Konbit Pou Ayiti

Let Haiti Live: UnjustU.S. Policies Towards Its Oldest Neighbor

Editors Melinda Miles and Eugenia Charles

This compilation includes expert commentary from some of the country's most famous advocates and covers the most important challenges confronting contemporary Haiti and Haitians. Published in 2004 by EducaVision. List of contents below. 

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Danny Glover: 

“This thoughtful, insightful and well-documented book provides the background, the facts, the analysis and the historical perspective needed to understand the problems and issues confronting contemporary Haiti. It particularly helps us understand these problems and issues in the context of U.S. foreign policy andour responsibility as U.S. citizens. Most importantly, it provides a much needed vision of an alternative future for the proud people of this historic island.”

Noam Chomsky:

“Once the richest colony in the world, the source of much of France’s wealth and correctly described as ‘the first free nation of free men,’ Haiti is now the poorest country in the hemisphere. Most of its population survives in miserable conditions, but with indomitable courage and spirit that can only amaze and inspire us. We have a large share of the responsibility for the grim history of this tortured land. And with that comes the responsibility to learn what has happened and to undertake the task of helping the proud people of Haiti to build the future they richly deserve. These probing and informative essays carry us a long way towards beginning to face that urgent responsibility.”

Contributors:

Foreword: Time to Say Thank You to Haiti, by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.

Introduction: Kite m Viv, by Edwidge Danticat

The Trials of Haiti, Tracy Kidder

Liberation Medicine and U.S. Policy Towards Haiti, Adam Taylor and Paul Farmer, M.D. Ph.D.

A Letter to Activists,Congresswoman Barbara Lee

When Major Powers Stagea Coup, Randall Robinson

Haiti: Lies My Media Told Me, Kim Ives

To the Editor – A Little Story of Censorship, Tom F. Driver

Lave Men, Swiye yo Atè:Taking Human Rights Seriously, Brian Concannon, Jr., Esq.

Human Rights and Justice in Haiti, Mario Joseph, Esq.

The Corruption of Democracy, Melinda Miles

Enslaved By Debt, MarieClarke Brill

Haitian Refugees: A People In Search of Hope, Cheryl Little, Esq.
The Treatment of Haitian Refugees in the U.S.: A Travesty of Justice, Marleine Bastien, LCSW

U.S. Low IntensityConflict and Haiti: Lessons from the U.S. Campaign Against the Sandinistas, Tom Ricker, Ph.D.

The Effects of U.S.Foreign Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean, Larry Birns (Council on Hemispheric Affairs Director) and research associates

Notes on the U.S. Solidarity Movement, Tom Reeves

Charting the Butterfly’s Course: The Next Generation of Haitian Diaspora in the United States, Diana Aubourg