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

MY RECENT POSTS

Haiti: The soul of Africa, not for sale
May 18, 2012 03:06AM
Not voting for Obama: We’re not even buying a voting ticket
May 05, 2012 12:07PM
HLLN analysis of Times’ cholera article
April 02, 2012 07:17PM
Haiti: A time bomb which must be defused immediately
March 28, 2012 07:55AM
Bill Clinton admits UN brought cholera, Haiti raped again
March 18, 2012 12:17AM

MY RECENT COMMENTS

“@Herr Rudolphus der Rude Glad to know you're out there. Most appreciated.”
May 19, 2012 12:52AM
“Lol, Tx for posting. To give you another laugh. At the Ohio kick-off for his reel…”
May 09, 2012 11:11PM
“Deborah Young, Boomer Bob, rwnutjob. Thank you all for sharing your thoughts, mu…”
May 08, 2012 06:38PM
“I so agree and support you. Good work. Obamacare doesn't go far enough. It's emba…”
March 30, 2012 09:47AM
“@Sean Fenley Thanks for the comment. Martelly is lawless and about self. He wasn't…”
March 29, 2012 05:31AM

Ezili Danto's Links

Marguerite Laurent/Ezili Dantò's Links: Ezili Dantò website blog; Ezili Danto website blog; Facebook; Poets & Writers; Living In Black; Linkedin.com

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JULY 6, 2010 5:36PM

Haiti: Vodun Jazzoetry-Ezili Red, Black & Moonlight (Video)

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Haiti: Vodun Jazzoetry-Ezili Dantò's Red, Black & Moonlight (Video Reel)

The RBM series are written and performed by Ezili Dantò

Documenting the often tragic journey of Haitians in the US and abroad for human justice, the monologues cover Vodun cosmology, Haitian history, culture and US humanitarian imperialism in Haiti. It's a musical memoir full of coming of age stories of a woman raised African-American-Haitian in the US, who returns to her parents' homeland and cannot undo the U-turn. The work testifies to the tragic plight of the Black nation of Haitians surviving within a hostile American Mediterranean.

Texts of the RBM performances pieces may be found on our website. Email for more info and for bookings in video is updated to erzilidanto@yahoo.con Dance and drumming workshops are offered only with performance bookings. School clippings, one and two.

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The Bwa Kayiman Ceremony

by Ezili Dantò

Ezili Dantò performs Bwa Kayiman, the Vodun gathering on Aug. 14, 1791 that started the successful Haitian revolution, abolished slavery, colonialism and created the nation of Haiti. Written by Ezili Dantò and performed here with Troupe Makandal and master Haitian drummer, Frisner Augustin.

See also - Bio of Ezili Danto, 1791 Beyond 2004 Kayiman Play Performance ritual ending Bwa Kayiman celebration and Bwa Kayman 2009 - Brooklyn, New York -Lakou Gran Bwa - Prospect Park, Brooklyn

_{(Photo by Kesler Pierre)}

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Ezili Dantò performs at Carnegie Hall

See also Ezili Dantò - Unifying Ourselves

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Ezili Danto live in Miami with Sanba Yatande, TiRouj

Ezili Dantò performs pieces from her one-woman Vodun Jazzoetry show, Red, Black & Moonlight.

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Avatar Haiti: Interviews with Ezili Dantò on Disaster Capitalism and the US/UN/NGO occupation in Haiti

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CrossTalk on Haiti: Failed aid

CrossTalk on Haiti: failed aid – interview with

Ezili Dantò, Nick Rossier, Stanley Lucas

Source: Haiti Year of Agony -Ezili HLLN Bourquet of Tears & Light

Despite the army of NGOs and a strong commitment of the international community, Haiti is still broken and its prospects are dim. Is something fundamentally wrong with the aid programs? And can Haitians break out of it? Ezili Dantò, Stanley Lucas and Nicolas Rossier share their first-hand experience on CrossTalk. Broadcast date: January 12, 2011.

"0.5 % in Haiti - Haiti's Oligarchy - own 98% of Haiti's wealth through monopolies orchestrated and supported by Western policymakers and corporations." - Ezili Dantò of HLLN

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Since the 2004 Bush regime change in Haiti, US large footprint in "poor?" Haiti keeps increasing. US Embassy in Haiti is the fifth largest US Embassy compound in the world, after Iraq, Afghanistan, China
and Germany.

THE EVOLUTION OF DISASTER CAPITALISM (English, about 2 hours, uploaded about 7 hours ago by fansmiles, broadcast date: 2010-11-10) (Source - politube.org)

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