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

The Two Most Common Storylines about Haiti and Haitians ********************
Media Lies and Real Haiti News
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U.S. Patterns in Haiti
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Dessalines' Law
Jean Jacques Dessalines

APPEAL FOR AID
The Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN) reports that their appeal for help (carried in this column two weeks ago) was successful in getting enough water purification tablets to stave off the emergency in that area for the giant slum of Cite Soleil (Site Soley) but that people still need food. You can contact the HLLN directly at http://www.margueritelaurent.com/. Marguerite Laurent is the president of the HLLN. (Designated Scapegoats and Bogeyman by John Maxwell, Nov. 25, 2007)

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The nearly naked and almost dead by John Maxwell, Nov, 2007

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Haiti storm survivors say government has abandoned them, AP, Nov. 6, 2007

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- Haiti storm survivors say government has abandoned them, AP, Nov. 5, 2007 | http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=8207043


- HLLN Action requested to help the victims of Storm Noel in Site Soley,
The people of Site Soley, are asking for our help, through the human rights organization AUMOHD DWA MOUN/CCDH, headed by Attorney Evel Fanfan.....
HLLN Action Alert to Assist Storm Noel Survivors in Site Soley, November 6, 2007

- AUMOHD-CCDH | ALERT CITE SOLEIL
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Haiti storm survivors say government has abandoned them, AP, Nov. 5, 2007 http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=8207043

International Herald Tribune
Haiti storm survivors say government has abandoned them
The Associated Press
Monday, November 5, 2007

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Residents of a notorious Haitian slum lashed out at local authorities Monday for abandoning them in the recovery from Tropical Storm Noel, and said U.N. troops and Haitian officials failed to protect one shelter from marauding gangs.

Protesters blocked roads and burned tires on the outskirts of Cite Soleil to demand the government clean up after Noel, whose heavy rains and flooding killed 148 people in the Caribbean and left tens of thousands homeless.

Evacuees who spent four days in the overcrowded National School under U.N. protection said international troops abandoned the school Friday, leaving them defenseless against outside criminals who robbed them in the dead of night.

U.N. spokesmen said the shelter was turned over to Haitian authorities shortly after sundown, and that Friday's incident was a fight over food by evacuees who had not been fed until that evening.

But evacuees said Haitian authorities never arrived, that they were left alone in the school without a generator and that the attackers came from outside the shelter. A spokeswoman for the Haitian civil protection department did not return numerous phone messages Monday.

"It was pitch black, and a bunch of men ran in. I was lucky. I just took my daughter and ran out," said Sheila Jean, 29, who said the men stole a blanket she had been given by soldiers.

Peniel Darius, 17, was nearly trampled when men wielding sticks burst into the classroom where he and his mother had been sleeping and dragged a mattress out from under them.

"Everybody was yelling. Everybody was trying to hide," he said.

The 7,000-member U.N. force was installed to break gangs and stabilize the country after a 2004 rebellion ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
But after Noel, the force found itself doing disaster relief instead — filling in for a year-and-a-half-old government neither equipped nor organized to handle the crisis.

Paraguayan snipers soothed frustrated mothers and Brazilian infantry passed out blankets with one hand while cradling assault rifles in the other. Supplies ran thin, with soldiers and evacuees alike complaining about a lack of blankets and food.

On Monday, the anger was directed at Cite Soleil municipal officials, who protesters said were pocketing aid for themselves and ignoring outlying areas hit hardest by flooding. One group pumped their fists and shouted, "The mayor is a liar!"

"In the state that the country is in now, the government can't help us," said Joseph Bernard, a leader at a church sheltering more than 400 people since Tuesday. "We're asking all the international organizations to give us whatever aid they can."
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AUMOHD-CCDH | ALERT CITE SOLEIL
Action requested to help the victims of Storm Noel in Site Soley

The people of Site Soley, are asking for our help, through the Haitian human rights organization, AUMOHD DWA MOUN/CCDH, headed by Attorney Evel Fanfan.

More than 130 are reported dead in Haiti as a result of Storm Noel. Thousands have been left homeless, children separated from parents, entire families have lost their lives in the floods, mudslides and ravages of tropical storm Noel.

As indicated in a November 5, 2007 AP article, storm survivors say the government and UN authorities has abandoned them and they are without help. ( http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=8207043 ) Some of the people of Site Soley who have contacted Ezili's HLLN are asking us for assistance.

AUMOHD's "Alert Cite Soleil", posted on our website, outlines a list of items that can immediately provide this population with some relief.

If you or your organizations can donate any of these items please write to erzilidanto@yahoo.com, or call HLLN (203 829 7210) immediately.

We are especially in need of portable water, water treatment equipments and medicines like aquatabs to treat the water.

The folks also need blankets, non-perishable foods, first aid supplies, toothpaste, soap, toothbrushes, shoes (sneakers), sandals, undergarments - both for men and women.

Hoever, the most urgent need we are hearing about, from the people of Site Soley, over and over again, is for food and for water treatment (acquatabs) tablets.

WATER: This is new to us, so help with this if you have better info. But HLLN has spoken to the folks at acquatabs ( http://www.aquatabs.ca/ ) and they agreed to provide us with a few emergency packs at their cost.

We'd like to purchase as many Emergency Packs of Acquatabs as we can raise the money for.

The cost, we were quoted, for each Emergency package is $350Canadian dollars, not including freight costs. Each tablet treats 20 liters or 5 gallons. Each emergency package contains 14,000 tablets.

So, if you'd like to help us with the cost of the water treatment tabs, make a donation at our (HLLN) paypal account: http://www.margueritelaurent.com/donate/donate.html and email us to let us know (erzilidanto@yahoo.com, or call HLLN at 203 829 7210 ) TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. If anyone knows an organization willing to DONATE acquatabs, that would obviously be even more appreciated.

FOOD:
Those who wish to send food directly to the people of Site Soley may do so through CAM (Caribbean Air Mail - http://www.camtransfer.com/index.jsp) and indicate you are sending the food donation to Me. Evel Fanfan, AUMOHD DWA MOUN, Phone: 509-754-8022 ), CAM in Haiti will call Mr. Fanfan and his people immediately, as soon as the packages are paid for and AUMOHD-CCDH will make direct distribution to Site Soley families who are hurt, hungry, homeless and without homes.

You can buy packages of foodstuff at $100, $200, $300 and up, in the United States or, on the Internet from (8 to 5p.m) anywhere in the world, and it will be packaged in Haiti and distributed to the receiver the same day. CAM will deliver the food package to whatever location Evel Fanfan/Aumohd should request. This is the way most Haitians use to help their families in Haiti. And, the manner that will assure the food goes DIRECTLY and IMMEDIATELY to the intended victim survivors of SITE SOLEY.

If you do sent anything through CAM 1-800-934-0440 (Haiti Division), whether it is a money or food transfer, let them know that you are working with the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network and that you want verification that the items you purchased was given directly ONLY to Evel Fanfan/AUMOHD DWA MOUN, Phone: 509-754-8022. Then verify with AUMOHD by calling 509 754 8022 to confirn that your purchases or money transfer was duly delivered.

Please note, our work at HLLN is overwhelming so, verification and tracking is up to you to do. And CAM transfer is the organization RESPONSIBLE for making sure your transaction is duly tracked and processed without incident, not HLLN. If you cannot take the responsibility to send the food and verify its due delivery, then don't send it.

We extend our heartfelt thanks to all of you who answer this call to make this most urgent and direct donation of necessary assistance to the storm survivors of Site Soley. Mesi anpil.

Men anpil Chay Pa lou

Marguerite "Ezili Danto" Laurent
HLLN
November 6, 2007
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Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 14:49:06 +0100 (CET)
From: "evel fanfan" <fanfanmel@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Action de solidarite avec Cite Soleil- projet- Evel FANFAN
To: "zili danto" <erzilidanto@yahoo.com>

AUMOHD-CCDH
ALERT CITE SOLEIL

Bonjour Marguerite
voici le plan plus.-

La population haïtienne, notamment les plus vulnérables viennent de nouveau frappé par L’ouragan NOËL qui a fait plus de 130 morts en Haïti. Contrairement en République dominicaine où l’Etat a déclaré l’état d’urgence pour les zones sinistrées, l’Etat Haïtien est encore très lent et n’a pas pris jusqu'à date de mesures adéquates pour voler au secours des sinistrés.

La Commune de Cite Soleil, particulièrement, dans la plainte du cul de Sac, première et deuxième section, zone de Blanchard, Bidivier, Terre Noire, Village rapatrier, Fontaine Duvivier, Martial, Barrière Fer, Larousse, Jamo, Bois neuf et Cite Gérard pour ne citer que cela. Selon les dernières informations, plus de 5880 familles sont sinistrées, alors que seulement 3000 sont déclarées.

Le vendredi 3 Novembre, une délégation de AUMOHD a été a Bois Neuf pour une première action de solidarité a plus de trente (30) familles sinistrées ( voir la liste en bas) , des kits contenant du riz, d’huile, du bonbon, du pain, de saumon, de baleine, d’allumette ont été distribuées a ces familles.


Samedi 4 Novembre, après avoir visité les lieux ci-dessus mentionnés, une rencontre extraordinaire a eu lieu avec les responsables du Conseil Communautaire pour les droits Humains de Cite Soleil, CCDH- Cite Soleil. Il a été décidé dans cette rencontre qu’une action de mobilisation visant non seulement a accompagner les sinistrées de façon immédiate mais surtout a sensibilisation les familles a prévenir les épidémies qui pourraient attaquer ces familles déjà en difficulté.

Comme besoins.-
Pour arriver à cette campagne d’accompagnement et de sensibilisation, il faut :
I.-
a) Pour la sensibilisation
- matériels de son
- véhicule et du carburant
- Banderoles de sensibilisation
- autres

b) pour la prévention (traitement de l’eau)
-4VHT
- aquatabs
- récipient (gallons)
- gobelets
- gifle


II.- Pour l’accompagnement (distribution)
-Produits alimentaires
- couvertures (draps)
- produits hygiéniques
- médicaments.


Remerciements-
AUMOHD, tient a remercier au nom des victimes tous ceux qui vise participer et/ou qui ont participés a cette action de solidarité a ces familles. AUMOHD se fait le devoir de remercier d’une façon spéciale :
◊ Hurah Inc.
◊ Haïti Solidarity NetWork from NewJersey
◊ Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network ("HLLN")
◊ Monsieur Gesner Pierre

Remerciement aussi a vous qui comptent participer dans cet action de solidarité.



AUMOHD DWA MOUN
Me. Evel FANFAN
Président
Phone: 509-754-8022
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Giving Thanks

Remembering the history of Thanksgiving, HLLN give thanks for our families, the Network, our friends. We give thanks for the strengths of the Tainos/Arawaks, for the mission they left in our care, for AYITI and our purpose - for our history and legacy of struggle as the human rights pioneers of this Hemisphere since their "New World" began. (See excerpt and links below and go to, The History of Thanksgiving by the Black Commentator http://www.blackcommentator.com/254/254_co
ver_end_of_american_thanksgivings.html ).

HLLN gives special, special thanks to all who assisted in helping with the Site Soley storm Noel victims, including without limitation:

John Maxwell

Dr. Antonio M. Pinchinat, PHD

Serge Pierre Pierre

James St. Furcy

Dr. Carl J. Gilbert

Ghislaine Gilbert

Amalia Vidas

Richard Vanden Heuvel

Tom F. Driver

Anne L. Barstow

Bruce Bergquist/The committee on Social Justice and Peace of the Rutgers Presbyterian Church in New York City

Chantal Laurent,
Madanm Fanon,

Alma Girondo,

Gesner Pierre,

Roseline Delorge, and

Hewoll J.

Thanks to the people above listed and our Site Soley Committee at HLLN, we've met our immediate water purification goal and the bulk, emergency packed AQUATABS® water purification tablets, have been shipped to Haiti. Some of the food, emergency kits and other staple items requested by our collaborators in Haiti, have already arrived. We are still in need of more donations for food, first aid kits and other emergency items and shall continue to run this Site Soley fund through the Christmas season, if there is an interest in helping these folks via the HLL Network in Haiti.

The best way to assist right now is through a financial donation, so that the necessary items may be bought in Haiti and distributed to the folks in need without shipment delays. (Those interested may use paypal account on the HLLN website - http://www.margueritelaurent.com/donate/donate.html or, to make a direct wire transfer, write to erzilidanto@yahoo.com for details.)

A report will follow as soon as our Ezili Danto Witness project folks in Haiti provide us with pictures of the distribution and an itemization of the more than 3,400 folks you have helped to give more life to in this time of storms. (Action requested to help the victims of Storm Noel in Site Soley
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/p
ressclips/StormnoelSiteSoley.html#stormAppeal ).

Words of appreciation are woefully inadequate. But please - souple - accept, our heartfelt thank you. Mesi anpil.
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network ("HLLN")
November 22, 2007
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*********(history of the US's Thanksgiving Day...)
"....Another common practice among European explorers was to give "smallpox blankets" to the Indians. Since smallpox was unknown on this continent prior to the arrival of the Europeans, Native Americans did not have any natural immunity to the disease so smallpox would effectively wipe out entire villages with very little effort required by the Europeans. William Fenton describes how Europeans decimated Native American villages in his 1957 work "American Indian and White relations to 1830."

From 1615 to 1619 smallpox ran rampant among the Wampanoags and their neighbors to the north. The Wampanoag lost 70 percent of their population to the epidemic and the Massachusetts lost 90 percent. Most of the Wampanoag had died from the smallpox epidemic so when the Pilgrims arrived they found well-cleared fields which they claimed for their own. A Puritan colonist, quoted by Harvard University's Perry Miller, praised the plague that had wiped out the Indians for it was "the wonderful preparation of the Lord Jesus Christ, by his providence for his people's abode in the Western world."

Historians have since speculated endlessly on why the woods in the region resembled a park to the disembarking Pilgrims in 1620. The reason should have been obvious: hundreds, if not thousands, of people had lived there just five years before. In less than three generations the settlers would turn all of New England into a charnel house for Native Americans, and fire the economic engines of slavery throughout English-speaking America. Plymouth Rock is the place where the nightmare truly began. (The Black Commentator, The History of Thanksgiving) http://www.blackcommentator.com/254/25
4_cover_end_of_american_thanksgivings.html

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"Associations between Haitians and infectious disease are currently particularly strong in the U.S. popular press. This, too, is nothing new. Writing in 1920, National Geographic journalists noted that "it is estimated that 87 percent of the entire population were infected with contagious diseases." AIDS is merely the most recent in a long series of plagues attributed to Haiti. In the sixteenth century, Europeans insisted that syphilis originated n Haiti, and was brought back by Columbus' sailors. (the converse now appears to have been the case.)"Excerpted from: The Uses of Haiti (1994, updated 2005) --by Paul Farmer

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Coincidence or Intentional? - Is there an International plan to depopulate
and exterminate a large portion of Haiti's population? by Ezili Dantò,
November 4, 2006 |
http://www.margueritelaurent.co
m/pressclips/conspiracy.html#neocolon

See also Vaccinate Haiti! and Defamed! - Page 1, - Page 2, Pg. 3 and Pg. 4 )
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pre
ssclips/defamed4.html#vaccinateHaiti

Defamed!
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed.html ;
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed1.html ;
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed3.html ;
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed4.html ;
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed5.html ; and
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/defamed6.html

Warning (Please listen): A Genocide by Vaccination?
Editorial - Occupied Haiti To be Vaccinated ! Franklin Ellis, Nov. 11, 2007
Fanmi Lavalas Emission (Mp3 - 12:41| in French)
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/edit
oryalfranklin11-11-07.mp3

Possible Media Bias on coverage of Gilbert/Worobey report
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pres
sclips/defamed1.html#media

Haïti/Propagation du Sida : Les erreurs du professeur Michael Worobey
http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article6579

- "...In the annals of human history, no country, no settlers in the Americas,
killed more people, shed more BLOOD than the English, French, Spanish - than
the European tribes and their white settlers. Period, no comma. So, how does
Haiti get to be the one "doomed?" Why? Because the blood shed and people
eradicated out of Haiti where said whites, who had annihilated the Amerindians
all over the Americas and then kidnapped and enslaved Africans to come work the land of the Tainos so that the European's coffee at home would be sweet? Right? The kidnapping of Blacks, spreading of lies about black inferiority and
savagery continue as we see with this article and the abduction out of Haiti of
President Aristide... (From Hochschild's Neocolonial Journalism: Response to Adam Hochschild article in SF Chronicle by Marguerite Laurent, May 30, 2004 ).

-Editorial - Occupied Haiti To be Vaccinated! Franklin Ellis, Nov. 11, 2007 Fanmi Lavalas Emission (Mp3 - 12:41| in French)

Genocide and the UN's deliberate depopulation of Site Soley, a prime oceanfront property of the poor, under pretext of controlling crime ang gangs in Haiti
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/declarationAr.html#depopulate

Haiti Remittances top US $1.6b , March 2007
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/laborvalue.html#diaspora

No other national group anywhere in the world sends more money home than Haitians living abroad
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/laborvalue.html#noother
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