Inter Face: KOZEPEP. Charles Suffrard, Evans Louis Joseph, Frito Mérisier (1)
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- Title:
- Inter Face: KOZEPEP. Charles Suffrard, Evans Louis Joseph, Frito Mérisier (1)
- Program Name:
- Inter Face
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- Date:
- November 20, 2001
- Description:
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Twa responsab KOZEPEP - Charles Suffrard, Evans Louis Joseph, ak Frito Mérisier -- sot fè yon konferans pou laprès aprè kèk mwa silans. Yo deklare yo pa t anba pay; yo t ap obsève. KOZEPEP ap elaji misyon li, soti nan obsèvasyon eleksyon pou l tounen yon gwoup presyon k ap lite pou dwa peyizan ak pwodiksyon nasyonal. Kriz politik Ayiti a pa fòt peyizan yo; se yon kriz klas politik la te kreye, te envante. Yo pale sou pwoblèm pwodiksyon nasyonal afwonte nan peyi a, sitou kesyon angrè k ap vann twò chè. Suffrard, ki se yon kiltivatè diri, Joseph, ki se yon kiltivatè bannann, ak Mérisier, yon plantè kafe, dekri koman yo viv pwoblèm sa yo nan sektè pa yo. Lè pa gen ase pwodiksyon agrikòl, gen grangou -- pa ka gen lapè nan vant si kiltivatè Ayiti yo pa pwodwi ase danrè. Yo pale tou sou yon kanpay alfabetizasyon leta lanse. Pou envite yo, alfabetizasyon se yon bagay ki nesesè pou peyizan yo ka patisipe nan demokrasi, men kanpay sa a se yon gaspiyaj lajan, kote kèlke eli ap pwofite san kanpay la pa touche pifò peyizan yo. Dapre Suffrard, "peyizan alfabetize peyizan pandan y al nan konbit. Majistra pa kapab alfabetize peyizan." Pou fini, yo pale kesyon jistis, sitou jistis pou Jean Dominique, ak pwochenn pa KOZEPEP pral pran.
Three leaders of KOZEPEP -- Charles Suffrard, Evans Louis Joseph, and Frito Mérisier -- have recently held a press conference after several months of silence. They were not in hiding, they clarify, they were observing. KOZEPEP is expanding its mission from election monitoring to advocacy for peasant rights and domestic agricultural production. Haiti's political crisis is not the fault of its peasant farmers; it is a crisis created and invented by the political class. They discuss the problems facing domestic production in Haiti, particularly the unaffordability of fertilizer. Suffrard, a rice farmer, Joseph, a plantain farmer, and Mérisier, a coffee planter, describe how these problems affect their respective sectors. The lack of agricultural production leads to widespread hunger -- there cannot be peace in the belly (lapè nan vant) if Haiti's farmers cannot produce enough food. They also discuss the recent national literacy campaign. For the speakers, literacy is necessary for Haiti's farmers to participate in the democratic process, but this latest campaign has been a waste of money that has allowed a few elected officials to profit while not benefiting the majority of rural Haitians. According to Suffrard, "peasants teach one another to read, when they participate in a konbit. The mayor can't teach peasants to read." Finally, they discuss justice, particularly justice for Jean Dominique, and KOZEPEP's next steps.
Trois responsables de KOZEPEP – Charles Suffrard, Evans Louis Joseph et Frito Mérisier – ont récemment tenu une conférence de presse après plusieurs mois de silence. Ils déclarent qu'ils ne se cachaient pas, mais observaient. KOZEPEP a décidé d'élargir sa mission, passant de l'observation électorale à la lutte en faveur des droits des paysans et de la production nationale. La crise politique haïtienne actuelle n'est pas la faute des paysans ; elle a été créée et orchestrée par la classe politique. Ils abordent les problèmes qui limitent la production nationale, notamment le prix inabordable de l'engrais. Suffrard, qui cultive le riz ; Joseph, les bananes plantain et Mérisier le café décrivent les problèmes auxquels font face leurs secteurs respectifs. La production agricole nationale ne suffit pas pour alimenter le peuple, ce qui crée une famine généralisée – il ne peut y avoir « la paix dans le ventre » tant que les paysans haïtiens ne peuvent pas produire assez de nourriture. Ils se penchent aussi sur la récente campagne nationale d'alphabétisation. Selon eux, savoir lire et écrire est nécéssaire pour que les paysans puissent participer au processus démocratique, mais cette campagne fut un gaspillage d'argent et ne profita qu'à quelques élus et non pas à la majorité des habitants ruraux. Selon Suffrard « les paysans s'apprennent à lire les uns aux autres lors des konbit. Ce ne sont pas les maires qui peuvent leur apprendre ». Ils discutent enfin de la justice, notamment vis-à-vis de Jean Dominique, et des prochaines étapes pour KOZEPEP.
- Program Type:
- Interview
- Subject:
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- Grassroots organizations
- Gwoupman
- Organisations de base
- Peasant rights
- Dwa peyizan
- Droits des paysans
- Electoral crisis (2000)
- Kriz elektoral (2000)
- Crise électorale (2000)
- Hunger
- Grangou
- Faim
- National production
- Pwodiksyon nasyonal
- Production nationale
- Food security
- Sekirite alimantè
- Sécurité alimentaire
- Rice
- Diri
- Riz
- Fertilizer
- Angrè
- Engrais
- Coffee
- Kafe
- Café
- Agriculture
- Agrikilti
- Literacy
- Alfabetizasyon
- Alphabétisation
- Justice
- Jistis
- KOZEPEP
- Artibonite (Haiti)
- Latibonit
- Arcahaie (Haiti)
- Akayè
- Sud-Est (Haiti)
- Sidès
- Location:
- Language:
- Haitian; Haitian Creole
- Tape ID:
- RL10059CS1153
- Rights:
- Limited Re-UseCC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- Rights Note:
- This recording may contain material that was not originally created by Radio Haiti and therefore not covered by the Creative Commons license indicated here. For more information see https://repository.duke.edu/dc/radiohaiti/about#copyright.
- Digital Collection:
- Radio Haiti Archive
- Source Collection:
- Radio Haiti audio recordings, 1957-2003
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- 49ff7c1a7a02ade73cfe6f6c24143b6d
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- RL10059-CS-1153_01
- ark:/87924/r4br8r237
- e8169abc-a295-4853-9aea-1a9457b791c9
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