Message to President Obama:End UN Occupation of Haiti

Ezili Danto

Bio: Ezili Dantò is an award winning playwright, a performance poet, political and social commentator, 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. She is a gifted spoken word artist who used Haitian dance, performance poetry, theater and creative writing to create the performance series - "Red, Black & Moonlight", her critically acclaimed one-woman Jazzoetry Vodun dance theater work, which she has toured internationally and also performed at Colleges and Universities, performance art centers, and theaters, including at non-traditional theater venues, such as the United Nations and Carnegie Hall. Marguerite 'Ezili Dantò' Laurent is also an essayist and 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 neoliberalism policies on Haiti and the developing world... For more go to Marguerite Laurent/Ezili Dantò website at http://www.ezilidanto.com/

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JUNE 19, 2009 12:25PM

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HLLN ACTION ALERT

Message to President Barack Obama:

Demand an end to the UN Occupation of Haiti. Justice for UN Victims. Immediate return of President Aristide from exile. Immediate release of all the political prisoners from prison.

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Please Write to President Obama, Secretary Clinton and the Obama Team

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Contact President Obama by phone at (202) 456-1111 or write online at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ and Secretary of State Clinton at (202) 647-4000 or http://tiny.cc/n2Raz.

cc: The UN - UN Contact info. Your congressional rep and local and national media.

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HLLN sample letter sent to Pres. Obama:

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Dear President Obama;

Will you, President Obama, simply ignore the UN slaughters and criminality in Haiti? Or, will Haitians be treated like human beings under the Obama Administration? The Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN) calls on you, President Obama, to denounce the UN shooting of an unarmed marcher in Haiti on June 18, 2009 during the funeral of Father Gerard Jean Juste. The perpetrators must be brought to justice immediately. Dissenters and peaceful protesters to this UN occupation should be afforded the same protection and defense as you, President Obama, urge for the Iranian demonstrators. Dissenters, like musician, Yvon Zapzap, who is alledged to be the subject of this attempt at an arrest on June 18, 2009 during Father Jean Juste's funeral in Haiti, must immediately stop being menaced and threatened, allowed freedom of speech and assembly. Moreover, all the other political prisoners indefinitely and arbitrarily detained in UN occupied Haiti for their dissent should be liberated.

Yvon Zapzap, in particular, has already spent 2-1/2 years in prison under UN occupied Haiti on false charges. The unidentified man, profiled because of his dreadlocks, who was held in a chokehold, abused and dragged through the funeral crowd by the UN soldiers, then released because this was a case of "mistaken identity" ought to be accorded justice as well as the family of the man who was shot dead in the ensuing fracas. This is an outrage. Has "change" really come, or will the Obama administration continue the George W. Bush inhumane treatment of Haiti and Haitians? Haitian life is as valuable as any human life! UN out of Haiti, now! Justice for Father Jean Juste. Justice for the Haitian victims of the UN and Bush 2004 Regime change in Haiti.

If the White House is at all interested, click on this link for details on yesterday's killing of an unarmed marcher, go to "UN provoke mourners, gun down unarmed, blames it on victims"

The US must change its policy in Haiti. Help return President Aristide from exile, restore Haitian sovereignty, end UN occupation, provide justice and reparation to UN victims in Haiti.

Sincerely,

Ezili Dantò/Marguerite Laurent
President, Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
June 19, 2009

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