[Haiti’s future] … offers much more appealing opportunities to poor and socially marginalized young men than to work as bodies and guns for hire for gang leaders, politicians, business people, oligarchs, and nefarious international forces, all of whom consider them ultimately disposable—a condition that they and the late President apparently shared.
… Vélina Elysée Charlier, Duclaire’s fellow-Petrochallenger and a member of the anti-corruption group Nou Pap Dòmi. She told me that she sees Moïse’s assassination as a denial of government accountability. “We, Haitians, have been robbed of the right to find justice and closure,” she said. “Jovenel was silenced. We will never have answers from him on Petrocaribe and the many massacres. That is a big blow to our fight against corruption and impunity.”
Place marked with an impulse, found to be held within the fold (ii-iv).
… the impasse is a stretch of time in which one moves around with a sense that the world is at once intensely present and enigmatic, such that the activity of living demands both a wandering absorptive awareness and a hypervigilance that collects material that might help to clarify things, maintain one’s sea legs, and coordinate the standard melodramatic crises with those processes that have not yet found their genre of event.
Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism.
a return to what is noblest, which means most natural, in us. – Popova
Nature remains; to bring out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons — the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night. – Walt Whitman
nature calls to something very deep in us. – Oliver Sacks
Fardin, un chef d’équipe, l’hommage de Dany Laferrière. Publié le 2021-07-05 | lenouvelliste.com
En fait, ce qui intéressait vraiment Fardin c’était l’alphabet. Entre l’hebdomadaire (Le Petit Samedi Soir) qu’il dirigeait, ses Cours d’histoire de la littérature haïtienne qu’il a rédigé avec son cousin Jadotte, l’imprimerie qui lui permettait de remettre en circulation les classiques de notre littérature dont ce Sena qui m’a tant fait rire, ses recueils de poèmes où l’on sentait l’influence d’Eluard, et son travail à l’ONAAC (Office national d’alphabétisation et d’action communautaire), on voit bien qu’il ne vivait que pour les lettres.
J’étais debout à côté de Fardin quand les premiers exemplaires de cet extraordinaire document du Procès de la Consolidation sortaient des presses. C’était très important pour lui. Une façon de dire son dégoût de la corruption. Ce procès, qu’il a réédité, impliquait des chefs d’État, des ministres et des hauts fonctionnaires. Une corruption généralisée qui gangrenait le pays pour déboucher sur l’Occupation américaine de 1915.
Read and share BAP’s latest statement on the massacre of ~60 people in #Haiti. https://t.co/tfgHfoDKI3— Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Increasing Human Rights Violence in Haiti and the Continued U.S./OAS/UN Support for Unconstitutional Actions by Haiti’s Illegitimate Government (@Blacks4Peace) July 6, 2021
Haiti President Jovenel Moïse assassinated in middle-of-the-night attack at his home https://t.co/7G6cYF930S— Jacqueline Charles and Johnny Fils-Aimé Special to the Miami Herald (@Jacquiecharles) July 7, 2021
BAP Statement on Moïse Assassination ??
Unknown assailants overnight assassinating Haitian President Jovenel #Moïse was a horrific act that should be condemned in no uncertain terms. Unfortunately, such violence is unsurprising. #Haitihttps://t.co/PFJdoSDv3z— Black Alliance for Peace (@Blacks4Peace) July 7, 2021
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