#HAITI: TURBULENCE​S À BORD DE TÈT KALE AIRLINE! par Henri W. Jules

Embarcation terminée. La piste de decollage est prête. Pourtant, le vol tarde encore à décoller. Entre temps, la patience des passagers s’amenuise. La grogne monte. Aux commandes le capitaine et son co-pilote ne semblent pas être en symbiose avec leur équipage. On change de têtes, on coupe des têtes, les têtes tombent…Le climat à bord n’inspire pas confiance aux membres de l’équipage aux cranes rasés et bracelets roses. Certains montent à bord avec leur parachute au dos, sachant qu’ils seront jetés par-dessus bord bien avant même le décollage, à la moindre turbulence, sans meme avoir eu l'opportunité de faire preuve de leur capacité. Lors même que les appareils electroniques ne soient pas autorisés à bord, c'est par BBM qu'on communique. L'equipage est beaucoup plus preoccupé par la reception du prochain BBM que de se concentrer sur leur travail. Leur avenir en depend. Un BBM est c'est la fin de l'aventure!
On veut décoller, mais la destination est toujours inconnue. Tous les boutons sont rouges : crise de la faim ; dossier éducation ; CSPJ & CEP ; Justice à la Zokiki ; Moise Jean-Charles, Newton St Juste et Andre Michel les passagers perturbateurs (selon le capitaine). Enfin, le capitaine et son co-pilote ne savent sur quel bouton appuyer. Le moteur est chauffé mais l’écran radar est dysfonctionnel. Les techniciens à bord (Conseillers présidentiels) dont la plupart des kamikazes qui ont infiltré l’équipage et ont pour but ultime de clouer l’avion au sol ne donnent de mauvais diagnostique au Capitaine : Adelante El Capitano !!
A la tour de contrôle assurée par la communauté internationale, on commence à envoyer des signaux de détresse. Face à la revendication des passagers oh combien déçus de leur énième vol raté, les contrôleurs risquent même de se débarrasser de l’équipage au complet, y compris le chef de bord—qui sait !
J'ai pas pu monter a bord pour avoir égaré mon bracelet rose!

Henri W. Jules est un cadre Haitien vivant au Canada.

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Haitian brain drain contributions to #Quebec #Haiti

 

Had to repost this quote by Haitian poet and journalist Anthony Phelps who recently turned down an award by Sweet Micky and was subsequently honored on his birthday by Haiti Cultural Exchange at Pwezi Anba Tonèl 2012 in Brooklyn. Please use your google translator as I have to run out of the door in 2 minutes and don't have time to translate:

"J’en ai ras le bol de vous entendre dire, avec contentement, qu’Haïti est le pays le plus pauvre du monde, alors que grâce à ce pays le plus pauvre du monde, le Québec a pu :

1.- Mettre en place son nouveau système de soin de santé, dans les années 70, avec l’arrivée de plusieurs dizaines de médecins et d’infirmières venus d’Haïti.

2.-Réaliser sa réforme de l’éducation, les cegep, grâce aux dizaines de professeurs et professeures, venus de ce pays le plus pauvre du monde.

3.- Implanter sa deuxième université de langue française, les UQA, grâce aux professeurs haïtiens.

N’avez-vous pas honte d’avoir accepté ces intellectuels, ces médecins, infirmières, professeurs, dont vous n’avez pas financé la formation.

Ces femmes et ces hommes, venus du pays le plus pauvre du monde, ont formé nombre de vos enfants. Soigné tant de vos malades ?

Encadré combien d’universitaires ?

S’il vous plaît, auriez-vous l’extrême reconnaissance, lorsque vous parlez d’Haïti, de ne plus lui coller cette étiquette méprisante : le pays le plus pauvre du monde ?"

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Check out my review of Haiti Cultural Exchange's Indigo Blue fundraiser



 Jany Tomba, Emeline Michel  and Pauline Jean. Photo by NewJerseyPhotoStudio










"Blue also as the Port-Salut ocean flowing from jazz singer and opening act Pauline Jean’s voice and watery dress as she serenaded early arrivals downstairs by the bar. Blue as the turquoise in supporter Emeline Michel’s necklace or the azure flowers in pioneer model Jany Tomba’s hair."
Read more at Broader Reach for HCX at Indigo-Themed Third Anniversary.

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Today's Melissa Harris-Perry Show segment on UN in Haiti #MINUSTAH #ONU #cholera #MSNBC

I apologize in advance to those of you who inevitably will tell me that the Haiti footage used on the segment constitutes more of the problematic images we are usually fed by the mainstream media when it comes to Haiti. You are right and needless to say I now regret not having heeded the producer's invitation to share pictures for the segment.  It is almost impossible to ask non-natives of a country to shoot images that show compassion and knowledge of the place and its people, no matter how well meaning they are.  I suggested to the producers of Spotlight on Haiti which premiered today on YouTube to use Régine Romain's  "Portraits of Self-Determining Haiti" photos and I should have done the same for the MSNBC segment.  Overall,  despite the impossibly short amount of time allotted to this conversation, some important points were made which may not have been heard yet in this rarefied sphere of the media.

Had this conversation been a little longer, I would have made sure to add that the UN's best shot at redeeming itself after the cholera epidemic is reparations to the families of the 7,000 dead rather than an extension of its 8 year lab experiment and recent college grad job placement in Haiti. Haiti does not need more intervention but less. There are clearly too many cooks in the kitchen, and while Jon Lascher pointed that some NGOs have begun leaving, the UN force itself is showing no real sign of wanting to leave despite some lip service paid to diminishing the force by 15%.

Another point I would have made is that there is no real moral basis for certain international actors to continue formulating health policies for Haiti of the sort suggested by Lascher on the show. If one wants to use the pretext of aid, please consider that  most aid dollars and euros go back to the countries who "donate" them via contracts to their firms, salaries to their nationals or simply repayments to themselves as exemplified by the United States repaying itself for its post-earthquake troop deployment in Haiti.

I also came prepared to discuss the real manifestations in Haitian popular culture of the local frustation mentioned my Jon Katz . The nickname TOURISTAH (instead of MINUSTAH) for the UN force. Brother's Posse's carnival song and video lampooning MINUSTAH and echoing the perception of  the force as a predatory entity:  "all young men should watch their rear ends for those with guns and munitions."






Please consider that this a rare airing of certain Haitian perspectives to broader audiences, however imperfect.

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Spotlight on Haiti Episode 1 - Dual Citizenship @SOHaiti #Haiti #Diaspora #VIDEO

Introducing the first episode of Spotlight On Haiti, a new online video show hosted by yours truly and produced by Natasha Gaspard and Marc Enette.  


In the first episode, I tackle dual citizenship under Martelly with guests Jocelyn McCalla, Reginald Toussaint and Ilio Durandis. We had a fun time on set discussing this topic back in Fall 2011 and we hope you'll join into the discussion on the YouTube channel and Twitter (@SOHaiti and @kiskeacity).

You can catch me on the Melissa Harris-Perry Show on MSNBC this morning at 10 am.

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I'll be on the Melissa Harris-Perry Show Sunday 10 AM #MSNBC #Haiti

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kiskeácity daily is out ! Commented edition for Saturday, Dec. 03, 2011 #Haiti #Blogs

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From the blogs

Tande reviews the haitian-authored book Refonder Haiti?  (FR)

Caracas-based Balanced Melting Pot celebrates the holidays.

Ekspoze which I usually quote on politics, weighs in on controversial statements by Kreyòl La singer Ti-Joe Zenny. Also in music, www.culture509.com announces a duet between Haitian singer Jean Jean Roosevelt and Guadeloupean songstress Krysstal  as well as Oprah Winfrey's upcoming visit  to record a show (FR).

The Haiti Cultural Exchange blog offers accounts of the latest An n' Pale Café Conversation with Haiti-based author Evelyne Trouillot.

Rapadoo Observateur reports on growing solidarity with Haiti in Latin-American and other countries towards ending the UN military presence. 

The Haitian Queen provides updates on Trinidad & Tobago carnival 2012.


MNI Alive's list of Caribbean superfoods includes coconut and its oil, a multi-purpose health and nutrition elixir I have coincidentally been experimenting with.  Excellent skin and hair moisturizer, dental hygiene aid and cooking oil!


In the News

Haitian tourism minister at Miami arts festival and end to arms embargo. (Haiti Libre)

kiskeácity daily is out ! Editions of Sunday, Nov. 27 and Monday, Nov. 28, 2011 #Haiti

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Topics include the upcoming FANM fundraiser in Miami, poetry and history event at the NY Historical Society on January 12, Metro News for last Friday, Digicel Stars 2011's likely winner (VIDEO), the Fanal New Year's tradition in Haiti and renewed allegations of funny accounting at Wyclef Jean's charity.