By Ezili Dantò Not voting for Obama: We’re not even buying a voting ticket to the show In 2008, Ezili’s HLLN supported a vote for Obama, not because we entirely believed the Obama fairytale (See, The America I Know, 2008.) We supported a vote for Obama in 2008 for both pragmatic and idealistic reasons. But […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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