October 17, 2007 - Ezili Dantò's Note on the current situation in Haiti **************** Ideyoloji Desalinyen, le Nouvelliste, Oct. 22, 2007 Dessalines' Law   Jean Jacques Dessalines ************** Media Lies and Real Haiti News *************** Examples of Neocolonial Journalism *************** Ezili Dantò's Note: Bwa Kayiman 2007 and the case of Lovinsky Pierre Antoine by Ezili Dantò, For Haitian Perspective, and The FreeHaitiMovement, August 23, 2007 *************** *************** Randall Robinson on " An Unbroken Agony: Haiti: From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President, Democracy Now!, July 23rd, 2007 ************

Dessalines Is Rising!!
Ayisyen: You Are Not Alone!

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U.S. Patterns in Haiti
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The Revolutionary Potential of Haiti, its creeds, values and struggle

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July 6, 2007- Lafimen Lan Potoprens, (Lafimen- Listwa Pèp Ayisyen Depi Nan Ginen) |A Free Haiti Movement Event

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The real news here is ......July 28, 2007 marks the 92nd anniversary of the first US invasion of Haiti by US Marines in 1915. The Marines occupied Haiti until 1934. One of the first things the Marines did was steal all the gold out of the Haitian treasury, packed it on a boat and sent it to New York for deposit in the City Bank.

In 1926, a Haitian described the pattern of invasions and occupations:

“I know they throw the history of Haiti in our face – its long tissue of revolutions and massacres. Yet the American war with the Cacos killed more people than 10 or 20 revolutions put together; it devastated whole regions and ruined the cattle of Haiti, as veterinary experts can testify if they are honest. Revolutions were fomented by foreigners – English, French, American, Dutch traders – who risked nothing, and always profited. Loans which dealt rather in human lives than in merchandise were made at rates of 1,000 per cent and those who thus enriched themselves overthrew any government that was not subservient to them.”

–excerpt from a letter written by Dr. Normil Sylvain, a Haitian, in 1926 to Emily Balch who led a delegation of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom to Haiti to observe the effects of the US occupation.
(Source: Haiti-Cuba-Venezuela Analysis | August 3, 2007 |The Real News From Haiti: Haitian Resistance Continues, UN tries to Keep Lid On, August 5, 2007 by hcvanalysis )
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See: Media Lies and Real Haiti News
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October 17, 2007 - Ezili Dantò's Note on The Current Situation in Haiti, Haitian Perspectives

The daily killings by the "police" and U.N. forces have abated, but not much else has changed for the better since last year, October 17, 2006) for the majority of Haitians. In fact, under the newly elected President Rene Preval of Haiti, one of Haiti's most prominent human rights activists and a staunch critic of the occupation of Haiti, Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, has been summarily disappeared without a trace.

This, along with the massive privatization of Haiti under way, the indefinite detention of political prisoners, including Rene Civil, and the absolute deprivation of the majority and their exclusion from power and from getting any state services (schools, health care, clean water, electricity, public parks, passable roads, affordable housing, access to opportunity for economic survival...et al ) are part of the reasons most Haitians are saying, out loud and with certainty, what was merely feared last year: that Preval has been hi-jacked by the Western powers and is pursuing their interests, not that of the Haitian majority and nation.

Since Preval appears to only be solidifying the gains of the 2004 bicentennial
coup d'etat for the US, France and Canada, in celebrating Jean Jacques
Dessalines' spirit and legacy, this year on October 17, 2007, HLLN re-posts
last year's message on Dessalines, entitled "What Historians usually forget to say about Jean Jacques Dessalines: Dessalines was a revolutionary centuries ahead of his time" by Marguerite Laurent, HLLN, October 17, 2006.

If President Rene Preval's September 26, 2007 U.N. speech is any indication of how he willingly chooses to carry out his Haitian mandate from the suffering people of Haiti, it is but evidence that President Preval has been firmly hijacked by the Euro-US occupation forces Dessalines' descendants live to overcome. Rene Preval's speech praised the foreign occupation forces and humiliated Haitians.

It denied Dessalines' Law and expressed no concern for: the brutal rapes of Haitian children, women and men by the United Nation soldiers; the civilian killings in Site Soley and other populous areas; the wholesale warehousing of Haiti's disenfranchised men that has become par-for-the-course since these foreigners came to support an imposed government in 2004; and, the ouster of Haiti's fledging democracy.

October 17, 2007 marks 201-years since the assassination (on October 17, 1806) of Haiti's founding father, General Jean Jacques Dessalines. But Haitians still say, thank you Jean Jacques Dessalines, for being so far ahead of his time. (See, The Three Ideals of Dessalines http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/dessalines.html#3 ).

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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.
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/kangamundele.html#equity ; and
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/expose.html
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In the context of Dessalines' legacy, ideals and laws, Preval's September 26, 2007 U.N. speech was an embarrassment. It was a display of fawning, ingratiating scraping and cow-towing over those foreigners and blan-peyi Haitians who are annihilating Dessalines' legacy. In stark contrast, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe better spoke for the disinherited of the world and gave Dessalines' descendants some hope and inspiration, not Rene Preval. (See, Text of President Robert Mugabe's speech at 62nd Session of UN General Assembly, Sept. 26, 2007
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/notforAfricans.html#mugabe ; and Robert Mugabe and Preval's UN address at 62nd Session of UN General Assembly - Click on Sept. 26, 2007, then scroll down to Zimbabwe or Haiti.
http://www.un.org/webcast/ga/62/ )

Below is the post sent out last year on Dessalines. As you read it, simply replace "October 17, 2006" with "October 17, 2007" and this essay could have been written today. Mesi Papa Dessalines. (See, It's Neither Hope nor Progress when the International Community is Running Haiti.)

To conclude, no rememberance of Jean Jacques Dessalines is complete if we don't also honor, in the same breath, that most valiant of Haitian woman, "ki te kraze brise, pou libete" - who took up arms and fought for our liberty - and whose name the sons of France in Haiti, spit on and attempted to erase from history: yes, Manmzel Defile!!!!

It's our honor to again, bow low, - heart and soul - to the courageous mother of all of Haiti's bandits and chimeres, Manman Defile!

Thank you Defile for gathering up all our parts.

Kouwon pou ou, Defile. (See, Kouwòn pou Defile by Michael Sanon
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/dessalines.html#kouwon )


Kenbe la, pa lage.

Marguerite "Ezili Danto" Laurent, Esq.
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network ("HLLN")
October 17, 2007
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From Slave to Emperor, His Majesty, Jean Jacques Dessalines, The greatest story marginalized and never told.....

What Historians usually forget to say about Jean Jacques Dessalines: Dessalines was a revolutionary centuries ahead of his time by Marguerite Laurent, HLLN, October 17, 2006


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Down with occupation;
Down with privatization;
Long live a free and sovereign Haiti.

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- Media Lies and Real Haiti News

Ezili Dantò's Note: Bwa Kayiman 2007 and the case of Lovinsky Pierre Antoineby Ezili Dantò, For Haitian Perspective, and The FreeHaitiMovement, August 23, 2007
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Who killed Dessalines, Haiti's founding father?
Toussaint Louverture was kidnapped and murdered by the French. The Haitians most allied to the white colonists then killed Haiti's founding father. Petion/Gerin- the Reactionary Mulatto Generals more allied to French/colonial economic and cultural interests than the Haitian majority.

Following Dessalines' assassination in 1806, under the long Mulatto and Eurocentric presidencies of Petion (12 years) and Boyer (25 years), the name Dessalines was execrated, declared loathsome, cursed, marginalized and not allowed to be spoken. Neocolonialism had begun in Haiti, would be formalized with Boyer's "Independence Debt" ($22 billion with the last slave-trade payment made in 1947 to US, the richest country in the world by Haiti, the most defenseless and poorest. See HLLN's Open Letter to the People of France.)

The legacy of the impunity and undemocratic offenses of this one class and sector of Haitian society, continues to this day…This Haitian economic elite with their foreign allies cannot accept the principal of one citizen-one vote because it would mean that they would lose their privileges and influence. Hence the Feb. 29, 2004 coup d'etat and current UN protectorate under President Preval which pursues the interests of foreigners and their black overseers in Haiti.
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To live free or die trying, Another Haitian Independence Day under occupation.....But as you read Noreiga’s racist and immoral lies that seek to mask the Boca Raton regime’s barbarity as Haitian “progress” that is worthy of international support, remember: A zombie’s mutterings are meaningless.

Ayi Kwei Armah explains what’s to be done with such predators and their blan-peyi Haitian lackeys, for they are dead: “Leave them in their graves. Whatever waking form they wear, the stench of death pours ceaseless from their mouths. From every opening of their possessed carcasses comes death’s excremental pus. Their soul itself is dead and long since putrefied. Would you have your intercourse with these creatures from the graveyard?”

NO. Leave the dead in their graves. Speak your righteous message not to these “long rotted ash” but address your message, my people, to the living and look only to Dessaline’s descendants worldwide. His legacy is liberty. Speak to liberty lovers. Empower the world’s lovers of liberty.........Excerpt from Kanga Mundele: Our mission to live free or die trying, Another Haitian Independence Day under occupation From, by Marguerite Laurent, Haitian Perspectives, January 1, 2006

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It's Neither Hope nor Progress when the International Community is Running Haiti
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Media Lies and Real Haiti News

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Mesi Papa Dessalines
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Three ideals of Dessalines
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Kouwòn pou Defile
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Libète Ou La Mò
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Dessalines' Songs *La Dessalinienne
Haiti's National Anthem-
(audio of La Dessalinienne)
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Defile Manman "Chimè?"
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What's in a name?
Some names horrify enslavers, tyrants and despots, everywhere...
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Dessalines' Law
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Blan Mannan by Feliks Moriso Lewa
(English translation)

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"When you make a choice, you mobilize vast human energies and resources which otherwise go untapped...........If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want and all that is left is a compromise." Robert Fritz