The spirit of Nyerere
I had the privilege of meeting Rosemary Nyerere on Friday night as part of the Haiti Solidarity Day. Crossroads Women’s Center held a reception for Rosemary who is a beautiful gentle woman with a great inner strength and wisdom. She…
Haiti Solidarity
Third International Day of Solidarity with the People of Haiti & for the safe return of disappeared human rights activist Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine. On the 12th August 2007 the car of Lovinsky was found abandoned on a street in Port-au-Prince and…
Quick Links
*** Freedom Rider on the “Obama Cult”. What a relief. They are every where, like pod people in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. If you don’t fall asleep and turn into a pod person too, they are out to get…
Quick Links
* Red Day – Speak out against violence against women of colour. Red is the color of courage, of embarrassment, of indiscretion, and of blood. On days that aren’t today, people emphasize the latter three qualities more than the former…
Blogging for Justice: Protecting Black Women From Rape
Protecting Black Women From Rape has been organised by Afrosphere to publicise two horrendous cases of rape against Black women in the United States. Ms. Megan Williams Megan Williams thought she was going to a party. For more than a…
Complimentary religions: Voudou & Liberation Theology
August 12th, Port-au-Prince, Haiti I haven’t written anything yet about my visit to Haiti – cannot really explain why or maybe I was just too overwhelmed in such a short space of time and met so many people from the…
where sugar is not so sweet
Cane cutters 2007 Related links: Human rights advocate Sonia Pierre (born in the Dominican Republic of Haitian parents) discusses the plight of Haitians in the DR such as denial of citizenship to those born in the DR of Haitian parents….
Brother, I’m Dying
A Memoir by Edwidge Danticat Brother, I’m Dying” is above all the story of Danticat’s uncle. As unrest intensified with each regime change, Mira urged Joseph to leave Haiti and the church he had built. It was only in 2004,…
Half hour for Haiti: 1
The day I arrived in Haiti – 13th August was the day after Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine disappeared. His car was found abandonded on the road side and he has not been seen since. Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine is a member of the Lavalas…
Unbroken Agony
In a few days, I will be arriving in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. I will be staying and meeting with women activists from the Lavalas movement. I have a pretty good knowledge of Haitian history and contemporary politics but there…
An unbroken punishment
While President Jean-Bertrand Aristide remains in forced exile in South Africa, his Lavalas supporters continue the campaign to bring him back to Haiti. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now interviews Randall Robinson (founder of Trans Africa Forum) whose book “An Unbroken…
Africa’s Liberation: Against the Four Headed Beast!
You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of…
We must kill the bandits
We Must Kill the Bandits Watching this film I began to see some similarities between Haiti and Palestine. The fact that a democratically elected government has been subverted by the US and it’s allies because the winners were not acceptable…
LGBT Pride
Happy LGBT Pride! Today I was at the Pride parade in NYC, and it was great. Beautiful weather and beautiful people. Enjoy the pics. Some African-Americans… Some Latinas… Some Haitians… Some fabulousness… Some Asians… Some Puerto Ricans… Some Christians… Some…
Quick Links –
***Sokwanele on secret talks between SA and Zimbabwe VPs? Channel Four News has uncovered a secret meeting between the Zimbabwe vice president – Joyce Mujuru, a leading contender to take over from Robert Mugabe, and the South African vice president,…
How long does it take to get famous?
The past 6 weeks have been hectic with travels to London, Durban, Cape Town, Nairobi, Cape Town and finally landing in Joburg. Some of you may have read my write up on my CT experience and what a relief it…
Struggles of Solidarity
The 7th February marked the International Day of Solidarity with the Haitian people. The action alert was posted on this blog here and here and a number of other blogs across the blogosphere. One of those blogs was Blackademics who…
Haitian Solidarity
Linking grassroots organisations in global action HaitianAction.Net : Abahlali, the South African shack dwellers movement, is organizing an event in the Kennedy Road shack settlement Feb. 7 “in support of Haitian shack dwellers.” It will be a film showing and…
International Solidarity Day with Haiti
A Call to Action — Join the International Day in Solidarity with the Haitian People Coordinated International Protests on February 7, 2007 *** End the Foreign Military Occupation of Haiti! *** Stop the War against the People of Haiti! ***…
Walking on Fire
Walking on Fire” — Stories of survival and Resistance from Haitian Women” by Beverly Bell with a forward by Haitian writer, Edwidge Danticat, Cornell University Press, 2001 I have a fairly good knowledge of Haiti. The only successful slave revolt…