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Rendez-vous à Villers-Coterêts (Aisne) dimanche 26 février 2006 – Bicentenaire du général Dumas (1806-2006) | Stop interfering in nation’s politics by Ira Kurzban | CKUT Radio: Haiti – A Week of Special Programming [Feb. 20th-24th] | STOP Haiti Democracy Project and Tim Carney’s destabalizing Preval’s presidency even before it begins… |
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HLLN Recommended Links for the day: 1. LINK: Boulos, Haiti Democracy Project and Tim Carney’s overeaching, destabalizing Preval’s presidency even before it begins * HLLN’s note: in reference to Lyn Duff piece, our friend, Steve White, wrote “The criminal police abuses outlined below were committed by the regime appointed and funded by our government. The U.S. media has been an accomplice to the crime. Thanks to the U.S. intervention in Haiti, ‘walking while black’ became a crime in a nation that is 99 percent black, the first black Republic in the world. 2. LINK: Haitian mother: ‘Just because a child lives in the poor neighborhood, Story told to Lyn Duff, February 15, 2006, San Francisco Bay View 3. LINKS – 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 ] STOP Haiti Democracy Project and Tim Carney’s destabalizing Preval’s presidency even before it begins www.margueritelaurent.com/solidarityday/hsd_sampleletter_res.html LINK: Free the Haitian prisoners, Free So Ann, *******************e-mails in this post************************ – Rendez-vous – Villers-CoterÍts (Aisne) dimanche 26 février 2006:HOMMAGE AU GENERAL NEGRE ALEXANDRE DUMAS Bicentenaire du général Dumas (1806-2006) – Stop interfering in nation’s politics, BY IRA KURZBAN, Op-Ed, Miami Herald, Feb. 20, 2006 – CKUT Radio: Haiti – A Week of Special Programming [Feb. 20th-24th] *************************************************************** Boulos, Haiti Democracy Project and Tim Carney’s overeaching, destabalizing Preval’s presidency even before it begins Today, the mainstream press is only furthering our understandings of how the coup d’etat folks intended and are still trying to steal the elections away from the people of Haiti. These elections results were orchestrated and rigged in such a way to assure that even if Preval was declared winner, Haiti Democracy Project, Boulos, Timothy Carney would have manufactured enough conflict and spun their own fraudulent behaviors onto the people of Haiti to weaken Preval’s mandate. But these are the last gasping breath of HDP. Their spins are dead in the water and they know it. For who doesn’t know, that when a clear choice between COUNTING suspect “blan” ballots or counting good votes that had been hidden and not added to the totals were at hand, said diplomats, international negotiators and coup d’etat folks chose to pro-rate the “blan” ballots instead of counting the Haitian votes available that had been delivered to them from hidding!!! Thus, with this farce of a “deal” and no mainstream media telling the truth, but quoting these “diplomats” (Tim Carney/HDP) spin as if it was the whole truth, they’ve manage, to created this idea that Rene Preval was, as Guy write, given a boost by the diplomats and negotiators to help him win and avoid bloodshed in Haiti!!! Only serpents from hell could be so slippery and dishonest. And, only with the approval and collusion of the mainstream press will these folks be allowed to make the victims (Rene Preval and the people of Haiti) the perpetrators of electoral fraud and themselves (the losers) the injured party! … (Go to: www.haitiforever.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=14212#14212, and www.haitiforever.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=14217#14217 ***************************************** Communiqué de Claude Ribbe A líoccasion du bicentenaire de la mort du général Dumas, dimanche 26 février 2006, et – líinitiative de M. Michel Laviolette, conseiller général de líAisne, une plaque – la mémoire du héros de la République né esclave en HaÔti en 1762 et devenu le premier général ´noirª de líhistoire de France, sera dévoilée – Villers-CotterÍts (Aisne) – 10 heures 30. Une gerbe sera déposée sur la tombe du général – 11 h. Les cérémonies seront suivies díun vin díhonneur. Le musée sera exceptionnellement ouvert au public. ********* Rassemblement républicain des Antillais et des Africains de France – Villers-CotterÍts (Aisne) le dimanche 26 février, jour du bicentenaire de sa mort, – 10 h 30 ! Thomas-Alexandre Davy de La Pailleterie (Jérémie/ HaÔti 1762-Villers-CotterÍts/ France 1806) Pour en savoir plus sur le général : www.claude-ribbe.com ´ Le plus grand des Dumas, cíest le fils de la négresse, cíest le général Alexandre Dumas de La Pailleterie, le vainqueur du Saint-Bernard et du Mont-Cenis, le héros de Brixen. Il offrit soixante fois sa vie – la France [Ö] et mourut pauvre. Une pareille existence est un chef-díoeuvre auquel il níy a rien – comparer ª. Anatole France, 1906 Malgré le refus du ministre de la Culture Donnedieu de Vabres díinscrire au calendrier des commémorations nationales 2006 le bicentenaire du général Alexandre Dumas, né esclave – Jérémie (HaÔti), premier homme díorigine africaine – accéder au grade de général dans líarmée franÁaise, les habitants de Villers-CotterÍts, la bourgade qui sut accueillir le modeste dragon de la Reine le 15 aot 1789 sans lui reprocher la couleur de sa peau, rendront hommage – leur héros ´ noir ª et célébreront le bicentenaire de sa mort. Une plaque sera inaugurée – 10 h 30 sur la faÁade de la maison (actuellement 41 rue du général Mangin) o le général expira dans la misére et líoubli, laissant un petit orphelin de quatre ans qui vengera son pére – travers ses romans. Le général Dumas est mort de chagrin moins de trois mois aprés Austerlitz, une bataille – laquelle le dictateur raciste lui avait refusé de participer. Je compte sur les Antillais et les Africains de France pour montrer, en se rendant avec moi sur la tombe du général, que la mémoire de la République nía rien – voir avec la décision díun ministre apparemment gagné par les théses racistes et révisionnistes de Pétré-Grenouilleau et de Nora, lesquels ont fait campagne au sein du Haut Comité des célébrations nationales pour boycotter le bicentenaire du général Dumas. Je compte sur les Antillais et les Africains de France pour montrer, en se rendant nombreux avec moi – Villers-CotterÍts le 26 février 2006 et en faisant de cette date un événement historique, quíavec ou sans la bénédiction du pouvoir, nous savons honorer nos héros. Car nous aussi nous sommes la République. Claude Ribbe Pour se rendre – Villers-CotterÍts : En train : Depuis Paris gare du Nord train – 08 h 06- arrivée – Villers-CotterÍts – 08h 59 Par la route (80 kms de Paris) : Paris Porte de La Chapelle, autoroute A1, puis A 104 direction SOISSONS et N2 *********************************** The election of René Préval as president of Haiti can be a turning point in our government’s relationship to the Haitian people. Préval clearly has a preference to help Haiti’s poor, and it was the poor who gave him an overwhelming electoral victory that was four times larger than his closest rival. In light of this preference for the poor, policymakers in Washington need to review our own policies, which too often reflectively supported Haiti’s tiny elite in their effort to destabilize Haiti’s popular democracy. The current policies have led us to a dead end of continually trying to suppress popular democracy without raising the economic status of the poor. Although our short-term interests may be to stop Haitian migrants and drugs from entering the United States, our long-term interests must be to alter the economic conditions in a country that has the largest population and therefore the largest potential market of all the CARICOM countries. With President Préval we can begin to engage in a new foreign policy that should include the following strategies: Stop interfering in the internal politics of Haiti. Who Préval picks as a prime minister and members of his cabinet should be his own affair and not a ‘’litmus test’’ for anything. Our efforts to force a government of national reconciliation in Haiti is an affront to Haitian sovereignty as much as it would be for the Chinese government to tell a Republican president that he had to include Democrats, Libertarians, Socialists and others in his government to show unity. Similarly, we should not hamper efforts to allow all Haitians to return from abroad who have been forced into exile or interfere in the reconstruction of Fanmi Lavalas or any other party the Haitian people support. Also, no funds from either the Agency for International Development or the International Republican Institute should be expended to undermine Haiti’s political parties or to create new political parties. These are matters best left to the Haitian people to decide. – Work constructively with the Haitian government to provide assistance on a national level. For the past decade our assistance has been directed to nongovernmental organizations rather than to the Haitian government, and from 2000 to 2004 we had a total development-assistance embargo against the Haitian government. Préval’s victory gives us an opportunity for a new beginning where we can work with the Haitian government on their terms, not ours. Haiti’s massive health, infrastructure, environmental and educational problems can not be solved through nongovernmental organizations. We must provide substantial direct assistance to the Haitian government and we must ensure that our assistance and that of other developed countries is not coupled with political demands. Micromanaging Haiti’s nascent democracy by strangling its government economically has been a dismal failure and it ignores our own history where democracy took decades to develop. – Provide technical expertise and financial resources to transform agrarian life. The United States possesses the world’s greatest expertise on eliminating agrarian and rural poverty. We have the most successful rural electrification program in the history of the world. We have highly advanced farming facilities and agricultural techniques that we could and should put at the disposal of the Haitian government. Such efforts would help Haiti move toward self-sufficiency in food production, and rural electrification would reverse the downward ecological spiral Haiti faces. Additionally, the United States has great expertise in rural health programs. In a country where there is only one doctor for every 11,000 citizens and where most doctors are in urban areas, we have the capacity to develop healthcare programs where none exist. Interfering in Haiti’s political life and conditioning assistance on political benchmarks has failed Haiti and its poor. It is time that we begin a new, more gracious strategy, that provides assistance simply to reverse Haiti’s massive poverty. Ira Kurzban was the general counsel for Haiti for 13 years during the governments of René Préval and Jean-Bertrand Aristide. ************************* HAITI: A Legacy of Resistance… Produced by the Community News Collective of CKUT Radio & Haiti Action Join CKUT Radio in Montreal for a week of special programming focusing CKUT’s Community News Collective, presents this week of investigative Tune-in for this week of special programming on CKUT Radio, which will ----> MONDAY, Feb. 20th, 5-6pm: ‘en profondeur’, the French edition of Featuring the voices of, GINETTE APOLLON, President of the Womens ----> WEDNESDAY, Feb. 22nd, 5-6pm: Long Term Memory Radio on Off the Featuring reflections on the roots of the Haitian revolution in 1804, ----> FRIDAY, Feb. 24th, 5-6pm: Off the Hour, the first segement of the ALSO, this program will feature an interviews & performances from The second part of the hour will feature an in-studio discussion with ----> WEDNESDAY, March, 1st, 5-6pm: Long Term Memory Radio on Off the This week of special programming at CKUT Radio, produced by the ----> For more information regarding this week of special programming, ----> For more information on Haiti Action Montreal, or to get involved ********************************************** Recommended Link: 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 ] STOP Haiti Democracy Project and Tim Carney’s destabalizing Preval’s presidency even before it begins www.margueritelaurent.com/solidarityday/hsd_sampleletter_res.html Turning Haiti into a Penal Colony: The Systemic Criminalization of Young Black Males in Haiti by Haiti’s US-imposed Miami government parallels US habit of criminalizing Blacks in the US| Haitian Perspectives by Marguerite Laurent, November 3, 2005 ********************** |
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