Final list of candidates for Haiti's presidency published by CEP

Publication le 12 juin 2015 de la liste définitive des 58 candidats à la présidence, dont seulement 4 femmes, agréés par le Conseil Electoral Provisoire:
 
1- ALEXANDRE JEAN BONY - CONCORDE
2- ANDRE AMOS - FURH
3- ANDRE MICHEL - PLATEFORME JISTIS
4- ANDRESOL MARIO - INDEPENDANT - 138
5- BAKER CHARLES HENRI JN MARIE - RESPE
6- BAZIN RENOLD JEAN CLAUDE - MOCHRENHA
7- BENOIT IRVENSON STEVEN - KONVIKSYON
8- BERTIN JEAN - M.U.R
9- BRETOUS JOSEPH HARRY (M) - KOPA
10- BRUNET EMMANUEL JOSEPH GEORGES (M) - PPAN
11- BRUTUS MICHEL FRED - PF
12- CEANT JEAN HENRY - RENMEN AYITI
13- CELESTIN JUDE - LAPEH
14- CHARLES JEAN HERVE - PENH
15- CORNELY JEAN RONALD - RPH
16- DALMACY KESLER- MOPANOU
17- DANIEL YVES- PKN
18- DESIR LUCKNER - MPH
19- DESRAS SIMON DIEUSEUL - PALMIS
20- DROUILLARD MARC-ARTHUR - PUN
21- DUCHENE WILLY - PRHA
22- DUPITON DANIEL - CONAPPH
23 DURANDISSE JOSEPH G. VARNEL - PPRA
24- DUROSEAU VILAIRE CLUNY- MEKSEPA
25- ETIENNE SAUVEUR PIERRE - OPL
26- FLECOURT NELSON - OLAHH BATON JENES LA
27- FLEURANT AVIOL - NOUVELLE HAITI
28- FRANCOIS LEVEL (- MUDHAH
29- GAUTIER MARIE ANTOINETTE (F) - PAC
30- GERARD DALVIUS - PADH
31- JEAN BAPTISTE ERIC - M.A.S
32- JEUNE JEAN-CHAVANNES - CANAAN
33- JN BAPTISTE CHAVANNES - KONTRAPEPLA
34- JOSEPH MAXO - RANDEVOUS
35- JOSEPH ANTOINE - DELIVRANS
36- JULIEN RENE - ADEBHA
37- KHAWLY STEEVE - BOUCLIER
38- LAROSILIERE FRESNEL - MIDH
39- LUCIEN JEPHTHÉ - PSUH
40- LUMARQUE JACKY- VERITE
41- MADISTIN SAMUEL - MOPOD
42- MAGLOIRE ROLAND - P.D.I
43- MATHURIN JEAN PALEME - PPG18
44- MOISE JEAN-CHARLES - PITIT DESSALINES
45- MOISE JOVENEL - P.H.T.K
46- MONESTIME DIONY - INDEPENDANT - 137
47- NARCISSE MARYSE - FANMI LAVALAS
48- NESTOR MICHELET - CORRECH
49- PIERRE MATHIAS - KP
50- POINCY JEAN - RESULTAT
51- POLYCARPE WESTNER - M.R.A
52- RENOIS JEAN CLARENS - UNIR-AYITI INI
53- ROY JOE MARIE JUDIE C. - REPAREN
54- SAMPEUR JACQUES - K.L.E
55- SANON JEAN CHEVALIER - P.N.C.H
56- ST JUSTE NEWTON LOUIS - FREM
57- SUPPLICE BEAUZILE EDMONDE - FUSION
58- THEAGENE JEAN WIENER - PRNH

Mobilisation paysanne contre l’accaparement des terres agricoles

Mobilisation paysanne contre l’accaparement des terres agricoles

mercredi 22 juin 2011

Par Sylvestre Fils Dorcilus

(Read original article here)

Hinche (Haïti), 22 juin 2011 [AlterPresse] --- Des milliers de paysannes et paysans ont marché pendant plusieurs heures, le mardi 21 juin 2011, dans plusieurs rues de la ville de Hinche (chef-lieu du département géographique du Plateau central, à plus d’une centaine de kilomètres au nord-est de la capitale), a observé l’agence en ligne AlterPresse.

« L’accaparement des terres du pays, un danger pour la souveraineté agricole » : tel a été le thème retenu par les organisateurs de la marche, déroulée pacifiquement sous la protection d’une patrouille de l’unité départementale pour le maintien d’ordre (Udmo) de la police nationale d’Haïti (Pnh).

Cette initiative de plusieurs regroupements et plateformes d’organisations sociales, dont des organisations de femmes et de défense de droits humains, avait, entre autres objectifs, de promouvoir la biodiversité agricole en défendant les semences locales.

« Il faut que les autorités gouvernementales du pays puissent enfin assumer leurs responsabilités face à la dégradation notre agriculture. Il faut qu’il y ait une vraie politique agricole », ont scandé les manifestantes et manifestants.

A travers cette mobilisation, les organisateurs de la manifestation entendaient plaider en faveur de dispositions institutionnelles susceptibles d’assurer la souveraineté alimentaire, la réfection de l’environnement et la construction d’une nouvelle Haïti par une exploitation harmonieuse des terres agricoles dans le pays.

« Nous sommes tous des paysans de plusieurs départements géographiques du pays, qui sont venus participer à cette marche pour dénoncer la politique agricole du gouvernement haïtien », a indiqué le porte-parole du Mouvement des paysans de Papaye (Mpp), Chavannes Jean-Baptiste.

Les manifestantes et manifestants paysans portaient, pour la plupart, des chapeaux en paille et étaient vêtus de maillots de couleur rouge, sur lesquels étaient inscrits : « vive l’agriculture haïtienne ; vivent les semences locales ; vive la nourriture de chez nous, etc. »

Exprimant leur indignation face au mode de gestion agricole du pays, mis en place par les autorités centrales qu’ils qualifient d’« irresponsable », les milliers de manifestants, en grande partie des agricultrices et agriculteurs, ont plaidé pour l’implantation d’une politique agricole adaptée à la réalité haïtienne.

« Il faut une politique agricole adaptée à la réalité de notre pays. Il faut que les dirigeants cessent d’importer les denrées agricoles ainsi que les semences étrangères dans le pays », exigent-ils, en criant haro sur les semences et produits importés.

Le processus d’invasion des terres nationales, par des investisseurs privés partout dans le pays, constitue une menace pour les populations locales, privées de leurs moyens de vie et de subsistance, a témoigné Camille Chalmers, de la plateforme de plaidoyer pour un développement alternatif (Papda), présent à la mobilisation du 21 juin 2011.

Comme d’autres manifestants, Chalmers s’est prononcé pour une politique agricole cohérente, reflétant les réalités nationales, en vue, dit-il, de garantir la souveraineté agricole et l’indépendance du pays.

« En déstructurant les économies locales, l’afflux sur le marché local de denrées agricoles, produites dans les pays du Nord de manière intensive avec d’énormes moyens mécaniques, ruine l’agriculture vivrière respectueuse des êtres humains », a déploré Jean-Robert, agriculteur, résident à Papaye, section communale à environ une dizaine de kilomètres à l’est de Hinche.

Plusieurs milliers de fermes agricoles disparaissent chaque année dans le pays. Si cette tendance se perpétue, il n’y aura, bientôt, plus de paysans dans nos campagnes, ont souligné les agricultrices et agriculteurs ayant soutenu la mobilisation du 21 juin.

De plus, l’agriculture paysanne est progressivement remplacée par une agriculture industrialisée.

« Chaque jour, nous voyons des voisins abandonner le travail agricole, faute de revenus décents. De jeunes paysans, désireux de pratiquer l’agriculture, se retrouvent très souvent découragés par le manque de perspectives économiques, le prix prohibitif des terres et une situation de campagnes vidées de leurs agricultrices et agriculteurs », a fait remarquer Jérôme, planteur depuis 25 ans.

« Nous sommes convaincus qu’il n’y aura pas de futur viable pour nos sociétés, sans paysans vivant dignement de leur production. Par cette initiative, nous lançons donc un signal d’alarme et appelons au regroupement des forces pour sauver l’agriculture paysanne dans le pays », souhaite Chavannes Jean-Baptiste.

Il faut une réforme en profondeur dans la politique agricole en Haïti. D’autres politiques agricoles et alimentaires, plus légitimes, plus justes, plus solidaires et plus durables, sont nécessaires dans le pays pour répondre aux enjeux de souveraineté alimentaire, ont fait valoir plusieurs agricultrices et agriculteurs ayant pris part à la mobilisation du 21 juin 2011.

Mise en branle à Papaye aux environs de 10:30 am locales (15:30 gmt), la marche a pris fin sur la place Charlemagne Péralte de Hinche vers 1:00 pm (18:00 gmt), avec notamment une distribution symbolique de semences agricoles locales, de plantules fruitières et forestières aux agriculteurs en signe d’encouragement à la production nationale. [sfd rc 22/06/2011 17:40]

Haitian farmers protest Monsanto seed donations

Jun 04, 2010

Haitian farmers protest Monsanto seed donations

By Alice Speri

AFP

HINCHE, Haiti - Thousands of farmers marched in central Haiti Friday claiming the government was misleading them with seed donations from US multinational Monsanto.

The region was spared the worst of the January quake which leveled much of the capital Port-au-Prince, but with a dire shortage of seeds in the Caribbean country farmers are struggling to get the supplies to work their land.

Giant company Monsanto is donating 475 tons of maize to Haitian farmers in cooperation with Project Winner, a USAID initiative, which aims to increase the country's agricultural productivity, the agriculture ministry said.

But farmers fear they are being given seeds which could threaten local varieties.

"The Haitian government is using the earthquake to sell the country to the multinationals," charged Jean Baptiste Chavannes, coordinator of the Mouvman Peyizan Papay (MPP), a farming cooperative and one of the leading organizations in Haiti's peasant movement.

Sporting red shirts and straw hats sprayed in signs against President Rene Preval and Monsanto, people rallied under a hot sun in the town of Hinche.

Demonstrators chanted "Down with Preval," "Keep Monsanto Out of Haiti" and the occasional "Down with the Occupation."

Kettly Alexandre, an organizer with the MPP said they estimated the number of participants was between 8,000 and 12,000. There was no immediate confirmation from police.

"We have to fight for our local seeds," Chavannes told the crowd. "We have to defend our food sovereignty."

"This is not just about the seeds," argued Samuel Smith, a 74-year-old organic farmer and long-time supporter of local agriculture, who came for the rally from Massachusetts. "It's about imposing on people a system that they can't get out of."

Monsanto however dismissed fears it was donating genetically modified seeds to the country.

"The seeds Monsanto is donating to Haiti are not genetically modified. They are conventional hybrid seeds that are already grown in the Dominican Republic," a Monsanto spokesman in the United States told AFP.

Monsanto has donated 255,000 dollars to Haiti for disaster relief and the company is committed to the success of Haitian farmers, Monsanto Executive Vice President Jerry Stein wrote in a letter to Agriculture Minister Joanas Gue.

But Chavannes slammed the donation as "a gift of death."

"It's an attack on peasant agriculture, on the farmers, on biodiversity, on native seeds, on what remains of our environment in Haiti."

Many protestors leveled most of their anger against the government.

"I'm here because I'm angry with Preval," said Pierre Charite, a 61-year-old farmer from Haiti's central plateu, where he grows maize, plantains, sugarcane and pistachios. "He accepted corn that is bad, that will kill Haitian corn. I won't use that."

Haiti’s peasantry key to reconstruction

Haiti’s peasantry key to reconstruction

By Michael Deibert

AlterNet

(Read the original article here)

When US First Lady Michelle Obama paid a surprise visit to Haiti this week to survey reconstruction efforts after that country’s devastating January earthquake, she set foot in a nation that has been transformed as profoundly as at any time since its 1804 revolution defeated Napoleon's army and abolished slavery.

In the tremor three months ago, Haiti’s Direction de la Protection Civile estimated that 222,517 people lost their lives, while at least 250,000 were injured. Of the nearly 1.2 million displaced persons, nearly 600,000 are thought to have migrated from the capital Port-au-Prince and its environs back to Haiti’s countryside. This reverse migration, after years of peasants flowing into the Haitian capital from desperately poor agricultural areas in search of jobs that did not await them, will likely have a significant affect on Haiti’s political and economic trajectory going forward.

Haiti’s peasantry, which makes up a majority of the country’s 9 million people, were suffering grievously even before the earthquake, the victims of both the short-sighted policies of the international community and the venality and brutality of Haiti’s homegrown political leaders. With a recent meeting on Haiti held at the United Nations concluding with nations and organizations pledging nearly $10 billion to Haiti, it is important that Haiti’s peasantry not be forgotten, and that the international community remember the ways in which it has failed them, and Haitians in general, in the past. It is a litany that would be written as farce had the results not been so tragic.

In the 1940s, the United States sponsored the Société Haitiano-Américaine de Dévelopment Agricole in an ill-fated, half-baked attempted to cultivate rubber in Haiti, an effort that ended up harming the very farmers it was designed to help.

Between 1980 and 1983, when tests showed nearly a quarter of Haiti’s pigs were infected with African Swine Fever, the U.S- Canadian funded Program for the Eradication of Porcine Swine Fever and Development of Pig-Raising destroyed 1.2 million Kreyol pigs, pigs that formed one of the backbones of the peasant economy. Of the replacement pigs that were delivered, many soon died, unable to adjust to the rough world the Kreyol swine had grown so accustomed to, and an already difficult rural economy suffered another blow.

Further undermining Haiti’s ability to feed itself, in typically duplicitous fashion then-Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, implementing an economic adjustment plan mandated by the International Monetary Fund and further turning the screws on a political bloc that he could never win over, cut tariffs on rice imports to the country from 35 percent to 3 percent in 1995. This further undermined the peasant economy despite the fact that Haiti for many years had produced low-cost, inexpensive rice for domestic consumption. After 1995, that is, after implementing the economic policies of the international community, it effectively lost the ability to do so.

Former President Bill Clinton, still deeply involved in Haiti, has since expressed regret for his role in this, of a piece with his regret for failing to lift a finger to stop Rwanda's 1994 genocide, a “regret” that led him - at best - to turn a blind eye to vicious ethnic cleansing by Rwandan soldiers and Congolese rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo throughout the 1990s. But this day late, dollar short approach to international affairs will do little good if not followed up with concrete action.

The Haitian government’s Preliminary Damage and Needs Assessment, a document said to have been largely drafted by Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, was put forth in March and advocated an ambitious re-envisioning and decentralizing of Haiti, looking to “decongest,” rather than rebuild as before, the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area while advocating a “refounding” of the Haitian state.

In a country with a long history of an often violently abusive imperial presidency (a tradition that, despite his other faults, current President René Préval has not adhered to), decentralization may be an important tool to break the hold a traditionally corrupt executive branch and dysfunctional political class based in the capital exercise over the rest of the country, active as they have been in filtering out any money that may come into the country while granting precious little in return.

With the mass migration from Port-au-Prince back to Haiti’s countryside, it is essential than any rebuilding effort take into account, along with programs for Haiti’s urban centres, a sustained effort to aid Haiti’s peasantry, who have been in an economic tailspin for decades now and whose migration to Port-au-Prince, where they lived on top of one another in woefully substandard housing, at least in part led to the death toll in January’s earthquake being as high as it was.

Over the past 50 years, 90 percent of Haiti's tree cover has been destroyed, with the resulting erosion destroying two-thirds of the country's arable farmland. With little left to hold the topsoil when the rains fall - often torrentially after prolonged spells with no precipitation at all - they rush in torrents down the mountains, carving gullies and carrying crops and seeds along with them, sweeping vital minerals into the country's rivers to be deposited, uselessly, in the sea. Storms that kill a handful of people in neighboring countries kill thousands when they reach Haiti because of this precise dynamic. I have stood many times with Haitian peasants under the unfurled Caribbean sky outside of villages with names like Fonds-Verettes, Papay and Maissade and listened to Haitian farmers, so powerless in the face of their own government and international interests, tell this sad tale.

But the Haitian peasantry do have their advocates. Grassroots peasant organizations such as the 200,000 member Mouvman Peyizan Nasyonal Kongrè Papay and Tèt Kole Ti Peyizan, the former led by 2005 Goldman Environmental Prize winner Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, have been advocating for decades for Haiti’s rural majority to be taken into account in the discussion of their fate by those politically powerful forces both inside and outside of Haiti.

The patience of Haitians - who have reacted to a terrible catastrophe with incredible dignity and restraint in the three months since the earthquake - is often remarked upon. But it is not, nor should it be be, perceived as endless. It was in Haiti’s countryside, among the peasantry, that leaders such as Charlemagne Péralte and Benoit Batraville led the strongest resistance to the 1915-1935 U.S. military occupation of Haiti and now, with the resources of rural families stretched to the breaking point by the influx of so many new mouths to feed, the international community must, at long last, take their needs into consideration among their glittering conferences and meetings.

Such an approach is not only the morally right thing to do, given the role the international community has had in helping to impoverish Haiti, but it is also the only way to guarantee long-term security and development, not only in Haiti but indeed across the island of Hispaniola as a whole.


Michael Deibert is the author of Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti (Seven Stories Press) and a Visiting Fellow at the the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies at Coventry University. His blog can be read at www.michaeldeibert.blogspot.com.

Haiti: The Clock is Set at Zero

(Note: I found the below interview by Beverly Bell of Haitian peasant advocate Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, one of the people I most admire in Haiti, of great interest. To read my own interview with Chavannes from 2008, please click here. MD)

Haiti: The Clock is Set at Zero

An interview of Haitian peasant advocate Chavannes Jean-Baptiste by Beverly Bell

08 March 2010

(Photo by Roberto (Bear) Guerra)

Published on Toward Freedom

Chavannes Jean-Baptiste is the Executive Director of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP by its Creole acronym) and the spokesperson for the National Peasant Movement of the Congress of Papay (MPNKP). He gave this interview last month in MPP’s training center in the rambling, fertile fields and gardens in the Central Plateau. There, peasants come to practice environmental farming and to learn about food sovereignty, a program of local production for local consumption that small farmer movements are advocating in Haiti and throughout the world. Food sovereignty requires the protection of domestic markets through tariffs on food imports, as well as land reform, native seeds, and technical and environmental support. It also requires the democratic input of citizens into the formation of trade and development policies.

We have to take advantage of this catastrophe and say, “The clock is set at zero.” We have to build another Haiti that doesn’t have anything to do with the Haiti we had before. A Haiti that is sovereign politically and that has food sovereignty. It has to begin by building agriculture.

We peasants have been victims for more than 200 years. The slaves who struggled to get their independence did so in part to get land from the colonialists. But from the moment of independence, the Haitian army generals had the idea that the slaves would remain slaves, working their land instead of the colonists’ land. That led to a division between rich and poor, between people of the city and people of the country. That gave us two countries inside one small country, those of the republic of Port-au-Prince and the republic of ‘those outside.’ ‘Those outside’ are 80% of the population.

We even had two birth certificates: one for peasants and one for people from town. In President Aristide’s first term, we demanded that there be just one.

Almost all services of the state were concentrated in Port-au-Prince. If you needed a passport, if you needed an identity card, if you needed to send your child to college… the Republic of Port-au-Prince was where you went. It was in there, too, that everyone came to find work, because they couldn’t stay ‘outside’, because ‘outside’ has nothing. So it became a city of three million people, one big slum with people building everywhere in chaos, with houses in ravines, with no drainage. We saw the results on January 12; other countries have had much worse earthquakes but only lose a few people. We lost five youth from MPP in the catastrophe because they were at a university in Port-au-Prince. They lost their lives because they wanted an education.

Little by little, the state has abandoned the countryside, leaving the peasants as a marginalized class whom they just use when they need votes in an election.

And now we have Bill Clinton’s reconstruction plan, which is the model of Haiti dominated by the international community. The aid they are giving is not the aid we want. The plan is for Haiti to become a market for international export and for labor in the free trade zones. They speak of comparative advantage, which means that Haiti is a manual labor force. We are supposed to go work in the sweatshops while they send us food aid. This project is opposed to the peasants’ project.

It’s clear that you can’t develop a country and build another Haiti where 80% of the people are excluded. And so one of our objectives in MPP has been to make the countryside become a paradise, where people want to go live instead of having to go to Port-au-Prince to work for potato skins.

Development centered on peasants, with the creation of jobs for the rural milieu, will allow youth to stay in the country. It will allow those who are part of the exodus to rural areas after the earthquake to stay. Most of them are saying, “We want to stay but we need work.” Decentralizing Port-au-Prince and building up agriculture could make that happen. There are other things that could be done in the countryside, too. For example, the [earthquake-struck areas] have so much to rebuild, and construction materials could be made by the rural sector. If we have electricity, if we have schools, if we have work here, no one has a reason to move to Port-au-Prince.

We can establish programs to reinforce peasant and family agriculture to allow the rural milieu to produce food. Today we only produce enough to feed 40% of the population, but we have the potential to make our lands produce enough to feed the whole population and even to export. This must start with giving Haitians access to land, giving them security over it, and getting support for them to develop organic farming, what we call agro-ecology.

The policy we need for this to happen is food sovereignty, where the county has the right to define it own agricultural policies, to grow first for the family and then for local market, to grow healthy food in a way which respects the environment and Mother Earth, which is the mother of the generations.

Today, though Haiti is an essentially agricultural country, we are entirely dependent on the Dominican Republic. We get most of our eggs, bananas, and other things there. Even though it has the same neoliberalism [the free trade policies of globalization] we do, it still has a certain autonomy. For example, they decided they were going to be autonomous in the production of rice; they weren’t going to let Miami [imported] rice and second-hand clothes come into their country. They took measures to make that happen. For us, our free trade policies have inundated our market with imports. Our agriculture has been destroyed.

What we need is for us, the peasant organizations, to manage the food question. Our agenda is agricultural production that includes cattle raising, integrated water management, production of organic insecticides and fertilizer. We will continue with these but we will have to make some changes in our immediate priorities because right now we’re dealing with an exodus from the city, people we need to feed and take care of.

We need to establish seed banks and have silos where we can store our Creole seeds. Local, organic seeds is part of our base of food sovereignty. We have a danger today from countries in the Americas, especially the U.S., Brazil, and Argentina where Monsanto has already developed big farms to produce genetically modified seeds. If they start sending these seeds into Haiti, that is the death of peasants, who since independence more than 200 years ago have protected their seeds. It’s urgent that Haitians buy local seeds. Peasants are saying that they have til March 15 to buy their bean and vegetable seeds. With black peas, in two months you will have food.

What the danger we face today? It’s that food aid from USAID, and others are getting dumped in the country. We recognize that it’s essential in this moment of crisis. There is an urgency to get food in immediately but there’s also an urgency to produce food. We’ll show you the vegetables we can start harvesting after six weeks. In six months we need to start eliminating food aid so that peasants can produce and feed the population. Of course that requires a lot of help with irrigation.

What’s essential is agrarian reform which would allow us to make peasants the masters and the managers of their own land. It’s not possible that an American, a Frenchman, or a Swiss own big plots of land in Haiti. Land must be owned by the peasants who work it, and they need to be able to leave it to their descendants when they die. Along with land, we need credit, technical assistance, and markets to sell our products.

We’re telling everyone that if they want to want to help Haiti with food, they should help us with peasant production. We will need help with water management, we need cisterns, tools, technical support, rural universities. And we need to change the free trade policies. But in four to five years years we could become sovereign in food production.

Beverly Bell has worked with Haitian social movements for over 30 years. She is also author of the book Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance. She coordinates Other Worlds, www.otherworldsarepossible.org, which promotes social and economic alternatives. She is also associate fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies.

Pinga Mouvman peyizan nasyonal kongrè Papay kont yon pwojè diktati nan peyi a

Ayiti-Politik : Pinga Mouvman peyizan nasyonal kongrè Papay kont yon pwojè diktati nan peyi a

mèkredi 4 novanm 2009

Dokiman sa a vin jwenn AlterPresse nan dat 3 novanm 2009

Papay 2 Novanm 2009

(Read the original article here)

Nou menm manm Kòdinasyon Nasyonal Mouvman peyizan nasyonal Kongrè Papay (Mpnkp), ki soti nan 9 kòdinasyon depatmantal, nan reyinyon òdinè nou nan Sant Lakay nan Papay, soti 31 oktòb pou rive 3 novanm 2009… Nan reyinyon sa a, nou te mete yon bon tan pou nou analize konjonkti politik peyi a.

Nan analiz sa a, men sa nou konstate :

1. Sitiyasyon mas peyizan yo, mas moun andeyò yo

Nou wè majorite moun andeyò yo vin pi andeyò chak jou. Leta bliye yo, abandone yo.

Nan anpil rejyon nan peyi a tankou Nòdwès, peyizan yo pa te janm wè lapli depi siklòn yo fini nan mwa sektanm ane pase jis rive nan mwa sektanm ane sa a. Sechrès detri tout jaden peyizan.

Se menm sitiyasyon an nan Nòdès, kote sechrès ap touye bèt.

Nan wo Latibonit, nan wo Plato santral, nan Limonad peyizan yo pèdi rekòt yo.

Kote ki pa gen sechrès tankou nan Sid, se inondasyon.

Pwoblèm anviwònman peyi a se yon katastròf.

Pouvwa Preval la travay sèlman ak kliyantèl politik li nan peyizanri a, sitou nan Latibonit. Si w pa nan Platfòm dezespwa a, ou pa ladan ; si w pa fè pati kliyantèl yon palmantè pouvwa a, ou pa ladan. Se wè òganizasyon peyizan yo wè pakèt traktè ki al kanpe nan lakou meri, nan lakou kay depite, kay senatè. Se wè òganizasyon peyizan yo wè patizan lespwa platfòm dezespwa a ap itilize semans ak zouti pou achte moun nan kanpay elektoral.

CNSA fè konnen grangou a fè yon ti bak. Noumenm k ap viv andeyò a, nou konstate peyizan yo grangou pi rèd. Pwodiksyon diri a fè yon ti monte nan Latibonit. Pwodiksyon pwa fè yon ti monte nan kèk zòn ak mwayen pouvwa a te bay patizan li yo. Majorite peyizan yo pa te janm benefisye anyen.

Byen Leta tounen byen yon sektè politik.

Pa gen anyen ki fèt pou pwoteje Basen vèsan yo, pa gen pwogram konsèvasyon sòl ak rebwazman. Pa gen pwogram kredi. Pa gen asistans teknik pou peyizan yo. Koze refòm agrè pa pale. Sa ki plis ap pale se bay tè peyi a pou plante jatrofa ak pou fè zòn franch. Pouvwa a vle bay miltinasyonal agwobiznis ak konplis yo nan peyi a yon bann tè ki kapab pwodui manje.

Prezidan Preval pa gen okenn politik devlòpman pwodiksyon agrikòl nasyonal. Li sèlman ap voye kèk bagay moute kèk kote nan peyi a ak kliyantèl politik li, ak palmantè ki mare nan pye tab pouvwa a.

2. Sitiyasyon politik peyi a

Sou plan politik, nou dekouvri danje yon diktati anonse pou 30 ane k ap vini yo. Pwojè sa a parèt pi klè chak jou.

Tout moun konnen jan Prezidan Preval te pwoklame prezidan peyi a an 2006. Li te konnen se pa popilarite ki te fè li prezidan. Li te rive fè tout pati politik, ki gen fòs nan palman an, fèmen bouch yo ak yon Ministè pou yo degaje yo. Klas politik la te fèmen bouch li sou sa Palè nasyonal ap fè.

Tout moun klè sou mannèv Prezidan Preval fè pou li kontinye kenbe KEP la anba kontwòl li pou li kapab fè dappiyanp sou chanm depite a ak lòt tyè sena a nan eleksyon k ap vini yo, pou li kapab brase konstitisyon an, nan sans enterè pouvwa pèsonèl li l ap chèche ranfòse ak plis vitès chak jou.

Prezidan Preval pase yon vitès siperyè nan reyinyon li fè ak 570 KASEK peyi a kote li chèche vire lòlòy yo ak tout kalite pwomès pou yo antre nan pati inik l ap kreye a.

Se yon endesans pou prezidan peyi a ap sèvi ak lajan leta pou li seye tabli yon diktati nan peyi a. Sa a, se yon manipilasyon inakseptab.

Prezidan Preval te rive vlope klas politik la nan farin, nan jan li te rive monte yon KEP ki anba kontwòl li. Konsèy Elektoral Preval la remèt nou eleksyon senatoryal nou soti viv la a.

Magouy elektoral yo pèmèt Preval pran kontwòl Sena Repiblik la. Nou kapab wè jan Senatè dezespwa yo voye Premye Minis lan ale. Se yon siy trè klè pou fè dappiyanp sou resous leta yo nan pwojè konsolidasyon diktati a.

3. Sou plan sosyal

Yon pakèt ti moun pa jwenn lekòl pou yo ale oubyen yo pa kapab peye lekòl.

Chak ane, yon pakèt jèn echwe nan bakaloreya. Yo pa anwo, yo pa atè. Sa ki rive pase yo, yo pa jwenn Inivèsite pou yo antre. Yo pa konnen ki sen pou yo rele.

Lamizè fè moun andeyò ale gonfle bidonvil nan Pòtoprens, ale travay kòm esklav nan Sendomeng. Anpil jèn tonbe nan delenkans, anpil tonbe nan fimen dwòg.

Ministè edikasyon nasyonal fè yon pakèt pwofesè travay san touche. Yo deside revoke yo san yo pa peye yo sa yo te dwe yo. Y ap fè presyon sou yo pou yo siyen yon papye ki di Leta pa dwe yo, apre yon ti monnen yo ba yo.

Prezidan Preval pran pozisyon kareman kont travayè yo, lè li anpeche yo touche yon salè minimòm 200 goud. Se domaj yon majorite palmantè kosyone yon desizyon terib konsa pou klas ouvriye a. Sa montre ki mòd politik sosyal pouvwa Preval la genyen. Yon politik sosyal anti pèp. Kout rèl MPNKP

Anfas gwo malè ki pandye sou peyi a, MPNKP ap lanse yon gwo kout rèl pou di tout òganizasyon peyizan yo, tout òganizasyon nan mouvman sosyal la, tout pati politik yo, tout pèp ayisyen an :

a) Pa pran nan kraponnay, nan gwo mannèv manipilasyon Prezidan Preval mete kanpe pou tabli yon pati politik inik. Se echèk total kapital Platfòm politik lespwa a, se paske lespwa tounen dezespwa ki fè y ap chèche fè yon lòt bagay.

b) Fè inite solid andedan òganizasyon peyizan yo pou dezespwa pa pote nou ale. Nou dwe bare tout pwojè anti demokratik.

c) Pati politik ki vle demokrasi yo dwe pran distans yo ak pouvwa Preval la tout bon. Yo dwe fè inite, sitou ant sa ki sanble yo, pou yo bare pwojè ditakti a nan voye mwens kandida posib nan eleksyon yo. Moun ki soufri maladi prezidantit yo dwe chèche trètman.

d) Fè mobilizasyon pou anpeche pouvwa a fèmen lekòl yo epi fè peye pwofesè yo.

e) Rete veyatif pou bloke tout eleksyon fo mamit nan tout kwen ak rakwen peyi a. Pèp la dwe ekzije eleksyon lib, onèt ak demokratik oubyen pa gen eleksyon ditou paske konplo diktati a p ap pase.

Pou Otantifikasyon : Chavannes JEAN-BAPTISTE, Pòlt Pawòll MPNKP

Pou MPNKP,

Depatman Nòdès : Alta Prophete

Depatman Nò : Doudou Pierre Festile

Depatman Latibonit : Viljean Louis

Depatman Nòdwès : Jean Volcy Louis Charles

Depatman Sant : Pierre Louis Dorelus

Depatman Lwès : Jean Volcy Louis Charles

Depatman Sid : Policard Joseph Verlain

Depatman Sidès : Janvier Pierre Oblin

Depatman Grandans : Pierre Dalinstry

Haïti-Agriculture : Plus de 30 mille signatures contre le projet d’agrocarburant “jatropha”

Haïti-Agriculture : Plus de 30 mille signatures contre le projet d’agrocarburant “jatropha”

vendredi 16 octobre 2009

par Ronald Colbert

(Read the original article here)

P-au-P, 16 oct. 09 [AlterPresse] --- Un regroupement de plusieurs organisations paysannes s’apprête à remettre, ce vendredi 16 octobre 2009 (journée mondiale de l’alimentation), au Parlement haïtien une pétition, ayant collecté à date 31,198 signatures, contre le projet d’implantation de la plante jatropha sur les plantations paysannes nationales, observe l’agence en ligne AlterPresse.

“Cette lutte, qui a pris naissance à l’occasion de la tenue du 35 e anniversaire, en mars 2008, du Mouvement paysan de Papaye [1] vise la sensibilisation de toute la société appelée à contribuer dans la mobilisation contre le projet d’extermination des paysans”, souligne Chavannes Jean-Baptiste du regroupement “4 je kontre” (littéralement convergence de deux paires d’yeux), quelques heures avant la soumission de la pétition aux parlementaires haïtiens.

Plusieurs dizaines de paysannes et paysans, en provenance des dix départments géographiques du pays, ont entamé une marche, qui s’est ébranlée devant l’église catholique romaine Sacré Coeur de Turgeau (Port-au-Prince) avec une gamme de slogans et revendications.

“Ti moso tè peyi d Ayiti, zansèt nou yo te kite pou nou an, dwe pwodui manje natif natal pou nouri popilasyon an ; pwodiksyon manje natif natal Wi, pwodiksyon agwokabiran Non ; Aba pwodiksyon gaz pou tank machin lòt bò dlo ; Aba tout pwojè lanmò kont klas peyizan malere yo : Les terres d’Haïti, léguées par nos ancêtres, doivent plutôt server à la production d’aliments autochtones en vue de nourrir la population. Oui à la production agricole nationale, non à la production d’agrocarburants. A bas la production de combustible pour alimenter les réservoirs des véhicules à l’extérieur du pays. A bas tous les projets d’extermination de la classe des paysans”, figurant parmi les desiderata des paysans haïtiens, auxquels s’associent des membres internationaux du regroupement international paysan Via Campesina présents dans la marche, pour la circonstance.

Seule une minorité de personnes, faisant partie des multinationales (dites agrobusiness) peuvent tirer profit de la mise en oeuvre du projet jatropha visant la production d’agrocarburant.

Les organisations paysannes haïtiennes préfèrent parler d’agrocarburant au lieu de biocarburant ou biodiesel (le terme bio se référant à la vie), étant donné que la structure de “modernité” avec la plante “jatropha”, plus connue sous le nom de gwo metsiyen dans le pays, entraînera plutôt une hausse considérable des prix d’acquisition d’hectares de terre, par voie de conséquence une augmentation des prix des aliments, l’expulsion des paysans des terres agricoles, la destruction systématique du milieu ambiant naturel.

“La monoculture (de jatropha) n’encouragera point de protection de forêts. Face aux conséquences du changement climatique, aux perspectives de tarissement des réserves de pétrole dans quelques dizaines d’années, la seule chance (de survie) de la planète réside dans la consolidation de l’agriculture paysanne”, considère Jean-Baptiste.

Au lieu de trouver des voies de sortie de la paupérisation et de la misère, la décision d’implanter la production de jatropha, pour satisfaire les besoins internationaux en carburant, ne fera qu’enrichir les promoteurs de l’agrobusiness dans le monde, y compris Haïti.

Pour le regroupement des organizations paysannes “4 je kontre”, il existe une contradiction flagrante entre les besoins de nourriture de la planète (alors que 2 milliards d’habitants du monde ne trouvent pas assez d’aliments pour survivre) et les demandes mondiales en agrocarburant, lequel combustible joue un rôle non négligeable dans la crise alimentaire mondiale.

“La production d’1 litre d’agrocarburant (à partir du soya et du colza) exige une consommation de 14 mille litres d’eau durant tout le processus. Un litre d’agrocarburant à partir de la betterave demande une consummation de 1,400 litres d’eau. 1 litre d’agrocarburant à partir de la canne-à-sucre a besoin de 2,500 litres d’eau. Et, la production d’1 litre d’agrocarburant à partir de la plante jatropha requiert une utilisation de 20 mille litres d’eau”, rèvèle une recherche conduite par l’université Twente en Hollande.

Le regroupement d’organisations paysannes “4 je kontre” rejette l’assertion, selon laquelle la production d’agrocarburant se ferait sur des terres pauvres dites marginales sur le territoire haïtien.

Or, en considérant le niveau de rentabilité presque nul, sur les terres dites marginales, démontré par divers centres de recherche en Angleterre et aux Pays Bas, il faudrait investir plutôt sur des terres “riches” afin de trouver davantage d’huile.

Des ressortissants de la République Dominicaine ont commencé la production de jatropha sur des terres irriguées à Cerca La Source (Plateau Central, au nord-est de la capitale). La production jatropha est aussi implantée sur des terres arables à Thomonde (Plateau Central) et à Marmont (Hinche), également dans le Nord, le Nord-Est et le Nord-Ouest d’Haïti, dénoncent les organisations paysannes haïtiennes.

“Certes, ce processus de production de la jatropha se réalise sur des terres “riches”. Mais, les “bonnes terres” ne suffisent pas, la jatropha nécessitant l’utilisation de beaucoup d’eau”.

Pour cette question de rentabilité, des pays comme le Mali et l’Inde auraient commencé par abandoner une série de plantations en jatropha.

Pour atteindre leur objectif en l’année 2022, les Etats-Unis d’Amérique auraient besoin de 35 milliards de litres d’agrocarburant.

Dans les meilleures conditions possibles sur la planète, 1 ha de terre pourrait produire entre 1,000 à 2,000 litres d’huile de jatropha (entre 264.55 gallons à 529 gallons). Le Mali produit 600 litres d’huile par hectare. Pour satisfaire 5% de la demande mondiale, le Brésil voudrait utiliser 100 millions d’hectares de terre dans la production d’agrocarburant.

Aux yeux de “4 je kontre”, de graves dangers pèsent sur la planète (en considérant l’Amazonie comme poumon de la planète), voire pour Haïti qui se verrait aliéner une bonne partie de son territoire dans le but de combler les appétits de multinationales “agribusiness”, lesquelles cherchent à susbstituer l’agrocarburant au pétrole.

Une entreprise, basée à Miami et dénommée “Haitian American Agro industries”, aurait déjà initié une production de jatropha sur 100 hectares de terre parmi 21 mille à sa disposition en Haïti.

Est-ce à envisager le début du règne de la douleur, avec l’implantation du projet “de génocide” des paysans, contre lequel “ nous appelons au rassemblement de toutes les énergies, à une prise de conscience dans la société haïtienne pour faire échec au projet d’extermination de la nation”, lance le regroupement de paysans “4 je kontre”.

Le réseau national haïtien pour la souveraineté et la sécurité alimentaires (Renhassa), le Mouvement paysan de Papaye (Mpp), la Coordination régionale des organizations du Sud-Est (Cros), le Mouvement paysan national du congrès de Papaye (Mpnkp), Tèt Kole ti peyizan ayisyen, la coordination nationale des femmes paysannes haïtiennes (Konafap) font partie du regroupement “4 je kontre” qui bénéficie de l’appui de l’organisation non gouvernementale international Action Aid, dans la lutte contre l’implantation de la production jatropha sur les terres en Haïti. [rc apr 16/10/2009 12:00]

[1] Ndlr : localité de Hinche, départment géographique du Plateau Central, à 128 kilomètres au nord-est de la capitale.

"Haiti Is Going From Catastrophe to Catastrophe"

"Haiti Is Going From Catastrophe to Catastrophe"

Michael Deibert interviews Chavannes Jean-Baptiste

Inter Press Service

NEW YORK, Sep 23, 2008 (IPS) - Peasant leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste has been at the forefront of the struggles of Haiti's peasants for over 35 years. Born in the village of Papay in Haiti's Plateau Central, Jean-Baptiste helped found the Mouvman Peyizan Papay (MPP) peasant union as well as the Mouvman Peyizan Nasyonal Kongre Papay (MPNKP), the latter a 200,000-member national congress of peasant farmers and activists.Jean-Baptiste's role is an important one in a nation where, over the past 50 years, 90 percent of the tree cover has been destroyed for charcoal and to make room for farming, with resulting erosion destroying two-thirds of the country's arable farmland.

For his work on behalf of Haiti's peasantry, Chavannes Jean-Baptiste was awarded the 2005 Goldman Environmental Prize, sponsored by the Goldman Environmental Foundation, the world's largest prize for grassroots environmentalists.

In recent weeks, a series of hurricanes have struck Haiti, killing what is thought to be hundreds of people and devastating the country's already-decrepit infrastructure. The United Nations now estimates that 800,000 people are in need of emergency food aid. Haiti is currently the location of a U.N. peacekeeping force numbering over 9,000 uniformed personnel.

IPS correspondent Michael Deibert, who covered Haiti as a journalist from 2000 until 2006, sat down with Chavannes Jean-Baptiste during his recent visit to the United States. The interview was conducted in Haitian Kreyol in Brooklyn, New York, on Sep. 14, 2008.

Read the full interview here.

Congrès du 35 e anniversaire du mouvement de Papaye

Haïti-Paysannerie : Congrès du 35 e anniversaire du mouvement de Papaye (Hinche)

lundi 17 mars 2008
par Ronald Colbert

(Read the original article here)

Papaye (Hinche/Haïti), 17 mars 08 [AlterPresse] --- Le Mouvement paysan de Papaye, localité de Hinche (Plateau Central), à plus de 128 kilomètres au nord-est de Port-au-Prin,ce, débute officiellement, ce lundi 17 mars 2008, les travaux du 35 e anniversaire du mouvement autour du thème « 35 ane lit pou on Ayiti granmoun » (35 années de lutte pour une Haïti souveraine).

Plus de 750 personnes, venant des dix départements géographiques d’Haïti, sont arrivées depuis dimanche soir 16 mars au Sant Lakay, lieu de rassemblement du Mouvement Paysan de Papaye (Mpp), selon les informations obtenues sur place par l’agence en ligne AlterPresse.

En plus des délégués, femmes et hommes, du Mpp, de nombreux invités, dont des militantes et militants du pays, ainsi que d’autres de la République dominicaine, des Etats-Unis d’Amérique et de la France, de même que des membres de différentes organisations et des représentants de médias ont fait le déplacement vers Papaye afin de participer au congrès du 35 e anniversaire.

Le dimanche 16 mars, les femmes et hommes délégués paysans, dont une partie se trouve au Sant Lakay depuis le jeudi 13 mars pour prendre part à une rencontre du Mouvement paysan national du congrès de Papaye (Mpnkp), ont pu s’inscrire et recevoir leurs badges d’identification, des cartes leur donnant droit aux repas pendant le congrès, du matériel de travail ainsi que l’agenda du congrès du 35e anniversaire du Mpp.

La souveraineté alimentaire, la problématique de l’environnement, la participation des femmes et des jeunes dans le combat pour une république haïtienne souveraine, feront l’objet de conférences, d’ateliers-débats du 18 au 20 mars.

Entre-temps, ce lundi 17 mars, après les cérémonies officielles d’ouverture par un acte « mystique » spécifique au Mpp, une foire gastronomique (où seront exposés des produits agricoles biologiques du terroir) aura lieu au Sant Lakay, suivie d’une séance portes ouvertes sur les actions mises en oeuvre par le mouvement paysan de Papaye depuis 35 ans, comme : cassaverie, transformation de fruits, activités agrosylvicoles, production de miel, etc.

Le congrès du 35 e anniversaire du Mpp sera clôturé le jeudi 20 mars 2008 par une marche contre la faim, contre la misère, contre l’injustice sociale, contre l’impunité et contre le programme d’agrocarburants envisagé par le gouvernement du Premier ministre Jacques Edouard Alexis.

A cette marche, où les organisateurs attendent environ 5 milliers de personnes de Papaye à la place Charlemagne Péralte [du nom de l’un des révolutionnaires haïtiens qui ont combattu la première occupation étatsunienne de 1915 à 1934] de Hinche, seront rendues publiques les résolutions issues du congrès du 35 e anniversaire, d’après les informations fournies à AlterPresse.