Category: English
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The Ottawa Initiative on Haiti: A Nightmare for Black Haitians
“though the words we use may differ from country to country, from generation to generation, for a long while now, Africans all over the globe have been screaming a consistent message to their tormentors faces: “I am an asset, not a threat!”. In the barrios of Rio de Janiero, in the mines of Sierra Leone, Congo…
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Confessions of Haitian Kidnapper Arnel Joseph
The following text was first published on Facebook in July 2019. Many disturbing allegations it contains have recently been verified. However, key elements of this note do not appear in recent reports such as this piece by Maria Abi-Habib, published by The New-York Times on December 12, 2021. What accounts for these differences? Perhaps, time…
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Haiti an International Crime Scene
The following slides provide a quick overview of Haitian history. This presentation was offered during a webinar hosted on December 19, 2021 by the Democratic Socialists of America, San Francisco, where I was blessed and honoured to share the discussion panel with Dr. Jemima Pierre and Dr. Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper, two powerful voices of the African…
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Canada: let Haitians breathe!
This Press Release from Green Left Canada, our comrades in the struggle for global peace and justice, is absolutely timely and heart warming. As we say in Haiti, dear brothers and sisters: “Mèsi Anpil”! May truth, justice, dignity and genuine human sisterhood/brotherhood prevail. *** MEDIA RELEASE CANADA: OUT OF HAITI. LEAVE THE CORE GROUP July 19, 2021 – A…