by Ezili Dantò “Homeless quake victims get evicted in the hurricane season while the Bush-Clinton fund builds a new $29 million shelter for Westerners with donation dollars to help quake victims. Once a vagabond always a vagabond –vagabon toujou vagabon, “bourik Sendomeng te mèt abiye. Kou midi sonnen, lap tonbe ranni.” It’s their nature. Fòk […]
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Haiti: A time bomb which must be defused immediately
by Ezili Dantò “If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” — Lilla Watson, the Aboriginal activists group, Queensland, 1970s Haiti: A time bomb which must be defused immediately There’s a reason to […]
Bill Clinton admits UN brought cholera, Haiti raped again
By Ezili Dantò “Generals, officers, soldiers: differing from him by whom I was preceded, the ex-general Toussaint L”Ouverture, I have been faithful to the promise which I made you when I took up arms against tyranny, and as long as I live I will keep my oath. Never shall a colonist or a European set […]
HLLN’s Tribute to Jean Ristil Jean Baptiste – Yon gwo konbatan ale
Ezili Dantò’s Note: HLLN Pays Homage to Jean Ristil Jean Baptiste (SFbayview version ; hear the voice of Jean Ristil as LakouNew York honors the life of Jean Ristil – Kreyòl broadcast of 2hr special on funeral of Jean Ristil on March 5, 2005 ; LakouNY honors the life of Jean Ristil broadcasts on 27 […]
Haiti: Jan 1, 2012 Another Independence Day Under Occupation
Jan. 1 – Another Independence Day Under Occupation “Recall everything I have sacrificed to fly to your defense – relatives, children, wealth, so that now the only riches I possess is your freedom. Recall that my name horrifies all those who are enslavers, and that tyrants and despots everywhere only bring themselves to utter it […]
Re-MEMBERing Sonia Pierre
HLLN honors and re-MEMBER Sonia Pierre, our new loss without measure. — Yon gwo mapou tonbe If you want to know what a hero is, what a saint looks like, what Go(o)d is. Then, re-MEMBER Sonia Pierre. Sing for our beloved Sonia. Sonia Pierre, our sister, a peerless warrior with boundless compassion for the vulnerable […]
Paul Farmer relieves himself on Haiti’s dying cholera victims
* “A study on cholera risk factors conducted in Haiti found that not treating the drinking water was the main risk component… “Elimination of the threat of epidemic cholera is still possible for Haiti, and the key ingredient for that will be clean, chlorinated water and latrines.” (–Scott F. Dowell, MD, MPH, during presentation to […]
Bill Clinton has more power in Haiti than Haiti’s president: The Holocaust Continues
“The holocaust in Ayiti continues. The insane imperial narrative and custom of honoring rapists, murderers, torturers, degenerate pedophile maniacs, pillagers, plunderers, enslavers and poverty pimps, starting with Christopher Columbus, who set forth the most prolonged genocides and horrific terrors in recorded human history, continues today. Officialdom honors the UN and UN envoys to Haiti as […]