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[Haitinow!]

Si sé vré ké dapré tout réchèch ki fèt, moun kal chèché infomasion tout koté é ki fè ekspérians tout koté gen grangou mété yo dakô ké tout moun ka jwenn manjé vré pou yo manjé si nou éliminé pwoblem yo ki mété yo an kwa pou yo baré wout dévlopman Ayiti-a nou dwé konsidéré travay nan direksion sa- yo. Mwen pral sité yo an anglè pou mwen pa pèdi teknikalité mo yo paské mwen poko telman fô nan kréol teknik. Map travay sou sa toujou. men nan ki direksion nou dwé kontinié travay:

1- Work with the American our Most important and privileged partner towards reaching the understanding that

a) It is in the best interests of Haiti and the United States to halt military and counter insurgency assistance to Haiti because it is used against those working for the changes necessary for abolishing hunger.

b)Work with the American to end all support for agribusiness penetration into food economies abroad from governments and multilateral lending agencies and through tax incentives and other Federal programs( Such as the Overseas Private Investment Corporation)

c)Work with the American to end foreign assistance to governments working against the food security of their people. We can start by demonstrating to those who now seek a solution to hunger how their energies are misfocused.

d) Work with the American to limit foreign assistance only when a genuine redistribution of power over productive assets is underway or demonstrated. Such aid should be in the form of grants, untied to purchase in the United States. Only this way will aid not reinforce patterns of debt dependency.

e) Work within our nation among us to build a democratically controlled and food self reliant economy in Haiti. Urge democartization of acces to land, credit and farm technology. Work to end absentee ownership of our country's food resources.

f)Support the Uniionization of farm workers, as well as worker-managed production units, for example family farms and cooperatives, and worker managed distribution systems to treplace the system of concentrated multinational corporate control over our food resources.

g)Promote Investigative research. The mobilization of public support for the necessary changes will require much new and concrete documentation. As Amor said We need More people like Roger Anglade who would go an provens, to the fields, the country side nan Môn.

h)Educate. Show the connenctions between the U.S. government and Agribusiness oligopolies work against the hungry abroad and the way they work against the food interests of the vast majority of people in our own country.

i) Counter despair. Communicate that countries thought to be hopelessly poor and passive like the people of Taiwan who are helping us now have freed themselves from hunger. Counter despair, but not painting an idealized picture of alternatives. Underestimating the problems can only end up increasing despair. Communicate that in commiting ourselves to this terribly difficult process we do not have to start the train moving:

In every country brave, ordinary people are already fighting for their food rights.

Denyro, Amor, Haiti- Thomas, Naptann those answers are incomplete due to heavy political and historical problems which are specific to Haiti but when I hear people speaking about the Taiwanese miracle I can only praise the specifics of their history, their culture and their realism but not our passivity in Haiti.

Lévé kanpé frèm yo! an nou maché ansanb pou Emansipasion kolektiv la démaré.

Mèsi anpil pou opotinité-a

A bientôt.

National production now! Collective Emancipation now!

My research has been conducted through the Institute for Food and Development Policy.U.S.A.