Category: History
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Can Haitians help make Canada better!?
This year, an unprecedented event took place on Canada Day, in Ottawa. A group of Canadians answered a fellow citizen’s challenge to host the first ever “Make Canada Better – Speaker’s Corner”. The challenge went up on Facebook and Twitter, on June 16, 2019. It called for speakers to come to Ottawa on July 1st…
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Napoleon was no Toussaint Louverture
Mr. ADAM HOCHSCHILD – New York Times Your article titled: “The Black Napoleon” attracted my attention because, as a son of Haiti, I find comparing Toussaint Louverture to Napoleon Bonaparte, beyond the fact that it is misleading, to be indeed a grave insult. Shall one dub a leader of Resistance to the Nazi: “The Jewish Hitler”? In his…
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We Are Haiti
Join the Public Demonstration of Canadian Solidarity with the People of Haiti – Monday, 9 July 2018, Noon, Parliament Hill… There is no time to waste! Every second, every minute, please help us share the facts of the Haitian struggle, far and wide. The people revolting against tyranny deserve our support, now! Haitians demand a…
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The Caracas Declaration on Reparations – May 2018
Statement from May 8-10, 2018 International Conference on Reparations in Caracas, Venezuela Please see the attached Declaration of the International Conference on Reparations that was held in Caracas, Venezuela between the 8th and 10th of May 2018. The background to the Conference was the historic March 2018 announcement of the Government of the Bolivarian Republic…