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Edition Electronique |
Vol. 10 • No. 26 •
Du 4 Jan au
10 Jan 2017 |
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Vol. 8 • No. 39 • Du 8 au 14 Avril 2015 |
Who Gives the Blow Forgets, Who Bears the Scar Remembers!
The Position of the Dessalines Coordination (KOD) on the Election Fever
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 KOD
is a Haitian political party founded in February 2014.
The following declaration was read in Kreyòl by one of
KOD’s leaders, Oxygène David, at the “Bar de l’air” in
Port-au-Prince on Apr. 7, 2015.
On
the anniversary of the death of Toussaint L’Ouverture on
Apr. 7, 1803 in Fort de Joux in France, the Dessalines
Coordination (KOD) patriotically salutes the Haitian
people.
For the past few weeks, the
ruling classes in cahoots with foreign embassies have
been throwing bones in the road of mobilization.
Hypocritical politicians, as soon as they find a bone
they can suck, forget everything else. They forget all
the positions they used to take against the regime [of
President Michel Martelly and Prime Minister Evans Paul]
and against the occupation [by 7,500 troops of the UN
Mission to Stabilize Haiti or MINUSTAH]. They don’t even
stop to look, reflect, and ask: who threw those bones,
and why did they do it now? Isn’t it a trap? They don’t
have time for that, so tasty are the election bones.
We in KOD say to the people:
we are not going to suck on the election bones, nor
split the electoral cake with our enemy. We are fighting
so change can happen in the country, so Haiti can get
out of the chronic underdevelopment into which the
imperialist countries have put her to make us pay for
our temerity in being the first people in the world to
abolish the slave system. We disrupted their business;
that’s why they are always angry with us.
Today, the traditional
political class, the opportunist sellers of the country
have entered into the rigged game with the Martelly/Paul
regime to continue the policy of exclusion, of removing
the people from the political scene, of doing anything
to get ahead, the neoliberal policy.
The electoral bone is to
prevent the people from struggling to change their
reality. This electoral mascarade is to continue to keep
the Haitian state dependent on the imperialist powers,
which don’t want anything to change in Haiti. This
election is a drug to make the people forget their
problems, forget their demands, which have never been
satisfied, above all on Ile à Vache [where peasants have
been expropriated to make way for a tourist development]
and downtown Port-au-Prince, where they have demolished
the homes of people to sell the land to their big
multinational bosses.
This
election also shows us the limits of the hard-headed
petit-bourgeois who, the minute they have two or three
people behind them, think they are popular. They are
obsessed with being president; they enter into any kind
of compromise or accommodation to sell out the masses’
struggle. |
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 Manigat, Madistin seek MOPOD nomination for President of Haiti
by
Samuel Maxime, The Sentinel
PORT-AU-PRINCE,
Haiti (sentinel.ht) - The political
coalition turned party, Popular
Patriotic Dessalinien Movement (MOPOD),
saw a two heavyweights ask for its
nomination for President of the Republic
of Haiti. On Mar. 25, newcomer Samuel
Madistin announced his intention to seek
the party’s nomination, while on Mar.
27, it was former First Lady Mirlande H.
Manigat.
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Vol. 8 • No. 38 • Du 1 au 7
Avril 2015 |
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 The Fight for a $15 an Hour Minimum Wage
On Wed., Apr. 15, thousands of workers, many of them
members of the union SEIU1199, will
gather at West 64th Street (between
Broadway and Central Park West) in
Manhattan at 4:00 p.m. to demand a $15
an hour minimum wage and a union for all
low wage workers. |
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Vol. 8 • No. 39 • Du 8 au 14 Avril 2015 |
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KOD is not opposed to
elections in principle. But the elections the
U.S. capitalists prepare are always rigged. They
are elections they use to put in power their own
candidates. We in KOD want no part of that. We
denounce with all our might the imperialists’
project to ensure the corrupt state’s
continuity.
Remember how, before the
eyes of the entire world, they stole the 2012
election in Mexico and then the 2013 election in
Honduras. Even when the people in those
countries protested afterwards, denouncing the
election theft, they paid no attention to them.
Instead, they mobilized the police and army to
crush the protests.
Here in Haiti, the
international reactionaries have also stolen our
elections. That’s why we say to the people: Be
careful! Remain vigilant! Remain on your toes,
so you don’t have to say later “if I’d only
known.” Don’t divert water to the mill of the
opportunists. Tomorrow, it’s you who will pay
the price.
Don’t forget how they put
Martelly in power in the 2010-2011 elections. It
was MINUSTAH, the Organization of American
States (OAS), and Hillary Clinton who decided
the election, not Haiti’s Provisional Electoral
Council (CEP). When we say occupation, that’s
one of the occupier’s roles: deciding for us!
Don’t listen to anybody
telling you to believe in Santa Claus. There is
only one way for us to counter the maneuvers of
the Macouto-bourgeois-imperialist laboratory: to
hold high the flame of mobilization. To stop our
mobilization against our enemy, to collaborate
with them, to enter into the electoral game with
them, a game they control, is to give them more
legal means to finish with us, to completely
crush us.
We in KOD, we don’t summon
the name of [Haiti’s founding father
Jean-Jacques] Dessalines for demagoguery, to
bluff people, to show off, to make a joke out of
Dessalines.
All those who want to go
drink wine in the U.S., French, and Canadian
embassies, who line up for the
election-selections with Michel Martelly and
Evans Paul, that is their choice.
KOD repeats what it
proposed since September 2013: “There cannot be
free, honest, sovereign elections with Martelly!
There cannot be free, honest, sovereign
elections under MINUSTAH’s military occupation!”
Everyone who wants to
struggle for another Haiti, a Haiti which is its
own master, come join a popular forum which will
be held on Apr. 14, 2015 in the “Bar de l’air”
for us to sit and reflect together how to
continue the mobilization to build an
anti-Martelly, anti-opportunist,
anti-Duvalierist, anti-occupation,
anti-imperialist project.
The rendezvous is at “Bar
de l’air,” Tue. Apr. 14, 2015 at 10 a.m.
It was in battle that our
ancestors beat the slave-owning nations, it is
in battle also that we will find a solution to
defeat the big imperialist nations.
(Translated from the original Kreyòl by Kim
Ives) |
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