Introduction

This document will contain resources and information regarding #freehaiti & #handsoffhaiti. Along with resources, this is a documentation of anti-haitismo/anti-haitianism in the Caribbean and Latin America, foreign intervention, US occupation, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and the general abuse of Haitians.

Please, not only take the time to read some of the information provided for all topics talked in this document, do your own research as well and speak up for the rights of Haitians across the world! This is an incomplete document; one document can not explain the abuse done to Haitians since 1791, but at the very least, let this be a starting point.

Please feel free to share this document with anyone who wishes to learn and help. Any Haitian with links to articles or videos that can provide further explanation to any of these issues can DM @hobiebrownies on twitter!

This is an ongoing document and I will be adding more information as I find it, so please check back regularly.

Overviews & General Information:

  1. Wikileaks: Haiti
  2. “Haiti is Being Led to a Genocide”
  3. “Haiti: a History of Oppression and Resistance”
  4. “The Sorrow of Haiti”
  5. “Hands off Haiti”
  6. queer haitians drive

Active Places to Donate

Thread of GoFundMe’s

organizations:

  1. Political Resistance
  1. Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti
  1. Medical Centers
  1. Mirebalais Medical Hospital
  1. through Partners in Health 
  1. Hospital Albert Schweitzer
  2. Haitian Health Foundation
  3. Project Medishare
  1. Protecting Displaced People
  1. Haitian Bridge
  1. Donation Link
  1. Agriculture Restoration & Food Sovereignty
  1. The Canals
  1. P4H
  2. Farinen 
  1. Haiti National Trust
  2. Mouvement Paysan Papaye
  3. ITECA 
  1. Protecting Minorities & Victims of Violence (women, children, lgbtq+)
  1. Women
  1. Neges Mawon + twitter 
  2. Kay Fanm + twitter 
  3. SOFA
  4. Dantò 
  1. Children
  1. Centre Hospitalier de Fontaine Foundation
  1. Queer & Trans
  1. OTRAH 
  1. Preserving Culture
  1. Le Centre d’Art Haiti

(Twitter) Accounts to Follow:

(on the ground)

 @JeanJacquesDes7, @docjomichel (doctor), @onz_11 (journalist),

other:

@15Delle , @francophobicc , @natayaska , @grosmorne29 , @dbienaime

@bertrhude , @madanboukman , @jafrikayiti

@EsclavizadosRD (reports on targeted injustice in DR)

@hobiebrownies , @_P_jd , @evenmoredan , @bettinna ,

Active News Sources:

  1. Kreyol
  1. Tande Koze (youtube)
  2. RL Production (youtube)
  3.  le national newspaper (twitter) 
  4. ***NOTICE!! This source has been reliable in the past but has recently allied with some of the terrorist organizations in Haiti currently murdering thousands of Haitians and spreading propaganda in their favor. Please, please, keep this in mind when looking at their recent reports.***  ayiti liberte (website, multiple languages)
  5. Tripotay Lakay (youtube)
  1. French
  1. Haiti Libre (website, french and english)
  2. RFM Haiti - 104.9 MHz FM, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (radio station)
  3. Ayibo Post 
  4. FOKAL 
  1. English
  1. The Haitian Times (website, multiple languages)
  2. L’Union Suite (website), instagram
  3. Woy magazine
  1. Spanish (to be added)

Current Resistance Groups:

  1. Bwa Kale movement

Movement for Agricultural Independence:  

  1. Kanal La Pap Kanpe 

Other Mobilization in Haiti:

  1. “Haitian Women to Mobilize Against Political Violence”

Early Haitian History (up to 1804)

Pre-Colonization

I , II 

Arrival of Christopher Columbus

I 

Taino Resistance

  1. Hatuey
  2. Anacaona
  3. Caonabo
  4. Guarionex

Treatment of Enslaved Africans

I 

Uprisings

  1. “French Rule and Tension in the Colony”
  2. “Slave Resistance gains momentum”
  3.  Bwa Kayiman 
  1.  Dutty Boukman
  2.  Cécile Fatiman 
  1. Francois Mackandal
  2. Padre Jean
  3. Jean-Jacque Dessalines
  1. https://blackagendareport.com/proclamation-liberty-or-death-jean-jacques-dessalines-1804 
  1. Toussaint Louverture
  2. Sanite Belair
  3. Catherine Flon
  4. Abdaraya Toya/Victoria Montou
  5. Marie-Jeanne Lamertinere

Haitian Revolution & Worldwide Impact

  1. Haitian Declaration of Independence Translation
  2. Frederick Douglass Manifesto To Haiti (1893)
  3. How Haiti Destroyed Slavery And Led The Way To Freedom
  1. German Coast Uprising (Louisiana, 1811)
  2. Malê Revolt of enslaved Black Muslims (Brazil, 1835)
  1. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780822371793-040/html 
  1. “Bolivar [Latin American Liberator] in Haiti”
  1. “Haiti has suffered… its revolution was stunningly innovative”
  2. African Americans, Black Internationalism, and the Fate of Haiti
  3. “The United States and the Haitian Revolution”
  1. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/history-united-states-first-refugee-crisis-180957717/ 
  1. Haiti as a refuge for freedom fighters and displaced people
  1. Palestine, Lebanon, & Syria
  1. Haitian-Palestinian solidarity (video, w/ captions)
  1. Afro-Americans during Slavery
  1. Samaná
  1. Jewish People during WWII
  2. A brief history of Haiti as a destination for groups seeking refuge 
  3. “Haiti Refugee Haven”
  4. “List of Wars involving Haiti” 
  1. Fathers of Pan-Africanism
  1. Antenor Firmin
  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%A9nor_Firmin 
  2. https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/antenor-firmin-1850-1911/ 
  1. Benito Sylvain
  1. Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain 

“Why Do Countries Have Their Eyes On Haiti” –

  1. representing Black freedom
  1. “Haiti’s Blueprints on Black Sovereignty”
  2. “Fear of the Black Republic” by Leslie M Alexander
  1. Expensive Reserve of Minerals
  1. “Haiti Has The World’s Second Largest Iridium Deposits”
  2. “What Are The Major Natural Resources Of Haiti?”

Antihaitismo/Antihaitism in the Caribbean & Latin America (Ethnic Cleansing)

Dominican Republic:

antiblackness in DR

  1. (video) “An Island Divided”

Dominican fascism

  1. “Neo-Nazis in the Dominican Republic Work with Government”

 Luis Abinader (2020 - )

  1. “President Abinader’s Anti-haitianism”

Rafael Trujillo (1930)

  1. “Sangre, Fuego, y Trujillo: Dominican State-Formation”
  2. “About Trujillo”

Parsley Massacre - Dominican government murders estimated 20,000 Haitians and black Dominicans (1937)

Articles:

  1.  “Bearing Witness to Genocide: the 1937 Haitian Massacre and Border of Lights”
  2. “Parsley Massacre”
  3. “The Massacre That Marked Haiti-Dominican Republic Ties”
  4. “Unpacking The Parsley Massacre” 
  5. “Anti-Haitianism, Historical Memory and the Potential for Genocidal Violence in the Dominican Republic”
  6. “The Origins of Anti-Haitian Seminant in the Dominican Republic”

videos

I

II

Israel trains Dominican military & Dominican Government bases their policies off Israel

I

II.

Anyone with Haitian heritage loses their citizenship (2014-present)

articles:

I

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

[videos to be added]

Reported lynchings

I. 2019

II.2006

III.2005

IV. 2017/“Genocide and Reconciliation on the Haitian/Dominican Border-The University of Birmingham”

Mass deportations and mistreatment of migrants

articles:

I. “Dominican Republic Deportations Surge” (2023)

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

videos

I.“Haitian migrants in DR report harassment”

Dominican Bateyes, Mistreated Haitian Laborers in Sugar Plantations (current)

Articles:

  1. “Immigrant Laborers From Haiti Are Paid With Abuse in the Dominican Republic”
  2. “Bitter-Tasting Sugar: the United States, Haiti and Racism in Dominican Bateyes”
  3. “The Origin Of Dominican Batey”
  4. “Dominican Republic: Life in the Bateyes”
  5. “Life in a Dominican Batey”
  6. “ PARAMILITARY-STYLE GUARDS INSTILL FEAR IN WORKERS IN DOMINICAN CANE FIELDS”
  7. “The High Human Cost of America’s Sugar Habit”

[videos to be added]

Misc. Latin America & Caribbean

  1. General
  1. I. “Haiti Aided Latin America and Got…”
  2. “An Island Among Islands: Haiti’s Strange Relationship with the Caribbean Community”
  3. Americas: States must end racist treatment of Haitian asylum seekers
  4. II. “Why Is CARICOM Betraying Haiti on Behalf of the US?”

  1. Mexico 

  1. Mistreatment of migrants
  1. I
  2. II.
  3. III
  4. IV
  5. V
  6. VI 
  7. “Haitian migrants confront racial discrimination at our southern border”
  1. Brazil
  1. 13-Year Occupation of Haiti  (2005-2018)
  1. “Brazil Withdraws Troops…”
  2. “Ghost of Massacre in Haiti…”
  3. “Troops Accused of Continued Abuse”
  4. “Underage Girls Were Abused by UN Peacekeepers”
  5. “Peacekeepers in Haiti said to have fathered hundreds of children”
  6. “Brazil’s Haitian Training Ground”
  1. Haitian Migrants Abused in Brazil
  1. “Haitian Migration and Structural Racism in Brazil”
  2. “Realities of the Promised Land”
  1. Bahamas
  1. “Haitians in Bahamas”
  2. “Bahamas announces crackdown on migrants” (2023) https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/article272565004.html 
  3. “The Stigma of being Haitian in the Bahamas” https://journals.sfu.ca/cob/index.php/files/article/download/97/110 
  1. Jamaica [to be added]
  2. Cuba
  1. "Haiti in Cuba"
  2.  "Contesting Circuits of Empire: Afro-Caribbean Migrant Labor in Cuba, 1899-1958"
  3. "Creole Language and Culture: Part of Cuba's Cultural Patrimony"
  4. “Haitian Heritage in Cuba…As Heard Through Song”
  1. Guyana [to be added]
  2. Trinidad [to be added]
  3. Puerto Rico [to be added]

Foreign Economic Suppression:

1825: Haiti’s Independence Debt

France forces Haiti into debt 150 million francs ($21 billion dollars in today’s money) for “profit loss from liberation of slaves”, under threat of re-enslavement, which would take Haiti 122 years to finish paying (1947).

  1. A Debt of Dishonor 
  2. Haiti’s Heavy Historical Legacy
  3. 'The Greatest Heist In History': How Haiti Was Forced To Pay Reparations For Freedom

Haiti Economic Isolation By The United States

  1. “History of United States Policy Towards Haiti”
  2. “President Thomas Jefferson worked to isolate Haiti diplomatically and strangle it economically, fearing that the success of Haiti would inspire slave revolts back home”

United States & Dominican Republic Forces Haiti to Stop Growing Their Own Food, Makes them Rely Foreign Countries, and Poison Haitians

  1. Rice (United States)
  1. “Colonialism Created Food Insecurity in Haiti”
  2. “How US crop-dumping keeps Haiti poor”
  3. “What to do in Haiti with dangerous rice from the US?” 
  1. Dairy (united states)
  1. Bongú
  1. [first hand Haitian report #1]
  2. [first hand Haitian report #2]
  1. dominican republic closes border when haitian farmers in haiti start building canals (see: “Kanal La Pap Kanpe” & “Parsley Massacre” in prior sections for more context)
  1. https://apnews.com/article/dominican-republic-haiti-border-closed-abinader-a8e763730d674fc840b4ea33d50ebe23 
  1. Eggs (Dominican Republic) [to be added]
  2. Haitians boycotting food from Dominican Republic (2023)
  1. [first hand Haitian report #1
  2. [first hand Haitian report #2]
  3. [first hand Haitian report #3]
  1. Famine Statistics in Haiti
  1. “IPC confirms record levels of hunger in haiti” 
  2. “Gaza and Haiti are on the brink of Famine”
  3. “Hunger Crisis in Haiti”

Modern-Day Slavery

Haitians working in slave-like conditions in sugar and clothing industry (-present)

  1. Sugar
  1. see “Dominican Bateyes” in the “Antihaitismo/Antihaitism in the Caribbean and Latin America” section of this document
  1. Clothing:
  1. https://libcom.org/article/rich-companies-poor-workers-us-haiti-connection 

US occupation  (1915 - 1934) + recent meddling

  1. Overview
  2. Overview 2
  3. Overview 3
  4.  1919 bombing of haitian civilians by US military & massacre of haitian protestors  
  5. “Medicine Infected by Politics: The American Occupation of Haiti”
  6. The Assassination of Charlemagne Péralte
  7. https://www.iwp.edu/articles/1981/09/01/americas-black-vietnam-haitis-cacos-vs-the-marine-corps-1915-22/ 
  8. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43741120?seq=4 
  9. United States Rewrites Haiti’s Constitution for US interest
  1. https://www.blackagendareport.com/content/haiti-us-re-write-haiti-constitution-better-service-one-percent-0 
  1. United States changes Haiti’s education system
  1. [links to be added]
  1. United States impacts Haiti’s medical system
  1. [links to be added]
  1. https://sryahwapublications.com/article/download/2642-8172.0401001 
  2. (book) The White Man’s Burden by William Easterly
  1. epub download link
  2. pdf download link

Foreign Interference & “Aid”

Imperial-Aligned Leaders, Foreign Meddling, and Foreign Coups and in Haiti

Since the Haitian Revolution, Haiti has had more than 60 heads of state. Many of them have been bourgeois, mixed-race, and France/US Educated. Very few have acted primarily in the interest of the Haitian people/liberation effort, and of those few, all were either deposed or assassinated with clear foreign interference. Many corrupt leaders have been deposed and/or assassinated as well, either by the Haitian people or political rivals. Here is a (non-exhaustive, slightly out-of-date) list of leaders recognized by the US State Department. Beginning with Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave, all leaders 1915-1934 were directly placed by the US government during its occupation.

The following list serves as a compilation of sources about notable foreign-backed and liberation-seeking leaders.

  1. Jean-Pierre Boyer
  2. Lysius Salomon
  3. Pierre Nord Alexis
  4. The Deposition of Joseph Davilmar Théodore (1915)
  5. The Assassination of Jean Vilbrun Guillaume Sam (1915)
  6. Élie Lescot
  7. The Duvaliers (1957-1986)
  1. François “Papa Doc” Duvalier
  2. Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier
  1. Prosper Avril
  2. Jean Bertrande Aristide, the people’s president
  1. First Coup (1991)
  2. Second Coup (2004)
  1. Raoul Cédras
  2. Jean-Claude Duperval
  3. Michel Martelly “Sweet Micky”
  4. The election, reign & assassination of Jovenel Moïse
  1. “Haiti protests summon spirit of the Haitian Revolution to condemn a president tainted by scandal”
  2. “Embattled Haitian President Vague About Making Life Better for His People”
  3. “Wife of Assassinated Haitian President Indicted in His Killing”
  4. “Injured Haiti First Lady Martine Moise flown to Florida”

  5. “The widow and aides of assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse are indicted in his killing”

  1. Claude Joseph

  1. “Haiti President Moise’s widow, ex-PM among 50 charged in his assassination”

  2. “Haiti President Jovenel Moïse assassinated: Interim PM”
  1. Ariel Henry (2021- )
  1. “Haiti appoints new prime minister after July 7 assassination”
  2. “Haitians protest against government call for foreign forces”
  3. “Haiti’s prime minister is locked out of his country and faces pressure to resign”
  4. Henry resigns as Haiti’s Prime Minister, Transitional Presidential Council to take over

Misc; The “CORE” Group & White Warlords

Overview 

  1. Canada involvement in 2004 Coup
  2. Haiti 20 years after the Coup
  3. CARICOM & Foreign Diplomats
  4. “haitians can no longer hide behind the caste system killing our country”
  5. "Haiti's white war lords”
  6. “to solve crisis permanently, force US to stop backing notorious white warlords”
  7. “the continued silent invasion of haiti”
  8. “US should let Haiti reclaim its democracy”
  9. “An Introduction to the Fourth World”

White & Arab Supremacy in Haiti; White & Arab Oligarchs Funding Destabilization;

“Bam-Bams”

  1. Arab Supremacy
  1. https://countrystudies.us/haiti/25.htm 
  1. White Supremacy

CARICOM + Lat-Am country’s role in helping destabilizing Haiti

  1. CARICOM
  1. CARICOM, the Myth of Sovereignty, and Aspirational Economic Integration
  2. Haiti in the Caribbean: A Political Economy Perspective on the Urgent Crisis of Imperialism
  1. Receipts of Co-drafted UN resolutions for invasion of Haiti
  1. https://foreign.gov.tt/resources/news/un-security-council-mexico-and-united-states-of-america-draft-resolution/
  1. Lat-Am chauvinism toward Haiti/ Brazil’s role in Haiti’s 13 year occupation under MINUSTAH
  1. https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2017/09/05/brazil-withdraws-troops-after-13-year-occupation-of-haiti
  2. https://www.blackagendareport.com/brazilian-army-haiti-foreign-intervention-and-domestic-politics
  3. What is MINUSTAH
  1. https://archive.globalpolicy.org/security-council/peacekeeping/analysis-and-articles-on-peacekeeping/50853-minustah-keeping-the-peace-or-conspiring-against-it.html
  2. https://theworld.org/stories/2014-08-28/un-peacekeepers-destabilize-haiti-babies-they-left-behind
  3. https://www.liberationnews.org/the-continued-silent-invasion-of-haiti/

Anti-Haitian Attitudes and Treatment Towards Haitians during:

The HIV/AIDS Crisis

  1. The CDC
  1. “How HIV Took the World By Storm”
  2. “AIDS & Haiti – Discourses on Origin, Stigma, and Blame”
  1. The FDA
  1. “8,000 protest Haitian blood donation ban”
  1. The Red Cross
  1. “Haitian Canadians”
  1. Haitian Resistance

The 2010 Earthquake

  1. The Red Cross
  1. “In Search of the Red Cross’ Missing $500 Million in Haiti Relief”
  2. “Red Cross Spent 25% of Haiti Donations Internally”
  3. “How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti and Built Six Homes”
  1. The Clintons, USAID, and the IHRC
  1. “What the Clintons Did to Haiti”
  2. “Haiti and the Failed Promise of US Aid”
  1. The UN & WHO
  1. UN marks anniversary of devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake
  2. Medical disaster response: a critical analysis of the 2010 Haiti earthquake

  3. Public health risk assessment and interventions - Earthquake: Haiti (21 January 2010)

  4. The Haiti earthquake: 10 years later

Other Medical Aid

  1. Cholera
  1. “The cholera outbreak in Haiti: where and how did it begin?”
  2. “Cholera and blame in Haiti”
  3. “U.N. Admits Role In Haiti Cholera Outbreak That Has Killed”
  4. “Cholera Accountability in Haiti”
  5. “Cholera in Haiti”

  6. “Genomic Epidemiology of the Haitian Cholera Outbreak: a Single Introduction Followed by Rapid, Extensive, and Continued Spread Characterized the Onset of the Epidemic”

  7. “A New Cholera Outbreak Emerges in Haiti”
  8. “VIDEO: Cholera in Haiti a 'really desperate' situation”
  1. Tuberculosis
  2. Malaria

Migration to CORE countries

  1. United States
  1. U.S. Immigration Policy on Haitian Migrants
  2. Haitian Immigrants in the United States
  3. Haitian Asylum-Seekers Are Being Mistreated in ICE Detention
  4. Black deportees to Haiti face indefinite detention
  5. “They did not treat us like people"
  6. Deportations out of Louisiana part of racist immigration policies
  7. U.S. Haitian immigration policy comes under scrutiny
  8. ICE sends deportation flight to Haiti after warning US citizens to evacuate
  1. France
  2. Canada

Africa – “Blackface Invasion”

  1. Kenya (attempting, 2023-2024)
  1. “UN approves international force to aid Haiti amid gang violence”
  2. “‘Illegal and invalid’: Kenya court halts deployment of police to Haiti”
  3. “Blinken talks to Kenyan president about Haiti crisis”
  4. Kenyan media portrayals of Haitians
  1. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIXHHerWoAAsrbX?format=jpg&name=large 
  1. Benin
  1. “Benin mulls sending 2,000 troops to aid Haiti in ‘gang violence battle’” (with video)
  2. “Caribbean summit host hails possible Benin troop deployment to Haiti”
  1. Sri Lanka
  1. “UN Peacekeepers Fathered Hundreds of Children in Haiti with Girls as Young as Eleven”
  2. “265 stories of Haitian children abandoned by UN fathers”
  3. “UN peacekeepers ran a child sex ring in Haiti"

 

US-Funded “Gangs” Terrorizing the Civilian Population

  1. Guy Philippe
  1. “Coup leader Guy Philippe repatriated to Haiti as many question his next role in country in upheaval”
  2. “Guy Philippe deported to Haiti after serving sentence in US”
  1. US weapons sales/trafficking
  1. https://nacla.org/guns-gangs-and-neocolonialism-haiti 
  2. Florida Gun Laws

The role of Christian churches in colonialism; “mission trips”

  1. The Demonization of Haitian Vodou
  1. the role of vodou in the haitian revolution
  1. Real Haitian Vodou
  1. Demonization during the 1600s-1800s
  1. Demonization under US Occupation
  1. Conversion by Missionaries