If one just looks back at the flooding of Gonaives, Haiti in 2004 and 2008, just at that one Haiti example, and calculate how much money was raised by the World Relief Organizations, the NGOs, the UN, US State Department consultancies, the European Union, Canada, et al, in the name of "rebuilding and bringing relief to the people of Gonaives, in those two instances combined, you'll see that conservatively more than $3 billion dollars were collectively raised by these Internationals, their NGOs and private US charities to reconstruct and provide hurricane relief, flood rebuilding, food, water, medicine and shelter to the people Gonaives, Haiti. Today, the people of Gonaives are still walking on muddy roads. Little was rebuilt and the people will tell you they mostly got no help other than food and water in the first couple of weeks when the media cameras where on.

That's why at Ezili HLLN we forgo the UN, USAID, OAS donor conferences on rebuilding and reconstructing Port au Prince.

We know the story. We are the Haitians who've endured and know well the international corruption. Like most of Haiti and Haitians, one-third of our friends and colleagues perished in the January 12, 2010 earthquake.

It's not possible to absorb this unless you become more than you were on January 11, 2010. And for us, who work at the Ezili Dantò Witness Project and the Ezili HLLNetwork there are no words to capture the pain, grief and suffering especially as we've never recovered from the two Bush coup d'etat's and death squad ravages in 1991, 2004, the slaughters of the UN and imposed-Boca Raton regime from 2004 and 2006. Not to mention what was lost in hurricanes in 2004 and 2008.

One Haitian heading for Haiti who we advised to be careful, responded "I'm dead already." I supposed that's very true. For to survive and recover from such staggering, unfathomable cruelties doesn't seem possible. But, we've indeed survive US/Euro containment in poverty for centuries and overcome their donors lyrical waxing about rebuilding/reconstructing Haiti in their images since Haiti's endless Independence Debt began. We've so been through this too many times before. US/Euro aid and donor monies go to State Department cronies, former USAID-mission directors and their ex-employees who have set up NGO charities and security firms. They gobble up monies raised in the name of poor Haitians and then later on count on the mainstream media's colonial narrative on Haiti to play the "Haiti can't absorb aid" song or the "Haitian government is weak" chorus refrain or the ever racist "Haiti is corrupt and inherently violent" 206-year-old symphony.

When all is said and done it's an old story and only the Haiti neophyte, idiot or the ridiculously optimistic go to these meetings where the agenda is not set by Haitians but by foreigners looking out for themselves. At the end of the day, after shipping fees, NGO salaries and apportioning current disaster funds for the NGO's "future disaster fund" coffers, what aid actually ends up in Haiti is mostly rotted food that doesn't reach the most needy of the poor.

The only relief that is sustainable, dignified, humane and that actually works in Haiti is Haitians helping Haitians. And that is why as a Haiti-led, Haiti capacity building organization, Ezili's HLLN is currently mobilizing help to continue our educational work, our public advocacy work, to assist the earthquake victims and long-term sustainable development.

We are on a fundraising tour with the Haiti Forum and doing teach-ins about Haiti that will provide real information about the NGO charity and World Relief/humanitarian industry in Haiti, and all over the developing world, that has, since the end of the Cold War taken on the role of pushing US foreign interests and neoliberalism abroad.

Neoliberalism and US regime change in Haiti destroys and weakens popular governments the US does not think are corporate-friendly enough and then, instead of justice being done, their charity industry rush in, as a political tool, to empower only certain voices amenable to US interests. President Aristide was twice removed, not because the US/Euros wanted to improve Haiti's human rights and corruption record, but because the US corporatocracy was angry he had raised the minimum wage and simply terrified, that like Cuba and Venezuela, he might nationalize Haiti's - oil, gas, gold, copper, iridium, uranium et al... - resources to improve the people's living standards. There's no question now, as HLLN has documented in these last 6-years of UN/US occupation, that Haiti has significant reserves of oil, gas, gold, copper, iridium, uranium, limestone, coal and other strategic mineral deposits.

In Haiti, it's the voice of the Haitian oligarchy and the anti-Lavalas cartel that is empowered by the NGO industry and USAID programs. That is what the Red Cross, World Vision, Clinton Global Initiative, Catholic Relief Services, CARE International, Save the Children, UNICEF, the UN presence, et al.. - the over 10,000 charities in Haiti - are there to institute in Haiti, not impartial relief, human rights, inclusion and dignity for the Black majority. Humanitarian aid is the tool they hide behind in order to carry out their funding-country's political, cultural and social purposes. And, of course, as well to garner huge economic profit off Haiti's poverty, misery, imposed fratricide and mostly man-made and foreign-manufactured crisis.


Crisis that originates mostly from US/Euro neo-liberalism policies or natural disasters that are made much worst by US/Euro financial colonialism, racism, false benevolence and false charity. This Haiti reality is fully explained at our HLLN Haiti Forums, the consciousness-raising arm of HLLN's FreeHaitiMovement.


Sponsor a To-Tell-The-Truth-About-Haiti Forum

If you sponsor and attend an Ezili HLLN Haiti Forum , you'll be helping to raise relief/rebuilding funds for Haiti's grassroots and for well-known Haiti-led organization, not the NGO "contain-them-in-poverty" industry. And, you will learn the Haiti history and narrative not found anywhere else or in any book!

Below, we choose the example of one recent Haiti Forum that featured surprise guests, renowned novelist and winner of the McArthur Genius award, Ms. Edwidge Dandicat and internationally known Haitian judge Jean Sénat Fleury and some other treasured members of our Ezili Network.

In this summary of a 2010 Ezili Forum, you'll find links from our website to outline, in detail, the topics covered in To-Tell-The-Truth-About-Haiti-Forums with Forum creator, Ezili Dantò of HLLN.


No lawyer, journalist, activist or Haiti human right advocates breaks down the mystery and outline Haiti's central facts so the ordinary person, the lover of liberty, may easily defend Haiti's voiceless against the most powerful nations, World Relief Organization/NGOs and mainstream media on earth as Ezili's Network does. There are usually some special surprise guests in attendance at these HLLN Forums. The Ezili Network is made up of the most amazing individuals - lovers of liberty - who are dedicated to stopping Haiti's containment in poverty by the powerful, their false aid, false NGO charity, false benevolence and false media coverage.


On March 13, 2010, Latin Americans United, Inc. presented,

    A HAITI FORUM
    - On Haiti Riches, Sovereignty and Mobilizing Earthquake Relief/Rebuilding with human rights, Healing and Dignity
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    Featuring "To-Tell-The-Truth-About-Haiti" Forum Creator
    Ezili Dantò/Marguerite Laurentprominent human rights attorney, author and performance poet
    Founder and President, Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN)



Ezili Dantò of HLLN

Ezili Dantò is the most prolific international writer and advocate for Haiti and is internationally known as the foremost legal analyst and commentator/writer of the untold counter-colonial-narrative on Haiti. (For more info, go to: ezilidanto.com and Ezili Danto Blog)
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The HLLN forum was sponsored by
Frantz Delva, M.D. President of Latin Americans United Inc.
Yves Jodesty, M.D.
Francelot Moise, M.D.
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Free to attend, but part of the HLLN mobilization for Haiti relief/rebuilding with human rights, healing and dignity and donations to this fundraising to support Ezili's HLLN work were encouraged.

Below is the program and presentation summary.

HLLN urges you consider sponsoring and supporting a Haiti Forum to help raise money for HLLN's work and for HLLN's earthquake relief.

Nothing compares to hearing Ezili Dantò live at a To-tell-the-truth-about-Haiti Forum. But if you can't attend or sponsor a Haiti Forum, or if you attended the March 13 Forum and did not get a chance to ask questions, HLLN provides reference links in this posting to HLLN's work that are the foundation materials for our Haiti Forums. We cover and summarize 1. Ezili Dantò and HLLN's Haiti work these last 16 years; 2. Haitian history and culture, 3. Haiti's Riches, 4. the Legacy of Impunity of the imperialist subcontractors in Haiti, 5. How to Change Haiti's Paradigm and 6. What you can do to really help.

Each of the seven topics takes more than two hours to adequately cover and a Haiti Forum should be a two-day conference. So, for those who attended the March 13 Forum in Fort Lauderdale Florida, who got the truncated 2-hour version and did not get to hear the entire presentation, the links below are provided for your special study and convenience.

We hope that the research and resources in the Haiti Forum presentation here will help those who are truly interested in knowing the truth about Haiti.

Please read and circulate this information so that the truth about Haiti you mostly won't read about in the mainstream media, State Department or World Relief organization's press releases may be more widely known and the staggering scale of their pillaging, imposed suffering and oppression of Haiti's excluded masses may one day finally come to an end. (The Haitian struggle - the greatest David vs. Goliath battle being played out on this plane and Haiti, The Rebel.)