Historical context for the devastation following the earthquake in Haiti.

1. Haiti and the struggle for African Liberation Africa’s Resources in African Hands! © Burning Spear Publications

2. Africa belongs to African people worldwide! Chairman Omali Yeshitela’s theory of African Internationalism is the basis for this presentation

3. African and Indigenous peoples were free, independent self-determining

4. The people and environment were one

5. Agriculture, culture, economy: self-sustaining prosperity

6. Europe was poor, oppressed in middle ages: feudalism, plague

7. In the 1400s Europe launched an assault on the rest of the world

8. In the late 1400s Cristobal Colon asked Queen Isabella of Spain for money to sail to India

9. Queen Isabella had to hock her jewels to pay for Columbus’ voyage

10. 1492: Columbus landed on a Caribbean island inhabited the Taino people The Taino called their home Ayiti, “Land of Mountains”

11. When Columbus arrived the Tainos welcomed him and helped his men survive

12. Columbus immediately began genocide: raping, torturing, slaughtering the Taino people

14. Within 40 years the entire Taino population was wiped out

15. Columbus re-named Ayiti “Hispaniola” “ Little Spain”

16. In 1695 Spain ceded the Western third of the island to France France renamed it Saint-Dominque and grew cotton, indigo, tobacco and cocoa on huge plantations

17. In the 1780s Haiti grew •40% of all sugar •60% of all coffee consumed in Europe Haiti was called the “ Pearl of the Antilles” Producing the most wealth of all French colonies

18. France achieved this colonial wealth by enslaving millions of African people who were worked to death within 7 years!

19. This stolen wealth transformed France from poverty to a wealthy imperial power

21. At the end of the 18th century there were up to 800,000 enslaved Africans in Haiti And only 32,000 French

23. This same process of slavery and genocide took place in the U.S., throughout the Caribbean and South America

24. Same process of genocide against Indigenous people: Wounded Knee

25. African people became Europe’s most lucrative commodity

26. Slavery, genocide built capitalism: The dollar sign was a symbol for slave shackles

27. The “founding fathers” were slave owners, agents of genocide

28. Africans auctioned throughout U.S. created billions of dollars of wealth And spawned thousands of spin off businesses for white America

29. Slave economy, land theft gave opportunities for millions European immigrants

30. White workers sided with own ruling class waging terror against African people

31. In Haiti Rebellions of African people grew against brutal conditions

33. Liberté Egalité Fraternité Inspired by the demands of the French Revolution, Africans launched the first rebellion of the Haitian Revolution in 1791

34. In 1798 formerly enslaved Toussaint L’ouverture led an African army that defeated the British invasion

35. Toussaint L’ouverture became the ruler of the entire island and abolished slavery… but he did not declare independence from France

36. In 1802 Napoleon sent 30,000 of his best troops to try to reclaim Haiti

38. Napoleon ordered slavery reinstated in Haiti

39. The people rose up: determined never to be re-enslaved

40. Toussaint and his people’s army fought brilliantly—but he surrendered to the French!

41. The French brutally arrested Toussaint and kidnapped him to France L’ouverture died of pneumonia, in brutal, freezing conditions in a French mountain prison

42. Jean Jacques Dessalines, Louverture’s chief lieutenant, then led the Africans against the French

43. Dessalines always believed in nothing short of total independence for Africans in Haiti

44. Haiti became Napoleon’s “Vietnam” Under Dessalines, Africans waged a brilliant people’s war against the French

45. 26,000 French troops were killed by the African revolutionaries or died of yellow fever

47. The African liberation army of Haiti included women soldiers

48. Dessalines and the Africans defeated the French army, declaring independence on Jan. 1, 1804

49. The Africans renamed the country Haiti in solidarity with the Indigenous people

51. The Haiti Revolution inspired Denmark Vesey and other slave rebellions

52. Haiti’s revolution inspired Vicente Guerrero in Mexico, Simon Bolivar in Venezuela

54. Haiti’s “reparations” supported France for more than a hundred years, impoverishing Haiti

55. From 1824-1826 Independent Haiti accepted 13,000 Africans escaping terror in the U.S.

57. This is why Haiti is the most impoverished country in the western hemisphere!

58. Resistance of African people in Haiti against foreign domination has been constant

59. 1950s: the U.S. set up and backed the murderous neocolonial leader, François “Papa Doc” Duvalier, seen here with Nelson Rockefeller

60. Duvalier established the paramilitary death squads, the Tonton Macutes, hated by the people

61. Despite the repression, on-going African resistance ousted Baby Doc and the brutal Duvalier regime in 1986 Papa Doc was succeeded by his son Jean-Claude “Baby Doc”

62. In 1990 popular leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide won 67% of the vote for president

63. Aristide was overthrown by a U.S. backed coup in 1991

64. Again fierce resistance of the people rose up

65. IMF “Structural Adjustment Program” policies under Clinton deepened the poverty and destroyed Haiti’s rice industry

66. Aristide was “allowed” to return to Haiti in 1994– accompanied by UN troops. Aristide was again elected in 2000—this time with 90% of vote.

67. US and IMF policies continue to deepen the poverty: Africans in Haiti are forced to subsist on mud pies

68. The people of Haiti again rose up in early 2004

69. In February, 2004, 200 years after the victory of Haiti’s independence, Aristide was kidnapped by the U.S. and sent to Africa!

70. UN troops were again sent in to brutally repress the people and their resistance!

71. U.S. corporate sweat shops use slave-labor in Haiti

73. This is the background for the earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010

74. For years Africans have been fleeing to the U.S. to escape terror and poverty—at the risk of their lives!

75. Those who survive the trip are put into U.S. immigration detention camps!

76. The earthquake “relief” is an intensification of U.S. colonial occupation of Haiti—16,000 US Marines & 14,000 other military forces

78. U.S., Europe built on enslavement, genocide, colonialism

79. African people live under colonialism inside U.S. New Orleans - Haiti

80. African and colonized peoples imprisoned by the millions

81. Spawning a trillion dollar blood prison industry

82. African children in prison in the U.S. Largest child prison population in entire world.

84. Today Indigenous people impoverished on reservations! With life expectancy in 40s !

85. Indigenous people terrorized on their own stolen land

86. All white people sit on pedestal of slavery, genocide

87. On a pedestal of slavery, genocide: White America enjoys 50% of entire world’s resources

89. Africans are one people worldwide

90. African & colonized people have a right to resist!

91. Uhuru Movement: power in the hands of African working people

93. One Indigenous people throughout the hemisphere

94. Africa’s resources must be in hands of African people!

95. African People’s Socialist Party-Sierra Leone formed 2009

96. All-African People’s Development & Empowerment Programs

97. Uhuru House: Embassy to African world

98. Uhuru Radio, Uhuru News

99. What can white people do? Stand for Solidarity with African liberation: Not Charity!

100. Join the Uhuru Solidarity Movement

101. Support Africa’s Resources in African Hands: Reparations

102. Raising resources for Uhuru community kitchen, recording studio

103. A future of peace, justice lies in the liberation of African and oppressed peoples

104. What you can do: Uhuru Pies

105. Yoga with a Purpose What ever you do best can contribute

106. One Africa! One Nation www.apscuhuru.org