Ezili Danto

Ezili Danto
Birthday
August 01
Bio
Ezili Dantò is an award winning playwright, a performance poet, author and human rights attorney. She was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised in the USA. She holds a BA from Boston College, a JD from the University of Connecticut School of law. She is a human rights lawyer, cultural and political activist and the founder and president of the Ezili’s Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN). She runs the Haitian Perspectives on-line journal and the Ezili Dantò Newsletter. Ezili’s HLLN is the recognized leading and most trustworthy international voice in Haiti advocacy, human rights work, Haiti news and Haiti news analysis. HLLN’s work is central to those concerned with the welfare of the people of Haiti, Haiti capacity building, sovereignty, institutionalization of the rule of law, and justice and peace without occupation or militarization. Ezili Dantò is also an educator who specializes in teaching about the light and beauty of Haitian culture; the Symbolic and Archetypal Nature of Haitian Vodun; the illegality and immorality of forcing neoliberal policies on Haiti and the developing world... Since the UN-imported cholera outbreak on October 2010, Ezili' HLLN has insisted that environmental clean-up, clean water and sanitation are the only permanent solution to stop the UN cholera spread. Zili Dlo is a humanitarian project that provides free clean water. For more go to the Ezili Danto/HLLN websites at http://www.ezilidanto.com/ and http://www.ezilidanto.com/zili

Ezili Dantò’s Note

Did Obama FBI re-image bombers into face of Black woman to counter smiling, white-boy-next-door-look of the Boston bombers?

 

On Thursday, May 2, 2013, Assata Shakur became the first woman added to the FBI’s most wanted terrorists list. The reward… Read full post »

Video report on Haiti Riches, Zili Dlo Haiti solar project and the works of Ezili Dantò HLLN

Ezili's HLLN tells the non-colonial narrative on Haiti and promotes self-sufficiency not NGO dependency. Zili Dlo is an HLLN project for clean water, renewable power, cultural education and… Read full post »

 


Haiti is back on the plantation: UN claims to be above the law, denies responsibility for cholera deaths in Haiti

Go HERE for the entire post.  Some excerpts:


"Human rights attorney Ezili Dantò of Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN) discusses on Black Agenda Repo… Read full post »

Django, white saviors, false benevolence, third anniversary of Haiti quake: Media Portrayal Problematic

Go HERE to read the entire post.  Some excerpts:

"The genocide in Haiti and in Africa, is being conducted by...otherwise average, normal, well-intentioned, nice, loving white people. In the… Read full post »

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Al Jazeera video on UN fake  cholera aid for Haiti

Enjoy Yves Point Du Jour on Al Jazeera speaking what the white saviors always block, speaking the Haiti majority's narrative!

"Haitians are tired of the US occupation, we don't play baseball"
- Yves Point Du
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Remembering the Battle of Battle of Vertières- Nov 18, 1803 the final Haiti battle defeating European forces for slavery, forced assimilation, the slave trade and colonialism in Haiti. The Haitian struggle is the greatest David vs. Goliath battle being played out on the face of this planet .… Read full post »

 

Clifford Brandt Kidnapping Ring Busted as Clintons with Hollywood Celebrate Haiti Sweatshop

by Ezili Dantò of HLLN, Oct 23, 2012 (Check this link for updates)

 Clifford Brandt in handcuffs – arrested for involvement in kidnapping ring in Haiti

 On Monday, Octobe… Read full post »

 

“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… Read full post »

US control of Haiti and other little republics' vote at the UN is not new

I found an August 10, 2012 George Will opinion piece relevant to UN/US occupied Haiti today for reasons that would probably not occur to Mr. Will. The piece discusses and juxtaposes… Read full post »

 
“The right to own property does not extend to the coasts, springs, rivers, water courses, mines and quarries. They are part of the State’s public domain.” – Haitian 1987 Constitution, Section H, Article 36-5.  (Massacre at La Visite by Dady Chery)

Illusion is reali… Read full post »

 

Ezili Dantò’s Note

 



July 25, 2012 interview
Jeff Blankfort host of Takes on the World interviews Ezili Dantò on Haiti's Exploitation / Radio Project MP3 KZYX Public Radio Interview

Summary:  Ezili Dantò talks about her review, titled "ForeigRead full post »

Ezili Dantò’s Note

Gold Rush in Haiti: Good for whom?

 

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Haiti 's water supply is ALREADY contaminated by foreign cholera feces, what will leaking cyanide, arsenic emissions, mine waste, Marine ecosystem destruction and open pit mining and uns… Read full post »

This is the second part of our essay on the consequences of US investment in Haiti. The piece examines the New York Times investigation into the Caracol industrial park, its anchor tenant, the South Korea's Sae-A Trading, giving Haiti context with the Bitter Cane documentary on industrial parks/… Read full post »

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This post is
dedicated to all the Emmanuel Drèd Wilmè and Janjak Desalins' RISING! Emmanuel Drèd Wilmè - the most hunted Black man in Haiti stood up against the US occupation behind UN mercenary guns in 2004 for 17-months until he was assassinated by UN multina/… Read full post »

 

Washington Justice For Haiti:
In support of Paul Farmer’s pharmaceuticals and the Farmer groups – Brian Concannon/IDJH – asking the UN to judge itself guilty on behalf of Haiti cholera victims, Washington Post opines, justice for the Haiti cholera victims would be collecti… Read full post »

 

May 18 Flag day essay:
Haiti is Africa’s soul, not for sale

By Ezili Dantò, May 18, 2012, for the FreeHaitiMovement

 

 

Chalermangne Peralte, assassinated by US Marines during the first U.S. occupation and then nailed to a door (Source: The Crucifixion of EmmanueRead full post »


Not voting for Obama: We’re not even buying a voting ticket to the show

I speak my heart and mind on this. In 2008, Ezili’s HLLN supported a vote for Obama, not because we entirely believed the Obama fairytale (See, The America I Know, 2008.)

We… Read full post »

HLLN analysis to NYT’s cholera article: Playing the Left-Right game of neutral reporting

by Ezili Dantò
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For the complete HLLN analysis to NYT’s cholera article and the four HLLN Comments the Times posted submitted by Ezili's HLLN, go to our website.

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The Set Up. Act 3 tRead full post »

“If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” — Lily Watson

Haiti: A time bomb which must be defused immediately

Ezili Dantò - TranscendingRead full post »

“Generals, officers, soldiers: differing from him by whom I was preceded, the ex-general Toussaint L’Ouverture, I have

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Ezili Dantò’s Note:
HLLN Pays Homage to Jean Ristil Jean Baptiste
(SFbayview version ; hear the voice of Jean Ristil as LakouNew York honors the life of  Jean Ristil – 27 Fevriye, 28 Fevriye, 29 Fevriye, 2012. The photos Jean Ristil took recently for HLLN.)

On Febru… Read full post »

 

 


ezili danto1 e1291650944722 Disaster Capitalism in Haiti, New Orleans, Congo and Pakistan

Clean Water is life and Health for Haiti : Support Zili Dlo - Free clean water for everyone, write to: erzilidanto@yahoo.com

 
Right now we are doing on-site distributions, as you will see from the Zili Dlo photo report , but wish to get mor… Read full post »

Haitians have a saying: "washing your hands and wiping it dirt"

 Source: The Haitian Blogger, Oct. 23, 2011

Anti-UN Protests in Haiti:
"They've Brought Us Disease and Humiliation"

This is what the U.S. and it's proxies have been doing in Haiti. In fomenting crisis… Read full post »
* “A study on cholera risk factors conducted in Haiti found that not treating the drinking water was the main risk component… “Elimination of the threat of epidemic cholera is still possible for Haiti, and the key ingredient for that will… Read full post »