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FROM THE RAMPARTS: Why is Haiti so Poor? by Junious Ricardo Stanton
From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Why Is Haiti So Poor?
“From the standpoint of the World Bank and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Haiti was the perfect candidate for this neoliberal facelift. The entrenched poverty of the Haitian masses could be used to force them into low-paying jobs sewing baseballs and assembling other products. But USAID had plans for the countryside too. Not only were Haiti 's cities to become exporting bases but so was the countryside, with Haitian agriculture also reshaped along the lines of export-oriented, market-based production. To accomplish this, USAID, along with urban industrialists and large landholders, worked to create agro-processing facilities, even while they increased their practice of dumping surplus agricultural products from the U.S. on the Haitian people.
This ‘aid’ from the Americans, along with the structural changes in the countryside, predictably forced Haitian peasants who could no longer survive to migrate to the cities, especially Port-au-Prince, where the new manufacturing jobs were supposed to be. However, when they got there they found there weren't nearly enough manufacturing jobs go around. The city became more and more crowded. Slum areas expanded. And to meet the housing needs of the displaced peasants, quickly and cheaply constructed housing was put up, sometimes placing houses right ‘on top of each other.’
Before too long, however, American planners and Haitian elites decided that perhaps their development model didn't work so well in Haiti and they abandoned it. The consequences of these American-led changes remain, however.” What You're Not Hearing about Haiti (But Should Be) by Carl Lindskoog
Following the reports of a devastating 7.0 seismic earthquake on the Haiti side of the island of what used to be called Hispaniola and later San Domingo the corporate mind control and spin apparatus showed around-the-clock scenes of destitution and devastation accompanied by the refrain “Haiti is the poorest country in the hemisphere and one of the poorest nation in the world.”
Yes Haiti is poor, but have you ever asked yourself why?
Keep in mind the overwhelming majority of the people of Haiti are of African ancestry. These Africans were kidnapped and transported to the whole island by Europeans who brought them there to be used as cheap labor beginning in the sixteenth century. But these African have a distinguished reputation for being fiercely independence minded. The Africans on the island originally claimed for Spain by Cristobal Colon (Christopher Columbus) eventually became the crown jewel of the French colonies that was coveted by both the Spanish and British. The Africans were so obsessed with freedom they were able to defeat the British, French and Spanish to win their freedom and declare Haiti a free republic (the first African republic in the Western hemisphere) in 1804.
That monumental feat sent shock waves throughout the world and unnerved the US so much they refused to officially recognize Haiti until 1862! During that time the US instituted and maintained a trade embargo (which is an act of war) against Haiti and pressured France , England and Spain to go along with it until the 1860's.
Commerce is the life blood of a nation.
When the US and its Western allies conspired to deprive Haiti of international commerce even thought it had the potential to engage in trade and use its natural riches as a source of wealth, they severely undermined Haiti ’s economic viability. In a case of supreme hypocrisy the French demanded reparations for lost wealth when the Haitians kicked them out!
“After a dramatic slave uprising that shook the western world, and 12 years of war, Haiti finally defeated Napoleon’s forces in 1804 and declared independence. But France demanded reparations: 150m francs, in gold. For Haiti , this debt did not signify the beginning of freedom, but the end of hope. Even after it was reduced to 60m francs in the 1830s, it was still far more than the war-ravaged country could afford.
Haiti was the only country in which the ex-slaves themselves were expected to pay a foreign government for their liberty. By 1900, it was spending 80% of its national budget on repayments. In order to manage the original reparations, further loans were taken out — mostly from the United States, Germany and France .
Instead of developing its potential, this deformed state produced a parade of nefarious leaders, most of whom gave up the insurmountable task of trying to fix the country and looted it instead. In 1947, Haiti finally paid off the original reparations, plus interest. Doing so left it destitute, corrupt, disastrously lacking in investment and politically volatile. Haiti was trapped in a downward spiral, from which it is still impossible to escape. It remains hopelessly in debt to this day.”
***(I take issue w/ anyone calling Haiti a 'deformed state.' Even with the correct historical references and reasons for its devastation century after centure, this sends the wrong message. And it should be noted that the 'parade of nefarious leaders were all U.S./CIA chosen and trained. The 'parade' ended when 97% of the Haitian people elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide - twice. And twice, an incensed Euro-American cabal had him deposed, nearly killed, and exiled. m)
In addition to the US embargo during the 1800's, the US invaded Haiti in 1914 and stole the gold and money from the Haitian treasury and banks and transported it to the US for “safe keeping.” Yeah they kept it their safes and vaults ! The US also imposed atrocious trade restrictions and a US influenced “Constitution” on Haiti . To make matters worse, the US propped up inept and pliant Quislings and puppets into late in the twentieth century and made loans to Haiti at rates that would make a loan shark blush with envy. Any time the Haitians resisted a Western neo-colonial agenda, the Europeans and US stomped on them even harder.
In 1996 the IMF, World Bank and USAID imposed draconian loan terms on Haiti . In 2001 the US pressured Western nations to withhold credit from Haiti . Western external pressure forced Haiti to abandon their own agricultural programs, lower tariffs and take in US rice and other imports. Years of deforestation first by the French and later by the Haitians themselves has caused massive soil erosion. This soil erosion has left a country that was once able to at least feed itself destitute and unequipped to sustain a national agricultural program.
“Virtually since 1492, when Columbus first set foot on the heavily forested island of Hispaniola, the mountainous nation has shed both topsoil and blood—first to the Spanish, who planted sugar, then to the French, who cut down the forests to make room for lucrative coffee, indigo, and tobacco. Even after Haitian slaves revolted in 1804 and threw off the yoke of colonialism, France collected 93 million francs in restitution from its former colony—much of it in timber. Soon after independence, upper-class speculators and planters pushed the peasant classes out of the few fertile valleys and into the steep, forested rural areas, where their shrinking, intensively cultivated plots of maize, beans, and cassava have combined with a growing fuel wood-charcoal industry to exacerbate deforestation and soil loss. Today less than 4 percent of Haiti 's forests remain, and in many places the soil has eroded right down to the bedrock. From 1991 to 2002, food production per capita actually fell 30 percent.” Haiti Soil, National Geographic September 2008
The ever mischievous US government, on behalf of their corporate buddies, kept up the economic pressure and lobbied their European allies to curtail credit to the cash strapped nation. “The US convinces several European countries to suspend hundreds of millions of dollars in credit and aid and provide the IMF, World Bank, and European Union with ‘vague instructions’ to deny other lines of credit to the impoverished Caribbean country of Haiti . The resumption of aid and credit is made contingent on Haitian President Aristide coming to an agreement with the opposition party, the Democratic Convergence, which is controlled and financed by Haitian and US right-wing interests.” US-Haiti (1804-2005) History Commons
These moves undermined President Aristide’s program for revitalization and forced him to shelve plans for minimum wage increases, land reform, educational and infrastructure improvements. Eventually the Haitian mulatto “House Negroes” who collaborated with the US CIA and corporatist interests pressed the US to remove Aristide again, which the US gladly did.
In 2004 the US literally kidnaped Aristide and took him to Africa amidst attacks on the country and his followers by US armed and trained death squads. The UN stepped into the breach supposedly as a “peace keeping” mission but has remained as an occupying force when it was the US that armed and trained the thugs and mercenaries who created a rein of terror in Haiti in their bid to oust Aristide.
Now there are credible rumors surfacing that there are oil deposits in the Fort Libertie and coastal regions. You know the US wants to get its hands on that.
Is the US attempting to secure Haitian Oil?
Is that why Obama is sending US troops to Haiti instead of aid workers, supplies and doctors?
In the next few days, months and years we will see continued US-UN occupation, more misery and more dependency; in the name of stability, security and humanitarianism.
Now you know why Haiti is so poor.
__________________________________________________________
Haiti needs: Conscious Disaster relief with human rights and dignity
Please pass on that message to the white house. All your representatives. Help the earthquake victims.
Object to the US occupation and militarization of Haiti on the backs of perhaps up to 200,000 dead Haitians and 3million suffering Haitians.
This is ATROCIOUS.
Repugnant.
Odious.
This is not emergency relief but opportunistic disaster capitalism - purposely, diabolically letting the poor die so to make Haiti a pristine tourist haven for foreigners as was done elsewhere after the tsunami... Stop the shock doctrine in Haiti .
Please.
As HLLN indicated at outset - This is a tragedy of EPIC proportions and Haiti needs Conscious relief with dignity and human rights. If we are to rule ourselves, alter the old imperialistic profit-over-people paradigm that contains Haiti in poverty, this is the time for US government to let first responders from all around the world IN to treat the people.
Stop blocking aid, please. There are 100 Haitian doctors in New York trying to get into Haiti unsuccessfull and another 200 doctors we are told in DC trying to fly in with CRITICALLY needed medical supplies and expertise.
US, Obama, please stop blocking emergency aid and relied to Haiti and also support the Haitian-led relief effort from the US and help us with logistic, supplies and getting our first responders on the ground.
We are not trying to uphold USAID and the old ways of NGOS and Haitian oligarchy but the Haitian people, the Haitian government, Haitian dignity. Please everyone help us in this. In the name of the earthquake victims, in the name of true solidarity, in the name of the Ancestors who fought for Haiti 's independence help us to stop the occupation of Haiti , stop US from making SECURITY to issue. Denying medical aid. blocking first responders from entering and preparing Krome Jail in Miami for any Haitians who escape their aid in Haiti .
Tell CNN to stop hyping fears of violence in Haiti . For shame.
Tell US that the earthquake victims need food, water, shelter, medical care.
Not 12,000 guns in their wounded faces and CNN and Fox news and MSNBC talking, talking about the POTENTIAL for violence, POTENTIAL for riots.
They are orchestrating that POTENTIAL which is unfounded and pushing... ( US Military Tightens Grip On Haiti
Nursing home administrator Jean Emmanuel told AP “I’m pleading, streets are free, so you can come through to help us.”
12,000 US troops. Starving, traumatized earthquake victims. no aid!
There's no mass violence in Haiti yet US priorities are security. People need food, water, medicine. US is not in sync with this.
At Nursing Home, barely one mile from US-controlled airport, 85 elderly Haitians are starving,being attacked by rats. Joseph Julien died
US officials cite fights over food at nearby soccer stadium to justify not sending the nursing home critical supplies, despite proximity airport.
Elderly in a nursing home less than mile from US headquarters at airport DYING of hunger. But US says afraid of food fight at soccer field!
Nursing home administrator Jean Emmanuel told AP “I’m pleading, streets are free, so you can come through to help us.”
US officials have made clear that treating Haitian victims of the earthquake is not a US priority...US officials are preparing prisons for potential Haitian earthquake refugees ..Homeland Security (DHS) announced it would move 400 detainees from Krome detention facility to an undisclosed location to free up space in case any Haitians manage to reach US shores. http://bit.ly/7LMqL4
As death toll mounts (up to 200,000), an unspoken but unanimous agreement in the international media that it is legitimate for the US military to dictate how operations will proceed.
US officials have made clear that treating Haitian victims of the earthquake is not a US priority, security is! The rescue efforts in Haiti are held hostage by a US national security establishment.
Humanitarian flights from France , Brazil , and Italy were refused permission to land and the Red Cross reported one of its planes was diverted to Santo Domingo , the capital of the neighboring Dominican Republic . US occupation of Haiti NOT taken opportunities available to it to treat wounded Haitians.
The US military intervention in Haiti is criminal in both form and content.
Disguised as a humanitarian rescue operation, its main aim is to build up the necessary firepower to terrorize the masses into accepting a shocking lack of treatment without protest. Even taken on its own terms, the US occupation of Haiti has not taken the opportunities available to it to treat wounded Haitians. ( See , US Military Tightens Grip On Haiti
******************************************************
Forwarded by Ezili's Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
__________________________________________________________________________________
Please Circulate Widely - Everybody needs to know the most effective way in which they can help
Please find attached the open minutes of the Press Conference jointly organised by United Haitians in the United Kingdom and The Haiti First! Haiti Now! Reparations Campaign. They are forwarded as a bulletin for the purpose of keeping the community as informed as possible in an environment where developments are moving fast.
Also attached is a leaflet that briefly outlines the case for reparations being paid and made to Haiti .
The first follow-up meeting:
Friday 22nd January 2010
44-46 Offley Road, Oval, London SW9 0LS.
6.30pm arrival; 7pm start.
Saturday 30th January 2010
The second follow-up meeting:
Southwark Town hall, 35 Peckham Road , London SE15 8UB
3.30pm arrival; 4pm start.
All are invited.
Regards
Omowale
Chair of the Nkrumah Foundation
Chair of The Haiti First! Haiti Now! Reparations Campaign
____________________________________________________________________________________
A white Brazilian Consul for Haiti blames voodoo and so-called "cur...
On top of it, this racist white trash is happy that the earthquake and the death of tens of thousands of Africans have brought publicity to his General Consulate in Brazil. / En plus, ce dchet blanc raciste est content que le sisme et la mort de dizaines de milliers dAfricain/es ont fait de la publicit son Consulat Gnral au Brsil.
The Ancestors protect and bless our Great Haitian People / Que les Anctres protgent et bnissent notre Grand Peuple Haitien
Hotep
Source:
Thanks to zeecharan@yahoo.com for providing the info and to Ta_Seti@yahoogroups.com & Luv4self_Network@yahoogroups.com for spreading it.
--
Senfo TONKAM
The House Of Babylonian Exile
Black Nation in Babylon-Germany
Email: blacknation.senfotonkam@googlemail.com
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Why Is Haiti So Poor?
“From the standpoint of the World Bank and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Haiti was the perfect candidate for this neoliberal facelift. The entrenched poverty of the Haitian masses could be used to force them into low-paying jobs sewing baseballs and assembling other products. But USAID had plans for the countryside too. Not only were Haiti 's cities to become exporting bases but so was the countryside, with Haitian agriculture also reshaped along the lines of export-oriented, market-based production. To accomplish this, USAID, along with urban industrialists and large landholders, worked to create agro-processing facilities, even while they increased their practice of dumping surplus agricultural products from the U.S. on the Haitian people.
This ‘aid’ from the Americans, along with the structural changes in the countryside, predictably forced Haitian peasants who could no longer survive to migrate to the cities, especially Port-au-Prince, where the new manufacturing jobs were supposed to be. However, when they got there they found there weren't nearly enough manufacturing jobs go around. The city became more and more crowded. Slum areas expanded. And to meet the housing needs of the displaced peasants, quickly and cheaply constructed housing was put up, sometimes placing houses right ‘on top of each other.’
Before too long, however, American planners and Haitian elites decided that perhaps their development model didn't work so well in Haiti and they abandoned it. The consequences of these American-led changes remain, however.” What You're Not Hearing about Haiti (But Should Be) by Carl Lindskoog
Following the reports of a devastating 7.0 seismic earthquake on the Haiti side of the island of what used to be called Hispaniola and later San Domingo the corporate mind control and spin apparatus showed around-the-clock scenes of destitution and devastation accompanied by the refrain “Haiti is the poorest country in the hemisphere and one of the poorest nation in the world.”
Yes Haiti is poor, but have you ever asked yourself why?
Keep in mind the overwhelming majority of the people of Haiti are of African ancestry. These Africans were kidnapped and transported to the whole island by Europeans who brought them there to be used as cheap labor beginning in the sixteenth century. But these African have a distinguished reputation for being fiercely independence minded. The Africans on the island originally claimed for Spain by Cristobal Colon (Christopher Columbus) eventually became the crown jewel of the French colonies that was coveted by both the Spanish and British. The Africans were so obsessed with freedom they were able to defeat the British, French and Spanish to win their freedom and declare Haiti a free republic (the first African republic in the Western hemisphere) in 1804.
That monumental feat sent shock waves throughout the world and unnerved the US so much they refused to officially recognize Haiti until 1862! During that time the US instituted and maintained a trade embargo (which is an act of war) against Haiti and pressured France , England and Spain to go along with it until the 1860's.
Commerce is the life blood of a nation.
When the US and its Western allies conspired to deprive Haiti of international commerce even thought it had the potential to engage in trade and use its natural riches as a source of wealth, they severely undermined Haiti ’s economic viability. In a case of supreme hypocrisy the French demanded reparations for lost wealth when the Haitians kicked them out!
“After a dramatic slave uprising that shook the western world, and 12 years of war, Haiti finally defeated Napoleon’s forces in 1804 and declared independence. But France demanded reparations: 150m francs, in gold. For Haiti , this debt did not signify the beginning of freedom, but the end of hope. Even after it was reduced to 60m francs in the 1830s, it was still far more than the war-ravaged country could afford.
Haiti was the only country in which the ex-slaves themselves were expected to pay a foreign government for their liberty. By 1900, it was spending 80% of its national budget on repayments. In order to manage the original reparations, further loans were taken out — mostly from the United States, Germany and France .
Instead of developing its potential, this deformed state produced a parade of nefarious leaders, most of whom gave up the insurmountable task of trying to fix the country and looted it instead. In 1947, Haiti finally paid off the original reparations, plus interest. Doing so left it destitute, corrupt, disastrously lacking in investment and politically volatile. Haiti was trapped in a downward spiral, from which it is still impossible to escape. It remains hopelessly in debt to this day.”
***(I take issue w/ anyone calling Haiti a 'deformed state.' Even with the correct historical references and reasons for its devastation century after centure, this sends the wrong message. And it should be noted that the 'parade of nefarious leaders were all U.S./CIA chosen and trained. The 'parade' ended when 97% of the Haitian people elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide - twice. And twice, an incensed Euro-American cabal had him deposed, nearly killed, and exiled. m)
In addition to the US embargo during the 1800's, the US invaded Haiti in 1914 and stole the gold and money from the Haitian treasury and banks and transported it to the US for “safe keeping.” Yeah they kept it their safes and vaults ! The US also imposed atrocious trade restrictions and a US influenced “Constitution” on Haiti . To make matters worse, the US propped up inept and pliant Quislings and puppets into late in the twentieth century and made loans to Haiti at rates that would make a loan shark blush with envy. Any time the Haitians resisted a Western neo-colonial agenda, the Europeans and US stomped on them even harder.
In 1996 the IMF, World Bank and USAID imposed draconian loan terms on Haiti . In 2001 the US pressured Western nations to withhold credit from Haiti . Western external pressure forced Haiti to abandon their own agricultural programs, lower tariffs and take in US rice and other imports. Years of deforestation first by the French and later by the Haitians themselves has caused massive soil erosion. This soil erosion has left a country that was once able to at least feed itself destitute and unequipped to sustain a national agricultural program.
“Virtually since 1492, when Columbus first set foot on the heavily forested island of Hispaniola, the mountainous nation has shed both topsoil and blood—first to the Spanish, who planted sugar, then to the French, who cut down the forests to make room for lucrative coffee, indigo, and tobacco. Even after Haitian slaves revolted in 1804 and threw off the yoke of colonialism, France collected 93 million francs in restitution from its former colony—much of it in timber. Soon after independence, upper-class speculators and planters pushed the peasant classes out of the few fertile valleys and into the steep, forested rural areas, where their shrinking, intensively cultivated plots of maize, beans, and cassava have combined with a growing fuel wood-charcoal industry to exacerbate deforestation and soil loss. Today less than 4 percent of Haiti 's forests remain, and in many places the soil has eroded right down to the bedrock. From 1991 to 2002, food production per capita actually fell 30 percent.” Haiti Soil, National Geographic September 2008
The ever mischievous US government, on behalf of their corporate buddies, kept up the economic pressure and lobbied their European allies to curtail credit to the cash strapped nation. “The US convinces several European countries to suspend hundreds of millions of dollars in credit and aid and provide the IMF, World Bank, and European Union with ‘vague instructions’ to deny other lines of credit to the impoverished Caribbean country of Haiti . The resumption of aid and credit is made contingent on Haitian President Aristide coming to an agreement with the opposition party, the Democratic Convergence, which is controlled and financed by Haitian and US right-wing interests.” US-Haiti (1804-2005) History Commons
These moves undermined President Aristide’s program for revitalization and forced him to shelve plans for minimum wage increases, land reform, educational and infrastructure improvements. Eventually the Haitian mulatto “House Negroes” who collaborated with the US CIA and corporatist interests pressed the US to remove Aristide again, which the US gladly did.
In 2004 the US literally kidnaped Aristide and took him to Africa amidst attacks on the country and his followers by US armed and trained death squads. The UN stepped into the breach supposedly as a “peace keeping” mission but has remained as an occupying force when it was the US that armed and trained the thugs and mercenaries who created a rein of terror in Haiti in their bid to oust Aristide.
Now there are credible rumors surfacing that there are oil deposits in the Fort Libertie and coastal regions. You know the US wants to get its hands on that.
Is the US attempting to secure Haitian Oil?
Is that why Obama is sending US troops to Haiti instead of aid workers, supplies and doctors?
In the next few days, months and years we will see continued US-UN occupation, more misery and more dependency; in the name of stability, security and humanitarianism.
Now you know why Haiti is so poor.
__________________________________________________________
Haiti needs: Conscious Disaster relief with human rights and dignity
Please pass on that message to the white house. All your representatives. Help the earthquake victims.
Object to the US occupation and militarization of Haiti on the backs of perhaps up to 200,000 dead Haitians and 3million suffering Haitians.
This is ATROCIOUS.
Repugnant.
Odious.
This is not emergency relief but opportunistic disaster capitalism - purposely, diabolically letting the poor die so to make Haiti a pristine tourist haven for foreigners as was done elsewhere after the tsunami... Stop the shock doctrine in Haiti .
Please.
As HLLN indicated at outset - This is a tragedy of EPIC proportions and Haiti needs Conscious relief with dignity and human rights. If we are to rule ourselves, alter the old imperialistic profit-over-people paradigm that contains Haiti in poverty, this is the time for US government to let first responders from all around the world IN to treat the people.
Stop blocking aid, please. There are 100 Haitian doctors in New York trying to get into Haiti unsuccessfull and another 200 doctors we are told in DC trying to fly in with CRITICALLY needed medical supplies and expertise.
US, Obama, please stop blocking emergency aid and relied to Haiti and also support the Haitian-led relief effort from the US and help us with logistic, supplies and getting our first responders on the ground.
We are not trying to uphold USAID and the old ways of NGOS and Haitian oligarchy but the Haitian people, the Haitian government, Haitian dignity. Please everyone help us in this. In the name of the earthquake victims, in the name of true solidarity, in the name of the Ancestors who fought for Haiti 's independence help us to stop the occupation of Haiti , stop US from making SECURITY to issue. Denying medical aid. blocking first responders from entering and preparing Krome Jail in Miami for any Haitians who escape their aid in Haiti .
Tell CNN to stop hyping fears of violence in Haiti . For shame.
Tell US that the earthquake victims need food, water, shelter, medical care.
Not 12,000 guns in their wounded faces and CNN and Fox news and MSNBC talking, talking about the POTENTIAL for violence, POTENTIAL for riots.
They are orchestrating that POTENTIAL which is unfounded and pushing... ( US Military Tightens Grip On Haiti
Nursing home administrator Jean Emmanuel told AP “I’m pleading, streets are free, so you can come through to help us.”
12,000 US troops. Starving, traumatized earthquake victims. no aid!
There's no mass violence in Haiti yet US priorities are security. People need food, water, medicine. US is not in sync with this.
At Nursing Home, barely one mile from US-controlled airport, 85 elderly Haitians are starving,being attacked by rats. Joseph Julien died
US officials cite fights over food at nearby soccer stadium to justify not sending the nursing home critical supplies, despite proximity airport.
Elderly in a nursing home less than mile from US headquarters at airport DYING of hunger. But US says afraid of food fight at soccer field!
Nursing home administrator Jean Emmanuel told AP “I’m pleading, streets are free, so you can come through to help us.”
US officials have made clear that treating Haitian victims of the earthquake is not a US priority...US officials are preparing prisons for potential Haitian earthquake refugees ..Homeland Security (DHS) announced it would move 400 detainees from Krome detention facility to an undisclosed location to free up space in case any Haitians manage to reach US shores. http://bit.ly/7LMqL4
As death toll mounts (up to 200,000), an unspoken but unanimous agreement in the international media that it is legitimate for the US military to dictate how operations will proceed.
US officials have made clear that treating Haitian victims of the earthquake is not a US priority, security is! The rescue efforts in Haiti are held hostage by a US national security establishment.
Humanitarian flights from France , Brazil , and Italy were refused permission to land and the Red Cross reported one of its planes was diverted to Santo Domingo , the capital of the neighboring Dominican Republic . US occupation of Haiti NOT taken opportunities available to it to treat wounded Haitians.
The US military intervention in Haiti is criminal in both form and content.
Disguised as a humanitarian rescue operation, its main aim is to build up the necessary firepower to terrorize the masses into accepting a shocking lack of treatment without protest. Even taken on its own terms, the US occupation of Haiti has not taken the opportunities available to it to treat wounded Haitians. ( See , US Military Tightens Grip On Haiti
******************************************************
Forwarded by Ezili's Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
__________________________________________________________________________________
Please Circulate Widely - Everybody needs to know the most effective way in which they can help
Please find attached the open minutes of the Press Conference jointly organised by United Haitians in the United Kingdom and The Haiti First! Haiti Now! Reparations Campaign. They are forwarded as a bulletin for the purpose of keeping the community as informed as possible in an environment where developments are moving fast.
Also attached is a leaflet that briefly outlines the case for reparations being paid and made to Haiti .
The first follow-up meeting:
Friday 22nd January 2010
44-46 Offley Road, Oval, London SW9 0LS.
6.30pm arrival; 7pm start.
Saturday 30th January 2010
The second follow-up meeting:
Southwark Town hall, 35 Peckham Road , London SE15 8UB
3.30pm arrival; 4pm start.
All are invited.
Regards
Omowale
Chair of the Nkrumah Foundation
Chair of The Haiti First! Haiti Now! Reparations Campaign
____________________________________________________________________________________
A white Brazilian Consul for Haiti blames voodoo and so-called "cur...
On top of it, this racist white trash is happy that the earthquake and the death of tens of thousands of Africans have brought publicity to his General Consulate in Brazil. / En plus, ce dchet blanc raciste est content que le sisme et la mort de dizaines de milliers dAfricain/es ont fait de la publicit son Consulat Gnral au Brsil.
The Ancestors protect and bless our Great Haitian People / Que les Anctres protgent et bnissent notre Grand Peuple Haitien
Hotep
Source:
Thanks to zeecharan@yahoo.com for providing the info and to Ta_Seti@yahoogroups.com & Luv4self_Network@yahoogroups.com for spreading it.
--
Senfo TONKAM
The House Of Babylonian Exile
Black Nation in Babylon-Germany
Email: blacknation.senfotonkam@googlemail.com
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