perfect

i love when you step into your ideals
god you’re such the picture perfect citizen
we’ve all been waiting so long for you
lost track of the time sipping coffee
wishing for a totally immaculate love affair
and not knowing how to get there no place
and in a hurry to forget how it happened
with washing machines rusting in the back
it wasn’t a secret that i loved you it wasn’t 
a secret that wasn’t a secret was a truth
convenient to ignore and bring it up later
as if it wasn’t easy to forget anyway what
with the world falling down twice a day
and me so far away and out of sight 
don’t mind if you do and don’t mind 
if you don’t think so and even so light
on honesty and backwards ass though 
true at times and exaggerated at others
the fabric of life is turning into dough 
cooked and selling out our mothers 
over and over and over and over

SF educators fill Franklin Street to protest payroll debacle (UPDATED) – Mission Local

UPDATED AT 7:05 p.m.: Traffic was halted on Franklin Street as well over 200 educators across some 20 school sites filled the street in front of the
— Read on missionlocal.org/2022/11/sf-educators-hold-protest-empower-paychecks-franklin-street-sfusd-payroll/

With a possible surge of Haitian migrants ahead, the Biden admin weighs holding them in a third country or Guantánamo

There may soon be a mass exodus of migrants from Haiti, and the Biden admin is weighing holding them in a third country or a migrant facility in Guantánamo.
— Read on www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/possible-surge-haitian-migrants-ahead-biden-admin-weighs-holding-third-rcna54610

mimi dances with me

mimi dances with me
            and we swiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing
hand in hand centrifugal 
            splish splash hey where
r u?                 text me back
dnt want u to be sad
              u die or cry or laff
in these days buzz 
             with possibility 
with inevitability
             hey miss u
i miss u too
             your voice
yeah?
          is what keeps me
keep smirking 
         your face 
keep smiling
          better now we know 
oh? 
          yeah
okay
         okay yeah like
no I can’t get into it-
         yeah, okay
okay sure 
         ok

Fanmi Lavalas Press Release October 12, 2022

[unofficial translation by Haiti Action Committee]

Haiti is going through one of the most difficult periods in its history. But this grave situation has begun long before today. The country, specifically the majority population, the main victim, has been suffering greatly as a result of one coup d’etat after another, meddling by the International community, corruption, impunity and a government that is in the service of the economic mafia.

We must remember that since the kidnapping/coup d’etat of February 29, 2004, the occupation of the country has caused more corruption, more massacres in the popular/working-class neighborhoods, more impunity, more hunger, more misery, more actors in the economic sector who have allied themselves with gangs that are increasing the digging of graves daily. Many billions of dollars were spent for the occupation, and for what? The situation has continued to worsen, as we all can attest. This calamity is the result of the 2004 coup.

While the cholera epidemic has re-surfaced to kill more people, prisoners are dying of disease, starvation and mistreatment day and night. When it comes to the excessive cost of gasoline, it has fallen upon us like a deadly bomb. 

If we do not overturn this cauldron of misery, there will be no better life for Haiti. The solution for Haiti is in the hands of Haitians. The mobilization against the system of corruption must not stop. All of us who are opposed to a foreign military intervention, let us put the well-being of our Country before any ambition for political power or any ambition for economic power.
All of those honest forces who represent the economic and political strength of our country, the time has come for us to sit down with respect for each other.

Yes, the time has come to find together how we will stop the machine of insecurity that is spreading death everywhere in the country. Yes, it is not too late!  The future of Haiti is in our own hands, Haitian People.Together, let us safeguard our dignity.

Alone we are weak, Together we are strong, All Together, WE ARE LAVALAS 

Executive Committee of Fanmi LavalasDr. Maryse Narcisse
M. Joël Edouard Vorbe
Dr. Jean Myrto Julien
Agr. Anthony Dessources