I love Bill Clinton and countless numbers of Haitian do. I hope he does not let the same people, again and again, hijacked him and make him say and do things that make no sense in Haiti, just to legitimize an order of things that must change, in our lifetime. If President Clinton does fall into that trap, although we Haitians clap for him now and are too happy to see someone of his stature taking from his precious time to visit us in this ultimate misery we know now, to highlight what must be done, soon countless of ordinary Haitians among us will undoubtedly turn against him, and this is the stubborn story of my country, when they feel ultimately the hope of possibilities of change has been betrayed, once more.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/942795.html?asset_id=941326&asset_type=gallery
For instance, I cannot believe this picture of the US President standing by our Haitian mega star Whycleff Jean while watching this Haitian woman, this compatriot "charging" a perhaps 25Kg sac over her head as food aid given to her by the international community. While I applaud this generosity wholeheartedly in this dire time of need,and while in contrast The New York Times rightly calls for the Haitian Diasporas to be less aloof and to do more in getting their own country unstuck in this social and economic quagmire, I cannot believe that the universal rule of lifting and carrying weight safely does not apply to this compatriot just because this time around she is too poor and too 'starving" for such a nicety. The pretext would be, she has a bigger problem than that, a survival problem. The issue is, if we are helping out, let us truly help all the way and not standing idle while someone, in order to find some food, must break her back in front of our helpers as the price to pay. It would be wrong for anyone to carry such heavyweight in any advanced country as basic safety dictates, such is the case among the OSHA laws of the United States. Anybody who is close to our national hero Whycleff Jean, please tell him also. He will be glad you did, while we are all grateful for what he is attempting and that he deserves a big national thanks. My contention is the following: Help us advance also. What's good and universal for all in advanced countries should be universally applied to all mankind.
Again, we as a new generation of Haitians are not opposed to all cooperation but to dumbed cooperation that makes little dent in helping us out where we are, in one generation. We want our helpers to make their money count and make their precious time count in helping us truly and not in inadvertently enlarging the ranks of those among our own Haitian nationals who are truly acting as "sous-developeurs" in getting us deeper and deeper in our quagmire for the sake of expediency and realism, meaning what has always existed. All Haitians are not created equals. Some are truly decliners leading advancers for far too long, whether they know it or not. We are trying to flip that: advancers leading decliners. We hope the world's mighty and famous understand that and pick the right camp to reinforce when they seek to stand with the Haitian people.
Second thing we wish our good friend of the Haitian people, former US President Bill Clinton, have avoided is the issue of "beatly" calling for just more investment in Haiti, just like that. Here is part of President Clinton's statements as it relates to that:
''I have followed Haiti for more than three decades. This is the first time I have really believed that the country has the chance to slip the bounds of poverty, and escape the heritage of oppressive government and misgovernment and abuse of people that have held people down too long,'' Clinton said Tuesday, wrapping up a visit to the Caribbean nation. ``The message I want to send to the rest of the world is what the man in the factory, the factory owner told me today: These people work hard and they work smart...tell the world Haiti is a good place to invest.''
Now, it all sounds good and we all want investments to flow in Haiti and flow abundantly. But here it ends the similarities. What frustrates advancers, the Haitian masses and the great majority of the Haitian people all classes included is what sorts of investments? Investments for what country, the one we want or the one we have? Investments in what amount, or still under-capitalized? Investments for whom, that pay what wages? Investment to do what, as part of what 30 year timespan real, quantum, economic development plan for mass advancement and rising household incomes? Until these questions are settled, the call for investments will always sound suspicious that ultimately it will simply be just transfer of wealth from the helpers to a tiny minority, to plutocrats that walk and work among us. While meanwhile such investments do little to help us as a people to get across, out of the cascading waters we've found ourselves in. While such investments do little for mass wealth creation, mass wealth accumulation, mass wealth distribution geared towards the lifting up of one another and the real possibilities that with the right array of "developing" investments some of us can truly hope to graduate, in a life-altering move in one generation, from one class to another. It can be done, if each such investments is made to be a real piece in the puzzle we are assembling over a definite time horizon, 30 years.
I know such a politics of new possibilities that we as advancers are leading would appeal to this great friend of The Haitian People, Bill Clinton, and to countless of others in the USA and around the world. So, I urge all to really pick their spot and their camp when they rush to our rescue. It must be at last, to shore up advancers leading decliners, for there is such a camp constituting and made up of Haitians of all walks of life. That is the only thing that is going to pay off, for their precious dollars and time and emotional investments into my country, for my people.
JUSTIMA, Emmanuel
emmanuel_fondationjustima@voila.fr
justima@live.com
HAITI.2@live.com
Blog about The HAITI.2 MOVEMENT & JUSTIMA's 21st century-style New Politics for HAITI
For Renewing the Haitian Political Personnel so Advancers now lead Decliners.
Welcome to the Blog where you can hear from me directly. Make yourself at home.
Bienvenue sur le Blog où je peux tout vous exposer directement. Faîtes comme chez vous.
http://justimaenfrancais.blogspot.com/
Byenvini sou Blog la. Ou Lakay ou. Mete-w Alèz.
http://justimaankreyol.blogspot.com/
Bienvenido. Mi casa es su casa.
Welcome to the Blog where you can hear from me directly. Make yourself at home.
Bienvenue sur le Blog où je peux tout vous exposer directement. Faîtes comme chez vous.
http://justimaenfrancais.blogspot.com/
Byenvini sou Blog la. Ou Lakay ou. Mete-w Alèz.
http://justimaankreyol.blogspot.com/
Bienvenido. Mi casa es su casa.
About Me
- Justima
- La Vallée-Jacmel, Plateau Central et Port-au-Prince (Cité Soleil), Haiti
- Qui est Justima?: Un homme qui voit le côté positif des choses et qui part en guerre contre l'idée fataliste qu'Haïti qui est sans cesse dans une descente et chute libre mystiques depuis 200 ans ne se resaisira pas dans les 5 prochaines années pour commencer à réussir une ascencion matérielle et mentale qui va étonner le monde. Un homme de croyances profondes et de principes qui part en guerre contre notre instabilité politico-sociale chronique, désordre institutionnel systémique généralisé, dysfonctionnement économique total et qui dit qu'Haïti a besoin d'un pouvoir volontariste fort pour combler le retard et le mal-developpement de plus de 200 ans. Un homme de famille qui croit que si le plus petit noyau d'Haïtiens qui est la famille connaisse un renouveau et re-apprenne à tisser entre ses membres des liens de confiance et de constance solides et durables ceci refairait fractalement la société haïtienne et le tissu social haïtien et augmenterait exponentiellement le capital social sur lequel on doit lever une nouvelle nation. Un homme qui adore chanter, danser, faire à manger, voyager et qui adore aimer. Justima est le second plus jeune ancien Candidat à la Présidence d'Haiti.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
LABEL OF OUR POSTS
- Carnaval, Raras et Vodou: Justima pour un Carnaval haïtien planétaire et pour la construction du plus grand péristyle mondial de Vodou en Haïti pour sortir cette religion de l'archaïque et de la pauvreté
- Justima Add on Wishes to the Diasporas for 2009: What is on the HAITI.2 Platform Wish List For You.- All who is in the diasporas inluding their children of Haitian ancestry and their non-Haitian spouse will be eligible to ask for a Haitian passport the next day of the accession to power of Haiti.2, in the greatest census worldwide of those who stand with the new Haiti. We need you and all other hands on deck that we can find. It is a critical strategic move in grafting or adding producing capacity
- Mesaj Ve JUSTIMA bay Pep Ayisyen an Pou 2009: Kenbe-Gen Yon AYITI.2 Lan WOUT
- Justima Wishes to The Haitian People for 2009: You will see it... It is possible now
- Adresse de Justima au Peuple Haitien pour 2009: Tiens Ferme. Tu es presqu'au bout de tes peines sans aide
- Haitian Bloggers about Mounting Frustrations in Haiti.- The role of a leader is to lead. So leaders of Haiti, you asked for power: LEAD
- Justima on hurricane hanna and disaster in Gonaives: This job must be done as Justima called it, for the sake of Gonaives and very probable continuing calamities.
- Justima on Obama-Haiti-The Caribbean and Africa: I call on Haiti to become a platform country out of a new jumbo port, top notch intercontinental airport and a sophisticated financial system in a new Haiti under new management. That can help lift not just Haiti but the Americas economies and the African continent economies by way of mutual economic stimulation. Our Haiti.2 Plan: The only win-win-win plan on the table for another Haiti, Africa and The Americas.
- Justima and book on child slavery of Simon & Schuster: While I applaud the young journalist author who wrote this book for being interested in my country and for tackling a very important subject: domestic servitude, I am tired of people who say they are there to help from the outside but who will not make the investment to dig really deeper and who just brand anyone in Haiti and who brand my country anyway that suits them. Yes, had the author asks he would have known, I see a Haiti.2 without "Restaveks" but with well-paid domestic workers with benefits
- What does Justima wants? His Ambition for Country: A gigantic nation-building. Anything less will simply not have less effect, it simply will have no effect
- Haiti is starting to fall in the hands of young people: Time for a new cohort of Haitians to try and make its imprint on Haiti and re-direct the Haitian society
- What does Justima wants: Re-structuring Haiti top to bottom. The 7 new Top Leadership Posts For a New Haiti under New Management. The new top 21 focus areas for a Haiti with a Future, a Haiti.2
- Justima's Fondation work on the ground since 2001: Who will fit the shoes of tomorrow's leaders if we do not start with Education for people of every social class everywhere? Operating on the ground in stealth mode to bring results.
- What did Justima started working on since the last Presidential Elections of 2006?
- Letter from The General Committee Supporting Justima and Haiti.2: Let us organize ouselves so we can be the support system Justima and Haiti.2 need to succeed and to win into transforming Haiti as we know it
- Fondation JUSTIMA and its ambitious plan to try to bring direct food prices relief, some time this year, to 250,000 Households in Haiti. Direct tangible help may be on its way to alleviate hunger in the meantime until the hunger for life-altering changes can be satisfied
- Our Open University: What should have been Our National Anthem
- Our Open University: Geo-political Background on why Haiti is where it is today and the historical weight of the USA in all that
- Who is Justima? The story of a reversal of fortune of a son of Cite Soleil. Emblematic of the life-altering transformational change he is ushering: The Story of Justima.-Starting like most Haitians with a great socio-economic disadvantage, Justima's rise from where he was born which literally has become Cité Soleil
- Qui est Justima? Dans ce qui présage cette transformation des conditions de vie dont il veut l'avénement pour le pays: L'histoire de la vie de Justima et d'un retournement spectaculaire de situation socio-économique d'un jeune leader né littéralement à ce qui est devenu la Cité Soleil du jour
- Justima has launched his blog: Embracing Technology as a tell tell sign of real generational change, the first official blog of a Haitian political personality
- About Justima: One of the main founders and leaders of one of the 4 main political regroupings of 2006 in Haiti: The Block Alternative
- Justima's comments on the return of Aristide: If I was President, it would not be if Aristide should return, it would be how for maximum positive good to come out of it and less social and political disruptions so we can move beyond the Aristide factor as the smoke screen and start tackling the real nation-building issues of a post Aristide/post Préval era
- To Professor Yunus Nobel Laureate: I am about a different politics. I know a thing or two about poverty and misery. I am not just for poverty alleviation and reduction that you champion. God bless your heart for that. But I am about systematic poverty elimination. Instead of helping out 10 millions cope with poverty over 30 years, but all still remain poor with no end in sight, my country will be be better off that we help lift about 5 millions completely out of poverty over that same period of time. And this will trickle down. And the poorest country in the hemisphere will be be better for it. How about joining me in pushing that politics of new hope and of new possibilities?
Blog Archive
Justima in Official Visits/ Justima en Visites Officielles
Justima in Pictures/Justima en Photos
Web links about Justima/Liste des liens sur le Web parlant de Justima
- http://elcaribecdn.com/articulo_caribe.aspx?
- http://haitiforever.com/forum/viewtopic.php?
- http://hhtp://www.onepaper.com/deals/?v=d&i=&s=Caribbean:Paradise+News&p=43537
- http://www.caraibesfm.com/index.php?id=856
- http://www.evd.nl/info/zoeken/ShowBouwsteen.asp?
- http://www.haitiangroove.com/groove_des_candidats.html
- http://www.haitiangroove.com/justima/qui_est_justima.html
- http://www.haitiechange.org/temoignage.htm
- http://www.konesansfanmi.org/actionsetinitiatives/Article/ditesoui.htm
- http://www.metropolehaiti.com/metropole/full_une_fr.phtml?
- http://www.metropolehaiti.com/metropole/full_une_fr.phtml?id=11033
- http://www.wehaitians.com/novembre%202003%20lettres%20notes%20de%
- http://www.windowsonhaiti.com/forum/viewtopic.php?