The Poverty Pimps' Masturbating on Black Pain: Their silent but ever-present violence and corruption
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Monsanto joins the pack
Haiti Connect charity workersPhoto Source: Poverty Pimps in Haiti
Haiti Connect charity workers, who on the way to Haiti, stopped off for a week in Florida for team meetings...in topless bars and by the pool (published May 15, 2010, in an Irish, Sunday Mail news paper; written by Warren Swords and Valerie Harley. The article is not online but there is a scan available here.) Here's a discussion with, Evert Bopp, the head of Haiti Connect on the Sunday Mail article. See also Evert Bopp's story ; the post entitled: Why I don’t agree with Haiti Connect and, With Haiti in Ruins, Some U.N. Relief Workers Live Large on 'Love Boat'.)
The most direct and sustainable aid to Haiti's masses - Ti pèp la - comes from the Haiti Diaspora's remittances, not from the NGOS, the UN, the ruling Haiti Oligarchy and certainly not from the coup-detat-and-death -squad-creating USAID/US Embassy. Yet, those who want to change the world's system in Haiti mostly refuse to listen but to these anti-Haiti- people voices. They prefer not to support conscious disaster relief with human rights, healing and dignity.
(See also: Ezili HLLN's 14-Points for the Voiceless in Haiti: For a Return of Haiti's Sovereignty and for Disaster relief, Rebuilding with Human Rights, Healing and Dignity ; The Plantation Called Haiti: Feudal Pillage Masking as Humanitarian Aid ; Vision of Plantation Haiti - A White Pearl, Again! ; Sarkozy's visit to Haiti: A Buzzard Looking For a Free Meal? and Haiti has its own rebuilding plans: The US/UN Stop blocking Haitian Relief.
***Going shopping in Haiti:
"It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom." --Emma Goldman
Though they exist and form the exception to the rule, there are very few Paul Farmers, Margaret Trosts or Bill Quigleys in the Haitian world. And even amongst "the exceptions," the number whittles down to almost zero in terms of foreign heroes who can be expected to go the lifetime-distance without making "unusual alliances" or joining the status quo that vies for the soul of Black folks. Few who would HEAR, Lila Watson who said, "If you have come here to help me then you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine then let us work together." This sort of thinking that inspires self-reliance not dependency and provide the respectful conditions for those in great need to, in liberty, dignity and identify, realize their own needs is not what compels the International Community in Haiti right now.For, in the age of humanitarian imperialism, globalization, financial colonialism and neocolonial-violence obfuscated behind forced assimilation and cultural imperialism, what exactly do some whites or modern missionaries go shopping in Haiti for: sex, self-esteem, adulation, fun, challenge, adventure, the boost in serotonin-consumption, to exploit cheap labor, plunder Haiti's natural resources, for self-improvement, recovery, to use Haiti as in excuse to raise funds for their salaries and living expenses to live the old Dixie's planters' life with exploitation black sex on tap, or as an easy way to gain international expert credentials in any field and move up the socio-economic ladder at home and/or for securing the good tropical lifestyle with mountain and oceanfront houses, the waiters, maids, gardeners and seafood they couldn't obtain as easily in their Euro/US countries where they are the majority, ordinary, can’t use the white privilege inheritance without some scrutiny and are not as exotic and special as in neocolonial devastated Haiti. It’s all hidden, of course, behind the mask of being good humanitarians, altruistic charity workers and helping Haitians. (See also, Ezili Dantò Reviews Travesty in Haiti: A true account of Christian missions, orphanages, fraud, food aid and drug trafficking (a book by Timothy T. Schwartz, Ph.D.); The Slavery in Haiti the Media Won't Expose ; Haiti's Holocaust and Middle Passage Continues; UN Peacekeepers and Humanitarian Aid Workers raping, molesting and abusing Haitian children; The-To-Tell-The-Truth-About -Haiti Forum 2009 and 2010; I am the History of Rape: HLLN Letter to UN asking for investigative reports on UN soldier's rapes in Haiti; and, Proposed solutions to create a new paradigm.)
Excerpt of Going Shopping In Haiti is taken from Oil in Haiti - Economic Reasons for the UN/US occupation by Ezili Dantò
USAID's Monsanto Mutations: Perpetual Debt and Mortally LethalHaiti suffered the worst natural disaster in modern history. A natural disaster greatly exacerbated by man-made poverty due mostly to US free trade neocolonialism, Haiti oligarchy greed, neoliberal economics, white privilege and the racism generated that devalues the life of the Black woman’s children. ( 8 MILLION dead in Central Africa since 1986 ) But, it seems Clinton/Farmer/UN/the over 10,000 NGOs masturbating on black pain, aren't quite done yet. (See, A message to Paul Farmer, the Senate, Dobbins & Francois.) Monsanto, the giant biotech conglomerate is the latest USAID tenacle (joining the pharmaceutical giants, private military companies, charity industry, et al..) to attach itself to the pool of foreign aid monies, in the name of helping Haiti earthquake victims - donating $4 million worth of their patented hybrid corn and vegetable seeds. (Monsanto gives Haiti $4 million in hybrid seeds). Local Haiti Farmers will have to buy the seeds. Allegedly there's no genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) involved in these patented "gifts." But, the hybrid seeds have to be repurchased and planted every year!
They’re giving mutated-corn and vegetables a Haiti people already too malnourished. There are no seeds in these hybrids. Have you ever bought an eggplant or a cucumber that has no seeds? Then you know it’s strange food. Infertile food! Frankenstein food. Does earthquake ravaged Haiti really need such GIFTS?
No. No, in the name of 300,000 dead Haitians, countless others taking to the high seas looking for asylum and over 1.5 million homeless, we say NO THANK YOU to more dependency, wealth monopolies, economic slavery, loss of soil fertility, loss of watershed protection, more foreign toxins that further pollutes the ground water, more destruction of local seed stock. No more environmental degradation and sediment loads in Haiti's rivers. Don't introduce your cancerous food system and production to Haiti. We want to grow, not produce our foods. No thank you, please! (See, Monsanto's Toxic Legacy (Organic Consumers Organization); Le lobbying de Monsanto ; Ezili's HLLN on the Counter-Colonial Narrative on Deforestation ; GMO Files: Monsanto’s Next “FrankenFood” ; Health Scandal - Monsanto's GMO Perversion of Food ; Monsanto Under Investigation by Seven US States ; Monsanto 7-State Probe Threatens Profit from 93% Soybean Share ; Food Inc - A documentary by Jeremy Freed; Tavis Smiley on Food, Inc.)
The Haiti government runs Haiti like its a private not public enterprise. But it's our blood they’re spilling and polluting. The next generation’s future they’re mortgaging with these “gifts” that deny Haiti's food sovereignty, deny Haiti the ability to set its own agricultural policies in years to come. We Haitians have a right to know what horror USAID has prepared for us next as "gift" and "development!" Haiti’s Agricultural Minister has not answered the question: where will the Haiti farmers get the money to buy the seeds? What are the terms? Who gets the money? USAID as you see from the AP article is silent on the subject. No one underlines that the hybrid seeds must be repurchased for next year's harvest .. ie: a ROYALTY payment in effect and DEPENDENCY. It's worst than a World Bank/IMF debt. A WB/IMF/IDB loan arguably doesn’t start out as a debt in perpetuity. These seed are debts in perpetuity and as mortally lethal to Haiti’s future and present health as any old bullet to the head. Oh well, that's seems to be what the Clinton/Bellerive agricultural reforms are about, right? Some Good Samaritan wanting to really help the earthquake victims ought to leak these contracts so the world may take a gander at the Obama change in Haiti! (Michael Taylor: Monsanto's Man in the Obama Administration )*"I don't know why it is...but since the beginning of time Haitians have been suffering" ---Haitian migrant , 2009*500 lane depi w (blan kolon) vle efase n. Jodi a ou vle m kwè se sèl ou ki ka sove n --- Edike from Daniel 'Dadi' Beaubrun's Lataye (buy album)[English - "For 500 years the whites (settlers/colonists) have tried to erase us. Today they want us to believe they're the only ones who can save us" --- Edike from Daniel 'Dadi' Beaubrun's Lataye (buy album)]
Video Reel - Red, Black & Moonlight: Between Falling and Hitting the Ground
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CNN's Byron J. Richards: "Monsanto is making an ominous power play to corner the worldwide market on food and seeds. In the process they are adversely altering the very nature of food itself." ( Health Scandal - Monsanto's GMO Perversion of Food)“..what has slipped under everyone's radar screen is Taylor's involvement in setting U.S. policy on agricultural assistance in Africa. In collusion with the Rockefeller and Bill and Melinda Gates foundations, Taylor is once again the go-between man for Monsanto and the U.S. government, this time with the goal to open up African markets for genetically-modified (GM) seed and agrochemicals.” (Michael Taylor: Monsanto's Man in the Obama Administration.)
The charity industry and USAID’s money pool is for its cronies and the elite corporatocracy. It’s their corporate welfare. The good-hearted public can’t absorb such evil, so they generally prefer not to know. And those of us who pour our life-force out, no matter the repercussions and marginalization, to expose how these evil folks make a living from letting the poor die or get sicker and uses disasters as an opportunity to sell their pesticides, herbicides, nutritional supplements, vitamins, vaccines, guns, weapons, security services, construction services, consultancy services, hybrid seeds or to take over their lands and silence the poor into accepting even more lower wage jobs and sub-standard living, seem to be the ones who are labeled “not constructive.” This disaster capitalism is practiced on the poor, black and the brown all over the world, including New Orleans USA with Katrina. ( Naomi Klein Issues Haiti Disaster Capitalism Alert ; Lessons for Haiti from the Asian Tsunami ; Saving Haiti from disaster capitalism ; Naomi Klein on Disaster Capitalism in Haiti ; Profiting From Haiti's Crisis: Disaster Capitalism in Washington's ....)
In 2008, four back-to-back- hurricanes hit Haiti, a million people were left homeless and 1,000 died in Gonaives Haiti, alone. USAID and the NGO industry in Haiti collected over $3billion donor dollars on the pains of Haitians from the 2004 and 2004 Gonaives hurricanes and storms. They said the same thing as they’re saying now about why once the cameras where gone, even the food, water and medicine dried up, much less any “future projects” were ever undertaken. Gonaives Haiti is still devastated from the floods of 2004 and 2008. The people have not gotten any major help in rebuilding their lives, major roads, bridges, flood barriers, even though the good public coughed up hundreds of millions of dollars for this.Miami Herald photographer Patrick Farrell won a Pulitzer for his Haiti harrowing images of the victims of the storms and hurricanes that ravaged Haiti in 2008. Did the pictures push the large NGOs that collected vast sums of monies in the name of the Haiti storm victims to give a check to the Gonaives victims so they could rebuilt their lives, or were the monies used to rebuid their houses or to build flood barriers to protect the lives of these Haitians from the next hurricane? No. The prizes to come from the epic horror of the earthquake photographers will soon be announced. Meanwhile the people shall continue to die.
The violence is not just about the large NGOs and charity industry, it's as structural as white privilege The corruption and violence to Haiti, to Africa, to most parts of Asia, to Australia autochthones are structural, not perpetrated just by individual NGOs and charity organizations. We Haitians die, while the do-gooders sunbath, swim at the beaches, at Labadie on vacation, on salary or hourly rate for a "charity" or, for taking pictures of us crushed, grieving and dead for international photo contests to "help us." (For more examples, go to Travesty in Haiti: A true account of Christian missions, orphanages, fraud, food aid and drug trafficking ; Travesty in Haiti - Reviewed by Ezili Dantò/HLLN ; ) The majority of humanity continues to be enslaved by a dominant system that thrives on poverty.
Haiti's founding father, Jean Jacques Dessalines (Janjak Desalin), said, "I Want the Assets of the Country to be Equitably Divided" and for that he was assassinated. That was the first coup d'etat, the Haitian holocaust - organized exclusion of the masses, misery, poverty and the impunity of the economic elite - continues (with Feb. 29, 2004 marking the 33rd coup d'etat). (Haiti and the Aid Racket : How NGOs are Profiting Off a Grave Situation ; The Two most common neocolonial storylines about Haiti .)
Recently, CBS News investigated the 5 major Haiti charities - CARE, the American Red Cross, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund, and the Clinton Foundation Haiti Fund - and found that they had collected vast amounts of monies for the emergency in Haiti but did not use but a fraction of it to ease the people’s emergency sufferings, claiming the 80 to over 90% emergency monies still in their coffers, four months after the earthquake, were for “future projects.” Thing is, many Haitians will have no future. When you’re having a heart attack, it’s an emergency and if the ambulance gets there months in the future, you’re dead already. These folks know this. That’s why we say they’re letting the people die.
That’s what Ezili’s HLLN means when we write about the "poverty pimps masturbating on Black pain."
The Clinton-Bush fund and Clinton Foundation raised $52 million in donor dollars and have spent only about $7 million: less than one-seventh. The Red Cross raised $444 million and spent about 25 percent ($111 million). CARE raised $34.4 million and spent about 16 percent ($5.75 million. Catholic Relief Services raised about $165 million and spent no more than 8 percent ($12.2 million). Much of what they say they spent the money on was “shelter.” That is, tents, tarps and sheets. The people still have no real shelter. How could tents cost the Red Cross, for instance, $38.5million within the first two months after the earthquake when the people were mostly living under sheets and tarps and many say they had not seen the Red Cross at all, even for food, water distributions. (See, How did the Red Cross spend $106 Million Dollars in Haiti ; Following the Aid Money to Haiti and Why Don’t They Spend the Money Now, When People Need It? )
Haiti pains are a good capital asset for this industry. They wouldn’t have a job, salaries and tropical vacations and the illicit black sex they crave from Africans, without our pains, indignities, death, submissions and sufferings. Imagine swallowing the nutritional supplements, vitamins, vaccines and the other pharmaceuticals USAID insist are "aid to Haiti," when you've not eaten in four days? And the HIV drugs you have to swallow are washed down with toxic ground water, in some ways also from US, Canada gold, copper and coal mining companies who pollute Haiti's shores and riverbeds?When the earthquake hit, many of us who lived through the two recent US coup d’etats in Haiti, the two Gonaives hurricane destructions of 2004 and then in 2008, knew these poverty pimps, knew they would crank up the press releases and telethons and collect and collect and collect, while the majority of people suffer, lose more, grieve and die in Haiti. In our minds eye we saw USAID, CRS, CARE, Red Cross, et al smirking and salivating at the huge prospects of monies to be collected from the deaths and brutal suffering of Haitians. It’s a profitable gig the poverty pimps are just not about to give up.
The mainstream media won't give you this perspective. They switch, ad nausea, the parasitic poverty pimps strumming dependency into Haiti's do-gooders. But we are the Haitians: from the womb to the tomb our life is about struggle to survive, mostly alone, as the system grinds out racist and feudal-pillage plans they think are way over our heads. (Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid Seeds.)Ezili Dantò of HLLN
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*****************************Haiti's founding father, Jean Jacques Dessalines (Janjak Desalin), said, "I Want the Assets of the Country to be Equitably Divided" and for that he was assassinated. That was the first coup d'etat, the Haitian holocaust - organized exclusion of the masses, misery, poverty and the impunity of the economic elite - continues (with Feb. 29, 2004 marking the 33rd coup d'etat). Haiti's peoples continue to resist the return of despots, tyrants and enslavers who wage war on the poor majority and Black, contain-them-in poverty through neocolonialism' debts, "free trade" and foreign "investments." These neocolonial tyrants refuse to allow an equitable division of wealth, excluding the majority in Haiti from sharing in the country's wealth and assets. (See also,"Et revient la question. Et ceux dont les pères sont en Afrique, ils n'auront donc rien.")**********Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid Seeds: "The hybrid corn seeds Monsanto has donated to Haiti are treated with the fungicide Maxim XO, and the calypso tomato seeds are treated with thiram. Thiram belongs to a highly toxic class of chemicals called ethylene bisdithiocarbamates (EBDCs). Results of tests of EBDCs on mice and rats caused concern to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which then ordered a special review. The EPA determined that EBDC-treated plants are so dangerous to agricultural workers that they must wear special protective clothing when handling them. Pesticides containing thiram must contain a special warning label, the EPA ruled. The EPA also barred marketing of the chemicals for many home garden products, because it assumes that most gardeners do not have adequately protective clothing. Monsanto’s passing mention of thiram to Ministry of Agriculture officials in an email contained no explanation of the dangers, nor any offer of special clothing or training for those who will be farming with the toxic seeds.
Haitian social movements’ concern is not just about the dangers of the chemicals and the possibility of future GMO imports. They claim that the future of Haiti depends on local production with local food for local consumption, in what is called food sovereignty. Monsanto’s arrival in Haiti, they say, is a further threat to this.
“People in the U.S. need to help us produce, not give us food and seeds. They’re ruining our chance to support ourselves,” said farmer Jonas Deronzil of a peasant cooperative in the rural region of Verrettes."
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