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Source: https://x.com/fedofutbol/status/2106570773263696264?s=46&t=DWRb9tZrTK\_UvNuJF01isA

Mwen pa menm konnen kisa pou m di sou sa😔

29 y/o Nathalie Belizaire, is facing four felony child-neglect charges after police say she left her four children ages 2 months, 2, 7 and 9 home without an adult while she went on a Bahamas cruise for 3 days.

And apparently the only reason anyone found out was because the father of the 2-month-old saw what looked like a cruise ticket on her WhatsApp story.

He says she told him the children were staying with their great-grandmother. He contacted the great-grandmother and learned the kids weren't there.

He went to the apartment, heard the children inside and called 911.

Police and firefighters entered the apartment and found all four children together scared in the bathroom.

Their great-grandmother reportedly told popo that Nathalie was supposed to bring the children to her before leaving, but never did and Nathalie's brother reportedly told popo she asked him to check on the kids, not stay there with them. Police were waiting for her as she was getting off the cruise ship. She was arrested and charged with four felony counts of child neglect.

Nathalie claimed that she did arrange for someone to look after her children and accused her baby daddy of setting her up. But popo say when they entered that apartment, the four children were there alone with no adult in sight.

Mwen pa konprann sa ditou.

First Trinidad, 3-2, then Costa Rica 2-0, and last night BWA POU St. Dominque!

ON. THEIR. TURF. 4-1!😝😝

Louicius Deedson opened it in the 9th

Wilson Isidor scored in the 51st. Then lsidor AGAIN in the 67th.

Yassin Fortuné finished it in the 76th.

DR couldn't score again. Our keeper SHUT IT DOWN!🤣

Haiti is carrying that World Cup momentum right into the Nations League.🏆

TOUP POU YO!🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹

This game was craaaaaazy!😅

Haiti is down 2-1 to Trinidad & Tobago at 90 minutes.

Game is basically over. Then at 90+1, Metusala said "nah, we're not losing this", and scores tying us 2-2...at that point I'm like okayyyyy, we stole the draw. l'l take it.

But then Isidor says "KOOL NON, KOOL NON"🤣 at 90+8 GOALLLLLLL! 3--2 HAITI!! The Trinis weren't ready!😝

Last damn play of the game, our boys came through!🙌🏾

Grenadye alaso.🇭🇹

And be honest 👀 who else thought that game was DONE at 90 minutes? 😂

On April 20, 1990, over 50,000 to 100,000 Haitian Americans and supporters organized a massive protest, marching from Brooklyn across the Brooklyn Bridge to lower Manhattan to challenge the FDA's discriminatory ban on blood donations from people of Haitian descent.

In 1983, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) incorrectly and unscientifically classified Haitians as a high-risk group for HIV/AIDS alongside homosexuals, hemophiliacs, and heroin users.

In early 1990, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended a formal ban preventing people who emigrated from Haiti from donating blood, citing unproven risk factors despite available screening technology. The policy fueled severe xenophobia, job loss, housing discrimination, and social stigma against the thriving Haitian population in New York.

Up to 100,000 demonstrators, joined by supportive cab drivers, flooded lower Manhattan and completely halted rush-hour vehicular traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge and near Wall Street. The unprecedented scale and unity of the demonstration shocked political leaders, and the FDA ultimately rescinded the discriminatory blood donation restriction months later.

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/21/nyregion/fda-policy-to-limit-blood-is-protested.html

https://nacla.org/haitian-community-needs-another-march-brooklyn-bridge/

A friend of mine, Sidney, is behind Grown in Haiti, and I wanted to share it because this is the kind of work that deserves to be seen.

They’re based in Cap Rouge and focus on restoring degraded land, strengthening local food systems, supporting farmers, sharing seeds, planting trees, and teaching regenerative agriculture. So far, they’ve already planted and distributed more than 25K trees, supported 50+ farming families, and hosted 75+ workshops and trainings.

The work is founded by Haitians, led by Haitians, and built around local farmers and local knowledge instead of outsiders coming in and deciding what Haiti needs.

We talk a lot about everything that is wrong in Haiti. We should also make space for Haitians who are actually doing the work to rebuild something from the ground up.

If you can donate, volunteer remotely, share their work, or even just follow what they’re doing, please check them out.

They’re a registered 501(c)(3), and they have ways to support even if you’re outside of Haiti.

Grown in Haiti

Let me be VERY CLEAR about what bothers me here.

Its not just the $3,000. IT'S THE AUDACITY OF IT ALL.

If two centuries of foreign intervention hadn't effed up Haiti's institutions in the first place, we wouldn't be having a conversation about what a Haitian doctor can do with $3,000.

FRANCE MADE HAITI PAY THEM BACK FOR THEIR OWN INDEPENDENCE AFTER PAYING IT FOR IT IN BLOOD.

The US occupied Haiti for nearly 20 years, took control of its finances and stuck their noses in its political system. And generations later, Haiti is still being told what its recovery should look like from outside.

Haiti's government contracted a foreign private military company to conduct armed drone operations against gangs and coincidentally, the US licensed that company to provide defense services. So obviously when governments decide something is important, (especially when their pockets can be lined up) money can be found and tons of equipment can be purchased.

$3,000 for professionals?! Lol what a joke! This isnt't start up money, its a godamn bribe because their ice agents can't get enoug people out here fast enough, but I digress....

Doctors need a functioning hospital, engineer needs roads, electricity, water systems and institutions capable of completing projects. A lawyer needs courts that function.

Scholars need schools and universities, businesses need electricity, banking, customers, roads and security.

And people need to be able to go to work without wondering if they will be kidnapped or killed on the way there.

$3,000 isn't going to solve that.

Powerful institutions keeps deciding what Haiti needs from outside of Haiti. Meanwhile Haiti has an enormous diaspora full of doctors, nurses, engineers, attorneys, professors, accountants, business owners and tradespeople who have spent decades building careers all over the world but havenothing to come back to, to invest that knowledge for the betterment of Haiti.

The nerve to call 3K an "entrepreneur's dream" is a slap in the face of Haitians.

Money for control. Crumbs for Haitians. 🇭🇹

Pierre Damas Bel was 20 years old.

He was living in Springfield, Ohio. He came to the United States in 2024 to reunite with his parents, and graduated from Springfield High School with distinction, he joined JROTC, and had started college. He wanted to study in the medical field.

After they ended TPS for Haitians, Pierre still had an asylum application pending. ICE called them into their offices and placed him under electronic monitoring with a GPS ankle monitor. According to his family, this affected him deeply.

Pierre wrote publicly about what wearing the monitor was doing to him. He said he came to the United States to get an education, not to commit a crime, and described living with a feeling of shame and humiliation. He was also worried about how he was supposed to participate in college sports while wearing a monitor. He played varsity soccer.

His father told the Washington Post that Pierre e felt like he was being treated like an animal.

Just yesterday morning, Pierre stopped his vehicle on the shoulder of I-70 near South Vienna, Ohio. According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, he got out of the vehicle, entered the westbound lanes and was struck by a tractor-trailer. He died at the scene.

His family says Pierre died by suicide and that he had become increasingly distressed about the ankle monitor and the possibility of being deported.

Authorities have not publicly classified his death as a suicide, of course, but that is his family’s account of what happened.

Pierre was 20.He was going to college. He had plans for his life, now his family to bury him.

If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis in the U.S., call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. You can also chat through 988lifeline.org. If there is an immediate danger, call 911.

The type of shit that would make me self-deport smh. DHS removing criminals is whatever, but putting fear into the TPS holder community, knowing how it affects Americans too is crazy. We get it the administration has a point to prove but sheesh.