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Urgent Action Alert: Citizens of this planet, the people of Haiti remembering their roots, are calling out to you |
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Remembering Haiti is hallowed ground for Charlemagne Peralte and Dred Wilmes, they offer their lives everyday, that’s all they have to offer. It’s everything. (See a face of Haiti’s indigenous army facing off Manifest Destiny at www.margueritelaurent.com/DNC_2004/dnc_slideshow/DNC_2004_30.htm * On the eve of the 86th anniversary of the assassination of Charlemagne Peralte by US Marines who cold-bloodedly killed this great son of Haiti on October 31, 1919 during the first US occupation of Haiti, we at the Haitian Lawyers Leadership lift up his name and that of all the Dred Wilmes and Marie Jeannes’ in Haiti today as well as all Haitians, abroad and at home, who have honored themselves and our African ancestors by going against Euro/US barbarity, racism and colonialism in this new imperialist/neocon era. The Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network, again, appeals for international support on the People of Haiti’s right to self-respect, self-determination and self-defense We ask for help to stop the killing of innocent Haitian men, women and children. We ask all good-will peoples on this planet to denounce Ron Daniel’s and his “honest brokering” and State Department “symposiums” that only resulted in a few disconnected-from-the-people’s-umbilical chord, renegade Lavalas members sanctioning the Bush revenge on the people of Haiti with the “return of Marc Bazin.” This time morphed by the imperialists and his Haitian and Ron Daniels sycophants as a “Lavalas” presidential candidate to confuse and destroy further the democracy movement in Haiti. A Marc Bazin on whose behalf Bush, the father, helped instigate the first coup d’etat against Haiti’s first democratically elected President in 1991, which resulted in the murder of over 5,000 innocent Haitians, 70,000 Haitian refugees passing through the US penal colony, known as Guantanamo Bay and more than 350,0000 internal Haitian refugees. (See, NY Chapter of Fanmi Lavalas denounces Marc Bazin and his renegade Fanmi Lavalas acolytes www.HaitiAction.net/News/HLL/10_27_4.html ; See HLLN’s Pro-democracy groups protest Ron Daniels/Haiti Support Project symposium with coup d’etat supporters and orchestrators www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/protestsymposium.html ; Ron Daniels and the Haiti Support Project is at it again…www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/danielsatitagain.html, and www.haitiprogres.com/2004/sm040804/eng08-04.html) Haitians asks for the world’s support in stopping USAID’s “pacification” programs in Haiti. We ask that the citizens of this planet, please, do what’s necessary to stop the killings in Site Soley | Denounce the slaughter and abuse of Haitian women and girls and incarceration and slaughter of our men and boys by UN Troops, acting as proxy for Bush, the son, Canada and France. The people of Site Soley and in Haiti’s poor neighborhoods are daily threatened by the UN with Jordanian urban guerilla units if they do not stop demonstrating for return to constitutional order, justice and law and participate in these sham foreign-sponsored (s)elections. Stop this repression, this forced voting, this racism, paternalism and help FREE the people of Site Soley, Bel Air, Delmas 2, Solino, Petit Cazeau, Martissant and throughout Haiti. Get background info by clicking here. www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaignone/presswork/kidnapping.html Calls for international action to secure the immediate release of all political prisoners of this US-installed puppet government in Haiti. Get background info: www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaignone/presswork/freejeanjuste.html But please remember political action, economic boycott and public censure/exposure are essentially what pro-democracy Haitians are asking from solidarity groups. Since this 1995 massacre summer in Haiti, USAID/OIM-soccer match “pacification” and the appointment of Timothy M. Carney along with documented UN Security Council’s refusal to respect Haitian self-determination, CARICOM and African Union appeals, unlike the white leftist “saviors” of Haiti, Haitians do not rely on moral suasion alone to redress our grievances. (The White “Saviors” of Haiti vs. Haitian self-determination and actualization lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ezilidanto/2005-09/msg00009.html ) Our interests oftentimes converge in terms of general human rights issues, but historically white leftists, have faced-off with the likes of CLR James, Frantz Fanon, Ralph Ellison, Angela Davis and Malcom X., beginning with the split between Frederick Douglass and abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison. Why? Because, in general, the white leftist tolerates racism in a democracy. Can afford an ahistorical consciousness because of white privilege. And, having bought, consciously or unconsciously their own ìgoodness,î ìwhitenessî and unselfishness within the “grand narrative of human enlightenment called America,” they can fail to see how their relative financial clout, white privilege and connections buys them more access, faster legitimacy, Haitian-faces to use as tokens and for plausible deniability, the same way the UN peacekeepers in Haiti and in the Congo, using their power-privilege, can fail to see how their offer of food and money for sex with desperate and impoverished black women and girls is not rape, but prostitution. www.refugeesinternational.org/content/article/detail/7056/ HLLN has supported all who respect a Haitian’s right to self-determination, self-reliance, self-respect and continues that support when our interests converge. But we have learn, through our experience these last 19-months alone and before with the first coup d’etat, that there are those white leftists who rely mainly on moral suasion as the agent for any needed reform. Problem is, Blacks do not have that luxury, white privilege destroys our humanity, renders us dependent and makes democracy impossible. Thus, our very survival demands real self-defense strategies and not empty appeals to the very racists and steeped-in-white-privilege institutions that created Haiti’s hell. So, if you wish to help Haitians, please DO NOT waste your appeals to the UN, to the US-installed government, the coup d’etat governments or Haiti Democracy Project’s Timothy M. Carney. You’re better off telling your next door neighbor about what they are not seeing on CNN on Haiti then telling the UN and US what they already know and wishes to hide behind the headlines. Kindly send appeals and background info to the MEDIA. Flood the U.S. local, national and international media with your concerns about the abuse, occupation, genocide and re-enslavement of the people of Site Soley and Haiti. www.margueritelaurent.com/contactinformation/local-national-media.html Help HLLN with Campaign Five: Denounce U.S. big-business neo-liberalism, “free trade”, and globalization initiatives and privatization schemes for Haiti (including the HERO ACT and other such measures) as financial colonialism. Also, boycott or otherwise expose and financially hamper U.S. companies in Haiti violating Haitian minimum wage, workers rights, union organizing or otherwise jeopardizing Haitian health, life, safety and human rights. Boycott the companies that support coup d’etat, injustice and underdevelopment in Haiti: www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaignfive/campaignfive.html Boycott Bush: www.motherearth.org/USboycott/index_en.php Sponsor an HLLN’s “To tell the Truth Forum About Haiti” www.margueritelaurent.com/solidarityday/hsd_truth_forums.html and help promote the FreeHaitiMovement: www.margueritelaurent.com/solidarityday/infoforsponsors.html Support and circulate the Haiti Resolution and 5-points from the grass-roots in Haiti: www.margueritelaurent.com/DNC_2004/haiti_resolution.htmlwww.margueritelaurent.com/law/5_pointsgrassroots.html Support FreeHaitiMovement events such as the Pan-Canadian Week of Action to Condemn Sham Elections in Haiti, November 12-20, 2005 | Sponsored by The Canada Haiti Action Network www.margueritelaurent.com/law/shamelection.html | FreeHaitiMovement www.margueritelaurent.com/solidarityday/infoforsponsors.html Men Anpil Chay pa Lou!!! Maximum Respect, Marguerite Laurent, Esq. Founder/Chair of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network October 28, 2005 Remembering the struggles, life and legacies of Charlemagne Peralte and all of Haiti’s Dred Wilmes and Marie Jeannes facing LeClerc’s new and retooled armies ********** To Donate, please support HLLN’s work: go to www.margueritelaurent.com/donate/donate.html ****************** Oct. 17, 2005 – remembering our roots of liberty: lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ezilidanto/2005-10/msg00007.html *************************************** – Dred Wilme, A Hero for the 21st Century, Oct 17, 2005 Emmanuel Dred Wilme: A hero for the 21st century www.sfbayview.com/101905/emmanueldred101905.shtml and,www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/papadesalin.html – October 17, 2005, a day set aside for honoring Haiti’s liberator, Jean Jacques Dessalines. Thank you Father Dessalines* by Morisseau-Leroy (English translation) lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ezilidanto/2005-10/msg00007.html – We honor Defile, with a poem in Kreyol from Jafrikayiti entitled “Defile Manman “ChimË”?” Defile is the Haitian woman who honored Dessalines and gave him a proper burial after he was forsaken. (www.jafrikayiti.com ) lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ezilidanto/2005-10/msg00007.html – Mesi Papa Desalin (the Kreyol original of the poem “Thank You Father Dessalines”) lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ezilidanto/2005-10/msg00007.html – EMMANUEL “DREAD” WILME, The Bandit King of Cite Soleil, formerly the US/UN Most Wanted Man SPEAKS – Dred Wilme Speaks (April 4, 2005 interview on Lakounewyork for Lakounewyork and for the Ezili Danto Witness Project) www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaignone/presswork/interviewdread.html – The Crucifixion of Emmanuel “Dread” Wilme by U.N. Troops: A historical perspective by Marguerite Laurent| Haitian perspective | April 21, 2005 www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaignone/presswork/crucifictionofdreadwilme.html *************** We won’t be peaceful and let them kill us any longer www.sfbayview.com/101905/wewontbe101905.shtml – “We are abandoning the position of the moderates who tell us to be peaceful and work within the system while we starve and the interim government kills us. While we don’t have the weapons to go seeking out battles, we have decided as a community that enough is enough.” ‘We won’t be peaceful and let them kill us any longer’ Bel Air interview with Roaean Baptiste www.sfbayview.com/101905/wewontbe101905.shtml HLLN Note. Haiti is hallowed ground, set by our African ancestors as a place Black people could be free within a sea full of Euro/U.S. enslavers. We Haitians stand firm against the re-colonization of Haiti through dictatorship as being instigated and masked by the chaos and instability brought on by the bicentennial coup d’etat, phony elections fever, all, divide and conquer mechanisms and pretexts used to cloak and justify the poverty pimp’s (USAID/US/IMF/WB) planned establishment of an ultimate US/UN protectorship in Haiti. ************ The Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network’s Appeal for international support on the People of Haiti’s right to self-respect, self-determination and self-defense We Haitian democracy activists have taken on ourselves a great task. The Haitian people have been robbed again, not only of the wealth of our country, and not only of the lives and livelihoods of our countrymen, but of our sense of self-determination. The very essence of being Haitian is the connection to those freedom fighters of the revolution who would not lie down and obey the men who claimed to be their masters. Today, Haiti is being ruled by a regime that was selected by foreign powers. The legitimate officials are in exile, in hiding, or in captivity. All around, voices are telling us to suffer this indignity, to give up on our quest for self-governance, that somehow we are unfit to choose our own leaders or our own style of governance. We utterly reject this pattern of thought. It is the mental slavery from which Bob Marley calls us to emancipate ourselves. For the average Haitian “This Song of Freedom” is truly all we have ever had. And now they want to take that too. It is with this sense of insistence and urgency that we set forth our grievances and define our terms for reconciliation in the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Haiti Resolution. We ask that all Haitian democracy activists circulate this resolution, and address the issues and demands of the resolution to their own governments, and to the United Nations, which has the responsibility for protecting the right of self-determination. The Haitian Lawyers Leadership Haiti Resolution: 1. Demand the return of constitutional rule to Haiti by restoring all elected officials of all parties to their offices throughout the country until the end of their mandates and another election is held, as mandated by Haiti’s Constitution; 2. Condemn the killings, illegal imprisonment and confiscation of the property of supporters of Haiti’s constitutional government and insist that Haiti’s illegitimate “interim government” immediately cease its persecution and put a stop to persecution by the thugs and murderers from sectors in their police force, from the paramilitaries, gangs and former soldiers; 3. Insist on the immediate release of all political prisoners in Haitian jails, including Prime Minister Yvon Neptune, Interior Minister Privert and other constitutional government officials and folksinger-activist SÚ Anne; 4. Insist on the disarmament of the thugs, death squad leaders and convicted human rights violators and their prosecution for all crimes committed during the attack on Haiti’s elected government and support the rebuilding of Haiti’s police force, ensuring that it excludes anyone who helped to overthrow the democratically elected government or who participated in other human rights violations; 5. Stop the indefinite detention and automatic repatriation of Haitian refugees and immediately grant Temporary Protected Status to all Haitian refugees presently in the United States until democracy is restored to Haiti; and 6. Support the calls by the OAS, CARICOM and the African Union for an investigation into the circumstances of President Aristide’s removal. Support the enactment of Congresswoman Barbara Lee’s T.R.U.T.H Act which calls for U.S. Congressional investigation of the forcible removal of the democratically elected President and government of Haiti. ********************************* “Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one. The person who emerges is a new person: no longer either oppressor or oppressed, but a person in the process of achieving freedom. It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.” – Paulo Freire, from Pedagogy of the Oppressed ************************* On Working White Liberals by Maya Angelou I don’t ask the Foreign Legion Or anyone to win my freedom Or to fight my battle better than I can, Though there’s one thing that I cry for I believe enough to die for That is every man’s responsibility to man. I’m afraid they’ll have to prove first That they’ll watch the Black man move first Then follow him with faith to kingdom come. This rocky road is not paved for us So, I’ll believe in Liberal’s aid for us When I see a white man load a Black man’s gun. ************************* **************************** ëFreedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.í —James Baldwin *********** It is up to the Haitians living abroad to support the people of Haiti against Euro/US pressures and against desperate moves To: “Zili” erzilidanto@yahoo.com HLLN Note: The Leadership leads: Standing on Truth, Living without Fear It is up to Haitians living abroad to support the people of Haiti against Euro/US pressures and against desperate moves. Today the majority of the peoples of Haiti are cornered and hunted as in the times of slavery. On the matter of Fanmi Lavalas’ participating in these elections, the respected pro-democracy militant of Site Soley, John JoÎl Joseph, accurately puts the matter in perspective when he says the people of Site Soley “have decided to vote in these elections to avoid providing a pretext for repression…” Thus there is NO QUESTION this “voting” in Haiti is being IMPOSED on the majority of Haitians. The people of Haiti are not exercising free will in this matter. They are operating under military occupation and censorship. Below is an AHP report on the matter of elections entitled “National grassroots cells of Fanmi Lavalas in CitÈ Soleil are declare support for RenÈ PrÈval and demand the release of all the political prisoners.” There is no doubt the grassroots democracy movement in Haiti, the majority poor in Haiti, especially the resisting poor in Site Soley and Bel Air are under UN/US guns to vote as the whites settlers want them to, or be indefinitely incarcerated, or get shot. But we Haitians in the Diaspora are not under such desperate pressures. It falls, therefore, on us to hold the flame of hope and liberty alive. To clarify and clear the Willie Lynch-type deliberately strummed conflicts and confusion until Haitians in Haiti may exercise free will without fearing the UN/PNH’s summary executions or arbitrary imprisonment. It falls on us-Haitians of greater means to mobilize against these elections and convey to our brothers and sisters in Haiti that they are indeed not alone in their fight against US/Euro might and imperialistic barbarity. HLLN stands on these truth, no matter how surreal these selections become. We shall always categorically denounce these rigged elections while understanding and supporting the people of Site Soley, Bel Air, Milot and throughout Haiti maneuvers to stay alive in accordance with the above quoted statement of JoÎl Joseph (See Oct. 24, 2005 AHP report below for full quote.) HLLN stands on the 5-points and shall carry them forth for the grassroots until the repression is lifted. In sum, on behalf of all who have perished for Haiti’s liberty since 1503, HLLN takes this opportunity to strongly denounce all the current presidential candidates in Haiti without distinction, including Preval, Bazin, Simeus. All are collaborators. For, by their willingness to ignore that Father Jean Juste and Yvon Neptune, et al, are falsely imprisoned; by their willingness to run for office in these anti-democratic elections – by their sanctioning of these rigged elections in spite of the coup d’etat repression, massacres, jailings, apartheid and occupation climate- they indeed only formally legitimize and are helping to solidify dictatorship, occupation and the recolonization of Haiti. HLLN, Oct. 25, 2005 **************** National grassroots cells of Fanmi Lavalas in CitÈ Soleil are declare support for RenÈ PrÈval and demand the release of all the political prisoners Port-au-Prince, October 24, 2005 (AHP)- The members of national grassroots cells of Fanmi Lavalas declared support Monday for electing former Haitian President RenÈ Garcia PrÈval to a new mandate in the coming elections. During a press conference, a leader of the base cells, RenÈ Monplaisir, announced that a great mobilization will take place on October 27 as a sign of support for RenÈ PrÈval. Another official, John JoÎl Joseph, for his part said they have decided to vote in these elections to avoid providing a pretext for repression, even though, in his view, Fanmi Lavalas is not participating in the elections. He took this opportunity to call for the release of all the political prisoners and the return to Haiti of all those who have been exiled. ************************************************************ lists.riseup.net/www/arc/ezilidanto/2005-10/msg00005.html – Facing Manifest Destiny’s Iron Will. Haitians have – Been there. Done That. See: www.margueritelaurent.com/writings/littlegirl.html and Breaking Sea Chains, www.margueritelaurent.com/writings/breakingchains.html -Open Letter to the Little Girl in the Yellow Sunday Dress www.margueritelaurent.com/writings/littlegirl.html Reactions to poem in 2002:haitiforever.com/fora/talk/posts/139.html ) ************************************ Condemn the upcoming rigged (s)elections in Haiti: ***************** – Haiti’s Biometric Elections: A High-Tech Experiment in Exclusion by AndrÈa Schmidt www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=55&ItemID=8865 * – US and UN are not Qualified to Teach Haitians about Democracy by Marguerite Laurent atlists.riseup.net/www/arc/ezilidanto/2005-10/msg00001.html – The Elections Game is On by Justin Podur: www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=55&ItemID=8822 * Two Faced in Haiti by Justin Podur www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=55&ItemID=8850 * – Haiti Today – Voter Registration by Brad Workman Go to: haiti-today.blogspot.com/2005/10/unrushed-transcript-1.html for interview with OAS elections official Elizabeth Spehar | Oct. 7, 2005 HLLN Note: these “National ID Cards” sponsored by the OAS and other foreigners are as repugnant as the World Bank debts and US, French and Canadian contracts being divvied up to foreigners to fleece Haiti under this US-installed government. Every decision made and contract entered into after Feb. 29, 2004 by these defacto, on behalf of Haiti as a nation, ALL are unconstitutional, a violation of Haitian sovereignty, dignity, and international laws and not binding on the peoples of Haiti, whatsoever. Haitians are human beings, vested with HUMAN RIGHTS, not anyoneís chattel to be DICTATED to by the OAS, UN, US, France or Canada or their Haitian overseers. – COHA: Haiti ñ And You Call This an Election? | Oct. 11, 2005 **************** ************************************************** Forwarded by the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network www.margueritelaurent.com/law/lawpress.html ************************************************** “Men anpil chay pa lou” is Kreyol for – “Many hands make light a heavy load.” Matters To Be Investigated by people of the world and courts of law on the international crime, the 2004 Bicentennial Coup against the people of Haiti: www.margueritelaurent.com/law/matterstoinvestigage.html * The Bush bloodbath brought to Haiti – List (partial) of Victims and Massacres www.margueritelaurent.com/law/massupdates1.html * Ezili Danto Witness Project www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/ ******* 5-point demands from the grassroots and Fanmi Lavalas-base in Haiti for the majority of the people in Haiti to, once again, participate in another voting for their own leaders in Haiti: *********** 1. Liberation of all political prisoners including Father Gerard Jean-Juste who the Fanmi Lavalas grassroots-base in Haiti has chosen as their candidate for the presidency of Haiti. 2. The Latortue government must go. 3. The repression and killings in the popular neighborhoods must stop 4. Disarmament. Arms must be gone. There cannot be elections with all these arms on the streets (even those in the hands of the “no-nationality” Haitian bourgeoisie, their “anti-poor” thug enforcers and former military). 5. President Aristide and all those in exile must be allowed to return to Haiti. *************************** UN Machetes in Haiti | Haitian Perspectives by August 15, 2005 (Letter to UN officials – Stop the slaughter and bloodshed in Haiti, in particular the new Coup D’etat folks practice of chopping up the Lavalas poor and women with police machetes www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/unmachetes.html ***************** STOP RIGGING ELECTIONS AGAINST HAITIíS POOR MAJORITY! FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS – RESTORE HAITIíS SOVEREIGNTY NOW! Pan-Canadian Week of Action to Condemn Sham Elections in Haiti, November 12-20, 2005 | Sponsored by The Canada Haiti Action Network www.margueritelaurent.com/law/shamelection.html A FreeHaitiMovement event www.margueritelaurent.com/solidarityday/infoforsponsors.html ***************** Condemn the occupation and re-colonization of Haiti and demand a stop to U.N. forces killing Haitian civilians in Haiti www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaignone/presswork/kidnapping.html ****************** ************************** To Donate, please support HLLN’s work: go to www.margueritelaurent.com/donate/donate.html **************** * HLLN’s Open Letter Demanding a stop to UN slaughter in Site Soley www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/openletter.html Demand a Stop to the killings in Site Soley | Denounce the slaughter and abuse of Haitian people by UN Troops. The people of Site Soley and in Haiti’s poor neighborhoods are daily threatened by the UN with Jordanian urban guerilla units if they do not stop demonstrating for return to constitutional order, justice and law and participate in these sham foreign-sponsored (s)elections. Stop this repression, this forced voting, this racism and FREE the people of Site Soley, Bel Air, Delmas 2, Solino, Petit Cazeau, Martissant and throughout Haiti. Get background info by clicking here. www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaignone/presswork/kidnapping.html But please DO NOT send appeals to the UN, send appeals and background info to the MEDIA. Flood the U.S. local, national and international media with your concerns about the abuse, occupation and re-enslavement of the people of Site Soley and Haiti. www.margueritelaurent.com/contactinformation/local-national-media.html ************Urgent Action Requested************************ Amnesty International designates Father Gerald Jean-Juste as a prisoner of conscience. Calls for international action to secure his immediate release and the release of all political prisoners of this US-installed puppet government. Get background info: www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaignone/presswork/freejeanjuste.html But please remember political action, economic boycott and public exposure is essentially what pro-democracy Haitians are asking. Since the 1995 massacre summer in Haiti, USAID/OIM-soccer match “pacification” and the appointment of Timothy M. Carney and refusal of UN to respect Haitian self-determination, unlike the white leftist “saviors” of Haiti, Haitians do not rely on moral suasion alone to redress our grievances. We believe in real self-defense and not empty appeals to the very institutions that created Haiti’s hell, please DO NOT send appeals to the UN, to the US-installed government, or Haiti Democracy Project’s Timothy M. Carney, send appeals and background info to the MEDIA. Flood the U.S. local, national and international media with your concerns about the abuse, occupation and re-enslavement of the people of Site Soley and Haiti. www.margueritelaurent.com/contactinformation/local-national-media.html |
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