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Letter to the Little Girl in the Yellow Sunday Dress
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Ezili
Dantò's Response to Stu
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"...The
collective and severe punishment which followed 1804 is in line
with the syndrome of discovery, which can be stated as follows:
discoverers shall always be discoverers, and should discovered
ones discover anything, especially something universally acceptable
such as emancipation, they shall be put back in their place. In
the case of the slaves overthrowing slavery in Haiti, the virulent
vengeance of the response has not abated, two centuries after
the event. Indeed, the arsenal has grown bigger, multi-headed,
more sophisticated...
From the viewpoint of the discoverers, terror is only terror when
it terrorises them, their descendants or their friends. Never,
or so it seems, are they willing to imagine the terror which was
experienced by the anonymous couple which, on any day in the 18th
century, somewhere on one of those slave routes to the atlantic,
armed mercenaries coming out of nowhere kidnapped them in the
middle of the night and dragged them, screaming and crying at
the same time..." Africa:
In Solidarity with Site Soley by Jacques Depelchin
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"...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
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Reparations
or Justice? by John Maxwell
Jamaican
Observer,
Sunday, March 04, 2007 (Goto:Full
article)
...The crime continues
The argument about reparations for slavery seems to me to have
been conducted
on a one-dimension and unreal plane. The main argument appears
to be that the
slave-owning countries ought to pay damages for the crime of slavery.
This
ignores an enormous area of injustice and would seem to forgive,
a priori,
crimes against humanity, and specifically black humanity, which
continue even
more ferociously, to this day.
Look next door to Haiti, for instance, which is routinely libelled
by the
unthinking as 'one of the dark corners of the world', to use Mr
Bush's
elegant nomenclature.
If Haiti is a 'dark corner of the world' there is no question
that it has
been made so by genocidal policies originally conceived centuries
ago and
relentlessly reinforced and modernised and enforced to this day.
Haiti is demonised for violence, vodou and what the more genteel
racists term
'haplessness'. Haplessness is a disease of rape victims: they
bring rape on
themselves and therefore deserve neither consideration nor justice.
Even those who consider themselves sympathetic to Haiti appear
to find it
impossible to dispel the miasma of lies and disinformation originated
by
Thomas Jefferson and the slave-owning leaders of the infant United
States and
perpetuated in song and story to this day.
Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost, depicts in that
book one
area of the lethal racism of the Europeans in the late 19th and
early 20th
centuries, in the Congo. He might be expected to be less prejudiced
about
Haiti than most. In a review of a new (2004) biography of Toussaint
L'Ouverture Hochschild says:
"When the slaves there rose up in 1791, they sent shock waves
throughout the
Atlantic world. But the rebels did more than win. In five years
of fighting,
they also inflicted a humiliating defeat on a large invasion force
from
Britain, which, at war with France, wanted to seize this profitable
territory
for itself. And later they did the same to a vast military expedition
sent by
Napoleon, who vainly tried to recapture the colony and restore
slavery.
The long years of race-based mass murder (which included a civil
war between
blacks and gens de couleur, as those of mixed race were known)
left more than
half the population dead or exiled and Haiti lives with that legacy
of
violence still. Seldom have people anywhere fought so hard for
their freedom."
But, as some angry Haitians have pointed out, Hochschild makes
the mistake
dozens of Eurocentric critics of the Haitian revolution have made:
he
ascribed the success of the revolution entirely to Toussaint.
Toussaint's
demeanour contrasts so starkly with that of Haiti's real liberator,
Dessalines. To the Europeans Toussaint was the 'Noble Savage'.
Dessalines was
simply, a savage.
Marguerite Laurent, chair of the Haitian Lawyers' Leadership Council
describes the now official Haiti narrative: " Adam Hochschild
regales us with
tales of luxury in colonial Haiti and conveys, in various cumulative
ways,
how particularly horrific and savage the Haitian Revolutionary
war was (more
than, I would suppose the French and American ones were perhaps)
and how
Haiti used to be "the most lucrative European colony in the
world" but that
today "most Americans think of Haiti as a wasteland of repeated
coups and
dire poverty, which hundreds of thousands of desperate refugees
are willing
to risk their lives in small boats to escape."
"As soon as I read the title, much less the opening lines,
I knew what was
coming: that old self-serving and warped story about how violent
Haitians
are, how they won, in combat, against the then most powerful nations
on earth
(French, British, Spain) because disease and pestilence killed-off
the
Europeans and how their 200-year history so far ONLY shows that
Blacks simply
can't govern themselves without white guidance and "civilisation."
"Adam Hochschild doesn't say this typical drivel outright,
but that, in
essence, is the gist of his article entitled: "Birth of a
Nation - Has the
bloody 200-year history of Haiti doomed it to more violence?"
Laurent continues: "...the partisan view that "Haiti
is violent and was
doomed at birth" is the typical point of view sold as TRUTH
for generations -
for no less than 200 years and five months to be exact, to an
already
well-conditioned-to-believe-Black-is-innately-violent US public.
First off,
according to white supremacy doctrines, Haiti wasn't even supposed
to exist
much less still be barely surviving and today meriting the attention
of not
one, but three of the most powerful Western troops on earth to
be on its soil
to demobilise and disenfranchise its people once again."
Laurent also wonders why the French extorted at gunpoint 125 million
gold
francs for its losses in Haiti while it sold to the United States
for one
tenth that price The Louisiana Purchase - an area equal in size
to the then
United States.
A chronic allergy
Ben Dupuy, Secretary General of the Haitian Parti Populaire National
- PPN -
told President Aristide after the first coup against him in 1994:
"With friends like the US, we don't need enemies."
Or, as the renowned American medical anthropologist and physician
Dr Paul
Farmer says:
"The US government has a chronic allergy to Haitian Democracy."
Dr Farmer has lived and worked in Haiti for nearly three decades
and in the
words of his biographer, Tracy Kidder (Mountains Beyond Mountains,
Random
House) he is 'A man who would cure the world". At this moment,
I believe, Dr
Farmer is in Rwanda, trying to do there what he has done and is
doing in
Haiti, treating the sick and training people to take care of themselves.
In
his other lives he is busy devising treatments for HIV/AIDS and
drug-resistant tuberculosis, among other things.
Farmer says "The idea that some lives matter less [than some
others] is the
root of all that's wrong with the world." Farmer has written
extensively and
eloquently on Haiti and its suffering, the result of what Farmer
calls
'structural violence" - the constant and unacknowledged persecution
of the
poor by the economic systems which govern them. In one of his
books,
Pathologies of Power he tells, in simple, unemotional language,
the stories
of the suffering of his Haitian patients.
"When in 1991 international health and population experts
devised a "human
suffering index" by examining several measures of human welfare
ranging from
life expectancy to political freedom, 27 of 141 countries were
characterised
by "extreme human suffering." Only one of them, Haiti,
was located in the
Western hemisphere. In only three countries on earth was suffering
judged to
be more extreme than that endured in Haiti; each of these three
countries was
in the midst of an internationally recognised civil war."
At the beginning of his book, Pathologies of Power, Farmer tells
the story of
two Haitians, a young woman named Acéphie who died of AIDS
and a young man
named Chouchou Louis tortured to death by the army.
According to Farmer "Little about Acéphie's story
is unique; I have told it
in some detail because it brings into relief many of the forces
restricting
not only her options but those of most Haitian women. Such, in
any case, is
my opinion after caring for hundreds of poor women with AIDS.
Their stories
move with a deadly monotony: young women-or teenage girls-fled
to
Port-au-Prince in an attempt to escape from the harshest poverty;
once in the
city, each worked as a domestic; none managed to find the financial
security
that had proven so elusive in the countryside.
The women I interviewed were straightforward about the nonvoluntary
aspect of
their sexual activity: in their opinions, poverty had forced them
into
unfavourable unions. Under such conditions, one wonders what to
make of the
notion of "consensual sex." After reading Farmer I ask:
Under such
conditions, one wonders what to make of the notion of consensual
globalisation?
Africans and the slave trade
In the early 16th century, the Portuguese landed on the coast
of what is now
Angola, and humbly petitioned the ruling monarch, the Manikongo,
Nzinga
Mbemba, for permission to trade. The Portuguese made elaborate
promises of
foreign aid and technical assistance - they would supply artisans
and
teachers as their part of the bargain which allowed them access
to his
Kingdom's markets .
The Manikongo converted to Christianity and changed his name to
Affonso.
Soon, he began to realise he had been tricked and wrote to his
fellow
sovereign, John of Portugal, urging him to control the behaviour
of his
agents. According to Affonso the Portuguese had " set up
shops with goods and
many things which have been prohibited by us, and which they spread
throughout our Kingdoms and Domains in such an abundance"
that they had
effectively bought the loyalty of Affonso's vassals and subjects.
Worse than that, "the merchants are taking every day our
natives, sons of the
lands and the some of noblemen and vassals and our relatives,
because the
thieves and men of bad conscience grab them wishing to have the
things and
wares of this Kingdom which they are so ambitious of; they grab
them and get
them to be sold; and so great is the corruption and licentiousness
that our
country is being completely depopulated, and you Highness should
not agree
with this nor accept it as in your service."
King John's agents, better armed and organised than Affonso, tried
to murder
him and succeeded in killing one of his successors, Antonio I.
They broke up
the kingdom into a number of small vassal states which formed
part of what
later became Angola and the Congo. Then they began the wholesale
capture and
exportation of Africans as slaves.
Those who blame the Africans for selling their brothers into slavery
have
accepted the official European narrative of Africa as they accept
the
official European/American narrative of Haiti. That is as accurate
as saying
that Joseph Mobutu and Jonas Savimbi, both friends of Ronald Reagan
and the
United States, represented modern Africa.
As I have said before, globalisation is simply another name for
slave society
in the 21st century. The poor, as in New Orleans and Port au Prince
and Port
Antonio are forced to accept the dictates of the rich. The alternative
is
rebellion and slaughter.
In Haiti, the Americans between 1915 and 1934 completed the ethno-political
division of the society with the invention of an army loyal to
the élite
white and 'high-yaller' clients of United States, as in The Dominican
Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the
rest of Latin
America.
The repression continues today in Cite Soleil and everywhere else.
The death
squads of Central America are not expressions of popular sentiment.
They are
the enforcers of globalisation.
Jean Bertrand Aristide, like Toussaint a peace-loving patriot,
was like
Toussaint, kidnapped and flown abroad to exile and would, if Bush
had had his
'druthers' perished like Toussaint in a dungeon far away from
home.
Meanwhile the world accepts the Authorised Version of Civilisation.
King
Leopold and George Bush had the same civilising mission, bringing
the
blessings of Christianity and Freedom (Reg US PatOff.) to the
dark corners of
the world. Leopold's crusade in the Belgian Congo reduced the
population of the Congo by 10 million between 1880 and 1920.
Jan Vansina, professor Emeritus of History and Anthropology at
the University
of Wisconsin who made the estimate, said the Congo lost one-half
of its
population in those 40 years. If we compare that estimate to the
European
estimates of the effects of the slave trade, we must begin to
realise that
either Leopold was even more brutal than the slave traders, or
that someone
has made a huge mistake somewhere.
That sort of controversy is par for the course of civilisation.
The
civilisation/globalisation of Iraq has either cost two thirds
of a million
lives according to the medical doctors or about 35,000, according
to the
spin-doctors.
And how many angels can dance on the head of a peon?
Copyright ©2007 John Maxwell
jankunnu@gmail.com
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See also:
On Dessalines and Toussaint, Jafrikayiti, writes:
"...Men like Dessalines and Toussaint do not have equals
in U.S. or French
history where so-called revolutions took place only to further
entrench
racial slavery and denial of its consequences to this day. For,
unlike
Napoleon, Dessalines and Toussaint weren't fighting to steal other
people's
resources. Unlike Thomas Jefferson, these illiterate men actually
believed it
to be self-evident that all men were created equal...." (See,
"Napoleon was
no Toussaint: Spare us the Insult (Adam Hochschild)! by Jean St.
Vil
(Jafrikayiti) Haitian Perspectives, Feb. 27, 2007
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/dupuy.html#spareus
(Original
source: http://blog.myspace.com/jafrikayiti )Hochschild's Neo-Colonial
Journalism: Response to Adam Hochschild article in
SF Chronicle by Marguerite Laurent |May 30, 2004
http://www.ishmaelreedpub.com/june_2004/art_6_04_laurent.htm
Answers to media questions about Haiti by Marguerite Laurent,
Esq.
Chair, The Haitian Lawyers Leadership |March 2, 2004
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/sfbayview.html
Napoleon was no Toussaint: Spare Us The Insult (Mr. Adam Hochschild)!
by
Jafrikayiti http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/dupuy.html#spareusEzili
Dantò's comments on the Peter Hallward's interviews of
Ben Dupuy and
President Aristide
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/dupuy.html#tootolerant
The Legacy of Impunity: The Neoconlonialist inciting political
instability is
the problem. Haiti is underdeveloped in crime, corruption, violence,
compared
to other nations by Marguerite Laurent, Haitian Perspectives,
October 30, 2006
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/impunity.html
Expose The Lies Of The International Community About Haiti, its
People and
Resources. Demand The International Coup Detat Countries (France/US/Canada)
and enforcers (UN/OAS) not President Rene Preval, Set All The
Political
Prisoners Free, End The UN Military Occupation, began a Humanitarian
and true
civil exchange with Haiti; And Return Stolen Haitian Assets
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/expose.html
Tyrants and despots in Haiti dressed up the Internationals (Neocolonialists)
as peacemakers and police "cleansing" Haiti by Ezili
Dantò, Haitian
Perspectives, January, 2007 |
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/despots.html
Haitian Nights, Again: Haiti's Children Suffer more under the
Bushes'
policies and Colonial Regime Changes by Ezili Dantò
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/despots.html#children
Turning Haiti into a (Penal) Colony: Criminalization of Haiti's
Children
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/damocles.html
"I want the assets of the country to be equitably divided"
- Jean
Jacques Dessalines
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/kangamundele.html#equity
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Thank You Father Dessalines
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/papadesalin.html#mesiE
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Mesi Papa Desalin (the Kreyol original of the poem "Thank
You Father
Dessalines")
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/papadesalin.html#mesi
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Three ideals of Dessalines
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/dessalines.html#3
*What's in a name?
Some names horrify enslavers, tyrants and despots, everywhere...
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/dessalines.html
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Dessalines Is Rising!!
Ayisyen: You Are Not Alone!
Join HLLN's Free Haiti Movement. Plan on sponsoring a May 18,
Aug. 14,
July 6 and/or Oct 17th Haiti event in 2007
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/solidarityday/infoforsponsors.html
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- See Expose
the lies
- The
Legacy of Impunity
(The Neocolonialist inciting political instability is the problem.
Haiti is
underdeveloped in crime, corruption, violence, compared to other
nations)
"Political security
is Haiti biggest problem. It is this political instability that
is primarily responsible for the legacy of impunity, endemic poverty
and violence in Haiti. This political instability is due to what
HLLN calls neocolonialism - the diplomatic, military and economic
efforts of the former colonists and enslavers, who with their
black opportunists in Haiti, work feverishly to limit Haitian
independence and sovereignty, binding Haiti to endless foreign
debt, dependency and domination....
- Write your Congressional representatives ask they Support Congresswoman
Barbara Lee's H.R.
351: To establish the Independent Commission on the 2004 Coup
d'Etat in the Republic of Haiti
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The
Western vs Real Narrative on Haiti
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Does
the Western economic model and calculation of economic wealth
fit Haiti, fit Dessalines' idea of wealth? No!
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No
other national group anywhere in the world sends more money home
than Haitians living abroad
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Africa:
In Solidarity with Site Soley by Jacques Depelchin
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Haitian
Nights, Again: Haiti's
Children Suffer More under the Bushes' policies and Colonial Regime
changes by Ezili Dantò
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Blowing
Away the stereotypes: Site School and student wins top 2006 academic
honors in Haiti: Jean Claude Bien Aime, Laureate of Laureates
in the 2006 national exams
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Massacre
in Haiti by Jafrikayiti
(Jean St. Vil)
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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)
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Haitian Nights, the performance poetry piece
- Mixed
U.S. Signals Helped Tilt Haiti Toward Chaos By WALT
BOGDANICH and JENNY NORDBERG, New York Times, January 29, 2006).
- The
Washington Chimères Reloaded by Ezili Dantò
-
New York Times should apologize to Haitians
for untruths By Ezili Dantò
- New
York Times editorial "No help for Democracy" falls short
by Ezili Dantò
- Duvalier's bloody Fort Dimanche
dungeon-of-death
are back in business with a children's prison in Haiti for the
first time in Haitian history.
- Open
Letter to the Little Girl in the Yellow Sunday Dress
- Children's prison reflects Haiti's woes
-Haiti's
Lost Boys
-Slavery
on the New Plantation, American Torture Chamber: A Report on Today's
Prisons and Jails, Part 1 and Part
2 by Kiilu Nyasha, Guest commentator, The Black Commentator,
Feb. 15, 2007
- Turning
Haiti into a (Penal) Colony: Criminalization of Haiti's Children,
Record
7 million Americans in Justice System
- Cops:
America's #1 employment agency goes headhunting
-
Africa: In Solidarity with Site Soley by Jacques Depelchin.)
Slavery
on the New Plantation, American Torture Chamber: A Report on Today's
Prisons and Jails, Part 2 of 2 by Kiilu Nyasha, Guest
commentator, The Black Commentator, Feb. 15, 2007
- Record
7 million Americans in Justice System
- Larry
Rosin, Head of UN Kosovo Protectorate Moves to Haiti - Veye Yo
by Ezili Dantò
- Remembering
Kokòt: We shall fight from one generation to the other
The "Response
to Stu"
from WindowsonHaiti
Readers reactions to the Poem is also copied below.)
Reference
Notes:
Haitian
Nights,
the performance poetry piece
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/writings/Haitiannights.html
Turning Haiti into a (Penal) Colony:
Criminalization of Haiti's Children
The systemic criminalization of black males in Haiti by the Haiti's
US-imposed Miami government parallels U.S. habits
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/damocles.html
Slavery
on the New Plantation, American Torture Chamber: A Report on Today's
Prisons and Jails, Part 2 of 2 by Kiilu Nyasha, Guest
commentator, The Black Commentator, Feb. 15, 2007
"...From 1995 to 2003, inmates in (U.S.) federal prison for
drug offenses have accounted for 49 percent of total prison population
growth..." Record
7 million Americans in Justice System
Cops:
America's #1 employment agency goes headhunting
By Jane Stillwater http://blogspot.com
Tyrants
and Despots in Haiti dressed-up by the Internationals (Neocolonialists)
as peacemakers and police cleansing Haiti of "terrorists"
and "bandits": The UN Security Council sent
UN troops to Haiti to support a coup d'etat against Haiti's duly
elected government| http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/despots.html#despots
Children's
prison reflects Haiti's woes
By Manuel Roig-Franzia | The Washington Post, March 8, 2007
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/despots.html#children
The
Crucifixion of Emmanuel "Dread" Wilme by U.N. Troops:
A historical
perspective by Marguerite Laurent| Haitian perspective
| April 21, 2005
The
Legacy of Impunity: The Neoconlonialist inciting political instability
is
the problem. Haiti is underdeveloped in crime, corruption, violence,
compared
to other nations
by Marguerite Laurent, Haitian Perspectives, October 30, 2006
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/impunity.html
Expose The Lies
Of The International Community About Haiti, its People and
Resources. Demand The International Coup Detat Countries (France/US/Canada)
and enforcers (UN/OAS) not President Rene Preval, Set all the
political prisoners free, end the UN military occupation, began
a Humanitarian and true civil exchange with Haiti; And Return
Stolen Haitian Assets
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/expose.html
Dessalines
Is Rising!!
Ayisyen: You Are Not Alone!
Join HLLN's Free Haiti Movement. Plan on sponsoring a May 18,
Aug. 14,
July 6 and/or Oct 17th Haiti event in 2007
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/solidarityday/infoforsponsors.html
Ezili
Dantò's comments on the Peter Hallward's interviews of
Ben Dupuy and
President Aristide
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/dupuy.html#tootolerant
Answers
to media questions about Haiti by Marguerite Laurent,
Esq.
Chair, The Haitian Lawyers Leadership, March 2, 2004
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/sfbayview.html
Shocking Lancet Study: 8,000 Murders, 35,000 Rapes and Sexual
Assaults in Haiti During U.S.-Backed Coup Regime After Aristide
Ouster
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/31/144231
We
Will Fight From One Generation to the Next: Remembering Genevieve
'Kòkòt' Laguerre, her living legacy, Remembering
a proud Haitian Continuum | Sept. 9, 2006
Haitians must look outwards together!
Define the current pressing issues of Haiti for ourselves
by Ezili Danto
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/kokot.html#outwards
Open
Letter to the Little Girl in the Yellow Sunday Dress
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/writings/littlegirl.html
Ezili
Dantò's Response to Stu
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/despots.html#stu
Larry
Rosin, Head of UN Kosovo Protectorate Moves to Haiti - Veye Yo"
by Ezili Dantò |http://haitiforever.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=14292&sid=
601ad46a20b62d8a5385b6f1453594bd#14292
Mixed
U.S. Signals Helped Tilt Haiti Toward Chaos By WALT
BOGDANICH and JENNY NORDBERG, New York Times, January 29, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/international/americas/
29haiti.html?ex=1296190800&en=803d683287507b6f&ei=5089New
New
York Times should apologize to Haitians for untruths
By Ezili Dantò
http://haitiforever.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=13593&sid=
601ad46a20b62d8a5385b6f1453594bd#13593
New
York Times editorial "No help for Democracy" falls short
by Ezili Dantò, February 3, 2006 http://haitiforever.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=
13664&sid=601ad46a20b62d8a5385b6f1453594bd#13664
What
White People Feed on is not so eye opening, just typically parasitic,
fearful, self-serving, narcissistic and delusional: Ezili Dantò
Responding to two racest articles on Haiti
Hochschild's
Neo-Colonial Journalism. Response to Adam Hochschild article in
SF Chronicle by Marguerite Laurent, May 30, 2004
http://www.ishmaelreedpub.com/june_2004/art_6_04_laurent.htm
Napoleon
was no Toussaint: Spare us the insult! by Jean Saint-Vil (Jafrikayiti)
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/dupuy.html#spareus
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Africa:
In Solidarity with Site Soley by Jacques Depelchin
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Destabilization of Haiti is no surprise
The
Freeport News, Feb. 19,2008
Dear Editor:
Although Toussaint L'ouverture was given all the credit, it was
Bookman, a slave sent from Jamaica, who organized the slave revolt
in Haiti in 1791, like Nat Turner would attempt in James Town, Virginia,
United States, 40 years later.
Explored by Columbus on December 6, 1492, Haiti's native Arawaks
fell victims to Spanish rule.
In 1697 Haiti became a French Colony of Saint Dominique, which became
a leading sugar cane producer dependent on slaves.
In 1791 an insurrection erupted among the 480,000 slave population
in Haiti, resulting in the declaration of independence by Pierre
Dominique-Toussaint L'ouverture in 1801.
Napoleon Bonaparte suppressed the independent movement, but it eventually
triumphed in 1804 under Jean Jacques Dessaline, who gave the New
Nation the Arawak name Haiti. It was the first independent Black
Nation in the post-slavery era.
The revolution wrecked Haiti's economy. Years of strife between
the light skin mulattos who dominated the economy and the black
population, plus dispute with neighbouring Santo Domingo, continued
to hurt the nation's development.
After a succession of dictators — such as Dessaline, the ferocious;
Christoph Henry; and Souloque, the butcher — bankrupt Haiti
accepted a United States Customs receivership from 1905 to 1941.
Occupation by United States Marines from 1915 to 1934 brought stability.
Haiti's high population growth made it the most densely populated
nation in the hemisphere. In 1949, after four years of democratic
rule by President Dumarsis Estime, dictatorship returned under General
Paul Magloire, who was succeeded by Francois (Papa doc) Duva-lier's
in 1957. Duvalier Secret police ensured political stability by brutal
efficiency; his son, Jean Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier, succeeded
him as ruler when he died in 1971. Unrest generated by economic
crisis forced Baby Doc to flee the country in 1986.
You don't have to be a genius to see the subtle way in which the
Republic of Haiti is being undermined; some may say that it is because
of a succession of dictators, but the reason is more profound.
Because of Haiti's aggressive history, going all the way back to
slavery, powerful nations will continue to keep the Republic of
Haiti in check.
That is why among critical thinkers, the destabilization of Haiti
is no surprise.
Yours sincerely,
Prince G. Smith
Freeport, Grand Bahama
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Dessalines
Is Rising!!
Ayisyen: You Are Not Alone!
"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
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HLLN's
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Spokesman,
US occupiers |
Lt.
Col. Dave Lapan faces off with the Network |
International
Solidarity Day Pictures & Articles
May 18, 2005 |
Pictures
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Drèd
Wilme, A Hero for the 21st Century
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Pèralte
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Yvon Neptune's
Letter From Jail
Pacot -
April 20, 2005
(Kreyol & English)
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Emmanuel "Dread"
Wilme - on "Wanted poster" of suspects wanted by the
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Emmanuel
"Dread" Wilme speaks:
Radio Lakou New York, April 4, 2005 interview with Emmanuel "Dread"
Wilme
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The
Crucifiction of Emmanuel
"Dread" Wilme,
a historical
perspective
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Urgent
Action:
Demand a Stop
to the Killings
in Cite Soleil
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Sample letters &
Contact info
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Denounce Canada's role in Haiti:
Canadian officials Contact Infomation
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CARICOM
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Slide
Show at the
July 27, 2004 Haiti Forum Press Conference during the DNC
in Boston honoring those who stand firm for Haiti and democracy;
those who tell the truth about Haiti; Presenting the Haiti
Resolution, and; remembering Haiti's revolutionary legacy
in 2004 and all those who have lost life or liberty fighting
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