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
- Obama FBI re-image bombers
into face of Black woman?
May 06, 2013 07:54AM - Video- Ezili's Haiti Work: The
non-colonial narrative
March 27, 2013 04:45AM - UN claims its above the law in
Haiti, denies cholera damages
February 23, 2013 08:05PM - Django, white saviors, false
benevolence and the Haiti
quake
January 20, 2013 09:13PM - End the US occupation of Haiti
behind UN proxy guns
December 21, 2012 02:53PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Thank you everyone for
reading and the comments.
Much
appreciate. @Inverted
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May 08, 2013 07:50AM - “Respect
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July 13, 2012 04:38PM - “@Herr Rudolphus der
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out there. Most
appreciated.”
May 19, 2012 12:52AM - “Lol, Tx for
posting.
To give you
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May 08, 2012 06:38PM
Ezili Danto's Links
Obama FBI re-image bombers into face of Black woman?
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- Ezili's Haiti Work: The non-colonial narrative
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 »
UN claims its above the law in Haiti, denies cholera damages
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 and the Haiti quake
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 »
End the US occupation of Haiti behind UN proxy guns
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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… Read full post »
Haiti: November 18 – Disengagement is not an option
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 »
Haiti:Brandt Busted as Clintons Celebrate Sweatshop
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 »
Paul Farmer and World Bank president Jim Yong Kim exposed
“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, other little republics' UN vote not new
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 »
Illusion is reality: Washington swings with Carnival King
“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 »
Swapping Haiti lives: Interview on US Haiti Exploits
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 "Foreig… Read full post »
Gold Rush in Haiti: Mining Investment Good for Whom?
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 »
Haiti: Foreign investment means death & repression, Part 2
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 »
Haiti: If I could reach CNN's audience on 4th of July
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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 »
Haiti: Ezili Dantò on Wash Post Cholera editorial
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 »
Haiti: The soul of Africa, not for sale
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 Emmanue… Read full post »
Not voting for Obama: We’re not even buying a voting ticket

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 of Times’ cholera article
HLLN analysis to NYT’s cholera article: Playing the Left-Right game of neutral reporting
by Ezili Dantò
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The Set Up. Act 3 t… Read full post »
Haiti: A time bomb which must be defused immediately
“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 - Transcending… Read full post »
Bill Clinton admits UN brought cholera, Haiti raped again
“Generals, officers, soldiers: differing from him by whom I was preceded, the ex-general Toussaint L’Ouverture, I have
… Read full post »
HLLN Pays Tribute to Jean Ristil Jean Baptiste
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 »
Jan. 1, 2012: Another Independence Day Under Occupation
Haiti: Jan 1, 2012 Another Independence Day Under Occupation

Janjak Desalin (Jean Jacques Dessalines, Haiti Founding Father) Go to: Haiti: Jan 1, 2012 Another Independence Day Under Occupation Read full post »
Support Haiti's Zili Dlo: Free clean water for everyone
Clean Water is life and Health for
Haiti : Support Zili Dlo - Free clean water for everyone,
write to: erzilidanto@yahoo.com
Haiti: The US and UN brought us Disease and Humiliation
Haitians have a saying: "washing your hands and wiping it dirt"
Source: The Haitian Blogger, Oct. 23, 2011
Farmer relieves himself on Haiti’s dying cholera victims
* “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 »
Ezili Danto's Favorites
Updates
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How can this not be viral? Hilarious and terrifying both
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How Soon We Forget
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It's Just a Cold
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Thanksgiving Turkeys,Public Choice Theory & IRS v Teabagger
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On "Social Welfare Organizations" and Tax Exempt Status
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Jade "Soul" Zuberi animates--and elevates--SYTYCD
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Notes on the Middle East
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Reading Don Quixote




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