HLLN/#FreeHaiti 19th Annual Vertières Teach-in:Freedom, Equality or Death | Join us tomorrow at 9pm for Haitian language Vètyè Teach-in

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A #FreeHaiti Nov 18, 2023 post 
HLLN/#FreeHaiti 19th Annual Vertières Teach-in: Freedom, Equality or Death | Join us tomorrow at 9pm for the Haitian language Vètyè Teach-in
https://www.instagram.com/p/CzxXIDWqtJr/

HLLN/#FreeHaiti's 19th annual Vertières (Vètyè) teach-in
"Desalin and his mother Tante Toya- the Africans who beat Napoleon to abolish slavery, the slave trade, forced assimilation, and direct colonialism at the Battle of Vertières (Vètyè) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYjXGcPhBAA
 (Join us tomorrow for the Haitian language Vètyè Teach-in at 9 pm EST on the Pierre Fils Aime Talk Show)
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Grenadye Alaso, sa ki mouri zafè ya yo, nanpren manman, nanpren papa, sa ki mouri zafè ya yo!
Grenadye alaso sa ki mouri zafè ya yo. Nanpren manman nanpren papa, sa ki mouri nap vanje yo! Grenadye alaso!
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Soldiers attack!
There are no mothers here,
no fathers here.
Just soldiers. Soldiers Attack!
Soldiers attack!
There are no mothers here,
no fathers here. Those who die, we will avenge!
Soldiers attack!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYjXGcPhBAA

For November 18th, HLLN brings you, "Haiti the Rebel", by Michel Sanon to recall the Battle of Vertières, the defining battle of the Haitian revolution.
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Haiti the Rebel By Michel Sanon
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Who is to tell me when
To celebrate my history?
Who is to tell me
When to dress my wounds
And to reminisce
My trials, my sorrow
When to shed tears
Over my brave children
And to glorify their names?
They suffered and died
Every bloody month
Of the bloody year.
I was born
Of abject inhumanity
With the noble destiny
Of carrying the sword
Of precious humanity
In a New World
Cursed by the West Storm
And raped by the powers
Of greed, wickedness, and death.
I am the mother of martyrs
Of survivors and overcomers.
Alone, I faced the wrath
Of this world's powers
In March of 1802.
Their mighty venom
Could not cripple me.
I stepped on the snakes head
In May of 1803
And created for ever
The symbol of my pride.
How many now really know
My history?
How many care?
Alone, with my hurting hands
I broke the first link
Of the mighty chain
Of human curse
Called slavery.
Alone on the traitorous hill
Of the New World
I carried the cross of a race
Into this century
Of furious revolution
And industrialization
Refusing to get crucified.
I've been chained
I've been robbed
I've been raped and stabbed
And I have fought back
Fearlessly, continuously.
Alone I have paid and paid.
I have paid the senseless price
I have paid the endless price
For my vital exploits.
Humanity at large
Enjoys the benefits
Gratelessly, pompously.
Every bloody month
Of every bloody year
I have fought constantly
With a burning spear
Stuck in my chest.
Sometimes it weakens me
But I always rise
High above the pain
And the wickedness
Of powerful forces
From near and far
To claim my dignity.
I have friends
Who suck up my blood
When tired I fall asleep.
They set my house ablaze
To scare my children away
From my wounded heart.
Though today I choose to stand
And stand in pride and love
With my dear family
To celebrate in harmony
Our common history
In the month of February
I was alone when in Vertières
I rose to face the Devil
When hell broke loose
Unleashing its fire storm
With waves of flame rushing
To engulf me whole...
Alone in the vast universe
I froze hell over
And walked on its ashes
To create my own history.
Nobody stood by my side.
I alone remember.
It was the eighteenth day
Of a month called
November. " --- Michel Sanon of HLLN/#FreeHaiti
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A FreeHaiti posting for November 18th on the Battle of Vertières 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hgjR405h54


A #FreeHaiti Vertières (Vètyè) post
Haitian fight song (Mingus Big Band) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPfSD0vJi8Y


A #FreeHaiti Nov 18, 2023 post
LA MÉMOIRE CELLULAIRE ET LES MULTIPLES INHIBITIONS DES NOIRS AVEC EUGENIE DOSSA-QUENUM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnwz9__p248


Vertières - The Greatest Battle Ever Fought

Vertières - The Greatest Battle ever fought

https://margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/vertierre_08.html#vertieres

PRESS RELEASE

Contact Information:
Attorney Evel Fanfan in Haiti at 011 509 36 70 3640

Attorney Èzili Dantò in the U.S. at 203 829 7210
Email: erzil...@yahoo.com

Release Date: November 15, 2023



For Immediate Release


Haiti Lawyers File Lawsuit Against the Illegitimate Haiti Government For Requesting Invasion Into Haiti In Violation of Haiti Constitution

On November 6, 2023, Èzili Dantò’s Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network and Evel Fanfan’s Actions of Organizations Motivated for a Haiti Ruled by Law (AUMOHD), filed a lawsuit against the unelected and de facto Ariel Henry Haiti Government for requesting foreign troops be deployed to Haiti in violation of the Haiti Constitution and Haiti sovereignty.

See the original complaint in French, registered at the High Court of Port-au-Prince, No. I 3970329 (PDF of original filing) and the English translation at ezilidanto.com.



The Haitian Constitution prohibits in its article 263.1 the existence of other Armed Corps on the national territory. Haiti has had more than 10 different international interventions in the last decades. Each brought more disenfranchisement for the Haitian people, left more arms, more violence, and more human rights violations, including contaminated UN soldiers killing more than 10,000 Haitians with cholera, poisoning Haiti's waterways, and making one million Haitians sick. No reparations have ever been made for these international crimes.


Ariel Henry and his government are not duly elected and have no constitutional mandate or legal capacity to request foreign troops on Haitian soil. This is a high crime under the Haitian Constitution.

The Haitian lawsuit proposes two solutions that the international community and de facto Haiti government have at their disposal to counter the paramilitary death squads without bringing more violence and foreign military into Haiti:



  • Enforce United Nations Resolution 2653, which calls on UN member states to stop the arms trafficking coming from foreign lands into Haiti for use by the right-wing paramilitaries. These death squads heavily depend on arms trafficking, primarily from the United States and, to a lesser extent, the Dominican Republic. Haiti does not manufacture weapons.


  • Compliance, by these powers, with UN Resolution 2653 is a legal Haiti solution rather than the imperial solution that violates Haiti's sovereignty.


  • These death squads are financed by the wealthy, white Syrian-Lebanese Haiti oligarchs who remain invisible to the media. Most are already sanctioned by Canada, the United States, and the UN for financing “gangs” and thus for financing death, terror, and murder in Haiti. The Ariel Henry government and members of his PHTK political party have also been named by UN reports for financing this violence.


  • Instead of violating the Haiti and Kenya constitutions, the lawyers who filed this case in Haiti propose that the de facto Haiti authorities (along with the governments of Canada, the United States, and the Dominican Republic) take prosecutorial actions and mobilize their enforcement authorities. They recommend not just imposing toothless sanctions on these wealthy businessmen and Haitian politicians for their role in financing terror, dispossession, rape, and murder but call for issuing arrest warrants and promptly apprehending these criminal businessmen and financiers of terror in Haiti against the impoverished Haitian people.


These two solutions are the Haiti-led answers to support the human rights and sovereignty of the Haitian people, not illegal invasions to uphold imperial plunders and an illegal Ariel Henry government.



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Haiti Lawyers, Èzili Dantò and Evel Fanfan, Sue the De Facto Haiti Government for Treason and violating Haiti Constitution
https://ezilidanto.com/2023/11/haiti-lawyers-sue-the-de-facto-haiti-government-for-treason/


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