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Earthquake Coup and Cholera Elections
Dady Chery Talks to Anita Stewart About Haiti – Part 2 The following interview is part 2 of a three-part series on Challenging the Rhetoric on August 26-28, which was originally broadcast on Wise Women Media on August 5, 2015. … Continue reading →
Dady Chery and Eric Draitser Discuss Imperialism and Colonialism in Haiti
Interview of Dady Chery with Eric Draitser Haiti Chery Eric Draitser: Today I have the amazing special opportunity to speak to someone whom I really admire, really respect, whose work I follow regularly, and I think we’re all going to … Continue reading →
Dady Chery Discusses Haiti’s Struggle Against Occupation with Ruthann Amarteifio
By Dady Chery Haiti Chery Ruthann Amarteifio: It has been a long time. So Dady, you have been writing a book called We Have Dared to Be Free, for five years. Before the dreadful earthquake in Haiti in 2010, you … Continue reading →
Haitian-Born Author Dady Chery Discusses ‘We have Dared to Be Free’ With Anita Stewart – Part I
The following interview was originally broadcast on Wise Women Media on August 5, 2015 and later rebroadcast as a three-part series on Challenging the Rhetoric, on August 26-28. For the audio for the first part of the series, scroll to … Continue reading →
The Clinton Plan for Haiti
By Dady Chery Haiti Chery When news of Haiti died down in the mainstream media two months after the earthquake, things had not cooled down: quite the contrary, they had just started to simmer. A highly controversial State of Emergency … Continue reading →
Interview: Haitian-Born Author Dady Chery Dissects Haiti’s Ongoing Occupation
Interview of Dady Chery With Gilbert Mercier, Haiti Chery. A few months ago we decided to launch News Junkie Post Press, aka NJP Press. Dady Chery will be the first author published by us; Gilbert Mercier will be next in line. On the occasion, Mercier introduced Chery’s book and conducted this interview.
Continue reading →Dady Chery’s Book ‘We Have Dared to Be Free’ 1st from NJP Press, July 28, 2015
Interview of Dady Chery With Gilbert Mercier, Haiti Chery. A few months ago we decided to launch News Junkie Post Press, aka NJP Press. Dady Chery will be the first author published by us; Gilbert Mercier will be next in line. On the occasion, Mercier introduced Chery’s book and conducted this interview.
Continue reading →Haiti’s Open Vein at Caracol Industrial Park
By Dady Chery Haiti Chery Haitians, who previously sold their kin as outright slaves and sugar-cane cutters, continue to sell them into sweatshops and other horrific work environments at home and abroad. Consider the case of Caracol Industrial Park, in … Continue reading →
Le festin des dieux: Lien du Vodou à l’agriculture d’Haïti et aux ancêtres
Par Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. La religion et la culture haïtienne sont intimement liées à l’agriculture locale, à tel point que les cérémonies de Vaudou sont habituellement appelées manje lwa: festin des dieux. Nos lwa (dieux, esprits, divinités) doivent être nourris.
Continue reading →Food for the Gods: Link of Vodou to Haiti’s Agriculture, a Legacy of the Ancestors
By Dady Chery Haiti Chery Haitian religion and culture are so linked to local agriculture that Vodou ceremonies are routinely called manje lwa: food for the gods. Our lwa (gods, spirits, deities) must be fed. They are not eternal and … Continue reading →
Dominicans Are Not Haiti’s Enemies, Corruption and Occupation Are
By Dady Chery Haiti Chery We love blood, don’t we? As if, by staring at our reflections in this viscous red liquid we might lose fear. We are horrified and entranced by the eviscerated child in Gaza, or the naked … Continue reading →
Midnight of Haiti’s Parliament on the Earthquake’s Anniversary | Le minuit du parlement d’Haïti au jour de l’anniversaire du séisme
By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Just as the earthquake had rattled the ground under the feet of Haitians, the dissolution of the Haitian Parliament at midnight, 00:00 on January 12, 2015, exactly five years later, has shaken to the core Haiti’s republican institutions. Right at the day’s start, the terms expired for all 99 members of the House of Representatives and 10 Senators. With only 10 members left, the Senate lacks a quorum and cannot function. (English | French)
Continue reading →United Nations Challenged About Bill Clinton’s Immunity in Haiti
Press Release, Haiti Chery. Lawyers Newton Louis St Juste and André Michel have legally challenged the UN Secretary General to clarify whether Bill Clinton’s 18 months as Co-Chair of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) from 2009 to 2011, while he was UN Special Envoy for Haiti, entitles him to UN privileges and immunities against prosecutions being considered in the courts of Haiti and other countries.
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