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Dessalines
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Ayisyen: You Are Not Alone!
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RandallRobinson.com
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Ezili Danto Witness Project
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Randall
Robinson on " An Unbroken
Agony: Haiti: From Revolution
to the Kidnapping of a President,
Democracy
Now!,
July 23rd, 2007
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David
Rudder' song -"Haiti,
I'm sorry."
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The
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Ezili Dantò's master Haitian dance class (Video clip)
Ezili's
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Haitian
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Boat sinking
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group of Haitian migrants arrive in a bus after being
repatriated from the nearby Turks and Caicos Islands,
in Cap-Haitien, northern Haiti, Thursday, May 10, 2007.
They were part of the survivors of a sailing vessel crowded
with Haitian migrants that overturned Friday, May 4 in
moonlit waters a half-mile from shore in shark-infested
waters. Haitian migrants claim a Turks and Caicos naval
vessel rammed their crowded sailboat twice before it capsized.
(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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Dessalines'
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Breaking
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Ezili
Danto's Art-With-The-Ancestors
Workshops - See, Red,
Black & Moonlight series or Haitian-West African
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twoance performance |
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In
a series
of articles written for the October 17, 2006 bicentennial
commemoration of the life and works of Dessalines, I wrote
for HLLN that: "Haiti's liberator and founding father,
General Jean
Jacques Dessalines, said, "I Want
the Assets of the Country to be Equitably Divided"
and for that he was assassinated by the Mullato sons of France.
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, Kanga
Mundele: Our mission to live free or die trying, Another Haitian
Independence Day under occupation; The
Legacy of Impunity of One Sector-Who killed Dessalines?;
The Legacy of Impunity:The
Neoconlonialist inciting political instability is the problem.
Haiti is underdeveloped in crime, corruption, violence, compared
to other nations,
all, by Marguerite 'Ezili Dantò' Laurent |
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It's
Neither Hope nor Progress when
the International Community is Running Haiti
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LA
Times on a Haitian Army - An example of how LA Times spins the truth,
manipulates information, promotes the views of the Haitian elites and
sell's it to their unwary readers as "Haiti's view"
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"...Haiti
is poor today because it was deliberately made so and kept so just like
much of sub - Saharan Africa by wars either military or economic and
cultural. To acknowledge this is not to have a slave mindset or to be
stuck in the past or to have a "hand - out" mentality nor
any of the tired pejoratives that are constantly bandied about. It is
simply to state a fact that is very important to note because so many
people think that the reason is that black people are somehow incapable
of properly running a country. When black people can throw other black
people to sharks for simply wanting a better life, when specifically
Caribbean black people can do this to Haitians it shows how desperately
we still need the Haitian Revolution. It shows how much we need to heed
to the words of a son of this revolution and emancipate ourselves from
mental slavery? There are now several investigations underway in the
Turks and Caicos Islands into this atrocity but whatever they find it
is important that such action is denounced in the strongest terms. Migration
defines Caribbean people and it simply beggars belief that movement
within this region should attract such hostility on the part of the
teapot tyrants that run these countries. With an almost comical regularity
Caribbean politicians pontificate on sovereignty and protecting the
jobs of locals from foreigners as an election gimmick mainly when their
administration is bad to generate hostility towards Caribbean people.
They certainly are not referring to the whites who they bend over backwards
and race to the bottom against each other to see how low they can go
to accommodate."
( Haiti,
We're Sorry By
Deniece Alleyne LL.B, The Democrat (St. Kitts & Nevis), June 3,
2007)
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We're
Sorry Haiti
Not that long ago I had the opportunity
of speaking with some Haitian migrants who had been dropped off at various
points around the island. I am fairly fluent in the French language and
I wanted to interview them about their experiences as migrants generally
and about their treatment in St. Kitts in particular.
Their story was painful in its ordinariness. None had intended to come
to St. Kitts but had been deceived by unscrupulous human traffickers to
whom they had paid substantial sums. They were seeking relief; from hunger,
homelessness and lack of opportunity. They were seeking a better life.
Theirs was a story common to us here in St. Kitts and throughout the Caribbean.
All of us either know persons or are persons who have migrated to other
Caribbean countries, the USA, Canada or the UK to better ourselves and
our children. In fact it is ironic to me as a naturalized Kittitian born
in Guyana that I have so often been told "you na from yah" by
people who go to great lengths to have their children born in the US Virgin
Islands or Puerto Rico if they can't make it to the US mainland. Despite
our history as a migrant people, from being kidnapped and enslaved and
transported between continents, to traveling for work whether in Trinidad,
immediately after emancipation in the 1840s to the Dominican Republic,
Panama and Curacao in the early twentieth century we have been inflicted
with a strange xenophobia. Strange because when taken to its natural conclusion
it means that we are biting the hand that has fed us, and strange because
this xenophobia is only directed towards black people like ourselves.
On several occasions I have been abused for being born in Guyana by persons
who practically worship what they call "coolie hair" and have
gone to great lengths to have children with men of Indian descent from
the same Guyana or Trinidad. I have always found it a tragic symptom of
an internalized inferiority complex and felt sorry for such persons.
This brings me back to the story of the Haitians. I could not help wondering
why they had to be held in prison when I spoke with them. The men complained
of the over - crowding and the women, though relatively comfortable, did
ask me; "Why the prison?"
During my time in England I was asked on several occasions by white students
whether we live in houses where I come from. I was constantly amazed rather
than offended by the question because the query came from abject ignorance.
What has been astounding is the fact that I have heard similar nonsense
asked about Haitians by persons here, whether about their religion or
cultural practices or rate of infection with AIDS. I was horrified recently
when I heard on the BBC Caribbean that coast guard officials in the Turks
and Caicos Islands had deliberately collided with a boat carrying Haitian
migrants causing it to capsize in shark infested waters. To add insult
to injury the survivors were locked in a detention center and prevented
from speaking to journalists in the immediate aftermath of this incident.
This shocking story immediately brought to my mind the haunting lyrics
of poet and composer David Rudder from his melancholic requiem called
"Haiti,
I'm sorry." He asked "they say the middle passage
is gone, so how come overcrowded boats still haunt our lives?" This
brutally compelling question brings in sharp relief the scandalous state
of affairs that is CARICOM policy with regard to the Haitian Republic.
Haiti is a special case in the Caribbean. It represents the prevailing
international opinion of independence, sovereignty and freedom for people
of African descent whether on the continent itself or anywhere in the
Diaspora. Haiti dared to violently throw off the yoke of bondage, colonialism,
imperialism and all notions of racial inferiority in a relentless 10 year
war of attrition that in the words of Prof. George Lamming proved that
black men were men. For this daring audacity the Haitians have been made
to suffer.
Their country has been turned into a terrible cautionary tale to the rest
of us that if we don''t drink the swill from the swine trough of white
supremacy we too will be imprisoned in a barren wasteland desperately
seeking the means of escape.
Haiti is the oldest Black republic in the world and among the oldest republics
in the world. Only the American and French republics are older. How awe
inspiring it is to have as a fact of history that during that period in
history known as the enlightenment while white men were patting themselves
on the back for coming up with dissertations on the rights of man as proof
of their supposed superiority, black men were asserting that freedom was
inherent to humanity not an indulgence to be granted by a benevolent master.
In virtually every other colonial territory black, brown and yellow men
asked and pleaded and genuflected before the altars of the mother country,
imbibing her language, institutions, culture but most importantly denying
that we had any of those things to prove us worthy of being granted independence.
Only in Haiti did black men take their freedom. Haiti disproved all the
arguments and theories about the nature of man in general and the black
man in particular. Haiti disproved Darwin and his theory that us Africans
were savages requiring slavery for our own well being. Haiti disproved
Hegel that Africans had no voice in history by indelibly infusing history
with the most brutally eloquent free man''s creed. Haiti disproved Paine
that Africans were simpletons incapable of comprehending the nature and
meaning of liberty expounding its true meaning. Haiti defied the largest
and most sophisticated armies and navies of the time. On that glorious
New Year''s Day in 1804 Haiti declared for oppressed people everywhere
that bondage was not the natural state of any man. Haiti became the threat
of a good example. For this Haiti had to pay.
The retribution exacted from the only successful rebellion of enslaved
people has been catastrophic. The US enforced a century long absolute
embargo from 1806 and no other country traded with Haiti effectively crippling
the nascent nation. American, Spanish and British naval vessels blockaded
Haitian ports for several years to ensure that no rogue trader could defy
the siege. Worst of all however was the unconscionable demand for reparations
from the French Republic for the loss of its colony! Imagine that! In
1825, on behalf of former slaveholders the French government imposed an
indemnity on Haiti as payment for recognizing it as a free nation. It
threatened to wage war to re - colonize and re - enslave Haiti if the
country did not pay 90 million francs. In today's dollars it amounts to
more than $21 billion. Think about it carefully. The country continually
derided as the a failed state, the poorest and most backward country in
this hemisphere and chief among this benighted group worldwide has paid
to France, one of the richest, more that $21 billion during the 165 years
up to 1990. What would this money have done if spent to develop Haiti?
The ignorant and self despising among us like to ask the eminently silly
question, how can we know that slavery and colonialism caused any tangible
benefit to accrue to the imperialist nations? Haiti answers that question
in dollars and cents. The US did not recognize Haitian independence until
1863 in the midst of its own civil war which was primarily about slavery.
In addition to this indignity, Haiti was constantly harassed and several
times invaded and occupied by the US as part of its Monroe Doctrine always
under that useful fiction that we black people cannot rule ourselves.
The longest occupation persisted for 19 years from 1915 to 1934. The US
installed and maintained the barbaric reign of terror of the Duvalier
family and its fearsome ton ton macoutes. It ensured that the only industries
that were allowed to flourish unhindered were prostitution and drug and
gun trafficking.
Perhaps however, the worst retribution exacted from the Haitian people
has been the hate of their brothers. By this I mean that instead of honoring
and venerating those great men like L''Ouverture and Dessalines as the
heroes they are and reciting their deeds to our children and naming our
sons after them like we would and have after great white men we have either
despised their sacrifice or worse ignored it completely. Most of us have
been so convinced that black skin is ugly and our natural hair is defective
that we support a multi - billion dollar industry in skin bleaches and
hair straighteners and weaves.
When we curse someone the first thing we can think of saying is how black
the person is even when we are no different. It has been scientifically
shown that we are far more likely to consider a person beautiful if his/her
skin is light rather than dark and that we correlate dark skin with negative
characteristics. In other words most of us have chosen not to be heirs
of the Haitian revolution but rather to be what Walter Rodney called ''white
men in black skins''. This is perverse and tragic, even sacrilegious.
It denies the testimony that most of my readers claim to believe that
we are made in the image of God.
Haiti is poor today because it was deliberately made so and kept so just
like much of sub - Saharan Africa by wars either military or economic
and cultural. To acknowledge this is not to have a slave mindset or to
be stuck in the past or to have a "hand - out" mentality nor
any of the tired pejoratives that are constantly bandied about. It is
simply to state a fact that is very important to note because so many
people think that the reason is that black people are somehow incapable
of properly running a country.
When black people can throw other black people to sharks for simply wanting
a better life, when specifically Caribbean black people can do this to
Haitians it shows how desperately we still need the Haitian Revolution.
It shows how much we need to heed to the words of a son of this revolution
and emancipate ourselves from mental slavery? There are now several investigations
underway in the Turks and Caicos Islands into this atrocity but whatever
they find it is important that such action is denounced in the strongest
terms. Migration defines Caribbean people and it simply beggars belief
that movement within this region should attract such hostility on the
part of the teapot tyrants that run these countries. With an almost comical
regularity Caribbean politicians pontificate on sovereignty and protecting
the jobs of locals from foreigners as an election gimmick mainly when
their administration is bad to generate hostility towards Caribbean people.
They certainly are not referring to the whites who they bend over backwards
and race to the bottom against each other to see how low they can go to
accommodate.
The competition between Antigua and St. Kitts for the Caribbean Star HQ
is a
recent example; remember the billionaire owner who bought prime airport
real estate for 69c per square foot. I can only imagine how Antigua sweetened
that deal. You see, teachers from other islands are not investing in our
country. How tragic - comic it is to see how precious we hold these various
ports on the routes of the slave ships when we are not desperately trying
to get away and sneak into the US or Canada that is.
This state of affairs is not permanent, despite how bleak it seems. The
modern age presents the opportunity to forge for ourselves a new identity
founded on the principle defended with blood in the Haitian revolution.
A first step would be for CARICOM leaders to end discriminatory policies
against Haiti and instead concentrate on finding ways to be of assistance
to our brothers across this Caribbean Sea. They can start by vocally supporting
the Haitian demand for France to repay the unconscionable indemnity began
by former President Aristide. They can continue by enacting immigration
policies that recognize the contribution made by our own people migrating
among these islands. When Toussaint L'Ouverture was kidnapped by the French,
his last words to them were "in overthrowing me you have cut down
only the trunk of the tree of liberty, it will spring up again from the
roots for they are many and they are deep." We, as Caribbean people,
need to draw our strength from those roots.
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Ezili Dantò's
note:
July 28, 2007 marks the 92nd anniversary of the first US occupation
of Haiti (July 28, 1915 to 1934).
To mark this occasion, Ezili's Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network ("HLLN")
recalls the hundreds of thousands of Haitians who have lost their lives
in the struggle to regain Haitian sovereignty. To that end, HLLN herein:
1. Lifts up the name of Pierre Sully, a soldier in
the Haitian army, who was shot dead, on July 28, 1915 while defending
Haiti's sovereignty against US imperialism. Pierre Sully is a national
hero in Haiti because, despite orders from his superiors to stand down,
he was the ONLY Haitian soldier to fire on the coming US ships... His
valiant and courageous action lives in every informed Haitian mind since
that day and his name is reverently uttered and honored every July 28
for the last 92-years of Haitian history;
2. HLLN also marks the long and valiant Haitian struggle
againstneocolonialism, racism and neoliberalism by posting this press
statemnt from Haiti, issued by popular grass-roots organizations in
Haiti, demanding an end to the current UN occupation. (The statement
is in Kreyol. A brief
HLLN English summary
and the unofficial English translation
by Lionel Legros is provided below.)
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Brief HLLN English summary - of the Kreyol
Statement issued by Haiti's grass-roots organizations to mark the 92nd
anniversary of the first US occupation of Haiti (1915-1934), which falls
on July 28, 2007. The undersigned grass-roots, Haitian popular organizations
have released a statement denouncing the current occupation of Haiti
and demanding "the end of the 92-year domination of Haiti by the
imperialist, United States."
Specifically, they demand the current powers in place:
1. Stop renewing the MINUSTHA mandate in Haiti;
2. Stop engaging Haiti in neoliberal death policies, "free market,"
the privatization of the state enterprises.... These policies only bring
more misery, joblessness and insecurity to the country;
3. Stop paying on the IMF and World Bank loans and debts and use the
monies to provide health, education and other services to the population;
and
4. Immediately address the management of the State enterprises. Get
the State
enterprises functioning properly and keep them as the property of the
country.
Down with occupation;
Down with privatization;
Long live a free and sovereign Haiti.
Long live Haiti's State enterprises!
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Pozisyon plizyè òganizasyon nan sektè popilè
a nan okazyon 92 lane premye okipasyon meriken nan peyi Dayiti
MODEP, MORAP, SAJ/Veye yo, MOVE, Tèt Kole ti Peyizan Ayisyen,
Chandel
Noumenm ki se manm Mouvman Demokratik Popilè, Tèt Kole
Ti Peyizan Ayisyen, òganizasyon popilè pou edikasyon popilè
Chandèl, Mouvman Refleksyon ak Aksyon Popilè, Mouvman
Oganize pou yon vi efikas ak Solidarite Ant Jèn/Veye yo, nou
lanse ansanm yon apèl pou yon mobilizasyon jeneral nan tout peyi
a kont prezans MINISTA sou teritwa a. Jounen 28 jiyè ane sa a,
fè egzakteman 92 lane depi peyi Dayiti konnen yon premye okipasyon.
Depi lè sa a, peyi a anba dominasyon total kapital enperyalis
meriken.
Nan lane 1492 kolon panyòl te debake sou bout tè sa a
pou vin ranmase richès nou yo. Yo touye premye ras moun ki t
ap viv sou tè sa a. Apre masak endyen yo, kolon yo te al pran
nèg dafrik pou fè yo tounen esklav. Men, apre plizyè
syèk batay, esklav yo te rive mete blan franse deyò sou
bout tè sa a. Malgre gwo viktwa sa a, otorite lafrans yo te mande
otorite ayisyen yo pou peye swadizan dèt lendepandans lan. Piyaj
kolon yo, dèt sa a, 92 lane dominasyon meriken sou peyi a ki
pran tout kalite fòm, mete nan kalfou difisil, tout tantativ
pou peyi a pran yon wout devlopman granmoun, li ralanti tou tout tantativ
sektè popilè yo pou tabli yon lòt kalite sosyete
kote dominasyon ak eksplwatasyon kaba.
Nan lane 1915, enperyalis meriken debake pou vin ankouraje gwo antripriz
kapitalis yo vin fè richès pa yo. Yo rantre pran rezèv
lò peyi a nan bank santral.
Pi gwo rezistans ki te anfas okipasyon enperyalis meriken nan moman
an, te soti nan sektè peyizan an. Anba direksyon Chalmay Peral
ak Benwa Batravil, peyizan yo te òganize tèt yo nan lame
kako a pou yo te ofri yon kokenn chenn rezistans ame kont okipasyon
an. Militè meriken yo te masakre plizyè santèn
peyizan ki te nan lame kako a. Nan lane 1994 militè meriken debake
yon dezyèm fwa pou vin mennen Aristid aplike plan neyoliberal
la. Apre manda Aristid la, Preval te pran pouvwa a nan yon ti pas kout.
Se nan kad aplikasyon menm politik sa a epi anba zòd dezyèm
okipasyon an, Prezidan Preval te kòmanse likide antrepriz leta
yo. Pandan tan sa a gouvènman Ayisyen an te vann minotri Dayiti
ak siman Dayiti.
Jounen jodi a, plizyè lòt antrepriz Leta deja nan bak
likidasyon gouvènman Prezidan Preval / Alexis a. Nan lane 2004,
nan moman 200 zan endepandans Ayiti, militè meriken, franse ak
kanadyen debake, kèk mwa apre, MINISTA pran la relèv.
Depi lè sa a otorite ak polisye ayisyen yo tounen pope twèl
nan men fòs loni yo. MINISTA nan refòm lapolis, li nan
refòm lajistis, li nan tout enstitisyon enpòtan nan leta
a pou kore tout pwojè ki vize likide byen peyi a epi kenbe l
anba dominasyon enperyalis la ak boujwazi kontrebandye a.
Nan kalfou istorik n ap viv jounen jodi a, noumenm òganizasyon
ki siyen nòt sa a, nou sonnen ansanm, lanbi rasanbleman nan mitan
tout fòs pwogresis yo pou nou tanmen ansanm, batay pou defann
dwa grandèt majè peyi a. Nan sans sa a, nou mande tout
òganizasyon popilè ak militan pwogresis pou yo pote kole
nan batay sa a. Nou pa vle yon peyi okipe kote se diplomat etranje ak
ti sòlda LONI k ap pase nou lòd. Nou vle yon peyi granmoun
ki egziste pou moun ki abite ladan l. Nou vle yon Leta granmoun k ap
deside nan sans enterè mas pèp la.
Pou nou rive nan Leta granmoun sa a, nou mande pouvwa anplas la pou
li :
1) Sispann renouvle manda MINISTA nan peyi a
2) Sispann angaje peyi a nan politik neyoliberal la ki gen anba vant
li,
mache lib, privatizasyon antrepriz piblik yo bay boujwa raketè,
kontrebandye ki fin depafini ak peyi a. Kalite politik sa a, si li pa
kanpe, l ap lage peyi a anba plis mizè, chomaj ak ensekirite.
3) Sispann peye dèt FMI ak Bank Mondyal yo epi sèvi ak
lajan sa yo pou bay popilasyon an sèvis sante, edikasyon elatriye.
4) Redrese san pèdi tan jesyon antrepriz leta yo epi kenbe yo
nan patrimwàn leta a.
Pou fòse pouvwa anplas la pran wout sa a, òganizasyon
konsekan ak sitwayen konsekan, dwe rete mobilize epi makònen
fòs nou pou nou batay ansanm kont okipasyon an, kont likidasyon
antrepriz leta yo.
Aba okipasyon
Aba privatizasyon
Viv yon peyi granmoun,
viv antrepriz leta yo
Moun ki siyen pou òganizasyon yo :
Pou MODEP: Guy Numa
Pou Tèt Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen: Rosnel Jean Baptiste
Pou CHANDEL : Rochemane Jean Milus
Pou MORAP : Dilogène Jean emmanuel
Pou MOVE : Jean Léon Santerre
Pou SAJ/Veye yo : Charles Lefèvre
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Popular grass-roots organizations in Haiti demand an end to the UN occupation,
denounce privatization and globalization to mark the 92nd anniversary,
on July 28, 2007, of the first US occupation (1915-1934)|
Unofficial English Translation by Lionel O Legros, Aug. 3, 2007
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The Position of Many Grass-Roots Popular organizations in Haiti on the
UN occupation on the occasion of the 92nd anniversary of the first US
occupation of Haiti (1915- 1934). (Unofficial English Translation by
Lionel O Legros, Aug. 3, 2007. Source. E-mail: TiLyon25@aol.com )
We, the undersigned members of the M.D.P (Movement
for Popular Democracy), Tet Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen (Unity of poor/little
Haitians peasants), Chandel (Popular Organization for Popular Education),
Morap (Movement for Reflexion and Popular Action, Move (Organized movement
for Efficient Life), SAJ/Veye Yo (Solidarity among the Youth/Vigilance)
are making this unity call for general mobilization, all over the country
against the U.N occupying forces
(Minustha) in/our territory.
On this date of July 28th, 2007 marks exactly ninety-two years since
our country was first invaded and occupied by the United States. Since
then the country is officially been under total domination by American
Imperialism.
In the year of 1492 the Spanish colonial power came to this part of
the world to amass a vast quantity of our wealth. They killed the first
Indigenous people/ the Indians. After this horrible massacre of the
Indians they went out and snatched the Africans to make them slaves.
But after long centuries of struggle, the rebellious slaves finally
defeated the French and kicked them out of Haiti. In spite of their
well-earned victories, the French colonial powers and their allies systematically
demanded that the new Haitian authorities pay them for a so-called "debt
of independence." The plundering of our natural resources, the
paying of that so called debt, ninety two years of American domination
upon the country taking all types of forms; all of that brought about
extreme difficulties for the country. All of that constitutes real barriers
to have and enjoy real and durable independence. They also put in jeopardy
all tentative by the popular sectors to establish a different kind of
society, free of domination and exploitation.
In 1915, U.S imperialism invaded Haiti to encourage big capitalist enterprises
to make the rich richer; they came and seized our gold reserve in the
Central Bank. The biggest resistance they faced came from the peasant
sectors. Under the direction of Charlemagne Perate and Benoit Batraville,
the peasants were able to organize themselves into the Caco guerillas
resistance against the occupation. The American military massacred many
hundreds of peasants that were the integral part of that army of the
resistance through treachery and deception. In October 1994, the American
military invaded the country a second time to bring about the return
of Aristide and at the same time apply the nefarious neo-liberal plan.
After Aristide mandate, Preval came to exactly continue the same plan.
Under the second occupation, Preval started to liquidate the state enterprises.
Meanwhile the Haitian government sold out the Minoterie d' Haiti (National
Flour Company) and the Ciment d' Haiti ( The National Cement Company).
Nowadays many other state Enterprises are being threatened and are underway
to be sold under the government of President Preval and his Prime Minister
Alexis.
In the year 2004, at exactly the time of the 200th Celebration of Haiti's
Independence, American, French and Canadian troops invaded our soil.
Several months later the Minustha (United Nations) forces took over
to continue the occupation.
It is the Minustha that is taking care of Police reforms, it is also
them that is reforming Haitian Justice. They are present in all sphere
and important institutions of the State ,in order to continue carrying
their plan to push projects that liquidate the State Holdings or keep
it under imperialism domination and the rule of the corrupt bourgeoisie.
In this historical crossroad we are facing today, we the undersigned
organizations are making this important historical call to all progressive
forces to fight in unity for the defense and the autonomy of this country,
We essentially ask all popular organizations and progressive forces
to come forward and unite in that fight. We do not want an occupied
country where foreign diplomats and U.N soldiers are the arrogant caretakers.
We want a free country that exists for those that live in it. We want
an autonomous state that exists in the interest of the masses of people.
To come to the realization of that autonomous state, we ask that the
current government in place.
1) Stop renewing the Minustha mandate in Haiti.
2) Stop engaging Haiti in neo-liberal death policies, "free market,"
the privatization of the state enterprises... These policies only bring
more misery, unemployment, and insecurity to the country.
3) Stop paying the I.M.F and World Bank loans and debts and use the
monies to provide health, education, and other services to the population.
4) Immediately address the crisis of the management of the State Enterprises.
Get the State Enterprises to function properly and keep them as the
property
of the country.
MODEP, MORAP, SAJ/VEYE YO/, TET KOLE TI PEYIZAN AYISYEN, CHANDEL.
Down with occupation!
Down with privatization!
Long live a free and sovereign Haiti!
Long live Haiti's State Enterprises!
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Ezili Dantò's
note:
It's
Neither Hope nor Progress when
the International Community is Running Haiti
(See Ban Ki-moon's "Hope
At Last For Haiti")
- Remembering
July 6, 2005 and the UN massacre of innocent civilians from Site Solèy;
Demanding justice for Site Solèy
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/justice_sitesoley.html
- "After Labanyè's Death" in Wyclef
Visits Site Solèy, March 2, 2006
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/
campaigns/campaignone/testimonies/wyclef4.html
- AUMOHD
Press Conference on May 3, 2006- Partial List of Victims from Site Soley
and Pele
- US
Democracy Promotion and Haiti by Anthony Fenton and Amy Goodman; Democracy
Now!; January 23, 2006, ZNet
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=9578§ionID=1
-
The Real New From Haiti is: Haitian Resistance Continues, UN tries to
Keep Lid On,
by hcvanalysis,
August 3, 2007; and UN
Arrested 40 Ahead of Harper's Visit
-
LA Times on a Haitian Army - An example of how LA Times spins the truth,
manipulates information, promotes the views of the Haitian elites and
sell's it to their unwary readers as "Haiti's view"
- Video
of Michelle Montas, Spokesperson of UN Secetary General, Ban Ki-moon,
during Bann Ki-moon's August 2007 visit to Haiti
The
Issue With US-DEA War on Drugs in Haiti-Partisan Bias/enforcement
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Arbitrary
and Capricious rules of "justice" and defamatory, simplistic
and unfair mainstream media reporting apply to the poor in Site Soley,
Haiti - Site Soley Update April 19, 2007
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Media
Lies and the Real Haiti News, August
12, 2007
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Moving
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Vodun: The Light and Beauty of Haiti
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/ezilidanto_bio.html
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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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