|
|
|

October
17, 2009 - Haiti's Holocaust and Middle Passage Continues
***
Haiti's
First Declaration of Independence
*
Vodun
Konbit and Vodun Lakou
*
The
Pivotal Point
*
Ezili/Aset/Isis
*
Ezili
Dantò on Ban2 Radio, London
w/ Griot Chi, Oct. 4, 2010 (26:08)
*
Ezili
Dantò on Ban2 Radio, London
w/ Griot Chi, Nov. 1, 2010 (59:09)
Note: 10 MILLION was paid in interest on loans Haiti never
received. CDC says most likely comes from South
Asia. The 2000-2004 aid embargo against Pres. Aristide
prevented Haiti water delivery projects. Haiti paid around
$10 million in interest for loans that were never dispersed.
*
Ezili Dantò on Yves Point Du Jour’s Washington
Broadcast,
Oct. 30 2010
(8:03)
*
Avatar
Haiti
*************
2011-
Seismic Shifts: Haiti Freestyling to murder Tarzan, Jane
& their Uncle Toms
***********************
|
|
************************ |
 |
More
Zili Dlo photos on Facebook
and Flickr.
FANMVO art
work for Zili Dlo |

Ezili
Dantò with owner of property where the water
unit is housed, Manbo Belle Deese and her husband
- August
10, 2011
Photo Credit: Dominique
Esser, HLLN |
|
|
 |

Ezili Dantò joins in with SOPUDEP women's
songs of resistance and empowerment - August
10, 2011
Photo Credit: Dominique Esser,
HLLN |
|
|
|
 |

Zili
Dlo: Water Treatment Launching
Brother Makhandal, Ezili
Dantò, Minister Edwin Paraison - Aug.
12, 2011
"Zili
Dlo is not privatized, not for sale whatsoever.
Access to uncontaminated drinking water is a
human right, a life necessity that must be placed
above all commercial and political considerations."
- Ezili Dantò of HLLN.
|
|
Solidarity
with victims of UN cholera |
|
|
************************ |
*
The
Story of Janjak: The
Greatest Hero who ever Lived
(45- minutes Storytelling Theater Dance presentation) by Ezili Dantò,
inspired by:
Haiti’s
Founding Father - The Women who Influenced him, his Ideals
and Legacy
*
(Born September
20, 1758, assassinated October 17, 1806)
*
...Look out
on an October's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen
They did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And on a dark October's day
on that old Pon Rouj bridge
They took your life like haters often do
But I could have told you, Janjak
This world was never
meant for one as beautiful as you.
Now I think
I know ---
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen
They're not list'ning still
Perhaps they never will
[Lyrics from Vincent
by Don Mclean ]
****************************
Ezili Dantò storytelling
theater dance
The Story of Janjak - The
greatest hero who ever lived
"Weaving song, story,
music and theater dance, award wining playwright and performance
poet, Marguerite Laurent, known as Ezili Dantò, will
tell the story of a September long ago and of an October
that nobody knows.
It’s the story of Jan Jak, who was born enslaved on
a rich island by the sea and became the greatest hero who
ever lived. Janjak did what Spartacus could not do. Using
popular recorded music and song, we learn about Janjak’s
people, their culture, the women in the hero’s life
and why he is so loved today on the Island not too far away.
The storytelling is an interactive improvisational presentation.
The lyrics and jazzy movements highlighting Janjak’s
story range from classic music by Nina Simone, Peggy Lee,
Bob Marley, Don Mclean, Tina Turner to evocative drumming
folk songs and spirituals." (Further storytelling,
see Ezili Dantò's performance piece, Seismic
Shifts: Haiti Freestyling to murder Tarzan, Jane & their
Uncle Toms; and workshop descriptions and presskit.)
 |
 |
|
*
You may support
the work of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network by making
financial contributions for us to continue this critical
work. Go to- Donate
to this work and/or
by booking an Ezili Dantò workshop or presentation
***
FreeHaitiMovement
***
Oct
17 – Day of Heroes In Haiti- See
also
Dialogue
between Two Haitians
and Moving
On
What's
in a name?
Some
names horrify enslavers, tyrants and despots, everywhere...
Haiti
2010: Even on these ashes, we will continue to fight for
freedom
Desalin
2009 -500
lane depi w (blan kolon) vle efase n, Jodi a ou vle m kwè
se sèl ou ki ka sove n --- Edike
from Dadi Beaubrun's Lataye
*****
October
17, 2009 - Haiti's Holocaust and Middle Passage Continues
*****
October
17, 2009 Jean Jacques Dessalines - The women who influenced
him, his ideals and legacy remembered (born, September 20,
1758, assassinated October 17, 1806)
*****
October
17, 2009 The
Story of Janjak: The Greatest
Hero who ever Lived
*****
Haiti
Forum 2009
***Oct
17, 2007
****
October
17, 2006
*****
October
17, 2005
*****
From
Slave to Emperor, His Majesty, Jean Jacques Dessalines,
The greatest story marginalized and never told...
*****
Diskou
Desalin Premye Janvye 1804, Gonaive, Haiti
*****
  |
 |
“
Haiti's First Declaration of Independence
was signed not on Jan. 1, 1804 but on Nov. 29, 1803
after last battle defeating Napoleon's armies - Battle
of Vertieres & signed by three Black generals who
won our freedom: Dessalines, Clerveaux & Christophe.
Later on, Dessalines strategically consolidated his
victory & on Jan. 1, 1804 more generals signed Haiti's
Declaration of Independence including Mulatto generals
who did not fight at Vertieres - Petion/Boyer. But Thomas
Madiou, who wrote Haitian history, counts only the 2nd
Declaration of Independence. He was a French-centric
Diaspora Affranchi, like mulatto Petion, by then living
in "Petionville," helped found "Lycee
Petion" at a time immediately after Dessalines'
assassination when Dessalines' name was forbidden to
be spoken (for 42years during reigns of mulatto generals-Petion/Boyer).
Haitians have been objecting to neocolonialism ever
since ...” (For more info, seeI HAVE AVENGED AMERICA!!!- Jean Jacques Dessalines.) |
Kouwòn pou Defile by
Michel Sanon
***********************
Three Historical Documents on Dessalines' Assassination
Mesi
Papa Dessalines
***************
Three
ideals of Dessalines
***************e
Who
killed Dessalines, Haiti's founding father?
***************e
Defile
Manman "Chimè"? by Jafrikayiti
*****
What's
Destabalizing Haiti?: The massacre and imprisonment of Haiti's
Innocents
***************
Haiti's
Sins: Fighting to live and be free from European and American
Chains, 2004
***********************
The
Revolutionary Potential of Haiti, its creeds, values and
struggle
***********************
Vodun
Konbit and Vodun Lakou
**********
You may support the work of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership
Network by making financial contributions for us to continue
this critical work. Go to- Donate
to this work
*****.
"Buffalo
soldier, dreadlock rasta
There was a Buffalo soldier, in the heart of America
Stolen from Africa, brought to America
Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival" (Bob
Marley)
*****
2009
FreeHaitiMovement Demands
*****
Haiti
2010: Even on these
ashes, we will continue to fight for freedom
*****
Haiti
2011 - Video-CrossTalk:
Year of Agony
*****
Haiti
2011 - Disaster
Capitalism in Haiti, New Orleans, Congo & Pakistan |
Dessalines Is Rising!!
Ayisyen: You Are Not Alone!

|
October 17, 1806 marks the date of the first coup d'etat
in Haiti, the assassination of Haiti's revolutionary hero
and founding father, Jean Jacques Dessalines, who stood
and fought for a more humane and civilized world.
Jean
Jacques Dessalines, said, "I
Want the Assets of the Country to be Equitably Divided"
and for that he was assassinated. That
was the first coup d'etat, the Haitian holocaust - organized
exclusion of the masses, misery, poverty and the impunity
of the economic elite - continues (with Feb. 29, 2004 marking
the 33rd coup d'etat). Haiti's peoples continue to resist
the return of despots, tyrants and enslavers who wage war
on the poor majority and Black, contain-them-in poverty
through neocolonialism' debts, "free trade" and
foreign "investments." These neocolonial tyrants
refuse to allow an equitable division of wealth, excluding
the majority in Haiti from sharing in the
country's wealth and assets. (See
also,"Et
revient la question. Et ceux dont les pères sont
en Afrique, ils n'auront donc rien").
************************
The
Haitian National Anthem | La Dessalinienne
| Dessaline's Song |La Desalinyen (audio)
************************
Dessaline's
Song
Lyrics:
in Kreyol, French, and an English translation of the French
(adopted in 1919 during first US occupation)
************************
Ezili Danto's
Note - On the Translation of Haiti's 1804 Act of Independence:
The famous Boisrond Tonerre drafted the Haitian act of Independence.
It was presented by Haiti's founding father, General Jean
Jacques Dessalines, and then signed at Haiti's Janurary
1, 1804 Independence ceremony by a select group of generals
from the elite Haitian army of Independence at Place des
Armes, in Gonaives, Haiti. There could be a more precise
and flowing English translation then the one below. And,
maybe HLLN we'll take it on in the next years. For now,
Noe Dorestant's English
translation is available. For a fuller and perhaps more
precise approximation of Jean Jacques Dessalines' words,
please also refer and compare the French
but especially the Kreyol,
which is a direct translation of Boisrond
Tonerre own words as published in his biography; and the second Kreyol version translated by
Met Bell Angelo. Both the French
and Kreyol
(Lakou NY);
and 2nd Kreyol/Met
Angelo version are also posted herein for your
enlightenment and educational convenience. Ezili Dantò,
Jan. 1, 2009 (updated).
************************ |
Document
describing the Site
Soley massacre by UN Soldiers in Haiti through
declassified documents obtained through the freedom of information
act by Keith Yearman. (The Cite Soleil Massacre Declassification
Project Keith Yearman, Assistant Professor of Geography,
College of DuPage)
  |
 |
“The
Unity That's Never Wavered / Ezili’s HLLN teaches that in Haitian history
there was one pivotal unity and it wasn’t the
hypocritical unity between the generals who fought
on the side of Napoleon’s armies against both
Toussaint and Dessalines, but the unity at Bwa Kayiman
of the amalgamated African tribes. That unity –
Ayisyen-African identity - forged at Bwa Kayiman is
THE UNITY that's never wavered in Haiti. One people,
one African culture, one Kreyòl language, one
Vodun spiritual imperative - to live free or die.
That's the consensus, the-"Linyon
Fè la Fòs Haitian
union, that's never wavered. It’s not the fragile
“union” between the anti-Duvalier economic
elites with the popular sector in 1990 that soon,
like the Petion and Dessaline’s truce was destroyed.
No. And Haitians must ALWAYS be clear power
doesn't concede ANYTHING if it doesn't
HAVE to.
Compassion and benevolence are not recognized currencies
to those vested in the feudal profit-over-people system
–whether old time French/Black Affranchi or
modern time Oligarchy/merchant/petit bourgeoisie technocrats.
That “unity” won’t lift up the popular
sector’s needs for long. No. We saw that with
the 1990 Lavalas unity between the anti-Duvalier-economic
elites/technocrats (called "moderates" by
blan kolon) and the popular sector. Such folks just
want to replace the Oligarchy for themselves, will
mostly sell-out the masses when bribed, or when visa,
grants, position, privilege, trickle down power and
Euro-centric approval is extended. And it’s
futile to expect people to give up their privileges.
So, thus far the struggle continues, universal disenfranchisement
promulgated by a small click as electoral democracy
- no change for the masses who are relegated as consumers
and to slave-wages as their only “comparative
advantage” and use. But since inception, Haiti’s
mission is a sacred trust– the world of billions
similarly enslaved await as our masses reach for Dessalines’
legacy.
At HLLN we highlight the strategic diplomatic maneuverings
of Janjak Desalin as well as his Law – that
Haiti shall be a Black ruled independent country where
the assets of the nation are to be primarily used
to equitably benefit all Ayisyen:
"...Never again shall colonist or European set
foot on this soil as master or landowner. This shall
henceforward be the foundation of our constitution.” Dessalines'
Law. See The
Unity That's Never Wavered;Vodun
Konbit and Vodun Lakou and, Haiti's
First Declaration of Independence.) |
This
Feliks Moriso Lewa piece on the IMF may also
be applied to USAID, same prospects. As you listen to Lewa's
piece, substitute IMF (FME) to "USAID". Text
of Moriso Lewa's FME.
*
You may support the work of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership
Network by making financial contributions for us to continue
this critical work. Go to- Donate
to this work.
************************
******************
Black
is the Color of Liberty
|
|
Red,
Black & Moonlight: Memoir of a Poet by Ezili
Dantò (c) 2000 Ezili Dantò/Marguerite
Laurent, Special 2000 Edition - A
call and burnt offering to the Ancestors for Bwa
Kayiman, 2006
******************
|
************************

Jean
Jacques Dessalines - The women who influenced him, his ideals
and legacy remembered (born, September 20,
1758, assassinated October 17, 1806)
September 20th is the birthday
of Haiti's founding father, Jean Jacques Dessalines. Born
a slave under European ideology and put in chains to serve
France and the European nations in worldwide power, he lived
to change the course of humanity. He did what Spartacus
couldn't and much more.
There is so much about our African and Haitian ancestors
we don’t know because US/European modus operandi was
about the destruction of Africa’s past, African identity
and world history in order to build and create their own
societies and future.
When I hear Haitians and now even some embolden foreigners,
talk about Haitians must forget 1804 and the triumphs of
Jean Jacques Dessalines, the general of the native army
of Haiti, stop referring to them and look to the future;
when I see on Haitian forums discussing the mistreatment
of Haitians in the Dominican Republic the advice that Haitians
ought to stop talking about the 30,000 Haitians that Trujillo
had slaughtered in 1937, I am reminded that the destruction
of our African past, our Haitian reality, what Haitians
witness to every nanosecond of the day is still the global
US/European modus operandi. Haitian self-determination is
being destroyed by UN occupation, paternalism, privatization,
free trade agreements, debt, wage slavery and forced assimilation.
Haitians are asked to copy and paste what whites and their
overseers see as their reality, their experience, and their
history. But Jean Jacques Dessalines, in creating the nation
of Haiti, broke from that modus operandi. He did not copy
and paste what white minds saw as civilization, justice
and democracy. Jean Jacques Dessalines looked at his own
world and day to day experiences, took in what he could
see with his own two eyes, what he could hear with his own
ears, what he could envision with his own precious heart,
his own unbowed soul and created a nation, a Haiti, that
reflected that reality, that vision and the future that
would best serve his people. His legacy has yet to be herald.
His great ideals
still remain obscure, his humane vision of humanity and
for peaceful and self-affirming co-existence still denied.
In fact, after the mulatto sons
of France assassinated Dessalines, during both
the administration of the mulatto generals, Petion and Boyer,
Dessalines’ name was forbidden to be spoken in Haiti
under threat of imprisonment. Dessalines' assassination,
two years after the creation of Haiti, was the first foreign-influenced
coup d’etat in Haiti. The 2004 bi-centennial coup
d’etat of Bush the son, was the 33rd coup d’etat
to try to eradicate the influence of the Haitian revolution,
which legally abolished slavery, forced assimilation, direct
colonialism and the Triangular Trade in Haiti.
At Ezili's HLLN we recapture Dessalines’ three major
ideals, his law,
his name for Haiti, its meaning,
history, revelations
and explain why Dessalines was so ahead of his time and
so threatening to the white nations. In the Ezili’s
Free Haiti Movement, we set out October 17th, the day of
Dessalines’ assassination to discuss Dessalines’
life, vision, ideals and what he represents to Haiti and
the world.
Our history was so destroyed that it is only fairly recently
that Haitians actually had a date for Dessalines’
birthday. Before, all we were taught was the date of his
death. But Haitian scholars have done more work and now
in Haiti, we have this day to celebrate. It is so very important
this recapturing of our history, our people, what they witnessed
to, how they reacted, what they created. We still have so
little information. Still must rebuild. Still must put flesh,
bone, blood and soul to those who were so destroyed, so
corralled into ships and sold as property.
We still don’t have enough information about Victoria
Montou (known as "Toya"), the Haitian woman who
taught the greatest warrior that ever lived how to fight
in hand-to-hand combat and how to throw a knife. Gran Toya
guided Dessalines in his youth and he called her "aunt."
She was an extraordinary warrior and commanded her own indigenous
army. We still know so little about her. We know only that
she taught Dessalines the physical maneuvers of effective
hand to hand combat, how to shoot and how to throw a knife.
We know she was old because she is affectionately called
Gran Toya. Imagine her life! Imagine the inspiration she
could be today to our young Haitian women. No.
Imagine the inspiration she could be to the world’s
women and men! But our Black history was destroyed so we
could be enslaved, so we could find nothing good in ourselves,
our forefathers, their thinking. And still today, I’m
reading on Haitian forums we should not resurrect the past,
but move on because only today matters, - with our collective
Haitian persona so vilified, maligned and brutalized and
with white heroes, white cultural hegemony ruling. On that
ground, we are told we should deploy ourselves into this
world.
This morning I was blessed to be a participant on a Radio
Kajou interview celebrating the holy day that's
the birthday of Haiti's forefather, Jean Jacques Dessalines
and I learned from a colleague in that discussion that Dessalines’
mother was a woman named Marie
Elisabeth. I did not know this. Until this morning's
panel when Haitian historian and scholar,
Jafrikayiti said this, I did not know the name
of Dessalines’ mother or that this enslaved African-Ayisyen,
founder of the nation of Haiti, even had a mother who could
be positively identified. Most of us are told our African
ancestors were enslaved, we were sold as property, families
separated and thus it’s impossible to know who gave
birth to the which child. And that is that.
But there are Haitian scholars unearthing our stories, our
stolen identities and lives. This job is ours to do. I want
to know more, to empower more. I want to know more about
Marissainte Dédé Brazil, (known as Defile),
the Haitian woman who gave Dessalines a proper burial after
he was chopped up in pieces and left in the Pont Rouge bridge
as garbage. The old historians of Haiti called her crazy
Defile, as if who would give honor and burial to the father
of a Black nation.
Yet, Defile, an enslaved woman who freed herself, thought
for herself, took action even some warrior men may have
been hesitant to take, and left us a legacy of courage.
Manman Defile went against the mob violence and group thinking,
preserved our nation's dignity, faced the powers of the
mulatto generals, and faced France to honor our fallen founding
father. Who was the woman named Defile? Really. How did
she get so much focus, courage, and so much gumption? We
want to know so we can tell the next generation of Haitian
the non-colonial narrative on Haiti. (See, Kouwòn
pou Defile.)
We want to know about Marie Claire Heureuse Félicité
Bonheur, Dessalines’ wife.
We are told, she was so kind, so elegant, so gentle, so
beautiful that even the murderers of her husband bowed down
to her. The mulatto general, General Petion, who became
President of Haiti after the assassination of Jean Jacques
Dessalines, actually wrote to Dessalines’ wife, Marie
Claire Heureuse, to tell her not to worry she would be the
"adoptive spouse" of the nation and taken care
of by the nation, for life. (See, Three
Historical Documents on Dessalines' Assassination.)
Why did this woman, the wife of General Petion's archenemy,
deserve such notice, admiration, and accolades? Why? We
want every Haitian child, every women in the world, to know
more about Marie Claire Heureuse. The little history we
know tell us that during the Haitian revolutionary war against
colonialism, forced assimilation, the Triangular Trade,
and slavery, Marie Claire Heureuse took care of the sick
soldiers, of the prisoners of the Revolutionary War, that
she rode out onto the battlefield and even the French stopped
their canon firing while she ministered to the dying, the
wounded on both sides of the battle.
It has been said that this black Haitian woman named Marie
Claire Heureuse was the first Red Cross. The world needs
to know more about this woman, this hero, her model for
human interaction. We should want to teach our children
that one of the greatest, fiercest warriors on planet earth
- the African warrior General Jean Jacques Dessalines -
whose very name still scares the hell out of US/Euro writers
and history scholars, still horrifies enslavers, tyrants
and despots everywhere, that this man was taught how to
fight and throw a knife by a woman named Toya and that he
married a woman, a healer, a pacifist, who insisted he not
bring his weapons inside their home and he lovingly complied
with his beloved wife’s request. This, in a time and
at a place where the First World War was happening in the
world, where all the nations-of-power had converged on small
Haiti to annihilate it and Dessalines’ weapon was
his life. Who was this man! This beautiful woman, this wife,
lover, nurse, herbal healer and pacifist?
What you read in history books on Haiti of hundreds of pages
will mostly not tell you, what I’ve just put down
in these few paragraphs about the people of Haiti. No. For,
how many of us know greater details about sergeant Suzanne
Bélair, known as Sanit Belè, the
fierce Haitian woman who taught the African warriors of
Haiti how to die with dignity as the French executioner's
bullets shattered her to shreds?
Sanit, fell into the hands of the French. In the hope of
saving her life, her husband, Charles Belair, voluntarily
gave himself up. But his chivalrous action went for naught.
The two, husband and wife, were sentenced to death by firing
squad and executed the same day. When her hateful executioners
tried to blindfold her because she was a woman, Sanit refused.
She considered it an insult to a woman's bravery and courage
to be executed any differently than her husband. And, after
watching unblinkingly while her husband was executed, Sanit
Belè boldly presented her breast to receive the firing
squad's fatal shots.
What more do we know about Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière,
the fearless Haitian woman who stood tall and striking -
wearing a long white floating dress, her waist knotted with
a white sash, a red scarf around her head, saber strapped
down her shoulders, and rifle in hand - as she urged forward
to victory against the 12,000 French, the 1,000 outgunned
and outnumbered indigenous Haitian army, on the bloody days
at the famous and decisive battle of Crête-à-Pierrot?
It is rumored that after the murder of her husband, Brigade
Commander Lamartinierre, Marie-Jeanne became the lover of
the native General, Dessalines. Not much else is recorded.
We just have her picture in our minds from the various paintings
and oral stories, our Haitian lullabies, depicting Marie-Jeanne
in the midst of the inferno, a wounded soldier at her feet,
or in the line of fire outside the Crête-à-Pierrot
fort, fighting alongside her officer husband, Lamartinière.
|
Mari-Jann
and Lamartinière at Crête-à-Pierrot |
There is so much we need
to know in order to know ourselves today. In order to know
we need not copy and paste another’s history of ourself
and engraft that hatred in our soul. There is so much we
need to recover from the destruction of African people,
life, culture.
When I read the neocolonial chorus of ‘let’s
move on,” of reconciling with lies and injustice,
lwa Desalin pran mwen vre – I remember that the
destruction of the African identity was built on bitter,
twisted lies that must be unearthed for the hidden and lost
African body to rise untainted; I remember that Dessalines
did not copy and paste what was considered the height of
human development where slavery, forced assimilation and
colonialism was the rule. Dessalines created a nation that
rejected Bourgeois
Freedom, forced assimilation, colonialism, and
enslavement of all types - physical, psychological, economic.
Dessalines’ legacy has still to be fully put into
black and white papyrus form, but the Haitian masses, thank
goodness, have never become zombies, carbon copies or phonies.
They've never had enough missionary/ecclesiastic schooling
to be other than Dessalines’ descendants. They understand
and live self-referral. That is why Haiti still exists,
still struggles, still does not copy and paste. Se lan
lekòl lavi nou pran leson. Se pa lan lespas nou apran.
Se pa yon bagay ki soti o lè – yon bagay etranje
– ki tonbe a tè ke nou ranmase kòm pa
nou. Non. Ayisyen pran sa ki touprè yo, ki sòti
lan yo, lan zantray yo, ki pou yo. Yo pa lan kopye kolè
bagay esklavajist-kolyanist.
Haitians learn from the university of life. That’s
where they get their lessons, their view of life, the world
they create and extend. It’s not from some economic
theory by some dead white guy overseas or, from Paul Collier,
Bill Clinton, Ban Ki Moon, Condi Rice, Colin Powell or some
Washington/Canadian/French think tank, foreign NGO or world
renowned expert in humanitarian aid. No. Haiti’s masses
mostly don’t even fight their arrogance; they smile,
they agree, take what’s useful and then go about trying
to live with what’s in their hands. Haiti still exists,
despite two centuries of systemic, structural Euro-US impoverishment
and destruction, because Haitians live with their environment
and mold it towards the life-giving forces the best way
they can. (See, Black
is the Color of Liberty.)
***
The lucrative nature of the Haiti venture to the US, the
United Nations and Brazil
On this September day, the 251st year to mark the birthday
of Jean Jacques Dessalines (September 20, 1758 to September
20, 2009), Haiti is under occupation and there is a lot
of copying and pasting going on. Most of our so-called intellectuals
and politicians are not creating a nation that serves Haitian
realities. They have refused to raise the minimum wage to
a fair wage and are keeping free trade wages. They are passing
legislation and creating a space for foreign interests to
thrive in Haiti that Dessalines’
law forbid. In general, they are destroying Haiti
by copying and pasting onto the Haitian people, the Haitian
soul, the Haitian reality, concepts and policies that have
nothing to do with Haiti, its masses’ long term health,
wealth, mobility, useful education and progress.
Brazil who is in charge of the 9,000 UN troops in Haiti
is making, as an administration fee, 20% of the $600 million
per year paid to the UN troops in Haiti. The UN troops landed
in Haiti right after the US Marines left and that was right
after US Special forces had put Haiti’s democratically
elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide on a plane effectively
rendering him back to Africa. The US/UN’s primary
“success” to date in Haiti has been the murder,
uprooting and killing of Haitian men and women who opposed
the disenfranchisement and occupation. Haitians who mostly
resided in the poorest areas of Haiti’s capital, mostly
in Sitey Soley and who objected to the occupation. Site
Soley is an area in Haiti’s capital with about 350,000
people crowded in great misery and deprivation. Site Soley
resulted and was created from US free trade legislation
for sweatshops back in the late 70s, early 80s.
On this September
17th “Brazil and the United States ratified
their plan on Thursday to establish industrial plants in
Haiti. This would enable the duty-free export of products
to both countries and thus support Haiti's reconstruction.”
These newspaper's narratives mostly won't explain the massive
lucrative nature of the Haiti venture to the US, the United
Nation and Brazil, the financial interests in "their
plan" for Haiti. The general spin is that the fundamental
motivation of this trade initiative was humanitarian, "to
aid Haiti's economic development through sustainable production
activity."
The authorities in the US, UN and Brazilian governments
won't explain that the Brazilian-headed UN troops are, by-the-way,
in Haiti not only to secure the use of cheap Haitian labor
for their transnational corporations, exploit
Haiti's natural resources, but also to defend
Brazil’s dream of becoming more of a status quo power
itself and gain a seat in the UN Security Council.
Brazilian troops in Haiti, after securing Site Soley, are
helping to maintain the containment-in-poverty status quo
with the US HOPE Act free trade legislation.
Their soldiers’ guns help keep the minimum wage from
increasing to the proposed 200 gourdes (.63 cents per hour),
which was not even high enough to meet the inflation rate.
In recent months, UN soldiers have collided with workers
and protestors demanding the 200 gourdes higher salary,
killed a few, thrown some in prison. It’s in Brazil’s
domestic interest because Brazilian corporations have successfully
lobbied Washington and made Brazil a beneficiary
under the Washington HOPE Act that allows for duty free
textile goods from Haiti for 10 years.
That means, for instance, the Brazilian company, Coteminas
- Latin America's largest textile company, owned by the
brother-in-law of Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula
da Silva - does not have to pay the higher minimum salary
($200.95 per month or, roughly $7 per day) required
in Brazil to its workers because it can now pay
Haitians, at the point of UN-Brazilian guns, .22 cents an
hour or $1.70 for an 8-hour day (its even less than .22
cents an hour since Haitian workers are mostly forced to
meet daily work goals that take 10 or 12 hours to accomplish.)
This September, the Haitian minimum wage was voted to 125
gourdes (.38 cents for an 8-hour day) and the 200 gourdes
fairer wage that did not even meet with the rate of inflation
was rejected by the Haitian politicos working for the ruling
oligarchy's interests. But that .38 cents is not yet being
applied. The 70 gourdes is. (See, Brazil
raises '09 minimum wage 6.4 pct to 465 reais
($209.95 per month.)
***
Amending Haiti's Constitution under UN occupation: Neocolonialism's
copy and paste impositions
Another example of how this International Community is destroying
Haitian life, liberty and future is the current discussion
about amending the 1987 Constitution. Back during the first
US occupation of Haiti in 1915, the Haitian Constitution
was also amended and Dessalines’ law prohibiting foreigners
from owning land was deleted. Today amending the Haitian
Constitution is an obsession of the International Community
and its Haitian blan peyi folks. Why? How can the 1987 Haitian
Constitution that was put together with the approval of
the Haitian masses be ethically changed when today the people
are under occupation, the Haitian parliament serves foreign
interests and Haiti’s president is simply a puppet?
The process of revision or amendment of the Constitution
that is being deployed is not equitable. It’s not
public; the public is not part of the discussion. There’s
just foreign concepts copied and pasted into papers and
pronouncement made by a committee that does not consult
with the people of Haiti, but with foreigners. Like under
the first occupation, in this one the masses are not required
to participate.
There’s no provision in the 1987 Haitian Constitution
for a national referendum when changing the Constitution,
so this make it easier for the new occupiers and their sycophants
to exclude the masses in the life and concerns of their
nation.
Dessalines did not copy and paste like these Haitian puppets
and parliamentarians are quick to do right now. Dessalines
looked at the reality of the people, referred to his own
experience and reality and then created an 1805 Constitution
that met the needs and the realities of his people. Today’s
Haitian Parliament is paid by foreigners and goes to Canada,
France, US and refers to their visions, their concepts of
democracy and good governance that have nothing to do with
current realities of Haitian life.
They don’t bother to consult with the population.
Behind close doors with foreign experts, right now the Haitian
constitution is being revised.
Today, September 20 on the birthday of Dessalines, it’s
good to recall that one of the things Haiti’s founding
father did not replicate in Haiti was the forced assimilation
and race system of the white nations. (See Dessaline’s
Ideal# 1). He leveled the racial, economic and social playing
field that was glued together based on a person's lack of
melanin content. Dessalines’ 1805 Constitution did
this by not making a distinction between mulatto, black
or white – all Haitians, he said, shall be known by
the appellation, Black.
In the 1805 Dessalines constitution there was no difference
between Haitians who were educated outside of Haiti and
Haitians who lived in Haiti. Dessalines said Haitian are
Black, every slave who touched Haitian soil became free,
Black and would enjoy the full rights of Haitian citizenship.
If you were white and you helped fight for Haiti’s
liberty, like the Polish who had left Napoleon’s army
to fight with Dessalines’ African warriors, then under
Dessalines’ 1805 Constitution, you were Black and
could own property in Haiti. Haitians then are defined,
at the inception of the new country’s history, as Lovers of Liberty no matter
their skin color or economic resources.
In this way, the 1805 Constitution met the needs of Haiti.
It did not go to Thomas Jefferson or John Locke’s
hypocrisy. It dealt with the needs of all the people within
its borders no matter their culture, race, gender or religion.
I’ve written much about Dessalines’ Three Ideals
and so I won’t go into this right now. (See, Three
Ideals of Dessalines).
Suffice it to know that Dessalines did not allow, in his
1805 Constitution for greater rights to the Mulattos who
were insisting they had more rights to the plantations and
land that had just been liberated because it was their white
French father’s properties. Dessalines said the Africans
who fought for liberation shall not be left behind economically.
All the country’s asset was to be equitably divided.
This is why he was murdered. He refused to allow Pitit Deyò
(say here the Mulattos) to have more rights than Pitit Andan
(say here the Haitian masses). No, he said all who had fought
for Haiti’s liberty, whether their skin color was
white, black or mulatto were Pitit Kay (Black) and must
share equitably in the resources and therefore the power
of the new nation. He wasn’t into hierarchy either,
but meritocracy. (See, From
Slave to Emperor, His Majesty, Jean Jacques Dessalines,
The greatest story marginalized and never told...)
"
|
In
Haiti, Black is de-racialized in terms of skin color
giving the person superior substance but racialized
as a people bound together because of their shared
experience, distinct moral conscience vis-a-vis those
they defeated, unique Kreyòl language and African-based
culture. This paradox is the amazing genius of Dessalines'
Haiti. He simultaneously empowered the Black "race"
to both be proud of self and their lineage under the
socia-politically constructed race paradigm and to
transcend it. First, Haiti is racialized because in
creating Haiti in combat against the US/Euro enslavement
tribes, Jean Jacques Dessalines empowered the Black
"race" to carry the mantle of the African
struggle for justice against racism, colonialism,
economic tyranny and imperialism. Second, Haiti is
de-racialized because by naming and defining, in Haiti's
first Constitution, the white settlers who fought
on the side of the liberty, awarding them the appellation
"Black," Dessalines showed his profound
understanding that human nature goes deeper than skin
color. Thus, he urged unity of humanity, co-existence,
self-determination, working for consensus towards
a common universal purpose, empowering both "Black"
people and "white" people to not wear their
identities on their skins, but to transcend it."
(Dessalines'
Three Ideals.) |
|
The challenge for Dessalines'
descendants and all Lovers of Liberty is to think up and
extend a new world that meets the needs of all the peoples
on this planet and that rises to meet our current circumstances.
And for Haiti, we Haitians need to meet the needs of Haitians
living both inside and outside of Haiti's borders.
If a man born at a time when before his life, his kind was
locked into 300 years of total barbaric Western enslavement,
a man who could not read or write, born with actually chains
put on his feet, if that man would become one of the world's
greatest warriors, thinkers and humanists to ever live,
if that man with no great weaponry, no formal education
could leave the world such a legacy, why, why can’t
we do better than we’ve been presented, be like the
greatest warrior that ever lived. Confront the despots,
protect nature and not leave any Lover of Liberty in the
cold. To do that, we must issue from source, like Dessalines,
Toya, Defile, Sanit Belè and Marie Claire Heureuse,
not copy and paste.
Mesi
papa Desalin. Happy Birthday papa Desalin.
Ezili
Dantò/HLLN
September 20, 2009 |
************************ |
Accused
US pedophile, Doug Perlitz
-
UN Peacekeepers and Humanitarian Aid Workers raping, molesting
and abusing Haitian children
*
2009
- Thank you: Haitian children had no public voice in this
process until you came on the scene
Hello Folks,
Thank you everyone for writing
letters to the judge and otherwise showing concern
for the rights of the children who spoke up about this alleged
abuse by Douglas Perlitz. Please continue this effort.
We again restate that Douglas Perlitz is an accused pedophile
and is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
However, the accusers, these minors - a total of nine children
as indicated in the Federal Indictment, also have the right
not to be intimidated, harmed further, maligned, blighly
called "liars" or worse all over the internet
in comments by supporters of Perlitz and/or vilified elsewhere
with total impunity by Mr. Douglas' lawyers and supporters.
These defenseless Haitian children had no public voice in
this process until you came on the scene and answered Ezili
HLLN and the other calls (Paul Kendrick, SNAP, Voice of
the Faithful ) to ask the judge not to release Douglas Perlitz
on bond because, given the gravity of the charges, there's
no guarantee that if released on bond - no matter how high
the bond paid - that Pertlitz won't flee the country, continue
the alleged two-year campaign to block this case by sending
more money to Haiti to buy off the poorest of the poor or
by further intimidating or putting in danger the children
victims and the witnesses, destroy evidence and/or molest
others while free on bond. Thank you for standing up for
these small victims and showing that, they too, like Mr.
Perlitz have supporters who want the truth to be duly litigated.
Men anpil chay pa lou - many hands make light a heavy load.
Here are the newest articles
on the matter:
RBM
Video Reel
Red,
Black & Moonlight:
Between Falling and Hitting the Ground
When are you going
back to Connecticut...
|

|
The
noise it makes calls to me: Nou
la!
*
I am the History of Rape
*
- No
More Secrecy: HLLN on Douglaz Perlitz's new motions
asking for secrecy by Ezili Dantò/HLLN,
Haitian Perspectives, Oct. 28, 2009
- Perlitz
Court Date Moved, Groups Raise Awareness of Perlitz,
O’Brien Cases by Tom Cleary, Fairfield
Mirror, Oct. 15, 2009
- Jesuits,
diocese asked to help sex abuse victims
Group protests handling of sex abuse allegations
by Genevieve Reilly, Connecticut Post, Oct. 15, 2009
- Letter-writing
campaign aims to keep Perlitz jailed
By Michael P. Mayko, Connecticut Post, Oct. 14, 2009
Text
- Breaking Sea Chains
Haiti's
Holocaust and Middle Passage Continues
and The
Haiti Forum
Video
- Child Abuse/Molestation by white tourists in Kenya
|
Ezili Dantò/HLLN
Oct. 16, 2009
******************
Oil
in Haiti - Economic
Reasons for the UN/US occupation by Ezili
Dantò
******************
Help
Haiti's children - Demand that accused US pedophile, Doug
Perlitz, not be set free on bond
*******************
The
'Father Teresa' of Haiti – Armand Huard - faces sex
abuse charges
****
The
Slavery in Haiti the Media Won't Expose
*******************
Video
- Child Abuse/Molestation by white tourists in Kenya
Video
- Paradise for Pedophiles - Senegal
Video
- Peacekeepers 'abusing children' in Haiti - 27 Sep 08
Video
- 108 sri lankan troops accused of sexual abuse in haiti
UN
|
******************* |

October
17, 2009 - Haiti's Holocaust and Middle Passage Continues
"I
don't know why it is...but since the beginning of time Haitians
have
been suffering" ---
Haitian migrant, 2009
*
500 lane
depi w (blan kolon) vle efase n, Jodi a ou vle m kwè
se
sèl ou ki ka sove n --- Edike
from Daniel 'Dadi' Beaubrun's Lataye
(buy
album)
["For
500 years the whites (settlers/colonists) have tried to
erase us. Today they want us to believe they're the only
ones who can save us" --- Edike
from Daniel 'Dadi' Beaubrun's Lataye
(buy
album)]
*******
Haiti's founding father,
Jean Jacques Dessalines (born,
September 20, 1758, assassinated
Oct. 17, 1806) said "I want the assets of the country
to be equitably divided" and for that democratic, anti-capitalistic,
humane and non-profit-driven declaration and intention for
Haiti, Jean Jacques Dessalines was assassinated on Oct.
17, 1806. That was the first coup d'etat, the Haitian holocaust
- organized exclusion of the masses, misery, poverty and
the impunity of the economic elite - continues (with Feb.
29, 2004 marking the 33rd coup d'etat/regime change). Haiti's
people continue to resist the return of despots, tyrants
and enslavers who wage war on the poor majority and Black,
contain-them-in-poverty through neocolonialism' debts, free
trade and foreign "investments." These neocolonial
tyrants refuse to allow an equitable division of wealth,
excluding the majority in Haiti from sharing in the country's
wealth and assets. ("Et revient la question. Et ceux
dont les pères sont en Afrique, ils n'auront donc
rien.") Donate
to support HLLN's work.
Ezili's HLLN was founded in 1994 to defend and protect the
civil, cultural, economic and human rights of Haitians living
at home and abroad and to institutionalize the rule of law
in Haiti. Each Day, Dessalines' children are slaughtered
at some Pòn
Rouj somewhere on the planet. Ezili's HLLN is
a Haitian-led, Haiti-capacity-building network of lawyers,
activists, journalists and concerned international citizens,
from all walks of life, who stand against the slaughter
of the poor and Black and the middle passage journey Haitians
are still forced to take on the high seas. HLLN speaks the
counter-colonial narrative and participate, people-to-people,
to alter and bring a different, more humane paradigm
to application. (See also, The
Haiti Forum).
It's October 17, 2009 and the Haitian struggle against the
new slavery model to fulfil Leclerc's
genocidal imperative - through free trade, privatization, endless (IFI/IMF/World
Bank) debt, wage/(sweatshop)slavery,
slaughter or indefinite detention/incarceration of neocolonial
dissenters, systematic exclusion of the masses from the
body politic through US regime change/sham elections/Western-style
democracy, UN proxy soldiers' occupation for US/Canada/France,
humanitarian imperialism (more than 10,000 NGOs/charitable
organizations in Haiti post 2004 forming a shadow government
enchaining Haiti that undermines Haiti’s sovereignty,
emboldens and empowers NGOs with no public responsibility
or accountability to Haitians or Haiti’s long term
well-being), imposed famine
from fraudulent free trade policies that destroys
Haitian food sovereignty -
CONTINUES unabated under the UN/US occupation and Bush 2004
regime change which disenfranchised over 9 million Blacks
in Haiti, destroyed
Haitian security, sovereignty, self-determination and stability,
increased violence and organized kidnappings, drug-dealings,
arms and human trafficking and the financial colonialism
of the wealthy as used against the poor.
We wrote in 2007 that "Bush's US/Canada/France
intervention to "save" Haiti for obscene exploitation
by the world's rich elites leaves small Haitian girls and
boys more defenseless, more brutalized by the white savoirs'
"rescue" : Girls as young as 13 forced to have
sex with the UN savoirs for as little as $1" (Sex
scandal in Haiti hits U.N. mission and The
'Father Teresa' of Haiti – Armand Huard - was convicted
on sex abuse charges against minors
in Haiti orphanage, and a
Swiss accused pedophile was arrested in Haiti.)
The obscene situation for Haiti's poor majority has only
gotten worst as we note the indictment this year of accused
US pedophile, Douglas Perlitz. (For the North
American and European pattern in Haiti and Africa, see Video
- Paradise for Pedophiles - Senegal; Video
- Child Abuse/Molestation by white tourists in Kenya;
Video
- Peacekeepers 'abusing children' in Haiti - 27 Sep 08
and Video
- 108 Sri Lankan troops accused of sexual abuse in haiti
UN.)
We thank all those in Ezili's
Network and elsewhere who answered our call, wrote letters
to the judge and spoke up for the Haitian children's right
in the Douglas
Perlitz matter. Your continued
vigilance as this case makes its way through
the US court system is very much appreciated and anticipated.
Haitian children had no public voice in this process until
you came on the scene. (See, Perlitz
Court Date Moved, Groups Raise Awareness of Perlitz, O’Brien
Cases.)
HLLN thanks all those who
support this work for change in Haiti in so many different
capacities - thank you - especially our recent subscribers
to the HLLN listserve. We encourage others to donate
and/or become a paid subscriber to help support Ezili HLLN's
work. Join the FreeHaitiMovement to help with the solutions.
For the non-colonial view and understanding of modern Haiti
and current events in Haiti, see further: The
Kidnapping Coup; Litte
Girl in the Yellow Sunday Dress; Breaking
Sea Chains; Capsized 1997
and Capsized 2007; Oil
in Haiti: Economic Reasons for the UN/US occupation; Minimum wage and maximum rage, Obama's offered HOPE is sweatshop
slavery, Haiti's
Oligarchy, Haiti's
Riches, and The Haitian
struggle - the greatest David vs. Goliath battle being played
out right now on this planet, as well as the
links noted at "October
17, 2009 HLLN Links for Haiti's Holocaust and Middle Passage
Continues."
Ezili Dantò/HLLN
October 17, 2009 |
***** |
| |
 |
|
 | |