English translation by Doumafis Lafontan * (Editor’s Note: Scroll down for the French original of this article. English translation by Doumafis Lafontan for HLLN, May 1, 2012. The article outlines the similarities between SHADA (Haitian-American Society for Agricultural Development) clear-cutting, stripping fertile Haiti forests and lands to plant rubber and sisal for US market , […]
Zili Dlo: Solar engineers for Haiti
UPDATE Oct. 2012: We’re happy to report our first four Zili Dlo solar mothers left to go study in India at Barefoot College on Sept. 29, 2012 to become the first Barefoot college solar engineers from Haiti. See our preliminary photos at:1. Zili Dlo: 2012 -Solar power and clean water for Haiti , and at […]
Une autre vision sur Jean-Jacques Dessalines
by Jacques Casimir * Une autre vision sur Jean-Jacques Dessalines Par Jacques Casimir (Pasteur d’Amoulio), [email protected] (Another vision of Jean-Jacques Dessalines by Jacques Casimir) Les Vaincus n’écriront jamais l’histoire des vainqueurs. S’ils le font, c’est d’une manière hideuse, tronquée et falsifiée, pour nous montrer qu’ils ont toujours le dernier mot. Ils ont mis en avant […]
HLLN analysis of Times’ cholera article
by Ezili Dantò If the New York Times applied the “follow the money” journalistic adage, the picture effortless falls into place. The Haiti truth, the names and credentials of who benefits from letting cholera ravage Haiti, earthquake victims die – from all Haiti crisis – their intertwining Boards of Directors, job positions, current and former […]
Western Traditional NGOs: Tools of War
Editorial point – USAID is not an NGO as stated by the writer below. USAID funds traditional NGOs and, in Haiti, they are mostly a tool of destabilization and neocolonial destruction – a tool of war, which is the main point in the article, also relevant to Haiti – “The Republic of NGOs”, we wish […]
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 […]