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Chapo Ba Sonia Pierre! e MUDHA – Dominican Born Haitian Rights Defender, Sonia Pierre, wins 2006 RFK Human Rights Award by Robert F. Kennedy Memorial | Edwidge Dandicat speaks on “The Dew Breaker” and Edwidge Dandicat on torture and President Bush’s use of it as a key tool in War on Terror | Sign House Speaker Hastert must go petition | Haitian Drum and Dance Company celebrates 25 years, Oct. 20th in Brooklyn | Uri Avnery on Israel as “America’s Rottweiler” |
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Date: 8 October 2006 Recomended HLLN Link: October 17, 2006 marks the bi-centennial of the death of Haiti’s founding father, Jean Jacques Dessalines: Come, join HLLN in celebrating the life, triumphs and ideals of Haiti’s founding father| The Free Haiti Movement – Dessalines is Rising What’s in a name? Kouwòn pou Defile by Michel Sanon Three Ideals of Dessalines ***************************posts in this e-mail*************** – Dominican Born Haitian Rights Defender, Sonia Pierre, wins 2006 RFK Human Rights Award by Robert F. Kennedy Memorial www.rfkmemorial.org/legacyinaction/2006_Winner/ – Author speaks about strife in Haiti at SUNY – Does It Work? President Bush says harsh interrogation tactics are a key tool in the War on Terror. Two authors consider the painful dilemma posed by his claim: By Edwidge Danticat | Washington Post | Sept. 24, 2006 – Haitian Drum and Dance Company Celebrates 25 Years in Brooklyn, Friday, October 20, 8 pm, in Brecher Hall at Hunter College CUNY. (www.makandal.org) – “Every Generation of Arabs Hates Israel More Than the Last” Ezili Danto’s Note: This article “America’s Rottweiler” By Israeli peace activist, Uri Avnery, offers one of the most frank, thorough and far-sighted analysis of the Israeli/Arab/US conflict in the Middle East. Speaks about what was NOT inevitable… “…The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.”(Excerpt from “America’s Rottweiler” by Uri Avnery www.counterpunch.org/avnery08262006.html ************************************************************** Dominican Born Haitian Rights Defender, Sonia Pierre, wins 2006 RFK Human Rights Award by Robert F. Kennedy Memorial ( info [at] rfkmemorial.org ) Sonia Pierre to Receive 2006 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for Protecting the Rights of Haitian Immigrants and Their Descendants in the Dominican Republic. The award will be presented by Ethel Kennedy in a ceremony hosted by Senator Edward Kennedy at the Caucus Room of the U.S. Senate at 10:30 am November 17th, 2006. For Immediate Release: October 6th, 2006 DOMINICAN BORN HAITIAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST WINS 2006 RFK HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD Sonia Pierre to Receive 2006 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for Protecting the Rights of Haitian Immigrants and Their Descendants in the Dominican Republic. The award will be presented by Ethel Kennedy in a ceremony hosted by Senator Edward Kennedy at the Caucus Room of the U.S. Senate at 10:30 am November 17th, 2006. Washington DC--- The 2006 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award will be presented to Sonia Pierre, Director of the Movement for Dominican Women of Haitian Descent (MUDHA), on Friday November 17th, 2006. Under Sonia?s leadership, MUDHA has risen to protect the rights of the Dominican Republic?s Haitian immigrants and their descendants and to empower women and children in the face of deep rooted discrimination and intolerance. Despite threats against her life, Sonia has been a driving force for change and a leader in the movement to end human rights violations against Haitians in the Dominican Republic. ?This award strengthens our work at MUDHA, our institution, and our communities,? said Sonia upon receiving the award. ?As a human rights activist, who has been fighting for the recognition of the human rights of Haitian immigrants and their descendents, since an early age, I owe this award to the communities MUDHA supports, to my colleagues and to all who believed in our work.? Sonia will be awarded by Ethel Kennedy in a ceremony hosted by Senator Edward Kennedy on Friday November 17th, 2006 beginning at 10:30 AM in Washington, DC at the U.S. Senate?s Caucus Room. Stay tuned to www.rfkmemorial.org for updates. Like many of the Dominican Republic?s 650,000 people of Haitian descent, Sonia grew up in one of the country?s migrant worker camps, called a bateye. Her family left Haiti in search of economic opportunity working in the state-owned sugarcane fields of the Dominican Republic. Sonia began working on human rights issues in 1976 at the age of 13. Dominicans of Haitian descent often come from families that have lived in the country for generations and have never even visited Haiti. They are denied their constitutional right to citizenship and the necessary documents for a legal identity. Many Haitian immigrant and their descendants remain virtually stateless, giving the government a rationale to deny them individual rights. Numerous human rights groups have documented how ethnic Haitians are regularly subjected to violence and their rights to education, adequate housing, water and other fundamental human rights are violated. Females in the Haitian community are subjected to widespread rapes with few legal or social resources to look to for help. ?The level of violence against Haitian immigrants and their descendants in the Dominican Republic is alarming,? said Gay McDougal, RFK Human Rights Award Judge and U.N. Independent Expert on Minority Issues. ?At a time when even second and third generation ethnic Haitians are targets of brutal human rights abuses, Sonia Pierre has risen as the most profound leader in the nation?s movement for minority rights.? Sonia has become a vocal leader against policies that deny Haitian immigrants and their descendants? legal equality and keep them in perpetual poverty. She was a petitioner in the landmark case before the Inter-American Court for Human Rights, Yean and Bosico v. Dominican Republic, which for the first time in the court?s history upheld human rights laws prohibiting racial discrimination in access to nationality and citizenship. The two children named in the case had been denied birth certificates due to requirements established by the discriminatory registration system. The Court ruled that the nation?s current system of registration for citizenship not only defied the country?s own constitution, which extends citizenship to all born within its borders, but had violated the fundamental human rights of Yean and Bosico. The Court then ordered the Dominican Republic to open its schools? doors to all children, aiming to end rampant discrimination in the nation?s education system against its Haitian minority. ?One year after the Bosico decision , the Dominican Republic has yet to implement the court?s orders in direct violation of its own legal obligations,? said Monika Kalra Varma, Acting Director of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights. ?Upon giving the human rights award, we begin a partnership with Sonia and MUDHA, working with her movement to ensure the human rights of Haitians in the Dominican Republic are realized.? For almost 40 years the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial (www.rfkmemorial.org), has served as an activist organization dedicated to Robert F. Kennedy?s vision of a more peaceful and just world. The RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights works to advance the human rights movement through partnering with courageous grassroots defenders from around the world who have won the annual Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award. Sonia becomes the 37th person to win the award and the second person from the Caribbean. www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061007/NEWS01/610070315/1006 NEW PALTZ ? The town and gown joined to celebrate the written word when “The Dew Breaker” author Edwidge Danticat spoke at the State University of New York at New Paltz. The novel was this year’s “One Book, One New Paltz” selection. The program encourages members of a community to read the same book and discuss it on a large scale. Founded last year, the program is also an opportunity to foster closer connections between the community and university. Danticat said Thursday it was wonderful to see programs explaining the sociology and history of her native country, Haiti. “Often, when I come to a community like New Paltz, I have the burden of explaining everything,” she said. Danticat said this was the first time she’s heard “The Dew Breaker” being read by a whole town. The book is a collection of nine stories about people interconnected by their relationship to the dew breaker, a cruel torturer in Haiti. Studley Theater was filled to the rafters quite literally as students, professors and local residents filled most of the seats, even on the balcony. “When they heard we had to limit the number of students, they were devastated,” program Coordinator Rachel Rigolino said. The book had been selected as the first-year composition courses required summer reading, too. The idea for her book came from meetings with activists who had been brutalized while establishing changes in Haiti, Danticat said. The book, she said, is the story of the tortured and the torturers, but is not an explanation or resolution of Haiti’s strife. “It’s emotional because some of the questions it addresses are not answered,” Danticat said. SUNY New Paltz junior Marchelly Jodesty said it was good to see someone who has overcome the tribulations of immigration. Like Danticat, Jodesty’s parents emigrated from Haiti. “A lot of people are surprised to see what they can do, adjust to a new world easily as they do and do good things. People find that amazing,” Jodesty said of Haitian immigrants. Programs on the book and Haiti will continue through the weekend. Events include a film screening and discussion, resident-led discussion groups and Unity in Diversity Day today at Hasbrouck Park. Alice Hunt can be reached at hunta@poughkeepsiejournal.com ********************************************* The Washington Post Does It Work? President Bush says harsh interrogation tactics are a key tool in the War on Terror. Two authors consider the painful dilemma posed by his claim: By Edwidge Danticat Sunday, September 24, 2006; B01 MIAMI A few years ago, as I worked on a documentary film about torture survivors in exile from my native Haiti, I met a young woman who under questioning by a military officer was slapped until she became deaf in one ear, was forced to chew and swallow a campaign poster, and was kicked so hard in the stomach by booted feet that she kept slipping in and out of consciousness in a pool of her own urine and blood. Another woman had an arm chopped off and her tongue sliced in two before she was dumped in a mass grave, miles from her home. When I met these women, some time had passed since their ordeals. But they could still feel the hammering of the blows and hear the menacing voices, threatening to drown them, dismember them and set them on fire. The younger woman, Marie Carmel, remembers thinking about her mother. Manman will surely die if I’m killed, she thought. I have to stay alive for her. Alerte, whose arm and tongue were severed, kept thinking about her children as she climbed out of the corpse-filled pit and crawled to the side of the road where she found help. Both had no idea how much pain they could endure until then. They wanted to live, they remembered, to defy their torturers, to tell their stories. “There is no need for torture,” wrote Jean-Paul Sartre. “Hell is the other.” Those women saw hell and came back. However, neither one told their torturers what they wanted to know. Marie Carmel did not reveal the names of her fellow pro-democracy activists. Alerte did not divulge the whereabouts of her husband, who was the real object of her captors’ search. For many who remember — just as these women do, and my own parents do — what it means to live under a dictatorial regime, a regime in which citizens must leave work or school to witness public executions, torture is not just an individual affliction but a communal one. And now, when political leaders in the United States are asking us as a society to consider not only the legal and moral ramifications of torture but its effectiveness, we are brought closer to these regimes than we may think. If we are part of all that has touched us, as Alfred Tennyson wrote, then we are all endorsers of torture when it is done in our name. Torture aims for a single goal — obtaining information — but it achieves a slew of others. For one thing, it martyrizes the tortured. Think of the old Christlike images of Che Guevara’s corpse in Bolivia — or even of Christ himself. While working on the documentary and researching the novel it eventually inspired, I interviewed torturers as well as their victims. I realized that torture diminishes us all by numbing us to human distress; the level of callousness in the society rises, with once unimaginable acts suddenly charted “This is why we have this proverb,” one repentant torturer told me, “ bay kou bliye pote mak sonje.” The one who strikes the blow might easily forget, When seemingly noble ideals — after all, what can be nobler than wanting to save lives? — lead us to torture, the path to the torture chamber can find its way to our front door, just as it did for Marie Carmel, Alerte and countless others before them. “The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes . . . “ wrote Aldous Huxley, “these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they’re the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.” As a child growing up in a dictatorial state, I always dreaded the pounding I heard at some of my neighbors’ doors at night, when many were yanked from their beds never to be seen again. The lucky ones returned from a pit that was as much a physical place as a darkness that would always surround them. They were missing an eye or some teeth; they showed swelling that would take weeks to go down or shaking that worsened over time. These markers of torment first drew me to people such as Marie Carmel and Alerte, women who could have been my mother or myself. When I first encounter men and women who’ve been tortured, I notice their dramatic and disfiguring scars. But eventually I recognize their hardened core and, more often than not, their reinforced defiance and renewed commitment to that for which they were abused. When I meet former torturers, they don’t proudly stand up and say, “Here I am, a torturer.” Unless they’re infamous, they have sought to compartmentalize their lives. At a lively game of dominoes or across a family dinner table, they can distance themselves from their past in a way that their victims can never even attempt. Occasionally, though, they are unwittingly exposed by a child who might say, “Papa was in the military and worked in such-and-such prison at such-and-such time.” The torturers squirm and change the subject, knowing Rare is the opportunity, as we seem to have now, for the torturer to plot out methods in advance and in public. Should a person be strapped to a board and have water poured down his nose? Should she be forced to stand for long periods of time in the cold without being allowed to sleep? Should he be slapped in the chest, face or belly? These are almost novelistic questions with no more rational answers than some haywire plot or dark verse. After first reading it as a young girl newly escaped from Jean-Claude Duvalier’s dictatorship in Haiti, I recently rediscovered a poem called “The Colonel” by “I am tired of fooling around,” he tells his visitor. “As for the rights of anyone, tell your people they can go [expletive] themselves.” He lifts his glass of wine, and with one sweep of his arm, brushes the ears to the floor. When the ears hit the ground — like those of all my disappeared neighbors, I imagine — the narrator notices that some of them are pressed to the floor while others are catching “this scrap of his voice.” My fear is that when it is most needed, none of our ears will bother to catch any voices at all. Then will the tortured see any reason to live on? And if Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian American writer, is the author of “The Dew Breaker” (Knopf). ********************************************* House Speaker Hastert (R-IL) admitted in Tuesday’s Washington Times that he knew about some of Foley’s actions. He didn’t investigate; he did nothing except try to keep it quiet. This inaction demonstrates a lack of leadership and seriously calls into question Hastert’s judgment and character. As a result of his negligence and lack of leadership, we must demand that Rep. Hastert step down as House Speaker. Conservatives, liberals and everyone in between are calling for a new leader that puts the safety of our children ahead of their own political power. Sign this petition today and join them. action.truemajority.org/campaign/hastert_must_go_now Can you sign on, too? We’re generating a lot of messages to members of Congress telling them that standing by while a sexual predator does his work is not leadership. action.truemajority.org/campaign/hastert_must_go_now Haitian Drum and Dance Company Celebrates 25 Years in Brooklyn La Troupe Makandal, a company that brings the traditional life of the Haitian people alive in music and dance, announces a soirée for its silver anniversary in New York City on Friday, October 20, 8 pm, in Brecher Hall at Hunter College CUNY. Admissions to the festivity will benefit the company?s education programs. A group of young artists from a poor community in Port-au-Prince formed the Troupe in 1973. Inspired by the revolutionary maroon Makandal, they created works that evoked the magic and power of Haiti?s legendary struggle for freedom?a struggle that precipitated the unraveling of the slave system in the region. Like their namesake, the young artists found refuge in a distant place: Brooklyn. They made their home in the borough in 1981 and have since performed for and educated the public under the direction of Master Drummer Frisner Augustin (National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellow 1999). The Haitian Drum Workshop of Hunter College, which has worked with Makandal since 1983, is co-hosting the celebration. Highlights of the evening include a presentation in sound and images of Makandal?s 25 years in New York, as well as live music and dance performances by members of the Troupe past and present. Hors d?oeuvre and beverages for sale. A minimum tax-exempt contribution of $25 is requested for admission. Please note: We encourage all attending to wear something silver for the occasion. Brecher Hall is located in Room 635 of the North Building of Hunter College in Manhattan. The entrance to the building is on East 69th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues. By public transportation, take the 6 subway to East 68th Street. Walk one block north on Lexington Avenue, turn left onto East 69th Street, and find the entrance to the building to your left as you approach Park Avenue. Take an elevator to the 6th floor, make a left off the elevator, then a right through the doors at the end of the hall. You will see Brecher Hall in front of you. For reservations and further information, call 718-953-6638, or email makandal@verizon.net. ********************************************** Ezili Danto’s Note: This article “America’s Rottweiler” By URI AVNERY offers “…The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.”(Excerpt from “America’s Rottweiler” by Uri Avnery ******* “Every Generation of Arabs Hates Israel More Than the Last” By URI AVNERY In his latest speech, which infuriated so many people, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad uttered a sentence that deserves attention: “Every new Arab generation hates Israel more than the previous one.” Of all that has been said about the Second Lebanon War, these are perhaps the most important words. The main product of this war is hatred. The pictures of death and destruction in Lebanon entered every Arab home, indeed every Muslim home, from Indonesia to Morocco, from Yemen to the Muslim ghettos in London and Berlin. Not for an hour, not for a day, but for 33 successive days – day after day, hour after hour. The mangled bodies of babies, the women weeping over the ruins of their homes, Israeli children writing “greetings” on shells about to be fired at villages, Ehud Olmert blabbering about “the most moral army in the world” while the screen showed a heap of bodies. Israelis ignored these sights, indeed they were scarcely shown on our TV. Of course, we could see them on Aljazeera and some Western channels, but Israelis were much too busy with the damage wrought in our Northern towns. Feelings of pity and empathy for non-Jews have been blunted here a long time ago. But it is a terrible mistake to ignore this result of the war. It is far more important than the stationing of a few thousand European troops along our border, with the kind consent of Hizbullah. It may still be bothering generations of Israelis, when the names Olmert and Halutz have long been forgotten, and when even Nasrallah no longer remember the name Amir Peretz. * * * IN ORDER for the significance of Assad’s words to become clear, they have to be viewed in a historical context. The whole Zionist enterprise has been compared to the transplantation of an organ into the body of a human being. The natural immunity system rises up against the foreign implant, the body mobilizes all its power to reject it. The doctors use a heavy dosage of medicines in order to overcome the rejection. That can go on for a long time, sometimes until the eventual death of the body itself, including the transplant. (Of course, this analogy, like any other, should be treated cautiously. An analogy can help in understanding things, but no more than that.) The Zionist movement has planted a foreign body in this country, which was then a part of the Arab-Muslim space. The inhabitants of the country, and the entire Arab region, rejected the Zionist entity. Meanwhile, the Jewish settlement has taken roots and become an authentic new nation rooted in the country. Its defensive power against the rejection has grown. This struggle has been going on for 125 years, becoming more violent from generation to generation. The last war was yet another episode. * * * WHAT IS our historic objective in this confrontation? A fool will say: to stand up to the rejection with a growing dosage of medicaments, provided by America and World Jewry. The greatest fools will add: There is no solution. This situation will last forever. There is nothing to be done about it but to defend ourselves in war after war after war. And the next war is already knocking on the door. The wise will say: our objective is to cause the body to accept the transplant as one of its organs, so that the immune system will no longer treat us as an enemy that must be removed at any price. And if this is the aim, it must become the main axis of our efforts. Meaning: each of our actions must be judged according to a simple criterion: does it serve this aim or obstruct it? According to this criterion, the Second Lebanon War was a disaster. * * * FIFTY NINE years ago, two months before the outbreak of our War of Independence, I published a booklet entitled “War or Peace in the Semitic Region”. Its opening words were: “When our Zionist fathers decided to set up a ‘safe haven’ in Palestine, they had a choice between two ways: “They could appear in West Asia as a European conqueror, who sees himself as a bridge-head of the ‘white’ race and a master of the ‘natives’, like the Spanish Conquistadores and the Anglo-Saxon colonists in America. That is what the Crusaders did in Palestine. “The second way was to consider themselves as an Asian nation returning to its home – a nation that sees itself as an heir to the political and cultural heritage of the Semitic race, and which is prepared to join the peoples of the Semitic region in their war of liberation from European exploitation.” As is well known, the State of Israel, which was established a few months later, chose the first way. It gave its hand to colonial France, tried to help Britain to return to the Suez Canal and, since 1967, has become the little sister of the United States. That was not inevitable. On the contrary, in the course of years there have been a growing number of indications that the immune system of the Arab-Muslim body is starting to incorporate the transplant – as a human body accepts the organ of a close relative – and is ready to accept us. Such an indication was the visit of Anwar Sadat to Jerusalem. Such was the peace treaty signed with us by King Hussein, a descendent of the Prophet. And, most importantly, the historic decision of Yasser Arafat, the leader of the Palestinian people, to make peace with Israel. But after every huge step forward, there came an Israeli step backward. It is as if the transplant rejects the body’s acceptance of it. As if it has become so accustomed to being rejected, that it does all it can to induce the body to reject it even more. It is against this background that one should weigh the words spoken by Assad Jr., a member of the new Arab generation, at the end of the recent war. * * * AFTER EVERY single one of the war aims put forward by our government had evaporated, one after the other, another reason was brought up: this war was a part of the “clash of civilizations”, the great campaign of the Western world and its lofty values against the barbarian darkness of the Islamic world. That reminds one, of course, of the words written 110 years ago by the father of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, in the founding document of the Zionist movement: “In Palestinewe shall constitute for Europe a part of the wall against Asia, and serve as the vanguard of civilization against barbarism.” Without knowing, Olmert almost repeated this formula in his justification of his war, in order to please President Bush. It happens from time to time in the United States that somebody invents an empty but easily digested slogan, which then dominates the public discourse for some time. It seems that the more stupid the slogan is, the better its chances of becoming the guiding light for academia and the media – until another slogan appears and supersedes it. The latest example is the slogan “Clash of Civilizations”, coined by Samuel P. Huntington in 1993 (taking over from the “End of History”). What clash of ideas is there between Muslim Indonesia and Christian Chile? What eternal struggle between Poland and Morocco? What is it that unifies Malaysia and Kosovo, two Muslim nations? Or two Christian nations like Sweden and Ethiopia? In what way are the ideas of the West more sublime than those of the East? The Jews that fled the flames of the auto-da-fe of the Christian Inquisition in Spain were received with open arms by the Muslim Ottoman Empire. The most cultured of European nations democratically elected Adolf Hitler as its leader and perpetrated the Holocaust, without the Pope raising his voice in protest. In what way are the spiritual values of the United States, today’s Empire of the West, superior to those of India and China, the rising stars of the East? Huntington himself was compelled to admit: “The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.” In the West, too, women won the vote only in the 20th century, and slavery was abolished there only in the second half of the 19th. And in the leading nation of the West, fundamentalism is now also raising its head. What interest, for goodness sake, have we in volunteering to be a political and military vanguard of the West in this imagined clash? * * * THE TRUTH is, of course, that this entire story of the clash of civilizations is nothing but an ideological cover for something that has no connection with ideas and values: the determination of the United States to dominate the world’s resources, and especially oil. The Second Lebanon War is considered by many as a “War by Proxy”. That’s to say: Hizbullah is the Dobermann of Iran, we are the Rottweiler of America. Hizbullah gets money, rockets and support from the Islamic Republic, we get money, cluster bombs and support from the United States of America. That is certainly exaggerated. Hizbullah is an authentic Lebanese movement, deeply rooted in the Shiite community. The Israeli government has its own interests (the occupied territories) that do not depend on America. But there is no doubt that there is much truth in the argument that this was also a war by substitutes. The US is fighting against Iran, because Iran has a key role in the region where the most important oil reserves in the world are located. Not only does Iran itself sit on huge oil deposits, but through its revolutionary Islamic ideology it also menaces American control over the near-by oil countries. The declining resource oil becomes more and more essential in the modern economy. He who controls the oil controls the world. The US would viciously attack Iran even it were peopled with pigmies devoted to the religion of the Dalai Lama. There is a shocking similarity between George W. Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, The one has personal conversations with Jesus, the other has a line to Allah. But the name of the game is domination. What interest do we have to get involved in this struggle? What interest do we have in being regarded – accurately – as the servants of the greatest enemy of the Muslim world in general and the Arab world in particular? We want to live here in 100 years, in 500 years. Our most basic national interests demand that we extend our hands to the Arab nations that accept us, and act together with them for the rehabilitation of this region. That was true 59 years ago, and that will be true 59 years hence. Little politicians like Olmert, Peretz and Halutz are unable to think in these terms. They can hardly see as far as the end of their noses. But where are the intellectuals, who should be more far-sighted? Bashar al-Assad may not be one of the world’s Great Thinkers. But his remark should certainly give us pause for thought. * Uri Avnery is an Israeli writer and peace activist with Gush Shalom. He is one of the writers featured in The Other Israel: Voices of Dissent and Refusal. He is also a contributor to CounterPunch’s hot new book The Politics of Anti-Semitism. He can be reached at: avnery@counterpunch.org. ********************************************** Recommended HLLN Links on Oct. 17: October 17, 2006 marks the bi-centennial of the death of Haiti’s founding father, Jean Jacques Dessalines: Come, join HLLN in celebrating the life, triumphs and ideals of Haiti’s founding father, September 19, 2006| The Free Haiti Movement HLLN’s FreeHaitiMovement – Dessalines is Rising, Oct. 17th commemorations www.margueritelaurent.com/law/events.html and, www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/dessalines.html) See also: “Defile Manman “Chimè”? by Jafrikayiti, 2005 Mesi Papa Desalin, travay Moriso Lewa Thank you Father Dessalines* by Morisseau-Leroy What’s in a name? Kouwòn pou Defile by Michel Sanon PROCLAMATION POUR ABJURATION DE LA NATION FRANÇAISE Three Ideals of Dessalines See last year?s commemoration: Oct 17 ? ?Day of Heroes In Haiti? Blan mannan, travay Feliks Moriso Lewa |
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