The oligarchs will use every tool at their disposal – military, media, the NGOs, money, religion. They’ll use the very people who are protesting – their protest – to service imperialism. The US embassy has thousands of agents, the UN and USAID forces in Haiti, there solely to keep the US occupation going. Disenfranchise Haiti […]
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Ezili on Haiti, four years after quake
Ezili Dantò interviewed on Uhuru Radio by Africa Live host, Dedan Sakara, Feb. 4, 2014 Haiti : In a State of Permanent War and Cholera 4 years after the earthquake * Listento the counter-colonial narrative on Haiti. Learn the truth rarely, if ever, published by the international media. The international media, from the Left and […]
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 […]