Ezili Dantò on hidden US occupation, DR apartheid and Haiti resistance
Interview on Uhuru Radio with Norman Otis Richmond, broadcasted Dec.13, 2013Ezili Dantò speaks about the US occupation of Haiti, 10-years later; Dominican Republic apartheid and helping to give a Haiti-led, Haiti-capacity building international voice to the Haiti resistance
The Dominican Republic Constitutional Court ruling to strip the nationality of Haitian descendants going back eight decades is legally absurd, blatantly racist and violates basic laws of fundamental fairness and human rights.” — Ezili Dantò of HLLN, End legal apartheid and ethnic cleansing in the Dominican Republic
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MORE BACKGROUND INFORMATION
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The slow and silent genocide the US is conducting in Haiti
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Economic reasons for US occupation of Haiti: Haiti Riches
Video: The oil,gold and iridium in Haiti here is the proof. Caracol near Haiti oil reserve - The Maroon voice
2013 Haiti under US occupation:
The puppet Haiti government agreed to lowest royalty rate in Western Hemisphere to pay mining companies. US/Euro mining companies - through the World Bank/IFC - are writing Haiti mining laws to mine Haiti's $20billion in gold while the people are disenfranchised under the US occupation behind UN guns. See, US to Rewrite Constitution to Better Serve the One Percent and Conflict of Interest: World Bank to Rewrite Haiti Mining Law, while Invested in Mining in Haiti, through the IFC
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Haiti quake victims, four years later
Video of the painful reality of current forced eviction of the Haiti earthquake victims
This video showing the forced eviction at Vilaj Mozayik reveals how the terrible trauma of Haiti quake victims continues, 4 years later, after more than $9 billion was collected and (mis) managed by Bill Clinton as UN envoy to Haiti and the World Bank, collector of Haiti quake funds at the UN. But, as the New York Times said, little footprint of these billions actually got to Haiti other than a Korean assembly plant factory up north, where there was no quake, and where recently the minimum wage was REDUCED for the benefit of the factory owners and consumers abroad. Foreigners got subsidized luxury housing built to live in and luxury hotels for relaxing, but the people at Vilaj Mozayik are evicted, even from their meager earthquake tents, back into the muddy, UN-cholera-ravaged streets.--Ezili Dantò of HLLN"Our immediate needs are food, shelter, water and hygiene. We are refugees in our country. " -- Haiti quake victims at Vilaj Mozayik, 4 years later (See also, Amnesty International Slams Latest Evictions in Haiti, The Progressive, Dec. 27, 2013)
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200 families evicted, more at imminent risk
"Around 200 families have been forcibly evicted from their homes in an informal settlement in the area of Titanyen on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. Hundreds of other families living in nearby areas are facing a similar threat. Many of them are victims of the January 2010 earthquake who had already been forcibly evicted. " --Urgent Action Required, go to Amnesty International
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At least 18 migrants from Haiti die after boat capsizes during tow to Turks and Caicos
A marine unit of Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force intercepted the overloaded boat and was escorting it when it suddenly overturned.
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A Kwanzaa Message for Haiti by Jafrikayiti
As the 10th anniversary of the racist bicentennial coup approaches, we, Haitians, need more than ever to focus on the 7 Principles of Kwanzaa, which are so well adapted to our most pressing needs.
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1. Umoja: Unity - We need this, among other things, to fight off the Cholera-infested foreign occupation forces - to pressure the United Nations to finally pay long overdue reparations to thousands of victims of various criminal acts it committed in Haiti since 2004.
2. Kujichagulia: Self-determination - We need this to retake control over our national elections. To convince the Haitian politicians who accept to be mere puppets of the coup-making embassies that they do not need to be so subservient to the neo-cons. To remember that we've once organized national elections without foreign money, foreign experts and computers that arrive with pre-selected-in-Washington Presidents, Senators etc... (Happy Kwanzaa to Ricardo Seitenfus http://www.godisnotwhite.com/stop-playing-with-haiti/ )
3. Ujima: Collective Work & Responsibility - We need this to rebuild the destroyed National Palace using the national budget. To include within said National Budget a few shelters to house internal refugees when the next cyclone or earthquake will inevitably hit Haiti. To give life to the Kreyol Academy so that long overdue reforms can take place in the education system, in the public service so Haitians can finally receive essential services from the Haitian State in the only language that binds us all together: Haitian Kreyol.
4. Ujamaa: Cooperative Economics - We need this to reinforce the practices of national production and national consumption exemplified by the works of organizations and progressive movements such as Kore Pwodiksyon Lokal (KPL) - while at once boycotting all products made or imported from the white supremacist Dominican Republic, as well as those of their Haiti-based traditional coup-sponsoring allies and agents.
5. Nia: Purpose - This we surely need to maintain and reinforce crucial nation-building traditions such as the Freedom Soup of January 1st which our beloved First Lady Impératrice Claire Heureuse Felicité Bonheur had established as a powerful reminder of foundational values of our noble nation: Tout Moun Lib, Tout Moun se Moun, Moun Gen Plis Valè Pase Byen Materyèl...
6. Kuumba: Creativity - This we need to establish national institutions to help harness the creative and productive powers of Haitian geniuses who live and breathe on every spot of the globe. Let there be Enstiti Ayisyen pou Lasyans ak Jeni and many more life-giving institutions (no more FAdH, no more FRAPH, no more CIA-financed death-giving, foreign controlled criminal coup-making organizations! We need brains not guns!)
7. Imani: Faith - to follow the admonition of our noble prophets and ancestors such as Papa Boukman, the first Liberation Theologian, who spoke the eternal truths spoken at Bwa Kay Iman. To develop a higher faith in our own capabilities as a people who hails from the first and most advanced of human civilizations.
As we celebrate Kwanzaa which begins on December 26 with the first principle (Umoja) and ends on January 1 with the seventh (Imani), we must ensure the January 1 Freedom Soup with which we will conclude the celebration does not turn sour. Thus, we must, by any means necessary, keep at bay all the negative forces. We must keep a watchful eye on the fools who, at this very moment, are busy plotting more nightmarish situations to force upon Haitians. Indeed, rumor has it Baby Doc's elder boy (Nicolas) is being groomed to become the next Washington-blessed puppet to enter foreign-occupied Haiti's political arena (how i wish this was merely a bad joke! But, remember kandida Sweet Miki and kandida Wild Wyclef were also at first dismissed as bad jokes!).
http://www.forumhaiti.com/t13875-bill-clinton-is-comfortable-posing-for-pictures-with-jean-claude-duvalier-why?highlight=clinton
In any case, we cannot stop the wicked from doing its wickedness. We can and must, however, prepare ourselves mentally and physically to counter them and to continue to contribute to the emergence of Dessalines' dream of Ayiti, the Freedom and Justice Nation.
Happy Kwanzaa to one and all!
Jafrikayiti
"Depi nan Ginen, bon Neg ap ede Neg!"
December 26, 2013
1. Umoja: Unity - We need this, among other things, to fight off the Cholera-infested foreign occupation forces - to pressure the United Nations to finally pay long overdue reparations to thousands of victims of various criminal acts it committed in Haiti since 2004.
2. Kujichagulia: Self-determination - We need this to retake control over our national elections. To convince the Haitian politicians who accept to be mere puppets of the coup-making embassies that they do not need to be so subservient to the neo-cons. To remember that we've once organized national elections without foreign money, foreign experts and computers that arrive with pre-selected-in-Washington Presidents, Senators etc... (Happy Kwanzaa to Ricardo Seitenfus http://www.godisnotwhite.com/stop-playing-with-haiti/ )
3. Ujima: Collective Work & Responsibility - We need this to rebuild the destroyed National Palace using the national budget. To include within said National Budget a few shelters to house internal refugees when the next cyclone or earthquake will inevitably hit Haiti. To give life to the Kreyol Academy so that long overdue reforms can take place in the education system, in the public service so Haitians can finally receive essential services from the Haitian State in the only language that binds us all together: Haitian Kreyol.
4. Ujamaa: Cooperative Economics - We need this to reinforce the practices of national production and national consumption exemplified by the works of organizations and progressive movements such as Kore Pwodiksyon Lokal (KPL) - while at once boycotting all products made or imported from the white supremacist Dominican Republic, as well as those of their Haiti-based traditional coup-sponsoring allies and agents.
5. Nia: Purpose - This we surely need to maintain and reinforce crucial nation-building traditions such as the Freedom Soup of January 1st which our beloved First Lady Impératrice Claire Heureuse Felicité Bonheur had established as a powerful reminder of foundational values of our noble nation: Tout Moun Lib, Tout Moun se Moun, Moun Gen Plis Valè Pase Byen Materyèl...
6. Kuumba: Creativity - This we need to establish national institutions to help harness the creative and productive powers of Haitian geniuses who live and breathe on every spot of the globe. Let there be Enstiti Ayisyen pou Lasyans ak Jeni and many more life-giving institutions (no more FAdH, no more FRAPH, no more CIA-financed death-giving, foreign controlled criminal coup-making organizations! We need brains not guns!)
7. Imani: Faith - to follow the admonition of our noble prophets and ancestors such as Papa Boukman, the first Liberation Theologian, who spoke the eternal truths spoken at Bwa Kay Iman. To develop a higher faith in our own capabilities as a people who hails from the first and most advanced of human civilizations.
As we celebrate Kwanzaa which begins on December 26 with the first principle (Umoja) and ends on January 1 with the seventh (Imani), we must ensure the January 1 Freedom Soup with which we will conclude the celebration does not turn sour. Thus, we must, by any means necessary, keep at bay all the negative forces. We must keep a watchful eye on the fools who, at this very moment, are busy plotting more nightmarish situations to force upon Haitians. Indeed, rumor has it Baby Doc's elder boy (Nicolas) is being groomed to become the next Washington-blessed puppet to enter foreign-occupied Haiti's political arena (how i wish this was merely a bad joke! But, remember kandida Sweet Miki and kandida Wild Wyclef were also at first dismissed as bad jokes!).
http://www.forumhaiti.com/t13875-bill-clinton-is-comfortable-posing-for-pictures-with-jean-claude-duvalier-why?highlight=clinton
In any case, we cannot stop the wicked from doing its wickedness. We can and must, however, prepare ourselves mentally and physically to counter them and to continue to contribute to the emergence of Dessalines' dream of Ayiti, the Freedom and Justice Nation.
Happy Kwanzaa to one and all!
Jafrikayiti
"Depi nan Ginen, bon Neg ap ede Neg!"
December 26, 2013
Tell the white saviors of Haiti the second principle of Kwanzaa
Habari Gani? Kugichagulia!
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves
The Second Principal of Kwanzaa tells Us that goals for Ourselves, Our families and Our communities should come from Us, rather than the system of white supremacy (S.O.W.S.).
After intelligent conversations with those who have Our best interest at heart, We should proceed along an Afrikan-designed path for Ourselves and Ourcommunities. Too often in the S.O.W.S., We lie to Ourselves about who We are in order to accommodate a murderous system that for 572 years has shown that it can kill Us at any moment. We should encourage Afrikans who are confused in the S.O.W.S. but be aware that they may have no intent in replacing it with self-self-deterimnation.
We continue in failed efforts of sucking from the teat of the S.O.W.S. hoping that one day We will be fully accepted by it. We feel pressured to conform to the S.O.W.S. and ask questions that reflect that:“I wonder what white people will say if I do this?”; “Should I wear my Afrikan clothing on the job”?; “Should I speak up about this incident of racism, because it might offend my white ‘friends’?” “Am I being ‘too Black’ about this?”
Kujichagulia tells Us to define Ourselves and speak truth to power. We should be strategic, yes. But the most important question for Us to ask is, “Is this good for Afrikan people?” Kujichagulia encourages Us to resist being defined by the S.O.W.S.
As Jayne Cortez said:
“And if we don’t fight
If we don’t resist
If we don’t organize and unify and
Get the power to control our own lives
Then we will wear
The exaggerated look of captivity
The stylized look of submission
The bizarre look of suicide
The dehumanized look of fear
And the decomposed look of repression
Forever and ever and ever
And there it is.”
Light the far left red candle..." - Dr. Ray Winbush, Source- Facebook
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