The last two centuries of colonial domination and looting of Haiti by France and the United States explained in this short video.
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Happy Independence Haiti!
Jean-Jacques Dessalines led armies to defeat France to become the first free colonial society. It was the greatest slave uprising since Spartacus.
It was a powerful reminder that Black liberation Could be achieved.
The French government has joined the German government in stating that international law on genocide does not apply to Israel - that, because Jews have been subjected to genocide, Israel has moral & legal immunity for any war crime, even a genocide, it chooses to commit.
152 @UN staff members have been killed in Gaza since 7 October – the largest single loss of life in the history of our organization.
Still, aid workers, under enormous pressure and with no safety guarantees, are doing their best to deliver inside Gaza.
Nowhere & no one is safe in Gaza.
We can’t effectively deliver humanitarian aid while Gaza is under heavy, widespread & unrelenting bombardment.
We need:
Security.
An environment where staff can work in safety.
Necessary logistics & the resumption of commercial activity.
We need an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza.
To ensure sufficient aid gets to where it is needed.
To facilitate the release of the hostages.
To tamp down the flames of wider war.
The longer the conflict in Gaza continues, the greater the risk of escalation and miscalculation.
We cannot see in Lebanon what we are seeing in Gaza.
And we cannot allow what has been happening in Gaza to continue.
We can’t build a future for our grandchildren with a system built for our grandparents.
The only way to manage the complexity of a multipolar world - and avoid a slide into chaos - is through a reformed, inclusive, networked multilateralism.
People in Gaza are dying not only from bombs and bullets, but from lack of food & clean water, and hospitals without power & medicine.
This must stop.
I will not relent in my call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and the immediate & unconditional release of all hostages.
The refusal to accept the two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians, and the denial of the right to statehood for the Palestinian people, are unacceptable.
The right of the Palestinian people to build their own state must be recognized by all.
How can we accept that Africa still lacks a single Permanent Member in the Security Council?
Institutions must reflect today’s world, not that of 80 years ago.
September’s Summit of the Future will be an opportunity to consider global governance reforms & re-build trust.