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VIVE
HAITI!
March
16, 2004
This
website was created by Vic Sadot, and friends in solidarity
with the movement for the establishment of a stable, participatory,
and constitutional democracy in Haïti. Vic Sadot is an
American citizen with a BA in Political Science who has been
active since 1985 in support of Jean-Bertrand Aristide and
the Lavalas party in their struggle against the military dictatorships
that had been supported by the United States up until the
presidency of Bill Clinton. Power elites in Haïti, the
United States, and France have conspired to defeat this mass
movement for democracy in the poorest country in the western
hemisphere.
Vic is a singer/songwriter on all subjects poetic and political,
and one very non-commercial song that Vic wrote is the reason
this website was created. We would like you to hear Vive Haiti!,
the song about the struggle for democracy, the diaspora, the
desperate boat people of Haiti, and the heroic stuggle of
the Haitian people to raise themselves up from humiliating
tyranny to being masters of their own fate. Hopefully, you
will connect with them through this website. Maybe you will
learn a little Creole French or you may connect with Haitian
music. We invite you to listen to Vic’s songs on several
other political issues, to download the free ones, and to
consider buying the new forthcoming CD of topical songs for
our times: Broadsides & Retrospectives. We are counting
on you to help us get it out as a community support project.
Click
the picture to purchase your copy of
Broadside & Retrospectives.
Released October, 2004.
(Photo by Dean A. Banks)
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Vive Haiti! is featured at this site. It was sung by Vic Sadot
at Haitian demonstrations in Washington, DC in 1986 and in
Philadelphia, PA in 1992 to 1994. Unfortunately, the song
remains all too relevant to this day as Aristide and the Democracy
go into a second exile.
We invite you to explore the recommended links to get an understanding
of what’s really going on in Haïti. You won’t
get it from the corporate media!
This is their darling little coup to seize Haiti as a base
against Venezuela. Somehow the former terrorists are now “rebels”
in the US media. And although the Democracy convicted them
of murder, the US is not arresting them! No, they walk side
by side the US soldiers They are to be the new enforcers.
So we apparently have good terrorists and bad terrorists.
The United Snakes and the former terrorists will have you
believe that President Aristide, the former slum priest, is
not about justice and democracy and popular based power in
Haiti; that the Nelson Mandela’s friend is now a drug
running greedy guy of the sort that sells out their country
like the thugs we are bringing back in. The purpose of this
website is to link people up with the truth about Haiti…to
immunize yourself against the lies that divide and rule us!
Sadly, the current history of Haiti is a story where the US
is once again siding with the terrorists in a coup against
the democratically elected government. Just as in the war
of “weapons of mass destruction” used on Iraq,
there is a dearth of critical analysis and factual news. The
corporate media has become a slavish propaganda machine of
a very powerful and corrupt establishment. The G. W. Bush
administration and the Chirac administration in France show
their contempt for the will of the Haitian people, for international
law, for the sovereignty of the Haitian nation, and for the
principles and practices of democracy and civil society. We
wish them and their poodle Blair a fond farewell retirement
party with Spain’s Aznar at their side.
The struggle in Haiti is part of a worldwide struggle for
social justice. You hear about “globalization”
but you don’t hear about “corporate globalization”.
We are all for globalization, but maybe not for corporate
exploitation ruining our American well-being and our social
expectations at the same time as the corporates exploit talented
people in Third World or anti-worker countries such as the
State Capitalism of Communist China. To learn more about the
global corporate assault on the people, resources, and institutions
of planet Earth, visit the Global Research website.
The hopeful part of this story is that all over this world
we are going to educate and organize ourselves, and we are
going to win back the democracy that we cherish. The hopeful
part of this story is that in behaving as the United States
and France did by kidnapping President Aristide, by arming
and working with former Haitian army terrorists, by thinking
they can bully the world in every little corner and get away
with it, Bush and Chirac have torn off their mask of respectability
and the credibility on their phony “War on Terrorism”d
is exposed. It’s just an excuse for doing whatever the
hell they want to do to other countries. These policies are
also making deadly enemies for US citizens in the process.
Vic Sadot says, “Thanks to all of you who give of yourselves
to work toward making this a world where peace is based on
social justice and social systems that provide all human beings
with the necessities of life and ways to participate in the
decisions that affect their lives.”
Long live Haiti and Long Live the Democracy! Get passionate
and real about participatory democracy! And God bless you
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, US Congresswoman Maxine Waters and
the US Congressional Black Caucus, and the country of Jamaica
during these days of decision about truth and justice.
Friends of Haiti and Third World Democracy!
Sister
Sites |
Vic
Sadot's Planète Folle
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The
Poems of Jean-Henri Sadot
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Broadsides
& Retrospectives
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The
Kidnapping Coup
Well,
first came the troops that were trained in Santo Domingo
They were US equipped and organized to overthrow
The FRAPH (1) death squads and the outlawed Haitian
army
Were unleashed like mad dogs on the civil society
From the sea came the force of the ever-menacing Yankees
They took Port-au-Prince and they broke Haiti down to
her knees
The “Frappers” (1) went killing the Parti
Lavalas and the unions
It was all done in secret with French and American guns
Chorus:
It was a kidnapping coup by those who murder and plunder
They hide behind lies and they terrorize everyone under
They silence with violence the voices of conscience
and just views?
And their kidnapping coup gets covered up in the corporate
news?
It
was February 29 in the year of 2004
Like thieves in the night, they broke through the President’s
door
Put their guns to the head of the elected President
of Haiti
They kidnapped the man and they stole the democracy
Blindfolded his wife and they pointed their guns at
her too
“Jean-Bertrand,” they said, “sign
this paper or we’ll shoot both of you”
Like Mildred, he thought of their kids and their country
as well
He looked in the eyes of the Yankees turning Haiti to
hell (chorus) Instrumental
Aristide
would not sign… So the Yankees blindfolded him
too
Put them both on the jet with the US red, white, and
blue
Flew them all the way to an African puppet dictator
While the Haitian news rags denounced Aristide as a
traitor
Some members of Congress, they chartered a jet and they
flew there
Demanded the puppet release the ones that were held
there
The General was told to let them fly into exile
So they flew to Jamaica, and they rested there for a
while (chorus)
Then
Condi and Colon made threats on sovereign Jamaica
So Titid (2) and Mildred moved their exile to South
Africa
They kidnapped the man… made a coup on the great
Haitian nation
If you won’t be a puppet, they’ll invade
you and bring occupation
It was February 29 in the year of 2004
Like thieves in the night, they broke through the President’s
door
Put their guns to the head of the elected President
of Haiti
They kidnapped the man and they stole the democracy
(chorus) Instrumental
Copyright
Sept 21, 2005 Vic Sadot/BMI/Orbian Love Music
(1) FRAPH – Frappe in French means to hit. This
is a paramilitary death squad that murders and terrorizes
Haitian democracy advocates. The army, aided by FRAPH
(Front Révolutionnaire pour l’Avancement
et le Progrès Haitien), killed some 5,000 people
from 1991 to 1994. (2) “Titid” is like baby
talk for “little Aristide”, and it represents
an affectionate nick-name for this great champion of
the poor. For more information, please read: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=BAR20050502&articleId=74
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