Thursday, February 20, 2014

INTERVIEW: Ezili Dantò talks 4 Years After the Haiti Earthquake on Uhuru Radio



Part 1
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Part 2
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Ezili Dantò, a award winning Haitian human rights attorney and founder of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN), talks four years after the Haiti earthquake on Uhuru Radio on February 4, 2014.

Ezili Dantò is the founder and President of Ezili's Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network ("HLLN"), a network of lawyers, activists, concerned individuals and grassroots organizations dedicated to institutionalizing the rule of law and protecting the civil and cultural rights of Haitians at home and abroad. Ezili Dantò, (colonially named "Marguerite Laurent") was born Haiti. HLLN is a Haitian-led, capacity building organization. Ezili's HLLN runs the Ezili Dantò Listserve, reaching over three-and-a-half million readers with its postings and newsletters. HLLN closely monitors the situation in Haiti, issues its own news analysis, position statements, counters the colonial narrative on Haiti and informs about events that are not covered in the mainstream press. Ms. Dantò is an award winning playwright, a writer, performance poet and an entertainment attorney who has represented many top Hip Hop artist over the last 15 years including some members of Public Enemy and the Last Poets. Ezili Dantò is a pro-democracy Haitian-American activist who was once, from 1994-1995, legal advisor to President Jean Bertrand Aristide of Haiti.

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