Now that Madiba is dead: Remember to remember that icons created by oppressors will never liberate the people. Madiba is dead: Condolences to heroic mother Winnie. Ezili Dantò‘s analysis of the current colonial narrative on the Mandela legacy For warrior mother, Winnie Madikezela Mandela and our children Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) Nelson Mandela is dead at […]
Posts in category Haiti Perspectives
Denounce and boycott Dominic Republic for making racism legal
“The Dominican Republic Constitutional Court ruling to strip the nationality of Haitian descendants going back eight decades is legally absurd, blatantly racist and violates basic laws of fundamental fairness and human rights.” — Ezili Dantò of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network ( “HLLN”) End Legal Apartheid in the Dominican Republic “The President of the Dominican […]
Ezili and Edwidge on the Haiti reality
“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 […]
Oct. 17, 2013 – Anperè Anperè
travay Frantz Louis, A FreeHaitiMovement post honoring Haiti’s founding father – Janjak Desalin (born, September 20, 1758, assassinated Oct. 17, 1806) *** Anperè Anperè travay Frantz Louis Anperè Anperè (okazyon 17 Oktòb 2013) Yon bann anvayisè-ravajè ak yon kolonn mèsenè-malfektè ke w te kouri dèyè retounen sou bannyè obsèvatè-misyonè ki vÃn pote lapè ak […]
Janjak Desalin – 17 Oktòb: Stop by Michel Sanon
Haiti: 207 years since Janjak Desalin 17 Oktòb: Stop “..Wake me up when the party starts On the twentieth Of September.” — Sanba Michel Sanon **** Oct. 17, 2013 – 207 years of suffering later. The Gathering honors the roots of liberty, Janjak Desalin and the indigenous Haiti army. We bow to the union that’s […]
Legal responsibility of UN for reckless transmission of a contagious disease
Ezili Dantò details legal responsibility of UN for Haiti cholera outbreak Cholera has, like other Haiti crisis, become a fund raising tools for foreign aid group to the detriment of Haitian health, justice, sovereignty and healing. Instead of immediately accepting responsibility, the UN has covered up the source of the outbreak and denied having legal […]
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 […]