Ezili Danto

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

 

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 EmmanueRead full post »


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 to NYT’s cholera article: Playing the Left-Right game of neutral reporting

by Ezili Dantò
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For the complete HLLN analysis to NYT’s cholera article and the four HLLN Comments the Times posted submitted by Ezili's HLLN, go to our website.

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The Set Up. Act 3 tRead full post »

“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 - TranscendingRead full post »

“Generals, officers, soldiers: differing from him by whom I was preceded, the ex-general Toussaint L’Ouverture, I have

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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 »

 

 


ezili danto1 e1291650944722 Disaster Capitalism in Haiti, New Orleans, Congo and Pakistan

Clean Water is life and Health for Haiti : Support Zili Dlo - Free clean water for everyone, write to: erzilidanto@yahoo.com

 
Right now we are doing on-site distributions, as you will see from the Zili Dlo photo report , but wish to get mor… Read full post »

Haitians have a saying: "washing your hands and wiping it dirt"

 Source: The Haitian Blogger, Oct. 23, 2011

Anti-UN Protests in Haiti:
"They've Brought Us Disease and Humiliation"

This is what the U.S. and it's proxies have been doing in Haiti. In fomenting crisis… Read full post »
* “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 »
OCTOBER 13, 2011 9:14PM

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 »

 

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 tRead full post »

” 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 GovernmentRead full post »

"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
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(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 cholRead full post »

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


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The launching on "Bwa Kayiman, 220 years later" of Zili Dlo - Clean Water for everyone in Haiti

 

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)

 

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Edwidge Danticat Speaks on Mac McClelland Essay

by Edwi… Read full post »

JULY 6, 2011 10:21PM

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 »

 

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 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 »

JUNE 13, 2011 4:29PM

Haiti: What is Needed

What is Needed
by JOSEPH G. RAMSEY

            Campside (based on true events)

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 In Haiti
 there is money to build
 walls
             not to house
&nb/… Read full post »

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 »

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.
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Thi… Read full post »

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 »