Let Haiti Live: Unjust U.S. Policies Toward Its Oldest Neighbor

Noam Chomsky, November 16, 2003
These probing and informative essays carry us a long ways towards beginning to face [our] urgent responsibility.

Danny Glover, July 24, 2003
This book provides a much needed vision of an alternative future for the proud people of this historic island.

Edwidge Danticat, October 12, 2003
For as long as Haiti has existed, people... have been demanding with voices or actions, to be allowed to live.

Book Description
A collection of insightful and well documented essays from 23 contributors present facts, contexts and perspectives (beyond the report media) to understand Haiti, its proud people and to participate in the environnemental, political and social transformations that are needed. Haitians have defeated Napoleon and abolish slavery in 1803. The retrenchment of the Napoleon’s army from Saint-Domingue led to the Louisiana Purchase deal which changed for ever the lanscape of America. As Haiti commemorates in 2004 the bicentenial of its greatest accomplishment it needs energized friends to harvest not debt but a brighter future. Once the source of wealth for France, Haiti is now an economically depressed country with a population surviving misery with courage and spirit. We as citizen of the US have our share of the responsability and should learn what we have done to this land and its people in order to collaborate in the effort to build its future.


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