by Ezili Dantò “Homeless quake victims get evicted in the hurricane season while the Bush-Clinton fund builds a new $29 million shelter for Westerners with donation dollars to help quake victims. Once a vagabond always a vagabond –vagabon toujou vagabon, “bourik Sendomeng te mèt abiye. Kou midi sonnen, lap tonbe ranni.” It’s their nature. Fòk […]
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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 […]
Paul Farmer, a total sell-out: Uses Haiti to sell Ineffective Cholera Vaccines
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 […]
Paul Farmer relieves himself on Haiti’s dying cholera victims
* “A study on cholera risk factors conducted in Haiti found that not treating the drinking water was the main risk component… “Elimination of the threat of epidemic cholera is still possible for Haiti, and the key ingredient for that will be clean, chlorinated water and latrines.” (–Scott F. Dowell, MD, MPH, during presentation to […]
Leta Restavek: The Suppression of Democracy in Haiti
Leta Restavek: The Suppression of Democracy in Haiti Source: AP October 17, 2011 | Source – Coha.org (See also, Photos of protest against UN/Minustah in Haiti and “Who protects us from you?” – MINUSTAH and Haiti) The U.N. Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) has suppressed both electoral democracy and free speech in Haiti by organizing […]
“Who protects us from you?” – MINUSTAH and Haiti
“Who protects us from you?” — MINUSTAH and Haiti By Kevin Edmonds , Source: Stabroeknews.com Oct. 17, 2011 Kevin Edmonds is a freelance journalist and doctoral student in Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is one of the authors of the recently released report by a Harvard University based research group, on MINUSTAH […]
Haiti: UN/MINUSTAH’s Gang Rapes
MINUSTAH’s Gang Rapes By Michaëlle Desrosiers and Franck Seguy A l”Encontre Translated from the French by Dady Chery for Haiti Chery, October 12, 2011 Source: Haiti Chery MINUSTAH almost exclusively attacks those who are most despised, humbled, and impoverished. Thus, it assures itself a sickening legitimacy with the Haitian grandonarco-bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie from […]
Bill Clinton has more power in Haiti than Haiti’s president: The Holocaust Continues
“The holocaust in Ayiti continues. The insane imperial narrative and custom of honoring rapists, murderers, torturers, degenerate pedophile maniacs, pillagers, plunderers, enslavers and poverty pimps, starting with Christopher Columbus, who set forth the most prolonged genocides and horrific terrors in recorded human history, continues today. Officialdom honors the UN and UN envoys to Haiti as […]