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/
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- ““It is organized
violence on top which
creates
individual violence at
the b…”
November 17, 2009 07:33PM - “Very good article, Zen
Haitian. Thanks for forwarding
it to
HLLN. Here's what I
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November 17, 2009 07:32PM - “C'est la vie,
figerlakeswander, c'est la
vie. Your post on
the
anniversary of
you…”
November 11, 2009 06:47PM - “Your commenting in
support means a lot,
fingerlakeswanderer.
Much
thanks.”
November 11, 2009 04:38PM - “What a beautiful
tribute. Thank you for sharing
such depth
and feeling. It
takes…”
November 11, 2009 04:11PM
Ezili Danto's Links
- Marguerite Laurent/Ezili Dantò's Links
- Poets & Writers
- Living In Black
- Linkedin.com
The Counter-Colonial Narrative on Deforestation in Haiti
Haiti Policy Statement for the Obama Team
Haiti Policy Statement for the Obama
Team
by Ezili Dantò for Ezili's Haitian Lawyers Leadership
Network ("HLLN")
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A New US-Haiti Partnership is
essential./… Read full post »
Fulfilling Leclerc imperative:debt, free trade, wage slavery
Genocide
in Haiti: Fulfilling Lecler's imperative through debt, free trade,
privatization and wage slavery
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New Slavery Model: Sonthonax, the Commissioner from France back during revolutionary days landed in Haiti not to end slavery but to give rights to the mulatto… Read full post »
Letter to the UN asking for investigative reports on UN rape
"I am the history of rape...… Read full post »
I am the history of battery assault and limitless
armies against whatever I want to do with my mind
and my body and my soul and
whether it’s about walking out at night
or whether it’s about the love that I
I Don't Know this America...But I'm Most Happy To Meet It
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Two American moments, which one will we extend and
sustain?
"I know the America on the left. I am so glad to meet the America on the… Read full post »
Obama Should Stop Deportations to Haiti
Obama's offered HOPE is sweatshop slavery
HLLN on the causes of Haiti deforestation and poverty
Haiti’s poverty is the result of the theft and exploitation of Haiti by the world’s wealthy countries and their corporations. Haiti’s poverty
Haiti's Riches:Interview with Ezili Dantò on Mining in Haiti
Host: Christ Scott
Guest: Marguerite Laurent/Ezili Dantò
Recorded: April 29, 2009
Listen to the audio - Haiti Riches: CKUT Interview (
Rush Limbaugh/Clear Channel racist sexual slur of Haitians
Ezili's HLLN Action Alert: File an FCC complaint against Rush Limbaugh's graphic race-baiting, hate-filled statement about Haitians, on the air on May 20, 2009, between 12-3pm for the Clear Channel Communications.
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- HLLN Action Alert
- A sample letter to Limba
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Ezili's HLLN Pays Homage to Father Gerard Jean Juste
Ezili
Dantò’s Note:
HLLN Pays Homage to Father Gerard Jean Juste
The road is long and hard, his shadow gave us shelter, rest and
comfort. But now, he’s gone.
He did not deserve this end - li kite rès la pou nou
menm – he’s left the… Read full post »
HLLN blasts Miami Herald's coverage of Jean Juste Memorial
UN provoke mourners, gun down unarmed, blames it on victims
UN
provoke mourners, gun down the unarmed, blames the killing on the
crowd of mourners at Father Jean Juste's Haiti funeral
"They suffered and died
Every bloody month
Of the bloody year...
In a New World
Cursed by the West Storm
And raped by the powers
Of greed, wickedness, and death.
Alone, I fac… Read full post »
Message to President Obama:End UN Occupation of Haiti
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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… Read full post »
What UN Special Envoy Bill Clinton May Do to Help Haiti
Free
Haiti's Political Prisoners: What Special UN Envoy Bill Clinton may
do to help Haiti
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Before we start with the piece on
What Special UN Envoy Bill Clinton may do to help
Haiti, I re-member that August 14, 2009 is the 218th
anniversary of the
… Read full post »
A Giant Step for Mankind Made in Haiti
A Giant Step for Mankind Made in
Haïti
The Bwa Kay Iman uprising against slavery
by Jean Saint-Vil, HLLN's Haitian
Perspectives,
August 11, 2009
There was a time, not so long ago, when popes, kings and queens enriched themselves and built vast empires on… Read full post »
The Kidnapping Coup
The Kidnapping Coup
For Margaret Mitchell Armand - One love
"Except for Haiti all the present African nationalities are the results of
colonial strategies. Haiti is not. At Bwa Kayiman the amalgamated African
tribes named themselves - Ayisyen - and that union has NEVER wavered. Manman Ayiti is not the product of capitalism. Haitians ar… Read full post »
The High Cost of Haiti's politicians to the Haitian workers
Haiti's
politicians in the lower chamber are paid close to $125,000 to act
as guard dogs for the ruling elites' interests
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The French original of Franck Seguy's article "Près de cinq millions pour un chien de garde" is translated by Stanley Lathan for HLLN, with the p… Read full post »
Healthcare reform also requires food system reform
Health
care reform demands U.S. food policy and agricultural
reform
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"Lance Armstrong serves on the President's Cancer Panel, which released a report this year concluding that processed forms of corn and soybeans - heavily subsidized commodity crops- are known contributors to… Read full post »
Haiti's founding father-women who influenced him, his legacy
Jean
Jacques Dessalines - The women who influenced him, his ideals and
legacy remembered on Sept. 20th, his birthday (born,
September 20, 1758)
September 20th is the birthday of Haiti's founding father, Jean
Jacques Dessalines. Born a slave under European ideology and put in
chains to serve Fra… Read full post »
Oil in Haiti - Economic Reasons for the UN/US occupation
Letter from concerned parishioner on Perlitz and Fr. Carrier
Michael
Nowacki Letter distributed to St. Thomas More parishioners in
Darien, CT (from the parking lot)
La Sosyete, HLLN and Michael Nowacki,
By circulating this mail, HLLN extends its sympathies, support and
solidarity to Mr. Michael Nowacki of the St. Thomas More parish in
Connecticut USA, wh… Read full post »
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