to also understand that Cité Soleil
- for all its ugliness - is a neighborhood. That means HUMAN BEINGS
inhabit it - not flies, not rats, not pests, but thousands of
human beings, including babies who never opted to be born in the
mud of a racist and classist society.
Every time a person cheers their massacre, that person helps to
reveal why it took so long for racial slavery to be abolished
on this continent. Indeed, many were too happy with the privileges
offered to them under the plantation system to ever challenge
it. After all, for the whites, their standard of living depended
on it. For the Affranchis, their privileges depended on it, and
for the house negroes, the crumbs that fell off the masters' table
depended on keeping his field brothers and sisters in the sub-human
condition... .
Thankfully, it came to pass that a significant enough number of
house negroes and Affranchis came to their senses quick enough
to join the struggle and help end racial slavery. This is the
importance of the soup joumou that Mrs. Dessalines taught us to
share every January 1. It is the communion, the sharing of what
used to be a valued privilege that only the few had access to
- not the slaves - the vast majority of human beings on the island.
Exclusion we had to fight then, exclusion we have to fight now.
The same way, the slave masters established a principle that African
slaves were forbidden to eat soup joumou, the same way today a
principle is being forced upon our logical minds that poor people
are forbidden to live by the harbour front. IN OUR OWN LAND OF
DESSALINES !!!!?? Adye !
Today, you and I are sleeping without bullets flying all over
our heads...
The child in Cité Soley, in addition to the mosquito flying
dangerously over his weak body, carrying deadly malaria, he has
to worry about the MINUSTAH coming to punish his father' family,
his neighbor and his neighbors' friend for the audacity of declaring
themselves CITIZENS of Haiti. That is poor people who dare have
a political opinion. Poor people who dare want what the U.S. embassy
says is forbidden. Poor people who dare lift up their five fingers
to remind the lazy political and economic "elites" that
a presidential mandate is FIVE YEARS long and that it is ANARCHY
to be
constantly plotting coups d'état in a country that desperately
needs political stability.
These poor people are being punished because they have the audacity
to hold a huge MIRROR to the face of hypocrites who come to lecture
them about democracy with machine guns in their hands. The mirror
held by Haiti's poor is very disturbing indeed. It shows to the
privileged class its true ugliness. Despite all the masks it uses
to make itself look better, despite the efforts made to project
all the ills of the nation unto the poor masses and whosoever
associates with them at any given time, again and again the mirror
reflects to the so-called elites and their foreign puppet-masters
that the true UGLINESS to be found inside Haiti resides not in
Cité Soleil but inside the U.S. Embassy, in the Institut
Français, inside the huge houses on top of the hill where
too many human beings have allowed themselves to turn into insensitive
vampires.
It does not have to be this way. No more than Apartheid in South-Africa
had
to have existed. It can change. It must change.
But, if in our laziness, if in our cowardice, we refuse to be
intelligent; if, we refuse to use our creativity and our courage
to come up with new solutions... rather than rehashing the same
old repressive methods...used back in the late 50s against the
"bandits" of Daniel Fignolé or in the late 40s
against the "bandits of Dumarsais Estimé", or
in the 1910s against the "bandits of Charlemagne Péralte",
we will continue to have the same results.... lave men siye atè
!
MINUSTAH killing babies in Cité Soley will not stop the
kidnappings. No more
than cutting someone's head will cure him from a headache. Doctors
who
prescribe you such remedies are CRIMINALS. And patients who accept
such
remedies are intelligent?
Peace with Justice ! (in 2007 and beyond)
Jafrikayiti (Jean St. Vil)
December 30, 2005
http://www.jafrikay iti.com/
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The Black Soul lives: Denounce Dec. 22, 2006 UN
slaughter and terror attacks in Site Soley
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Nwèl
Nan Site Soley,
poem by Anthony Leroy, Dec. 2006**
(audio)
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La
MINUSTHA donne un cadeau de Noel empoisonnè a Site Soley,
Lovinsky Pierre Anthoine,
Dec. 27, 2006
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Black
Soul
by Jean Fernand Bierre
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Brief
bio of
Jean Fernand Brierre
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"The
campaign against kidnappers must be prepared to go wherever the
kidnappers are, not just to the most deprived neighborhoods,"
(Excerpts from AHP News, Dec. 15 to 20, 2006)
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UN's
Christmas present to Haiti - A pre-dawn assult on the men, women
and children of Site soley, Haiti
Action Committee's Urgent Action Alert, December 25, 2006
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Reuters,
AP and other News reports
on the December 22, 2006 Un massacre at Site Soley
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Haiti's
Sins: Fighting to live and be free from European and American
Chains
by Marguerite Laurent, 2004
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Bon
Ane 2007! New Year's message from President Jean Bertrand Aristide,
from Pretoria, South Africa
(Kreyol audio)
December , 2006
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Martin
Luther King and the Man on the Road to Cite Soleil : The cry is
always the same "we want to be free"
by Jafrikayiti (Jean St. Vil), January 15, 2007
The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are
assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa;
Nairobi, Kenya: Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia;
Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee--the cry is always
the same--"We want to be free" Dr. M.L.King
As it has become fashionable for the criminals who assassinated
Martin Luther King as well as a host of African leaders in America
during the sixties to be in front row of celebrations pertaining
to honour the good pastor, I find it important today to highlight
a few inspiring statements made by Dr. King while he was still
alive.
Brother Martin Luther King was not killed because of his dream
but because of his actions.
May his words and actions continue to inspire us today....
Quote:
«We have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional
and God-given rights…Perhaps it is easy for those who have
never felt the stinging dark of
segregation to say, "Wait." But when you have seen vicious
mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters
and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen
curse, kick and even kill your black
brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty
million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty
in the midst of an
affluent society... There comes a time when the cup of endurance
runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the
abyss of despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate
and unavoidable impatience. »
Dr. King in LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL, April 16, 1963
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
The day before the U.S. Government murdered him, Dr. King spoke
up to
denounce a number of hypocrites.... in so-called good old "Christianity"...
Quote:
It's alright to talk about "long white robes over yonder,"
in all of its symbolism. But ultimately people want some suits
and dresses and shoes to wear down here. It's alright to talk
about "streets flowing with milk and honey," but God
has commanded us to be concerned about the slums down here, and
his children who can't eat three square meals a day. It's alright
to talk about the new Jerusalem, but one day, God's preacher must
talk about the New York, the new Atlanta, the new Philadelphia,
the new Los Angeles, the new Memphis, Tennessee. This is what
we have to do.
And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century
in a way that men, in some strange way, are responding--something
is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up.
And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg,
South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya: Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta,
Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee--the cry
is always the same--"We want to be free."A man of peace
until the end, he admonished us all to always choose live over
death...
Quote:
"It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence
in this world; it's
nonviolence or nonexistence."
He also spoke to the Africans in America about their responsibility
to FIGHT THE POWER WHERE IT COUNTS:
Quote:
Now the other thing we'll have to do is this: Always anchor our
external direct action with the power of economic withdrawal.
Now, we are poor people, individually, we are poor when you compare
us with white society in America.
We are poor. Never stop and forget that collectively, that means
all of us together, collectively we are richer than all the nation
in the world, with the exception of nine. Did you ever think about
that? After you leave the United States, Soviet Russia, Great
Britain, West Germany, France, and I could name the others, the
Negro collectively is richer than most nations of the world. We
have an annual income of more than thirty billion dollars a year,
which is more than all of the exports of the United States, and
more than the national budget of Canada. Did you know that? That's
power right there, if we know how to pool it.
We don't have to argue with anybody. We don't have to curse and
go around acting bad with our words. We don't need any bricks
and bottles, we don't need any Molotov cocktails, we just need
to go around to these stores, and to these massive industries
in our country, and say, "God sent us by here, to say to
you that you're not treating his children right. And we've come
by here to ask you to make the first item on your agenda--fair
treatment, where God's children are concerned. Now, if you are
not prepared to do that, we do have an agenda that we must follow.
And our agenda calls for withdrawing economic support from you.
And so, as a result of this, we are asking you tonight, to go
out and tell your neighbors not to buy Coca-Cola in Memphis.
Go by and tell them not to buy Sealtest milk. Tell them not to
buy--what is
the other bread?--Wonder Bread…"
Reading the above, I wonder what
it will take fo Haitians to heed Dr. King's
call? Whose rice, whose cooking oil, whose tomato paste are our
people
consumming in Apartheid Haiti today? Whose three piece suit, whose
perfume,
whose money transfer company are we using?.... what does Dr. King's
"economic
withdrawal" mean to us today, in Haiti, in Canada, in the
U.S., in
South-Africa.....in 2007?
Dr. King, on the eve of his assassination by the government of
Amerikkka,
wrote:
Quote:
But not only that, we've got to strengthen black institutions.
I call upon you to take you money out of the banks downtown and
deposit you money in Tri-State Bank--we want a "bank-in"
movement in Memphis. So go by the savings and loan association.
I'm not asking you something that we don't do ourselves at SCLC.
Judge Hooks and others will tell you that we have an account here
in the savings and loan association from the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference. We're just telling you to follow what we're
doing. Put your money there. You have six or seven black insurance
companies in Memphis. Take out your insurance there. We want to
have an "insurance-in."But, it also seems to me that
Dr. Martin Luther King had the ability to see into the future,
as he wrote... about the man on the road to ..
Quote:
Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness. One day a man
came to
Jesus; and he wanted to raise some questions about some vital
matters in
life. At points, he wanted to trick Jesus, and show him that he
knew a little
more than Jesus knew, and through this, throw him off base. Now
that question could have easily ended up in a philosophical and
theological debate.
But Jesus immediately pulled that question from mid-air, and placed
it on a
dangerous curve between Jerusalem and Jericho. And he talked about
a certain man, who fell among thieves. You remember that a Levite
and a priest passed by on the other side. They didn't stop to
help him. And finally a man of another race came by. He got down
from his beast, decided not to be compassionate by proxy. But
with him, administered first aid, and helped the man in need.
Jesus ended up saying, this was the good man, because he had the
capacity to project the "I" into the "thou,"
and to be concerned about his brother. Now you know, we use our
imagination a great deal to try to determine why the priest and
the Levite didn't stop. At times we say they were busy going to
church meetings--an ecclesiastical gathering--and they had to
get on down to Jerusalem so they wouldn't be late for their meeting.
At other times we would speculate that there was a religious law
that "One who was engaged in religious ceremonials was not
to touch a human body twenty-four hours before the ceremony."
And every now and then we begin to wonder whether maybe they were
not going down to Jerusalem, or down to Jericho, rather to organize
a "Jericho Road Improvement Association." That's a possibility.
Maybe they felt that it was better to deal with the problem from
the casual root, rather than to get bogged down with an individual
effort.
But I'm going to tell you what my imagination tells me. It's possible
that
these men were afraid.
You see, the Jericho road is a dangerous road. I remember when
Mrs. King and I were first in Jerusalem. We rented a car and drove
from Jerusalem down to Jericho. And as soon as we got on that
road, I said to my wife, "I can see why Jesus used this as
a setting for his parable." It's a winding, meandering road.
It's really conducive for ambushing. You start out in Jerusalem,
which is about 1200 miles, or rather 1200 feet above sea level.
And by the time you get down to Jericho, fifteen or twenty minutes
later, you're about 2200 feet below sea level. That's a dangerous
road. In the day of Jesus it came to be known as the "Bloody
Pass." And you know, it's possible that the priest and the
Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the
robbers were still around. Or it's possible that they felt that
the man on the ground was merely faking. And he was acting like
hehad been robbed and hurt, in order to seize them over there,
lure them there for quick and easy seizure. And so the first question
that the Levite asked was, "If I stop to help this man, what
will happen to me?" But then the Good Samaritan came by.
And he reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this
man, what will happen to him?"....Cité Soleil indeed
! This man of whom he speaks is, in 2007, ...my and your brother
in Cité Soleil. Has it not become too dangerous for me
to get off my beast and go and assist him, on that most dangerous
road....where he has been left to die, a sure death - isolated,
demonized, chimerized? While my brother awakes to the roar of
the MINUSTAH helicopters dropping bullets at 3 in the morning
on his abode, who gets off their beast to help him and his 2 year
old baby escape the death sentence pronounced against them in
absentia within the walls of Hotel Montana - where the "good
people meet" to hold court at night? WE MUST KILL THE BANDITS
! such is the resolution of he high priests....and the pharisees
have all nodded in agreement...Dr. King invites the rest of us
to ask and answer the question: If I do not stop to help this
man, what will happen to him?"
Indeed, Dr. King wrote...
Quote:
That's the question before you tonight. Not, "If I stop
to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to all of the
hours that I usually spend in my office every day and every week
as a pastor?" The question is not, "If I stop to help
this man in need, what will happen to me?" "If I do
no stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to them?"
That's the question.
The day before he was assassinated by the Government of the United
States of Amerikkka, brother Martin Luther King wrote:
Quote:
"And some began to say that threats, or talk about the
threats that were out.
What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers?
Well, I don't know
what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But
it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to
the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised
land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight,
that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I'm happy,
tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord."
http://www.swer.net/I.see.the.promise.land.html
So, on this January 15, 2007, I offer a special word of gratitude
to brother
Stevie Wonder and all the brothers and sisters who stood up for
years along
side Mrs. King struggling to force the hypocrites within the Government
of
the United States of America to set aside a day of remembrance
in honour of
our noble King.
A special word of thanks to all those who are still struggling
today not to allow the hypocrites to ursurp the messages of the
King, and reduce them to a mere "dream".
We've done dreaming. Now we, the displaced sons and daughters
of Africa, demand to have Ours on EARTH - And we will see to it
that we do !
Ayibobo !
Jafrikayiti
«Depi nan Ginen bon nèg ap ede nèg!»
(Brotherhood is as ancient as Mother Africa - L'entraide fraternel
date du temps où, tous, nous fûmes encore dans les
entrailles de l'Afrique-mère)
http://www.jafrikayiti.com
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‘Freedom is not something that anybody can be given.
Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they
want to be.’
--James Baldwin
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"Transformation
is only valid if it is carried out with the people,
not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one.
The person
who emerges is a new person: no longer either oppressor or oppressed,
but a person in the process of achieving freedom. It is only the
oppressed
who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors."
- Paulo Freire, from Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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Those
who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it:
See, the first US occupation and administration of Haiti
and how, then too,
President Wilson of the US called the US. marines exploits on
behalf of New York
bankers and multinationals, an exercize in "civilizing"
and "developing" the "corrupt,"
"failed" and "inept" blacks of Haiti....
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