Ezili Dantò’s Note on the arrival of Jean Claude Duvalier into Haiti today Bay kou blye, pote mak sonje – the one who gives the blow, forgets. The one who bears the mark remembers: Over 60,000 and some say as high as nearly 100,000 Haitians were murdered under the bloody US-supported Duvalier (father/son) dictatorships from […]
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Ezili Danto on Haiti priorities and accountability
Ezili Dantò interview with Wiatta on Wrfg.org, Atlanta on the one year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake. Broadcast, Jan. 13, 2011, (34:21 minutes) – listen here: **************** “Haiti Elections” on The Sunday Show on KPFA: Kris Welch interviews Ezili Dantò and Nic Rossier, Dec. 5, 2010 (55:33 minutes) – listen here: ************** Ezili Dantò on […]
One Year After Haiti Earthquake, Corporations Profit While People Suffer
One Year After Haiti Earthquake, Corporations Profit While People Suffer Thursday 13 January 2011 | Source – Truthout by: Jordan Flaherty, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis A Haitian girl sits in a displaced persons camp in December of 2010. (Photo: Internews Network) One year after an earthquake devastated Haiti, […]
The Nation: NGOs Have Failed Haiti
The Nation: NGOs Have Failed Haiti by Isabeau Doucet January 13, 2011, Source: The Nation Isabeau Doucet is a freelance journalist working in Port-au Prince, Haiti. Joe Raedle/Getty Images People attend a prayer service near the Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince in memory of those killed a year ago in the massive earthquake in Haiti. With […]
Haiti Year of Agony: Ezili HLLN’s Bouquet of Tears & Light
Jan. 12, 2011 marks the one-year anniversary of the Haiti quake, we re-member the lives lost and suffering agony of those left behind… ***** On January 12, 2011, HLLN re-members the Haiti quake victims with: A bouquet of tears by Michel Sanon (in English & French) a Crosstalk interview and Light by Daniel Beaubrun ****************** […]
Haitians Speak about Haiti: Jean Saint-Vil, Patrick Elie, Alex Dupuy and Edwidge Dandicat
One Year After Earthquake, Haitian Population Treated as a Threat, Not an Asset Source: Democracy Now! January 12, 2011 On the anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti, we speak with Ottawa-based Haitian writer and activist, Jean Saint-Vil. “One year after the earthquake, we are seeing the Haitian population being treated and seen as a threat, […]
Million Plus Remain Homeless and Displaced in Haiti: One Year After Quake
Million Plus Remain Homeless and Displaced in Haiti: One Year After Quake By Bill Quigley and Jeena Shah. Bill is Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a law professor at Loyola University New Orleans and a long-time Haiti advocate. Jeena Shah is a lawyer serving in Port au Prince as a Lawyers” Earthquake […]