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
- Poets & Writers
- Living In Black
- Linkedin.com
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
*****
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 »
Haiti: UN/MINUSTAH’s Gang Rapes
MINUSTAH’s Gang Rapes
By Michaëlle Desrosiers and Franck
Seguy
A l’Encontre
Translated from the French by Dady Chery for Haiti Chery, October 12, 2011 | Source: Haiti Chery
MINUSTAH almost exclusively attacks those who are most despised, humbled, and impoverished. Thus, it a… Read full post »
Bill Clinton has more power in Haiti than Haiti's president
The holocaust in Ayiti continues. The insane imperial narrative and custom of honoring rapists, murderers, torturers, degenerate pedophile maniacs, pillagers, plunderers, enslavers and poverty pimps, starting with Christopher Columbus, who set forth the most prolonged genocides and horrific t… Read full post »
Haiti: Uruguayan people demand MINUSTAH withdrawal
” The U.N. does not contain or resolve conflicts but is a globalized world policeman serving the imperial order.” — Fernando Moyano
URUGUAYAN PEOPLE DEMAND IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL OF MINUSTAH TROOPS FROM HAITI

The Foreign-Hand Syndrome: a Country that is Not Your Government… Read full post »
Haiti: Uruguay must make investigation public, justice swift
"It's time for Haitian Parliament to void the Status of Force Agreement (SOFA) between Haiti and MINUSTAH signed by the unconstitutional and unelected Haiti officials in 2004 and subject those in the UN who have prostituted and sodomized our children and poisoned our water system to appropriate nati… Read full post »
Did Harvard scientists cover-up UN source of Haiti cholera?
(Note: HLLN helped expose the UN's gross negligence and cover-up for bringing the cholera plague to Haiti in October 2010; wrote Haiti's case against the UN for importing cholera before the month of Oct. 2010 was over, writing also the UN Responsibility for importing chol… Read full post »
Haiti: Clean water is life, health and solution to cholera
Zili Dlo – Clean water is health, life and the simple solution to cholera-ravaged Haiti
More photos for Cholera in Mirebalais Haiti at Cholera
Thursday and
Ezili HLLN website and Zili Dlo photos at Zili Dlo Photos on
Flickr
Zili Dlo: Supporting Clean Drinking Water for Haiti
Haiti victim to McClelland:I said "No," you had no authority
Haiti rape victim tell McClelland: I said “NO,” you had no right to speak of my story, I did not give you authorization (One of Haiti’s most famous writers relay message for the twice victimized victim)

Edwidge Danticat Speaks on Mac McClelland Essay
by Edwi… Read full post »
Haiti defines resistance
It's time to marginalize the do-gooders and replace the system
Haiti defines resistance -
July 6, 2011 marks the 6th anniversary of the UN assassination of
Emmanuel Dred Wilmè
by Ezili Dantò for Haitian Perspectives, July 6, 2011
July 6, 2011 marks the sixth anniversary of th… Read full post »
Congress asks: What are the top three things Haiti needs?
June 23 2011- At today’s U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Bernadel and Sassine said the top three things for increasing private investment (aka increasing private profit in Haiti) is Diaspora dual citizenship, ability to buy land, and I forget the other. (Bernadel may have ment… Read full post »
Farrakhan press conference denouncing UN and war on Libya
Farrakhan Blasts UN, Defends Gaddafi
Minister Farrakhan's Full Press Conference on US, NATO attack on Libya:
Minister Farrakhan exposed the U.S. and NATO's criminal War Libya… Read full post »
Haiti: What is Needed
What is Needed
by JOSEPH G. RAMSEY
Campside (based on true events)
1.
In Haiti
there is money to build
walls
not to house
&nb/… Read full post »
UN soldiers fire to liberate their luggage at Haiti airport
UN (TOURISTA) troops break into Haiti airport, shooting
in order to liberate their luggage, prevent airport clearance or
charges
On Sunday June 5, 2011, a group of heavily armed UN troops arrived in their war tanks at the Haiti national airport, firing on their way out,… Read full post »
I pay this price for you: Haiti is open business
INTRO: A Salute to a Revolutionary Poet and Culture Artist
ReMEMBERing the one, the immortal, the legendary – Gil Scott Heron! RIP Gil, RIP.
Blast it ya’ll. He did what great artist do, captured his
times. Midnight music, re-MEMBERing Gil Scott Heron – See our
favorites
here.
*
Thi… Read full post »
Haiti: Time to remember Kandyo, the Malfini and Mongoose
Part 2- History Matters: Time to remember Kandyo, the
Malfini and Mongoose
Sometimes when I write a piece, I know it's not finished. As I was writing the essay on the House hearing where Republicans blasted USAID's Haiti relief as pathetic, I couldn't help but wonder to myself "where are… Read full post »


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