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 […]
by Jean Yves Point-du-Jour * Haiti: The Handwriting on the Wall for Martelly and the US by Jean Yves Point-du-Jour, Haiti Perspectives, Special Op-Ed written for Ezili’s HLLN, March 21, 2012 Those of us who are following daily what is happening in Haiti are deeply concerned for the future of our country. Things are going […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Haitians have a saying: “washing your hands and wiping it dirt” Source: The Haitian Blogger, Oct. 23, 2011 (See also -UN Ducks Blame for Haiti’s Dying Cholera Victims or Paul – the god – Farmer relieves himself on Haiti’s dying cholera victims.) Anti-UN Protests in Haiti: “They’ve Brought Us Disease and Humiliation” This is what […]
A child stricken with cholera is being treated at a cholera treatment center in Carrefour, an area just outside of Port-au-Prince June 6, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Swoan Parker Paul Farmer, a total sell-out: Uses Haiti’s Poor Children as Guinea Pigs for Cholera Vaccines By Dady Chery | Source: Haiti Chery (See also Farmer relieves himself on […]
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