While I sit here trying to think of things to say

[seemslikeadream]

SOMEONE LIES BLEEDING IN A FIELD SOMEWHERE



SO IT WOULD SEEM WE'VE STILL GOT A LONG LONG WAY TO GO



I'VE SEEN ALL I WANNA SEE TODAY



WHILE I SIT HERE TRYING TO MOVE YOU ANYWAY I CAN



SOMEONE'S SON LIES DEAD IN A GUTTER SOMEWHERE



AND IT WOULD SEEM THAT WE'VE GOT A LONG LONG WAY TO GO



BUT I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE



SWITCH IT OFF IT WILL GO AWAY



TURN IT OFF IF YOU WANT TO



SWITCH IT OFF OR LOOK AWAY



WHILE I SIT AND WE TALK AND TALK AND WE TALK SOME MORE



SOMEONE'S LOVED ONE'S HEART STOPS BEATING IN A STREET SOMEWHERE



SO IT WOULD SEEM WE'VE STILL GOT A LONG LONG WAY TO GO, I KNOW



I'VE HEARD ALL I WANNA HEAR TODAY



TURN IT OFF IF YOU WANT TO (TURN IT OFF IF YOU WANT TO)



SWITCH IT OFF IT WILL GO AWAY (SWITCH IT OFF IT WILL GO AWAY)



TURN IT OFF IF YOU WANT TO (TURN IT OFF IF YOU WANT TO)



SWITCH IT OFF OR LOOK AWAY (SWITCH IT OFF OR LOOK AWAY)



SWITCH IT OFF



SWITCH IT OFF



SWITCH IT OFF



SWITCH IT OFF



SWITCH IT OFF



TURN IT OFF



thanks phil collins for the words
my heart to the people of Haiti

[Rainbowreflect]

1. Very powerful!

[Octafish]

2. More news there than 1,000 hours of ABCCNNBCBS...

... and throw in the entire Faux Noise Nutwork archive.

Anyone with a heart needs to remember the Haitian people. These are the poorest of the poor. The man they ELECTED their leader -- twice -- was thrown out of office by forces of evil, supported by the BFEE -- twice.

Those who don't know the story, might want to read:

Amy Goodwin Interview with Jean-Bertrand Aristide

EXCERPT...

JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE: We had an army of 7,000 soldiers controlling 40% of the national region. Not only they led those coup, they had 32 coup d'etats, the last one 33. After the coup they led in 1991, they and members of a criminal organization, well known FRAPH, killed more than 5,000 Haitians. Some people don't like to hear 5,000 because for them it could be double or more than that. Let's say more than 5,000 people were killed by the army at that time with the help of the well-known criminal organization called FRAPH. When i went back on October 15, 1994, it was obvious that the Haitian people couldn't go ahead with killers. The Haitian people wanted people to protect them, not people to kill them. So, the army was disbanded. Now they reached a way to have more drug dealers, like Guy Philippe who was arrested for drugs in Panama, sent back to Santo Domingo and then back to Haiti with the assistance of those who pretend to restore peaces to Haiti, Chamblain was already convicted twice and now he is back. So having criminals, drug dealers, thugs who were convicted to come back with an army, then when they guess what we had through those 32 coup d'etats, leading Haiti from misery to misery while we want to move from misery to poverty with dignity, this is maybe what they have in their minds.

AMY GOODMAN: When the CARICOM U.S. Group came and negotiated the U.S.-backed peace plan that you accepted with Noriega, Roger Noriega, Assistant Secretary of State representing the United States, how did they refer to the opposition, how did they refer to the people you just described as Jodel Chamblain, Guy Philippe?

JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE: The meeting we had with members of my government and diplomats and heads of international delegations in my office, Mr. Noriega referring to those thugs terrorists said "I will call them killers", that's what he said. I'm shocked when today I still see members of the international community acting with those killers. More than that accompanying Guy Philippe, a killer, to distribute food to people, so trying to project another image of him when as a well-known drug dealer and a killer he should be put in jail. So, it is scandalous. The world needs to know that. The more they listen to what is going on in Haiti today, the more they may join the Haitian people to prevent the killers to continue to do the same, killing people.

CONTINUED...

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Haiti/Aristide_US_Role_Funding.html

[Tinoire]

3. Go America. Just GO! GO AWAY! / My response to your powerful post

But these light-skinned people, descendants of the Old Colonials, and their darker skinned "house niggers"


living in these houses


and riding these very rare horses in Haiti on jump courses most Upper-class Americans can only dream of


thought it was worth it


to send School of the Americas thugs like these to kill our own countrymen


and bring the Ton-Ton Macoute Republican/DLC-loving tortures back.


These people, very dark-skinned as you can see, disagreed.


This boy will die from it


This girl, still alive, dreams of a better world
http://www.sakapfet.com/photocontest/2003/images/entries/Mariejo%20Mont-Reynaud,%20Palo%20alto,%20CA/The%20%20Red%20Kivet,%20Fort%20Kampon,%204hrs%20Hike%20from%20Leogane.jpg

Be afraid America. We will gracefully carry our burden but we shall expose your shame once again, just as in 1804.
http://www.sakapfet.com/photocontest/2003/images/entries/Andre%20Boulmier,%20Meyrin%20Switzerland/Commerce%20de%20Proximite,%20Port-au-Prince.jpg

because our children, too, have a right to dreams & rightful expectations of a decent life
http://www.sakapfet.com/photocontest/2003/images/entries/Jermain%20J%20Merola,%20Jacquet%20Haiti/Haut%20de%20Kenscoff1.jpg

We shall not forgive you or the evil bogeymen you bought


We shall not forget the boys you slaughtered


all in the name of Americans and Haitian collaborators who live in homes like this


So take your ass-hole


Take your DLC


Take your God-damned imperialistic military


And get the fuck out of my country


No need to fly your Stars and Stripes


because we have our own flag of which we are sufficiently proud, & which means things through its colors which give you NIGHTMARES


& a constitution that REALLY meant something and liberated South American countries from 'subsidizing' your way of life


Haiti, not America, was the first "Free" Republic in the Western Hemisphere but it galls America, built on the blood & sweat of slaves, to acknowledge that a bunch of slaves whooped imperialistic ass.


18 May, 2004 denouncing the US occupation of Haiti

Tens of thousands of Haitians took to the streets on May 18 to call for the return of democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and for an end to the country’s foreign military occupation.

Haitian police units backed up by U.S. Marines fired in the air and into crowds, killing at least one demonstrator. Saintus “Titus” Simpson, 23, of Delmas 33 was shot in the head, spilling his brain, as demonstrators approached the central Champ de Mars square.

Marguerite Laurent of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership cited sources saying that at least four people died. “One Haitian woman seized the fourth body that fell next to her and refused to give it to the Marines,” Laurent reported. “She removed all her clothes to show she had no weapons while Marines surrounded her at gunpoint. She cursed in Kreyol, calling on the revolutionary ancestors and shouting “Liberte ou lamo!” (Liberty or death!) She picked up the body herself and put it on her bare back, daring the Marines to kill her also while she carried it away.”

<snip>

The night before the march, U.S. helicopters flew and hovered low all over the city, Washington’s now common form of psychological warfare in Haiti.

<snip>

http://www.haitiprogres.com/eng05-19.html

[seemslikeadream]

4. You take my breath away

EVERY DEATH CREATES NEW ENEMIES
MORE TERRORISTS
MORE DANGER
MORE DEATH
AND REMEMBER...
HE IS JUST GETTING STARTED...
BUSH'S PLAN FOR PEACE
IS THE PEACE OF THE COMMON GRAVE


http://www.bushflash.com/pax.html

Let America be America Again...by Langston Hughes


Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.

(America never was America to me.)

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.

(It never was America to me.)

O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.

(There's never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")

Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?

I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek--
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one's own greed!

I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean--
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet today--O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.

Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That's made America the land it has become.
O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home--
For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore,
And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa's strand I came
To build a "homeland of the free."

The free?

Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we've dreamed
And all the songs we've sung
And all the hopes we've held
And all the flags we've hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay--
Except the dream that's almost dead today.

O, let America be America again--
The land that never has been yet--
And yet must be--the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine--the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME--
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.

Sure, call me any ugly name you choose--
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!

O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath--
America will be!

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain--
All, all the stretch of these great green states--
And make America again!

[Zhade]

7. I have tears in my eyes and my face is wet.

I don't often cry.

This is one of those exceptions.

I will remember Haiti on June 5th.

I will remember it every day, as another atrocity done in my name.

[Name removed]

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[seemslikeadream]

16. A KICK FOR MY FRIEND saigon68 today

always

[Lisa0825]

5. Incredibly moving post.

I was thinking about all the "tribute" links that went around the net after 9/11. What would you think about putting this and Tinoire's message into a website? I would pass something like that along to people who I wouldn't necessarily link to DU, for my own personal reasons. Pictures like yours make so much more of an impact than words. Average Americans just take whatever they are spoon-fed by the major media. But maybe passing this kind of photo-montage around could get some people to think outside the network.

[Beam Me Up]

6. No, words won't cut it any more: Actions now.

[uhhuh]

9. The Suffering of Haiti Must Not Be Forgotten

This issue continues to be overshadowed by other current events, but it is vital that we don't forget about another example of *'s destructive escapades.

These people deserved this hell no more than the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, but they are given so little attention. Thank you for the frequent reminders of their plight.

The most maddening thing about this is that they had an opportunity to taste a certain degree of freedom with a government that they had chosen, and had it torn from them with the backing of a cabal that claims they are going to give that type of freedom to others around the world.

How can you feel that you are living free when you know that there is an ogre that will crush you if you don't behave as it wants?
Is that freedom?

[Just Me]

10. The power of pictures,...

,...along with your passion and your voice, Dream, is breathtaking!!!

May God help us maintain the strength and courage to speak on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves. May God help us incite the will necessary to create a better world for all people.

[bleedingheart]

11. bump

The poor of Haiti have needed assistance, guidance and nation building to give them a chance to succeed...and yet....where have we been?

[seemslikeadream]

12. "Strangers Like Me"

Whatever you do, I'll do it too
Show me everything and tell me how
It all means something
And yet nothing to me

I can see there's so much to learn
It's all so close and yet so far
I see myself as people see me
Oh, I just know there's something bigger out there

I wanna know, can you show me
I wanna know about these
strangers like me
Tell me more, please show me
Something's familiar about these strangers like me

Every gesture, every move that she makes
Makes me feel like never before
Why do I have
This growing need to be beside her

Ooo, these emotions I never knew
Of some other world far beyond this place
Beyond the trees, above the clouds
I see before me a new horizon

I wanna know, can you show me
I wanna know about these strangers like me
Tell me more, please show me
Something's familiar about these strangers like me

Come with me now to see my world
Where there's beauty beyond your dreams
Can you feel the things I feel
Right now, with you
Take my hand
There's a world I need to know

I wanna know, can you show me
I wanna know about these strangers like me
Tell me more, please show me
Something's familiar about these strangers like me

...I wanna know

PHIL COLLINS



A higher flood toll is feared in Haiti

FOND VERRETTES, Haiti Health officials feared that as many as 1,000 people could be dead in a single Haitian town from floods that wiped out villages across Haiti and the Dominican Republic, a figure that would nearly double the death toll from the disaster.

In the Haitian town of Mapou, as many as 1,000 people could be dead, said Margarette Martin, the government's representative for the southeast region, in nearby Jacmel. About 300 bodies had been counted, said Dr. Yvon Lavissiere, the health director for the region.

Martin said officials believed that hundreds more may have died in the town. She said that houses were submerged and that rescuers had seen bodies under water that they had not been able to retrieve. Mapou, a valley town of several thousand people about 60 kilometers, or 30 miles, southeast of Port-au-Prince, was cut off from the outside.

At least 417 bodies were recovered in the Dominican Republic. Officials there said that about 400 people were missing. Of more than 450 bodies recovered in Haiti, about 100 were found in the southern town of Grand Gosier, according to the director of civil protection, Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste.

Survivors wandered the barren site, in shock. "For a while we didn't even realize what we were standing on," said Lance Corporal Justin Collins, one of about 20 U.S. marines who were distributing food. "We were standing on some parts of a neighborhood." FOND VERRETTES, Haiti Health officials feared that as many as 1,000 people could be dead in a single Haitian town from floods that wiped out villages across Haiti and the Dominican Republic, a figure that would nearly double the death toll from the disaster.

more
http://www.iht.com/articles/522087.html

[seemslikeadream]

13. Int'l. Aid Pours Into Flood-Ravaged Haiti

Int'l. Aid Pours Into Flood-Ravaged Haiti

Friday May 28, 2004 1:01 AM


By AMY BRACKEN

Associated Press Writer

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - U.S. and Canadian troops rushed medical supplies, drinking water and chlorine tablets Thursday to flood-battered towns, where bodies were seen floating in still-rising waters. Haitian and Dominicans braced for a death toll that could reach well over 1,500.

But an estimated 10,000 people in villages surrounding the submerged Haitian town of Mapou remained in urgent need of help and cut off by roads devoured in the mud and landslides, according to Michel Matera, a U.N. technical adviser.

``We are still having difficulty reaching them even by helicopter,'' said Matera, who traveled to Mapou on Thursday. ``We cannot land because of the flooding, nor can we get there on foot.''

To make matters worse, forecasters predicted more rain in the coming days for the southern border region between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, as residents of Mapou tried to dry their clothes and other belongings on tree branches.

``We're also fighting time because weather is turning bad again,'' said U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Dave Lapan, a spokesman for the U.S.-led force. Hurricane season, which marks the beginning of the rainy season, starts Tuesday.

more
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4140681,00.html



If I gave you everything that I owned and asked for nothing in return
Would you do the same for me as I would for you?
Or take me for a ride, and strip me of everything including my pride
But spirit is something that no one destroys
And the sound that I'm hearing is only the sound
The low spark of high-heeled boys

[seemslikeadream]

14. CWS SITUATION REPORT: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC /HAITI FLOODS

Situation: The death toll from flooding in Haiti and the Dominican Republic may rise substantially and could easily exceed 2,000, officials have said.

Some 950 death have been confirmed, the Associated Press reported today; but as many as 1,000 may have died in the Haitian town of Mapou, in southeast Haiti, about 30 miles southeast of the capital of Port-au-Prince. The worst flooding occured in border areas in eastern Haiti and in the western section of the Dominican Republic.

Contributions to support this emergency appeal may be sent to your denomination or to Church World Service, PO Box 968, Elkhart, IN. 46515. Please designate: #6743 - Haiti/Dominican Republic Floods. To make a credit card contribution, please visit our online donation page, or phone [phone].

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/108575688185.htm


If I gave you everything that I owned and asked for nothing in return
Would you do the same for me as I would for you?
Or take me for a ride, and strip me of everything including my pride
But spirit is something that no one destroys
And the sound that I'm hearing is only the sound
The low spark of high-heeled boys

[Karenina]

15. What words?

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Paradise]

17. here. nt

[Octafish]

18. Haiti's Disappeared

J'accuse, Bush!

Haiti's Disappeared

by Tom Reeves
May 05, 2004

Returning to Haiti last month, I found a US. occupation not unlike that in Iraq, but one of which very few Americans are aware. A month after I returned from Haiti, and two months after the U.S. forced out the elected President and a so-called "multinational force" occupied the country, Haiti is in worse turmoil, with far more political repression than it has seen since the junta of 1991-1994. The UN Security Council on April 30 approved a "peacekeeping" mission to Haiti to replace the "multinational force" led by the U.S. The U.N. pledges 6,700 troops and 1,622 police for the new force. The UN force is set to take command July 1, but U.S., French, Canadian and other troops from the original occupation will continue to take part, despite condemnation from many quarters in Haiti (including some in the current government) of what they call "a foreign occupation." Despite a UN report in late April that called the situation in Haiti "extremely volatile" and said that crime and violence in general had increased since the departure of Aristide, the Security Council praised the U.S. and its allies for their occupation since Feb. 29. Of the approximately 3500 troops under U.S. command, more than 2000 are U.S. marines. (AP dispatches, April 30, May 1, 2004)

There is far more violence in Haiti than revealed by U.S. outlets like CNN, FOX and the Associated Press, but perhaps not enough to whet the scandal appetite of these media. In fact, in light of the extreme poverty (the worst in this hemisphere) side-by-side with a tiny, ostentatiously rich elite, and the extreme actions of ultra-right wing putschists and the U.S. occupiers, it is surprising there was not much more violence. When Haiti's poorest - the slum dwellers of Cite Soleil, Dessalines and Bel Air in the low-lying areas of Port au Prince - saw their elected President snatched and his dignity demeaned, it is surprising they did not take the hand-guns which the U.S. has alleged were supplied to them by Aristide's government (the government denied this) and slaughter a few score of the mostly light-skinned millionaires in the up-hill suburb of Petionville. But they did not. Dr. Paul Farmer, the public health worker universally praised for his work against AIDS, malaria and TB in Haiti (and elsewhere), explained, "I personally, in all my years in Haiti, have never once seen a peasant with a gun. And almost all of the ones around these parts are members of Famni Lavalas (FL - Aristide's party). Now I've tended to many gunshot wounds, but they've been inflicted by former soldiers, police, or people who have cars to drive-- not peasants." (email from Paul Farmer, May 3, 2004)

Haiti made headlines for about three weeks. The U.S. media first covered a "rebellion" against a "dictator," President Jean Bertrand Aristide, and finally his abrupt removal in the middle of the night, Feb. 29. The U.S. called this a voluntary departure which allowed the "restoration of democracy." This is the version spun by corporate media. Aristide, CARICOM (Haiti's Caribbean neighbors) and the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus insisted Aristide did not resign, and was forced to fly to an unknown destination. The U.S. took him to what State Department briefings call the "most violent capital in he world," Bangui, Central African Republic.

Critics said what happened was no rebellion - they called it a U.S.-orchestrated coup. They pointed to testimony by the Creole specialist hired by the State Department to translate what the U.S. called a "resignation letter" from Creole to English. The letter was couched in the subjunctive. It began, "If I were to resign...." This was similar to a letter Aristide was forced to sign by the Haitian military in 1991, and was clearly not a letter of voluntary resignation. That view was given little coverage, and was dismissed as "ridiculous" by U.S. officials and most news commentators.

CONTINUED...

http://www.haitiaction.net/News/tr5_5_4.html

Haiti: Public Works BFEE style.

[dsc]

19. Very well done

but for the sake of those with slow connections can you put a warning about the sheer number of pictures?

[maggrwaggr]

20. this is the most beautiful use of DU I've ever seen

This is the new media. This is the new truth.

other than to say that, I'm speechless.

[saigon68]

21. kicking

[Octafish]

22. Never forget the least among us.

And a kick to the pants of the BFEE.



Papa Doc Duvalier and Company, a Division of the BFEE.