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Laurent
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Venuezuela to Allocate $18 million dollars to Danny
Glover for film on Haitian Revolution
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Jafrikayiti
on Glover's Proposed Haiti Film
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Did
they Capsized
or were they Rammed?
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Hugo
Chavez funds $19.7 Million for Danny Glover films
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Hugo
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The
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Haiti's
Freedom on May 18, 2007 by Marguerite Laurent,
Haitian Perspectives
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Hope
and Humiliation: HLLN’s analysis of May 18, 2006 and the
Inaugural of
President Rene Preval by Marguerite Laurent, Haitian
Perspectives, May 18,
2006
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Napoleon
was no Toussaint: Spare us the insult! by Jean Saint-Vil (Jafrikayiti),
Haitian
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What
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Ayisyen: You Are Not Alone!
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really abolished slavery?
by Myrtha Dèsulmè, Contributer, Jamaica
Gleaner, June 3, 2007
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Carnegie
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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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Africa:
In Solidarity with Site Soley by Jacques Depelchin, Allafrica.com,
March 22, 2007
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Hochschild's
Neo-Colonial Journalism. Response to Adam Hochschild article in SF Chronicle
by Marguerite Laurent, May 30, 2004
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Toussaint
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with Haitian migrants that overturned Friday, May 4 in
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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
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"...Toussaint Louverture was certainly ahead of his time and
a great visionary and warrior, and, in fact, he was kidnapped, tortured
and murdered for his ideals...But, it turns out... Dessalines is the
one who did what was necessary and then renamed the island, set forth
its laws of existence and abolished colonialism. All over the developing
world today, it is Toussaint’s then avant-guard idea that is in
place and why Europeans prefer to exult Toussaint and teach that to
Black and Brown people rather than to present Dessalines, whose idea
of a Black-ruled independent nation is what all of Africa and the Caribbean
and Latin American countries wish to bring to pass,” said Laurent..."
From, Laurent
on Glover's Proposed Haiti Film by Staff,
San Francisco Bayview,
May 23, 2007
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"...Both Toussaint Louverture
and Jean Jacques Dessalines took up arms against the white enslavers
and colonists. But because Toussaint
Louverture fought for neocolonialism, he's the one revered by the whites.
The whites still
fear and hate Dessalines because he beat them and declared Haiti a Black
independent nation. Down the annals
of history, the
impression has been propagated, to the interests of the whites,
that Toussaint Louverture was sort of Ghandi-like and non-violent, which
is totally untrue. (See also "Napoleon
was no Toussaint" by Jafrikayiti). Toussaint
Louverture killed his share of white enslavers and colonists as general
of Haiti's indigenous army before Dessalines. And when Toussaint Louverture
was kidnapped because he was too trusting of the whites, too compromising
and too tolerant, it was time for Dessalines. Today,
Haiti awaits a Dessalines.
Ezili Dantò said this back on the day of Aristide's kidnapping.
Haiti awaits a Dessalines. Read
in particular "Moun
ki fe bagay sa, jodi a -yo swaf dlo lan zye!: Haitian fratricide
allowed for the Empire to eat up our divisions and make this February
29, 2004 Coup D'etat comeback" by Ezili Dantò
on Feb. 29, 2004.
(From
Ezili
Danto's Comment that Jean-Bertrand-Aristide-Was-Too-Tolerant and-Compromising
to Ben Dupuy on his interview with Peter Hallward )
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Venuezuela
to Allocate $18 million dollars to Danny Glover
by Cory Carroll in Caracas
, May 21, 2007,
The
Guardian
· Chávez hopes venture will aid anti-imperialist fight
· Actor wants to educate US on Toussaint Louverture
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2084331,00.html
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The Venezuelan
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The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez (right), and actor Danny
Glover embrace. Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty
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Venezuela is to give the American actor Danny Glover almost $18m (£9m)
to
make a film about a slave uprising in Haiti, with President Hugo Chávez
hoping the historical epic will sprinkle Hollywood stardust on his effort
to
mobilise world public opinion against imperialism and western oppression.
The Venezuelan congress said it would use the proceeds from a recent
bond
sale with Argentina to finance Glover's biopic of Toussaint Louverture,
an
iconic figure in the Caribbean who led an 18th-century revolt in Haiti.
It will also give seed money for a film version of The General in His
Labyrinth, Gabriel García Márquez's novel about the last
days of Simón
Bolívar, who liberated much of South America from Spanish colonialism.
Glover, 60, who starred with Mel Gibson in the Lethal Weapon series,
and more
recently with Eddie Murphy in the film DreamGirls, is a civil rights
activist
and supporter of Mr Chávez's radical leftwing policies.
A document from the congress's finance commission said the culture ministry
would be a partner with Glover and give $17.8m for "scripts, production
costs, wardrobe, lighting, transport, makeup and the creation of the
whole
creative and administrative platform".
The project could mark a breakthrough for Villa del Cine, a new government-funded
studio outside the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, which is part of Mr
Chávez's effort to combat what he sees as American cultural hegemony.
Glover, who visited Caracas at the weekend, told the Guardian that he
would
direct the film, titled Toussaint. "It's so advanced that you can
taste it.
We've scouted locations within 75km [45 miles] of Caracas. I can do
everything I need to do with this film from here." He said he had
been in
talks with the government, but was unaware that a decision had been
made
until journalists tipped him off about the congress's announcement.
"That's
the first I've heard of it," he said.
He suggested that there was still some uncertainty over whether the
venture
would go ahead. "One of the major axioms in theatre is never talk
about
anything until the deal is signed. There's a lot of deliberation that
goes on
before something actually happens."
It appeared that the congress timed the announcement to coincide with
a media
conference in Caracas hosted by the television network Telesur, a
Venezuela-funded regional answer to CNN. Glover is on the board.
It would not be the first declaration to run ahead of reality. Mr Chávez
once said the director Oliver Stone planned to make a film about him,
but it came to nothing. However at the president's request, Villa del
Cine, which was
inaugurated last year, is making a film about Francisco Miranda, who
lit the
fuse of South America's liberation. A lavish production with hundreds
of
extras and battle scenes, its costumes and sets could work for the Haiti
film.
Toussaint Louverture is a towering figure in the region's history. A
freed slave of African descent, he led thousands of slaves in successful
campaigns against British, Spanish and French troops before being betrayed,
captured and exiled. He died in 1803, just before his followers succeeded
in establishing the island's independence. William Wordsworth wrote
a sonnet about him.
Glover said he wanted to educate the US about the story. "It's
been essentially wiped out of our historic memory, it's been wiped clean."
The actor is chairman of the TransAfrica Forum, an advocacy group for
African Americans and other members of Africa's diaspora, and a vocal
critic of the Bush administration. Along with the singer Harry Belafonte,
Glover is the best known celebrity supporter of Mr Chávez, whom
he considers "remarkable".
He is a regular visitor to Venezuela.
Venezuela's congress, which consists entirely of Chávez supporters,
also said it would give $1.8m to develop a screen treatment of The General
in His Labyrinth, by a Venezuela-born director, Alberto Arvelo. Some
rate Gabriel García Márquez's account of the final days
of Bolívar along with the Colombian writer's better known novels,
One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.
To build consciousness of what Mr Chávez calls "21st-century
socialism", the government has funded nationwide screenings of
Charlie Chaplin's classic film Modern Times, about the exploitation
of US factory workers during the depression.
- Guardian Unlimited | Guardian News and Media Limited 2007
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Laurent on Glover's Proposed
Haiti Film
Venezuela giving Danny Glover $18m to direct film on Haitian revolution
Staff | Wednesday, 23
May 2007, San
Francisco Bayview
http://www.sfbayview.com/index.php?option=
com_content&task=view&id=155&Itemid=15
Actor, humanitarian and San Francisco native Danny Glover
and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who have worked closely
together politically, plan to expand their partnership to moviemaking
with a film about the slave rebellion that made Haiti the first Black
independent country in the world. While celebrating this remarkable
initiative, however, prominent attorney and performance artist Marguerite
Laurent, founder of the Haitian Lawyers
Leadership Network, hopes the film will focus on Jean-Jacque Dessalines,
the revolutionary leader most Haitians credit with Haiti’s independence,
rather than solely on Toussaint Louverture, the leader better known
to Americans.
Glover, chair of TransAfrica Forum and a vocal critic of the Bush administration,
is, along with Harry Belafonte, the best known celebrity supporter of
Chávez and a regular visitor to Venezuela. It was from the press
that he learned that the film deal had progressed from the talking to
the funding stage, that Venezuela’s Congress had allocated $17.8
million for “scripts, production costs, wardrobe, lighting, transport,
makeup and the creation of the whole creative and administrative platform.”
The project could mark a breakthrough for Villa del Cine, a new government-funded
studio outside the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. “I can do everything
I need to do with this film from here,” Glover said. He will direct
the film, which he said will be titled “Toussaint.”
A freed African slave in Haiti, Toussaint Louverture led thousands of
slaves in successful campaigns against British, Spanish and French troops
before being betrayed, captured and exiled. He died in 1803, just before
his followers succeeded in establishing the island’s independence.
Glover told the British newspaper The Guardian that he wants to educate
the U.S. about the Haitian revolution. “It’s been essentially
wiped out of our historic memory; it’s been wiped clean,”
he said.
“I truly hope someone gets to Danny Glover on this Louverture
issue,” Marguerite Laurent wrote to the Bay View when she heard
the news. “Toussaint Louverture was certainly ahead of his time
and a great visionary and warrior, and, in fact, he was kidnapped, tortured
and murdered for his ideals.
“But, it turns out today all over the developing world the independence
that the former colonies enjoy is that which was espoused by Toussaint
– who saw that the most he could do for Haiti was free the captives
and get Haiti to be a Black-ruled French colony, with himself as governor
for France.
“Dessalines is the one who did what was necessary and then renamed
the island, set forth its laws of existence and abolished colonialism.
All over the developing world today, it is Toussaint’s then avant-guard
idea that is in place and why Europeans prefer to exult Toussaint and
teach that to Black and Brown people rather than to present Dessalines,
whose idea of a Black-ruled independent nation is what all of Africa
and the Caribbean and Latin American countries wish to bring to pass,”
said Laurent.
Pointing out that, like Haiti, Cuba and Venezuela would never glorify
their former colonists over their own independence, she cautioned against
preferring Louverture over Dessalines. “Dessalines is despised
by the powers who continue to subjugate and colonize. Toussaint’s
structure is now their accepted norm for imperial governance, the exploitation
of Black and Brown labor, lands and resources.”
“I hope,” Laurent said, that “we don’t find
ourselves with a Danny Glover film that claims Toussaint is the founding
father of Haiti and its ideal of a Black ruled independent nation.”
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Contact For Louverture
Films and Carrie Productions:
Louverture Films, LLC
101 West 23rd Street, #283
New York, NY 10011 USA
Tel: 1-212 229 3960
Fax: 1-212 229 3963
Email: info@louverturefilms.com
and also, Danny Glover's Production
Company:
Carrie Productions
Telephone and fax
Tel: 510 450 2500
Fax: 510 450 2506
Address
2625 Alcatraz Ave
#243
Berkeley, California 94705
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Forwarded Mail
From: "Jean Saint-Vil" <jafrikayiti@hotmail.com>
To: erzilidanto@yahoo.com, info@louverturefilms.com
CC: chan@members
Subject: RE: Laurent on Glover's proposed Haiti film
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 20:59:32 +0000
Dear comrades,
There is a lot that needs to be said on this topic but, more importantly,
there is still a lot of time and opportunity left to make the Toussaint
film the success and powerful educational tool it can and ought to be.
I have been following this film project for many years now and I am
convinced that Haiti can benefit a great deal from such a production.
I am also convinced of Danny Glover's sincere desire to make an excellent
product - otherwise this could have been on the screen long ago.
The points raised by sister Marguerite Laurent (see
message below) are excellent and crucial ones. I have raised
the same issue with Danny Glover when we met briefly at the bicentennial
celebrations in January 2004.
Over the few minutes of conversation we had, I tried to impressed upon
him a number of points, including 1) the great educational potential
of his film, especially if a Haitian Kreyol version is produced and
2) the film manages to do justice to Jean-Jacques Dessalines, founder
of the Republic of Haiti, who led the revolution to victory following
the kidnapping and murder of Toussaint Louverture by the French.
I do not have any special access to the production team to know whether
these two preoccupations have been taken seriously. But, at this juncture,
I would encourage those who share these concerns to express them as
was done by sister Marguerite Laurent. And, as we do so, let us make
sure we do not fall in the trap of haters who are speaking evil of the
project for motives that are simply hideous. For instance, I have read
a piece from Stanley Lucas, of International Republican Institute fame,
who attacks the Toussaint film project on account of Danny Glover's
friendship with President Chavez.
Obviously, the imperialists and their stooges realize how powerful a
tool this film can be, if it is funded and produced by revolutionaries
who will not have any "strings" attached that forces them
to revise the script to please the white supremacist forces who fought
the Haitian revolution and are still punishing the resisters.
This year we saw how the tragic story of the people of Uganda was exploited
in "The Last King of Scotland". Lots of accolade to Brother
Whittaker but, apparently, the film did not really tell the whole story.
Rather, it served to reinforce Eurocentric myths and prejudices. For,
while the buffoonery of Idi Amin Dada was thoroughly exposed, once again
his European allies where presented as mere victims of the "African"
demon. We are all too familiar with this paradigm. Who put Idi Amin
Dada in power, who financed him, who did he finance in return? ...all
of that is apparently unimportant....So many folks are happy Whittaker
got the Grammy. Most folks remain puzzled by the title "Last King
of Scotland" - Is it really Idi Amin who is being laughed at?
Here is an interesting article on this related subject...Le dernier
roi d’Ecosse, Critique sans concession d’un film
http://africamaat.com/article.php3?id_article=912&artsuite=0
So, I am glad it is Louverture Films that is working on the film, rather
than L'Alliance Française or some other self-imposed special
"friends" of the Haitian people.
I am excited to learn that talented actors like Angela Bassett, Cheadle,
Murphy etc... shall play the key roles.
I am still concerned that the importance of a Kreyol version has not
been appreciated to the required level. But, something can and ought
to be done to fix this.
I am still concerned about the adequate portrayal of Jean Jacques Dessalines
in the final product. But, something can and ought to be done to fix
this.
Based on information published on their website, here is how Louverture
Films can be reached:
Louverture Films, LLC
101 West 23rd Street, #283
New York, NY 10011 USA
Tel: 1-212 229 3960
Fax: 1-212 229 3963
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Laurent
on Glover's Proposed Haiti Film by Staff,
San Francisco Bayview,
May 23, 2007
See also:
Napoleon
was no Toussaint: Spare us the insult! by Jean Saint-Vil (Jafrikayiti),
Haitian
Perspectives, Feb
27, 2007
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What
White People Feed on: A Response to two racists articles on Haiti
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Black
Napoleon by Adam Hochschild, New York Times
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Hochschild's
Neo-Colonial Journalism. Response to Adam Hochschild article in SF Chronicle
by Marguerite Laurent, May 30, 2004
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Ezili
Danto's Comment that Jean-Bertrand-Aristide-Was-Too-Tolerant and-Compromising
to Ben Dupuy on his interview with Peter Hallward
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Birth
of a Nation: Has the bloody 200-year history of Haiti doomed it to more
violence? Adam Hochschild|
Sunday, May 30, 2004 |San
Francisco Chronicle
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Toussaint
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Hugo
Chavez Funds $19.7 Million for Danny Glover Films, May
22, 2007, Reuters
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/5/22/72441.shtml?s=en
and, http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSN2137112620070521
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela will fund a film directed by Hollywood
star
Danny Glover about Haiti's 18th-century slave rebellion against French
rule,
as President Hugo Chavez seeks to revive interest in his region's battles
against colonialism.
Venezuela's Congress said on its Web site on Monday it had set aside
$19.7
million for two films, one of which was Glover's movie about Haiti's
Francois-Dominique Toussaint Louverture, an iconic revolutionary leader
in
the Caribbean nation.
The film would mark Glover's debut as a feature film director. According
to
entertainment industry magazine Daily Variety, Glover started Louverture
Films to focus on Afro-Caribbean themes and to provide opportunities
for
minorities.
Glover, co-star of the "Lethal Weapon" films with Mel Gibson,
has long
expressed political sympathy for Chavez, an anti-U.S. leader who is
forging a
socialist republic and politicizing the army and judiciary of the OPEC
nation.
Chavez has encouraged Venezuelans to become better informed about Latin
America's historical independence leaders, drawing parallels between
their
struggles and his government's antagonism with the United States.
Reuters 2007.
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Chavez, Movie Mogul
By Tim Padgett and Kathie Klarreich/Miami,
May. 24, 2007, Time.com
Oil-rich Venezuela's left-wing President, Hugo Chavez, is the shock jock
of international politics — as he demonstrated in the U.N. General
Assembly last year, when he referred to President George W. Bush as "the
devil." To complement his anti-U.S. tirades, he has created a new
alternative Latin American television network, Telesur — and has
left free-speech advocates wringing their hands as he prepares to revoke
the license of one of Venezuela's largest and most outspoken opposition
networks, RCTV.
But Chavez watchers aren't sure what to make of his latest media role:
movie mogul. Venezuela's government confirms that it has approved almost
$18 million to finance a movie about Toussaint Louverture, the leader
of the epic 1791 slave uprising that helped make Haiti the first black
nation to throw off the yoke of European colonialism. It's hardly unusual
that Chavez would want to promote such an anti-imperialist story —
nor is it surprising that the man who will make the film is African-American
Hollywood star and civil rights activist Danny Glover, a close friend
of Chavez and of former left-wing Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
(who was overthrown and forced into exile in South Africa three years
ago).
So is Chavez, who has used his petro-largesse to build a raft of global
alliances, now exploiting the big screen to spread propaganda for his
socialist revolution? Chavez critics in Washington, like Florida congressman
Connie Mack, are blasting Glover for cutting "a sweetheart movie
deal" with Chavez, whom they denounce as a protege of Cuba's communist
comandante, Fidel Castro.
Glover is unlikely to be deterred by such comments: He is, after all,
a Telesur advisory board member and a vocal Bush Administration critic
who argues that Chavez has been portrayed unfairly in the U.S. At the
same time, Aristide, who blames the U.S. for his downfall, likens his
own story to that of Toussaint, who was later betrayed and died in France
in 1803. But Glover insisted this week that Toussaint, for which he has
been pursuing production funding for almost 10 years, won't be left-wing
revisionism but rather a critical piece of the hemisphere's past that
has been "essentially wiped out of our historic memory."
Glover will direct Toussaint, which will be shot in Venezuela and co-produced
by the Villa del Cine, a state-funded film and TV foundation. A Chavez
adviser says the project is simply meant to help jump-start Venezuela's
dormant film industry — and notes that Venezuela's is hardly the
first government to subsidize moviemaking. It's common in many European
nations as well as Latin American countries like Brazil and Mexico. "For
a country like Venezuela, it's really the only way to build a cinema infrastructure,"
says the adviser. As for the built-in politics of the Toussaint story,
he likens it to other liberation struggles such as that of Scottish hero
William Wallace, brought to the screen 12 years ago by Glover's Lethal
Weapon co-star, Mel Gibson, in Braveheart.
Venezuelan media report that Villa del Cine is also planning to produce
a film version of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's historical novel about South
American independence hero Simon Bolivar, The General in His Labyrinth.
Meanwhile, critics are denouncing Chavez's move to revoke RCTV's license
as another Castro-style authoritarian step to snuff out freedom of expression,
following recent legislation that criminalizes slander against public
officials. Chavez's backers insist that Venezuela is still replete with
privately owned media that openly criticize him, and argue that his move
against RCTV is justified because the network openly backed a failed 2002
coup against Chavez and his democratically elected government. "I
doubt," says the Chavez adviser, "that what RCTV did [in 2002]
would be tolerated by any government in any country."
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CAPSIZED:
Capsized,
a performance piece by Marguerite Laurent
(c) 1998 & 2000 by Marguerite Laurent
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/writings/capsized.html
Capsized,
mp3 audio, live on-stage audio recording of Ezili's theatrical
production of "Capsize" almost ten years ago
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/writings/capsized.mp3
The
Red Sea (Lanmè Rouj), a performance piece (c) 1998 &
2000 by Marguerite
Laurent, mp3
audio excerpted from DVD video of Ezili's theatrical production
of Red,
Black & Moonlight: Between Falling and Hitting the Ground.
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/writings/redseaaudio.mp3
The Red Sea
intro:
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/writings/theredseaintro.html
Text:
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/writings/theredsea.html
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Vodun: The Light and Beauty of Haiti
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/ezilidanto_bio.html
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They capsize or were they rammed?
By G. Dunkel
May 21, 2007, Workers
World
http://www.workers.org/2007/world/haiti-0524/
The agony of Haiti does not stop. There appears to be no limit to the
indignities and cruelties that neighboring imperialist countries are
willing to inflict on it.
The Turks and Caicos Islands, a small archipelago about 125 miles north
of Haiti, is a British colony. On May 4, a small sailboat with 170 Haitians
fleeing the grinding poverty in their homeland was a few minutes from
landing there when a British patrol vessel rammed it and started towing
it out to sea, according to the Haitian survivors.
A number of the passengers were knocked into the shark-invested waters.
Sharks killed 54 and another 30 to 40 drowned.
Less than half—70 men and 9 women —survived.
According to a May 8 dispatch from the Haiti Press Service, the bodies
that the sharks left and the survivors will be returned to Haiti. Bodies
in an advanced state of putrefaction will be buried in Turks and Caicos.
The British administration claims to have opened an inquiry into this
affair, but denied Haiti’s request to be included. Jacques Edouard
Alexis, the prime minister of Haiti, has publicly expressed his disbelief
over the preliminary story the British concocted.
Haitians living in the Fort Lauderdale area of Florida formed the Support
Group for Refugees and Repatriates (Groupe d’Appui aux Rapatriés
et Réfugiés GARR), which issued a press release asserting
that it was possible the U.S. Coast Guard was involved. GARR also feels
that Haitian migration needs to be regulated, put in a global context
related to economic development.
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