La dette, l’arme française de la conquête de la Tunisie
Éric Toussaint, Orient XXI, 7 juillet 2016
►http://orientxxi.info/magazine/la-dette-l-arme-qui-a-permis-a-la-france-de-s-approprier-la-tunisie,1395
La dette, l’arme française de la conquête de la Tunisie
Éric Toussaint, Orient XXI, 7 juillet 2016
►http://orientxxi.info/magazine/la-dette-l-arme-qui-a-permis-a-la-france-de-s-approprier-la-tunisie,1395
C’est loin d’être un exemple isolé : #Haïti
Quand le CRIME paie
Isabelle Baez, Le Couac, 2010
▻http://www.lecouac.org/spip.php?article293
14 African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax For the Benefits of Slavery and Colonization
Mawuna Remarque KOUTONIN, Silicon Africa, 28 janvier 2014
►http://www.siliconafrica.com/france-colonial-tax
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/403173
Cholera in Haiti: A True-Crime Medical Thriller | The Tyee
▻http://thetyee.ca/Culture/2016/06/22/Cholera-In-Haiti
[Dr. Renaud Piarroux, a French epidemiologist] was startled to find UN agencies like the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) — and the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — uninterested in finding the source of the outbreak.
(...) this was baffling. The American and UN authorities seemed to be committed to an “environmental” origin for cholera in the Caribbean Sea. (...) the UN and U.S. agencies even brought in a team of investigators who had built their careers on the theory of environmental cholera.
(...) just before leaving Haiti, Piarroux received a secret document: a report by the MSPP, made in the very early days of the outbreak. With remarkable speed, the ministry had sent a team to the Artibonite River and identified the source as the Nepali camp. They’d been denied entry to the camp, but local residents provided plenty of details.
So within days of the outbreak the Haitians had known its source — and so had CDC and PAHO. Why hadn’t they said so, and why had Préval dismissed the idea of finding it?
(...) Haiti was (and is) ruled by a coalition of UN and U.S. agencies plus a chaotic mass of non-governmental organizations. The government in Port-au-Prince was (and is) far from sovereign. Préval had understood his situation, and had sent Piarroux the ministry report anonymously, to help him tell the world what he himself could not.
(...) alarmingly for any serious public health expert, a lot of public health experts went along with the scam. While thousands of Haitians were dying in puddles of their own vomit and diarrhea, the experts did their considerable best to lie to the world about why those people were dying.
Le gestionnaire du domaine Internet .HT (#Haïti), Stéphane Bruno, a été assassiné il y a une semaine, victime de la violence crapuleuse très fréquente dans ce pays. J’ai eu le plaisir de travailler avec lui et c’était un très bon gestionnaire, très dynamique et plein d’ambition pour son pays.
Un rappel de ses nombreuses contributions :
▻http://lenouvelliste.com/lenouvelliste/article/160015/Michel-Stephane-Bruno-assassine
Les réactions : ▻http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article20268
Son témoignage du tremblement de terre de 2010 :
▻http://nuvohaiti.blogspot.fr/2010/02/tale-of-android-phone-in-earthquake-in.html
Le mien, sur le travail fait ensemble à l’époque : ▻http://www.bortzmeyer.org/dns-haiti.html
#Haiti: Exporting coffee while protecting biodiversity | UNDP in Latin America and the Caribbean
▻http://www.latinamerica.undp.org/content/rblac/en/home/ourwork/sustainable-development/successstories/haiti---le-cafe--s-exporte-tout-en-protegeant-la-biodiversite.htm
Francisque Dubois, also known as "Papa café” among the people of Dondon, in northern Haiti, is one of two founding members of the coffee cooperative COOPACVOD, established in 1976 by 34 producers. Today the cooperative has 680 members and produces an organic coffee sold in Europe and North America.
“With bio certification, a pound of coffee sells for 3.5 US dollars. Before, our pound of coffee was selling for less than two US dollars. With this added value, the producers understand that they have to be more rigorous and professional in cultivating their coffee,” explains Francisque.
Located about 390 meters above sea level and protected from hurricanes and storms, the Dondon region has suitable weather conditions for coffee production. Given that the coffee must be grown in the shade, tree cutting is not the norm in the commune. During heavy rain, the water first hits the tree canopy before reaching the leaves of the coffee plants, which protects the soil from erosion.
With the support of UNDP’s micro-financing programme (MFP), funded in the amount of US$50,000 by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the cooperative was able to set up two ‘decentralized’ nurseries and strengthen its central nursery. These three nurseries have produced 200,000 coffee plants and 12,000 shade trees.
Mature seedlings are distributed to cooperative members who plant them following the practices necessary to produce an exportable organic coffee. With the support of the cooperative, farmers have access to more profitable markets and can sell their produce at competitive prices.
#café #bio #label #exportation
the UN [#Haiti] Country Team is almost two months late and $9.8 million short in dealing with Haiti’s #cholera. And of course the ineptitude of the #UN and its reliance on begging bowls will result in “longer or more severe outbreaks.”
Cholera is now endemic in Haiti. Longer and more severe outbreaks will be of no interest to Haiti’s foreign masters. (…)
The US government, which is behind most of Haiti’s sorrows, spends $604.5 billion yearly on military defence. That’s $1.656 billion daily. By redirecting three or four days’ such spending, the US could provide safe drinking water and sanitation for everyone in Haiti.
▻http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2016/05/haiti-cholera-response-fact-sheet-april-2016.html
‘I came here with nothing’: life in limbo for unwilling migrants on Haiti’s border
Changes in the Dominican Republic’s citizenship rules sparked an exodus of undocumented Haitian descendants. Months later their plight is still desperate
▻https://espminetwork.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/3936.jpg?w=940
▻https://espminetwork.com/2016/05/25/for-posting-10
#Haïti #migrations #frontières #République_dominicaine #limbe #zone_d'attente #zone-tampon
Land Rights and Food Sovereignty in Haiti Article Series | Other Worlds
▻http://otherworldsarepossible.org/land-rights-and-food-sovereignty-haiti-article-series
Other Worlds has been collecting interviews from grassroots leaders and people affected by land grabs in Haiti - plus conducting critical research and analysis - for an article series on land rights and food sovereignty. Currently planned or underway in Haiti is mining for gold and other minerals, foreign agribusiness, free trade zones, new wharves, and two new airports. All of these are to take place on land where peasant farmers and other destitute people live. Together, the pieces in the series paint a clear picture of what’s at stake, how activists are fighting back, and what just and equitable economic development could look like.
Plan to dump US-grown peanuts into Haiti represents yet another failed policy
▻https://www.grain.org/bulletin_board/entries/5425-plan-to-dump-us-grown-peanuts-into-haiti-represents-yet-another-failed-p
This article in the Washington Post explores the USDA’s plans in more detail. The U.S. peanut surplus came about under incentives created in an updated Farm Bill passed in 2014. Through a complex system of subsidies, the bill encouraged more peanut production—so US farmers planted more peanuts, pushing down prices and resulting in a huge surplus.
The cost of warehousing for this peanut surplus is too great—leading to the US government’s decision to give them away.
Haiti needs food—what’s the problem?
Simply put, the USDA’s plans to dump 500 metric tons of US grown peanuts into Haiti set to destroy the livelihoods of many of the people the U.S. government has sought to help since the devastating 2010 earthquake.
Many Haitian farmers grow their own peanuts. In fact, peanuts are considered a staple part of the Haitian diet and are used to produce a thick peanut butter paste that can easily be stored and released into the local markets when prices are high. So they’re vital to the Haitian economy—a fact recognized by the US government’s Hunger and Food Security Initiative, which praised an effort to bolster peanut production by Haitian funders, a project that was partly funded by the Clinton Foundation.
#arachides #Haïti #surproduction #subventions #marché_local #pauvreté
Should OSF-Saint Francis Medical Center be Sued by Haitian Survivors ? – Dispatches from Haiti – Journal Star – Peoria, IL
▻http://blogs.pjstar.com/haiti/2016/03/27/should-osf-saint-francis-medical-center-be-sued-by-haitian-survivors
If I could “design” the lawsuit it would be similar to IJDH. I believe the #cholera victims are asking 50,000 dollars per victim. Haitian Hearts would do the same even though we know that no amount of monetary recompense would ever replace Jackson. We would ask for an apology from OSF to Jackson’s family. (Nadia and Rosette are fully aware of what happened to Jackson.) And OSF, like the United Nations, would need to make things better in Haiti. Any previous Haitian Hearts patient operated at OSF would need to be accepted back by OSF if they needed repeat surgery.
#Haïti #médecine #inégalités
sur un sujet un peu différent de l’affaire des #nations_unies, un cas très concret de déni de soins sur un patient
Ces esclaves qui ont vaincu Napoléon. Toussaint Louverture et (...) - Société française d’histoire des outre-mers
▻http://www.sfhom.com/spip.php?article1526
"Cet ouvrage nous plonge au cœur du drame fondateur qui s’est noué sur la scène coloniale caribéenne au moment même où la France accomplissait sa propre révolution. Un drame en trois actes. Un : soulèvement des esclaves de #Saint-Domingue — surnommée la « perle des Antilles » et la plus riche des colonies françaises — en 1791, suivi trois ans après de l’abolition de l’#esclavage par la nouvelle Assemblée nationale française. Deux : envoi sur l’île par Napoléon Bonaparte d’un corps expéditionnaire dirigé par le général Leclerc, beau-frère de l’empereur, en vue de renverser le chef des rebelles, #Toussaint_Louverture, et de rétablir l’esclavage. Trois : victoire des insurgés et création, en 1804, de la première république noire de l’histoire : #Haïti. C’est cette expédition coloniale désastreuse, qui fit des milliers de morts des deux côtés et restera comme l’une des plus cuisantes défaites de l’empire français, tenu en échec par d’anciens esclaves, que raconte l’historien Philippe Girard dans ces pages. Pour comprendre les enjeux et le déroulement de l’opération, il a mené des recherches de part et d’autre de l’Atlantique et puisé aux sources les plus variées, qu’elles soient militaires, diplomatiques ou commerciales. À travers le prisme de l’expédition Leclerc, qui en fut le paroxysme, c’est toute la Révolution haïtienne, cet événement majeur de l’histoire atlantique, qu’il fait revivre."
UN’s own experts chastise Ban Ki-moon over handling of Haiti cholera outbreak | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/03/cholera-haiti-un-experts-chastise-ban-ki-moon
The secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, has been chastised by five of the UN’s own human rights experts who accuse him of undermining the world body’s credibility and reputation by denying responsibility for the devastating outbreak of cholera in Haiti.
In a withering letter to the UN chief, the five special rapporteurs say that his refusal to allow cholera victims any effective remedy for their suffering has stripped thousands of Haitians of their fundamental right to justice. The letter is believed to be the first time that the UN’s guardians of human rights have turned their spotlight onto the UN hierarchy itself, as opposed to individual nation states that are the usual target of their criticism.
(...) Latest figures suggest that some 9,202 people have died from the disease, with a further 769,080 treated in hospital since the outbreak began.
From Cholera to Zika — by Sonia Shah
►http://visionscarto.net/from-cholera-to-zika
Over the past 50 years, more than 300 infectious diseases have either newly emerged or re-emerged into territory where they’ve never been seen before. A few weeks after the end of the Ebola crisis, the Zika virus is just the latest example. Each health crisis yields promises of new approaches and learning from our mistakes. And yet, we continue to fight global contagions in a similarly reactive, incremental fashion.
Sur FB ou j’ai signalé cette contribution, Sy Morin signale ceci qui est très impressionnant :
▻http://collapse-thedivisiongame.ubi.com
« Vous avez été contaminé par une souche inconnue de la variole. Vous êtes le patient zéro. A cause de vous, une pandémie mondiale est sur le point d’éclater »
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2k4SdwCY9g
on parle un peu de #google_flu_trends dans les questions à la fin, et des #antibiotiques dans l’élevage, des #pharma, des #moustiques…
discussion entre Sonia Shah et son éditrice Sarah Crichton
▻http://www.thoughtmatters.co/2016/03/superbugs
intervention dans ce film publié par Motherboard
▻http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-scientists-are-fighting-a-zika-outbreak-in-the-us
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2gQ_Y30EaM
Women Farmers and Land Grabs in Haiti: An Interview With Iderle Brénus
▻http://towardfreedom.com/38-archives/women/4180-women-farmers-and-land-grabs-in-haiti-an-interview-with-iderle-b
In Haiti, the majority of the people working the land are women. Not only are they there during planting, weeding and harvesting, but they also play a role in transforming and marketing food products. They’re involved in the entire agricultural production process. This is why we call women the poto mitan, central pillar, of the country.
When a family is dispossessed of its land, women are victims. Rural women are the first to feel the pain. Ways that land theft and expulsions are affecting them need to be put on the table so the impacted women can be made a priority. There needs to be social, educational, technical, and economic support, and a lot of community organizing. The world needs to see what women suffer under land grabs and the neoliberal policies behind them.
#femmes #agriculture #haïti #terres
Haïti, la république des masques
En marge du carnaval à #Jacmel, la débâcle des élections sur l’île a révélé une incapacité de la classe politique locale et de la communauté internationale à répondre aux espoirs d’un peuple entier. Des manifestations contestatrices aux cortèges festifs, même sentiment de simulacre
En cherchant plus d’infos sur le film signalé par @diekuh ici : ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/447921#message456215... Je suis tombée sur cette longue liste de #films, décrite comme :
Inter/transnational “B/black” Migration Clips and Film Recommendations (Language: English and/or Subtitled in English)
12/20/12
C’est une mine de suggestions...
▻http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-afro-am&month=1212&week=c&msg=utCmle4gQyeFpRYI/EHlcg&user=&pw=
Il y a des films et des #documentaires en général sur les #Noirs, sur les #discriminations, sur les #migrations, sur l’#intégration, quelques-uns sur l’#Allemagne, sur l’#Afrique en général, sur les #Noirs de #Russie, sur l’#holocauste, sur la #Deuxième_guerre_mondiale (#WWII), sur #Haïti, sur l’#Italie...
cc @albertocampiphoto
Il y a ce film notamment :
Black Russians
BLACK RUSSIANS is a feature length documentary that investigates the lives of contemporary Afro-Russians aged 10 to 65, born and raised in Soviet Russia. Their experiences chronicle two ideological currents that have shaped major international events in the twentieth century: race and communism. Intimate interviews with a poet, a film producer, a reggae artist, a businessman and others, all Black and all Russian, guide us through this story of promise and non-discrimination. Archive images reveal rarely seen footage of Black political leaders in the Soviet Union, like Paul Robeson, Kwame Nkruma and Angela Davis. More than a decade after the ’fall of communism’ a new Russia struggles to steady itself in the wave of nationalism from within and the pressures of global capitalism from without. “Black Russians” constructs a deeply personal account of the effects of political issues such as migration, identity and loss on a minority community in the vast remains of the Soviet Union.
▻http://www.twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=725&card=price
#union_soviétique #URSS
Haiti’s Cholera Epidemic Could Have Been Prevented With Low-cost Approaches, Study Finds | Yale School of Public Health
▻http://publichealth.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=11966
New research by scientists at Yale School of Public Health, in partnership with colleagues at the Yale Law School, has found that simple and inexpensive interventions—which the United Nations has yet to implement—would be effective in preventing future outbreaks of the bacterial infection.
Researchers developed a mathematical model for the arrival of peacekeepers carrying cholera and the early spread of the disease in Haiti. The model estimated the probability of an epidemic occurring under current U.N. protocols, and compared this against the probability of an epidemic if peacekeepers had been given antibiotics for cholera, screened or vaccinated. A team of independent scientific and medical experts had previously recommended that the United Nations consider these interventions to limit peacekeepers’ risk for spreading cholera. However, their implementation by the UN has been complicated by a lack of evidence to support decision-making.
Haiti’s Fraudulent Presidential Frontrunner Seizes Land for His Own Banana Republic
▻http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/25695-haitis-fraudulent-presidential-frontrunner-seizes-land-for-his-o
The only man running in Haiti’s fraudulent presidential election run-offson January 24, 2016, Jovenel Moïse, dispossessed as many as 800 peasants - who were legally farming - and destroyed houses and crops two years ago, say leaders of farmers’ associations in the Trou-du-Nord area. Farmers remain homeless and out of work. The land grabbed by the company Moïse founded, Agritrans, now hosts a private banana plantation.
To grow bananas for export in a hungry nation, Agritrans received at least $6 million in state loans, and possibly much more. Agritrans seized a 1,000-hectare (2,371-acre) tract from farmers, bulldozed their houses and fields, used bribes to buy local support, distorted claims of its benefit to local residents, and created a phantom organization to legitimate itself.
Should he become president, the company Moïse created would likely be a bellwether of loss of family livelihood and domestic food production.
Six years after the earthquake
▻http://blogs.pjstar.com/haiti/2016/01/12/six-years
One-third of Haitians are food insecure or starving now and we can’t blame this on Syria’s Bashar al-Assad or his barrel bombs. (...) Haitian politics and elections and the omnipresent corruption are an embarrassment for Haiti as 2016 comes tumbling in. People manifest in the streets almost every day because they can’t live another six years like this. Source: Dispatches from Haiti
Quand le chat n’est pas là, les souris dansent
Tourbillon d’hommes et de poussière, Port-au-Prince ne se tait jamais. De l’aube à l’aube, 2 millions d’habitants, de coqs et de chiens déambulent sur des trottoirs invisibles, livrés à eux-mêmes pour effacer les dernières traces du séisme du 12 janvier 2010. Voici les chants de ceux qui, chaque jour, cherchent à apaiser la terre qui gronde ou à crier plus fort qu’elle. Haïti jouk li jou, « jusqu’à ce qu’il fasse jour ».
Une création sonore proposée par Le Bruit et la fureur ASBL, produite par ARTE Radio avec le soutien du FACR, de l’ACSR, de Wallonie-Bruxelles International et de la FOKAL. Cette création rime avec le documentaire audio de Caroline Berliner « Jusqu’à ce qu’il fasse jour » (52 min) consacrée à trois artistes de Port-au-Prince lors du festival de théâtre Quatre Chemins.
#Haïti entre permanences et ruptures
Ce #livre constitue un ouvrage de référence, une base d’informations et un outil de travail pour celles et ceux qui s’intéressent à Haïti et qui ont pour champ d’étude ou d’action l’espace haïtien. Plus d’une vingtaine de chercheurs de spécialités différentes et d’horizons variés y ont participé et nous livrent ici leurs analyses, loin des images stéréotypées et sans concession par rapport aux réalités locales.
Élaboré autour de la double problématique des continuités et des ruptures, ce travail présente neuf parties qui explorent chacun un champ spécifique : démographie, culture, environnement, vie rurale, industries et services, la question du développement, villes, organisation de l’espace, géopolitique. Chaque thème est complété par deux dossiers, études de cas aussi diverses que le statut paradoxal des femmes ou le patrimoine bâti, le développement des tic ou la géopolitique de la frontière.
Derrière l’histoire singulière et tumultueuse du pays, les images traditionnelles de l’échec économique et de la misère, les déséquilibres sociaux et spatiaux, les contradictions du présent et les incertitudes de l’avenir, cet ouvrage cherche à donner des clés de lecture pour appréhender toute la complexité des rapports entre l’espace et la société haïtienne.
Maritime ‘Repo Men’ : A Last Resort for Stolen Ships
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/29/world/americas/maritime-repo-men-a-last-resort-for-stolen-ships.html
Moral Agency on the Haitian-Dominican Border
▻http://blogs.pjstar.com/haiti/2015/12/15/moral-agency-on-the-haitian-dominican-border
With the conditions that I witnessed in the refugee camps in Anse-a-Pitres, it was not hard to predict that cholera could hit the camps and that an adequate medical response was probably not going to happen. I saw people in the camps drinking untreated water straight from the river reservoir. And I saw no preparations being made to develop and sustain an adequate Cholera Treatment Center (CTC) in Anse-a-Pitres.
During the last six weeks cholera HAS hit the camps in Anse-a-Pitres. And cholera is crossing the border into the Dominican Republic once again.
#Haiti : Everyone wants to fight #cholera, but no one can agree on how
▻http://www.statnews.com/2015/12/07/cholera-vaccine-debate
There was a vaccine available. Although the cache was not nearly large enough — and still not fully approved by the World Health Organization — Ivers and others appealed to Haitian officials to allow them to distribute the drug.The government said no.“This was a missed opportunity to save lives,” Ivers, who ran a clinic in Haiti for the nonprofit Partners in Health, recalled in a recent interview.Today, the epidemic is seen as a pivotal moment in a dispute over the best way to counter cholera.
On one side are public health advocates, backed by the powerful Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, who have been galvanized in their enthusiasm for vaccines. Those vaccines, they believe, can be used to make major strides against a disease that is thousands of years old, easily treated, and entirely preventable.On the other are public health officials who argue that the vaccines are not effective enough and are a Band-Aid diverting attention from the water and sanitation issues that are at the root of cholera.
“This is a disease of poverty,” said Shafiqul Islam, director of the Water Diplomacy Program at Tufts University. “There is a group of people who think vaccines will solve the problem. I don’t think it will.”Experts on both sides acknowledge the disagreement has undermined unity in the fight against cholera. The WHO has tried to straddle the divide by supporting both approaches, without settling how to pay for both.
#vaccins ou #pauvreté ? (Je ne crois pas que la question soit bien posée. Quant à l’argent faut pas déconner…)