Haitian Revolution Legacy & Lessons with Prof. James Small and Èzili Dantò at The Charles H. Wright African American Museum of History, Detroit, August 25, 2018 I am super honored to be on this panel with the brilliant Professor James Small, our living library of the struggle. Before the discussion, the audience watched the Tariq […]
Posts in category FreeHaitiMovement
Liv Boisrond Tonnerre vèsyon 1804
A Very Historic Moment in Caribbean Studies: Boisrond-Tonnerre’s Mémoires Pour Servir A L’Histoire D’Hayti, 1804. Thanks to Jean Jonassaint, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Syracuse University for making the 1804 memoir of Louis-Félix Boisrond Tonnerres, the first Hayti historian available online. “All the facts contained in these memoirs are part of the […]
American Mercenaries Arrested in Haiti Go Free
Haiti: The David and Goliath StoryAmericans Caught In Haiti During Violent Protest Suppression Behind the often repeated great Haiti disaster story, there’s a whole lot going on we don’t hear about. The Core Group of Haiti friends are the ambassadors from U.S., France, Canada, Brazil, Spain, OAS, UN, European Union and Germany. They prop up the […]
Who is Dropping Planeloads of Illegal Weapons in Haiti and Why?
Arms trafficking in Haiti of semi automatic guns and ammunition has been the subject of recent criminal convictions in the United States. Yet, more and more, abandoned planes, filled with assault rifles and war weapons, are being dropped into the hillsides of Haiti. Who is dropping planes filled with illegal weapons into Haiti and why? […]
Haiti, The Government-Run Narco State
Haiti, The Government-Run Narco State, written by Joel Leon “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, Two Thousand Season Haiti, The Government-Run […]
Return the Toxic Waste to Sender: HLLN Position on the Current Shitty News Cycle on Haiti
Return the Toxic Waste to Sender: HLLN Position on the Current Shitty News Cycle on Haiti Nearly twenty years ago, the co-author of this Èzili Dantò/HLLN note, Doumafis Lafontan, worked tirelessly to send back a ship loaded with toxic waste from the United States, dumped into Gonaives, Haiti. Haiti has been the depository of the […]
Dec 5, 522 years ago Paradise Lost But Peter Kujawinski and New York Times have no shame
Anacaona’s Lost Paradise: NYT/Kujawinski’s Media Lies “US Embassy sends its legal bandit, Peter Kujawinski, off with a NYT propaganda piece uplifting UN/MINUSTAH’s great Haiti stay and clapping for the US occupation and fake elections as the new normal When, since December 5, 1492, was Haiti ever a “paradise” for its masses? But don’t waste your […]
Mugabe and Haiti: Stop Trusting Our Enemies To Tell us the Truth
Zimbabwe/Haiti/Political Prisoners (USA) Reports Brother Jumbe Kweku Lumumba, Brother Ras Kwame, Brother Thutmose and Èzili, the “What Good is a Song? Friday Night Drum, 89.3 WRFG FM, 17 November 2017. http://www.margueritelaurent.com/downloads/FridayNightDrum_Nov17_2017.mp3 “What Good is a Song? The Friday Night Drum is the longest running public affairs program for progressive information in Atlanta, Georgia. The program […]