ezili_sm_button
writings_sm_button
perform_sm_button
bio_sm_button
workshops_sm_button
contactus_sm_button
guest_bu_button
law_sm_button
merchan_bu_button
  ezilidanto@margueritelaurent.com  
BACK
 
 


Haiti, We're Sorry

By: Deniece Alleyne LL.B, The Democrat (St. Kitts & Nevis), June 3, 2007
*******************

The Position of 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)
** The statement is in Kreyol. A brief HLLN English summary and the unofficial English translation by Lionel Legros is provided below.)
*********************

Media Lies and the Real Haiti News,August 12, 2007
*********************
Moving On
*********************


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


 



*********************
RandallRobinson.com
*********************
Ezili Danto Witness Project

***************

Randall Robinson on " An Unbroken
Agony: Haiti: From Revolution
to the Kidnapping of a President,
Democracy Now!, July 23rd, 2007

************

David Rudder' song -"Haiti, I'm sorry."

To subscribe, write to erzilidanto@yahoo.com
campaigns_button
different_button
zilibuttonCarnegie Hall
Video Clip
No other national
group in the world
sends more money
than Haitians living
in the Diaspora
Red Sea- audio

The Red Sea


Ezili Dantò's master Haitian dance class (Video clip)

zilibuttonEzili's Dantò's
Haitian & West African Dance Troop
Clip one - Clip two


So Much Like Here- Jazzoetry CD audio clip

Ezili Danto's

Witnessing
to Self

zilibutton
Update on
Site Soley

RBM Video Reel

Haitian
immigrants
Angry with
Boat sinking
A 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)

Dessalines' Law
and Ideals

Breaking Sea Chains


Little Girl
in the Yellow
Sunday Dress

Anba Dlo, Nan Ginen
Ezili Danto's Art-With-The-Ancestors Workshops - See, Red, Black & Moonlight series or Haitian-West African

Clip one -Clip two
ance performance
zilibutton 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
     
No other national group in the world sends more money than Haitians living in the Diaspora
 
 
 
 
 







 

It's Neither Hope nor Progress when
the International Community is Running Haiti

***************

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"
***************

"...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)


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.

***************


********

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.)
****************************************

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!
****************************************
****************************************

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

 

***************

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
***************
*************************

****************************************

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!

 

 
 

****************************************

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&sectionID=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
***************
*******

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
********

Media Lies and the Real Haiti News, August 12, 2007
********
Moving On

 
********************* 
Vodun: The Light and Beauty of Haiti
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/ezilidanto_bio.html

*
******************** 
 
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

HOME
Ezilidanto | Writings | Performances | Bio | Workshops | Contact Us | Guests | Law | Merchandise