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We Have Dared to Be Free: Haiti's Struggle Against Occupation Kindle Edition

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Dady Chery’s We Have Dared to Be Free was written between 2010 and 2015. This book is based on a lifelong wealth of knowledge, and it is essential to understand Haiti’s complex and extraordinary journey.

Dady Chery was born and raised in Haiti and, as such, is proud to call herself natif natal. Before the 2010 earthquake, her professional life was wholly dedicated to science. Like so many Haitians, either still living on the island or from the diaspora, the quake turned her life upside down. It was a wake-up call for Chery. Since then she has given a voice to the voiceless and worked to make Haitians proud of their rich culture and unique history. In her lexicon, Haiti should not be called the poorest nation of the Western hemisphere but, rather, the only republic from a successful slave revolution.

Before Chery came on the scene in 2010, the English-language journalistic narrative about Haiti was mainly controlled by a few Western journalists, whom she calls colonists of the mind, or often took the form of frustrated rants from the diaspora. Much of Dady Chery’s information is unavailable in English anywhere else. She offers a crisp, beautifully written discourse that allows us to connect the dots to see the bigger picture. Haiti has been a runaway experiment in humanitarian imperialism since 2004. Chery points out that the methods refined there by the United States and its collaborators in the United Nations mission and non-governmental organizations are already coming home to roost.

We Have Dared to Be Free is a five-year literary journey through destruction, pain, occupation, corruption and death, from which Dady Chery brings her compatriots and all people who are oppressed the tools to overcome adversity and the sense that adversity can and must be overcome. – Gilbert Mercier, News Junkie Post

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Dady Chery, Ph.D., is a Haitian-born writer, journalist and associate professor in the biological sciences. She is the co-editor in chief of News Junkie Post and editor of the online news site Haiti Chery. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B012V8HGS2
Publisher ‏ : ‎ News Junkie Post Press (28 July 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4666 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 334 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0996653503

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Dady Chery, Ph.D., is a Haitian-born writer, journalist and associate professor in the biological sciences. She writes extensively about Haiti and world issues such as climate change. Her many contributions to Haitian news include the first proposal, on October 22, 2010, that Haiti's cholera had probably been imported into the country by the United Nations, and the first description of Haiti's mineral wealth in the popular news.

Dr. Chery is the editor of the online news site Haiti Chery (at dadychery.org), where her articles regularly appear. Her work has been published in News Junkie Post as well as Alternet, Black Agenda Report, Buzzflash, Canada Haiti Action Network, Climate & Capitalism, CounterPunch, DESACATO, Global Research, Haiti Liberte, OpEd News, Popular Resistance, RT Op-Edge, San Francisco Bay View, Synthesis/Regeneration Magazine,Venezuela Analysis, Z Communications, and other publications. Her articles have been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Japanese.

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Meltem Arikan

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 August 2015

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I Highly recommend this book!
I read it, laughed and got really really mad, learned and thought on it, and loved it! Thank you for speaking your heart out for Haiti lovely Dady! You spread the spirit of Haiti with this fantastic work!

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The Goss

The Haitian soul on fire to be free

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 August 2015

Dr. Dady Chery, world authority on her native Haiti, takes the reader on a pilgrimage through the political manoeuvres used to try to subjugate a proud people. For more than 200 years Haiti, unlike other Caribbean islands, enjoyed independence from slavery following the rebellion led by Toussaint L'Ouverture in 1793. After independence traditional methods of force were used to try to overcome native Haitians and turn them into slaves of the white man once more. "One after another, the Spanish, French and British fleets came to subdue the "barefoot savages," and one after another these Europeans ran away with their tails between their legs."

In 2004 came a coup which overthrew the legitimately-elected government of Aristide, since which time people-power has been virtually eroded. Where once there were elected mayors, today the president selects compliant puppets. Aristide was exiled and the party he led, Fanmi Lavalas, was not allowed to stand candidates for above a decade, after which its power-base had all but vanished. Today the people have no real political representation and elections have become a farce. For their own benefit this has got to change.
More recent methods of subjugation have been increasingly devious using powerful international organisations and NGOs. Examples include USAID, the Clinton-led IHRC, and, following the devastating earthquake, UNISTAH forces, which gave Haiti its first ever cholera epidemic. Also after the earthquake came the displacement together with the stolen children sold predominantly to white families when there were relatives in Haiti who could bring them up. On top of that local traditional trades and industries were killed off by the introduction of western economic models which make the rich richer creating at the same time a pool of 80% unemployed. Dr. Chery carefully covers this 'humanitarian' imperialism exposing it for what it is as she leads the reader through the struggles of current political battles facing Haitians against the colonial control freaks at the helm.

What is really great about this book is the writing. Yes, it is a history book, a sociology book, an ecology book, and yes, it does have a political message, but what elevates it above the commonplace is the moving language in which it is written. Dady Chery is a poet and this book has its own soul. There is a fire in the hearts of Haitians which cries freedom. That fire will never be extinguished and its glow is felt on every page. Buy it. You will not be disappointed.

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