“Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people’s terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms.”” Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker What’s going in Haiti: Two Haiti women speak the […]
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Ezili’s Haiti Work: The non-colonial narrative
Video report on Haiti Riches, Zili Dlo solar project and the works of Ezili Dantò/HLLN Ezili’s HLLN tells the non-colonial narrative on Haiti and promotes self-sufficiency not NGO dependency. Zili Dlo is an HLLN project for clean water, renewable power, cultural education and skills transfer for Haiti HLLN’s Zili Dlo is a Haiti-led, Haiti-capacity building […]
UN claims to be above the law, says its legal to kill 8000 Haitians with impunity
Haiti is back on the plantation: UN claims to be above the law, denies responsibility for cholera deaths in Haiti Human rights attorney Ezili Dantò of Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN) discusses on Black Agenda Report with Glen Ford theUS occupation forces claiming absolute immunity for bringing cholera deaths and water poisoning to Haiti, February […]
Django, white saviors, false benevolence and the Haiti quake
by Èzili Dantò of HLLN “The slave-raids of today…white invaders and aggressors are joined by treacherous African petty bourgeoisie parasites, such as Obama, Kagame, Museveni, Kabila and others whose main demands have been integration into the command and leadership of the white capitalist parasitic political economy.” – Down with Kagame, Museveni and Kabila! The imperialist […]
Foreign violence against Haiti is the norm
Felipe Luciano/WBAI interviews Ezili Dantò of HLLN on Haiti, three years after the earthquake. Broadcast on Jan 11, 2012 It is an exercise in futility to go to the perpetrators and executioners of human rights crimes in Haiti in hopes of getting justice for our people.–Ezili Dantò of HLLN, Haiti: Jan 1, 2013: Another Independence […]
Desalin’s Constitution (Kreyòl and English)
Konstitisyon Enperyal Ayiti Anperè Jan Jak Desalin siyen li 20 Me 1805 Travay Lakou New York Listen to Lakou New York, Jan 1, 2013 two hour special on Haiti Independence Day. Featuring special guests speaking about Desalin’s 1805 Constitution. Konstitisyon Enperyal Ayiti Anperè Jan Jak Desalin siyen li 20 Me 1805 Konstitisyon 1805 Konstitisyon […]
Hayti January 1: Another Independence Day Under Occupation
“For whose entertainment shall we sing our agony? To the destroyers, aspiring to extinguish us, reveling in their own fantastic success? The last imbecile to dream such dreams is dead, killed by the saviors of his dreams.” — Ayi Kwei Armah Èzili Dantò January 1stinterview 2013Civil Alert interview (177:03min): Èzili Dantò of the Haytian Lawyers […]
UN Capitalizing on Cholera: playing arsonist and fireman
by Ezili Dantò of HLLN Summary: The UN plays the role of both arsonist and fireman in Haiti’s cholera epidemic. UN announces a rehashed 10-year plan for clean water that is unfunded. Kristof’s white savior bridge characters, filled with conflicts of interests, declare cautious success. They help throttle justice for Haitians, put bandages on plunder, […]