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OUR HISTORY
Ayití (meaning mountainous place) is the land of the Taino. It was invaded by Christopher Columbus in 1492. The Spaniards enslaved and killed many of the Taino. They brought the plantation economy and disease. The surviving Taino would integrate into the communities of enslaved Africans that would later be brought by the British and the French to work on plantations. In the 1700s, enslaved Africans, utilizing Vodou, a religion of West African & Taino origins, resisted slavery and waged war on their enslavers. In 1804, Ayití won its independence from English, Spanish, & French colonial rule. It was the first free Black nation. Haitians were forced to pay a ransom to their former enslavers. Over a century later, Ayití would once again be invaded, this time, by the United States. Although the occupation ended, Haitian people are still fighting TODAY for the right to govern ourselves.
OUR WHY
This land project is designed to restore our dignity as descendants of the colonized and enslaved. It will address our basic human need for community and belonging so that we can thrive! This project is intersectional. It centers Black and Native peoples, Trans women and men, non-binary, gender expansive, and intersex people, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and asexual people, darkskinned people, fat people, disabled and chronically ill people (including Long COVID, ME/CFS, and HIV), people who are still resisting COVID and other contagious diseases, poor people, homeless and housing insecure people, sex workers, domestic workers, and other informal laborers, the youth, birth-givers and those who support them, survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, people of the so called “Third World”, people who practice indigenous/animism-based spiritualities, plants, fungi, water, air, soil, insects and other non-human creatures. This project is led by those who exist within these intersections who hold de-colonial perspectives.
OUR OBJECTIVES
Phase 1: Land Back
Liberation starts with land access and we are happy to announce that WE HAVE LAND! 15,000 square feet (~0.34 acres) was donated to us by a Haitian elder whose great wish is for younger people to rebuild Haiti. She has entrusted us with continuing Haiti’s legacy of liberation. Thank you, Michou.
Phase 2: Accessible & Sustainable Housing
The funds will help us build systems: housing, food, water, energy, waste management, and sewage treatment that works WITH the Earth and not against it. Housing will be accessible for wheelchair users. It will be spacious enough to accommodate bodies of any size. It will utilize and recycle garbage to build the structure and clean the Earth. It will grow and expand with us!
Phase 3: Farming
This land will feed us. We will grow our own food, becoming less dependent on the state & private entities for sustenance. Growing our own food means taking back our power and honoring our ancestors who grew food before us.
What are the funds going towards?
These funds will cover the purchase of building materials for adaptive housing, communal spaces, food systems and th cost of labor. Your donation is a show of solidarity.
LAND BACK!
Kreyòl Ayisyen:
ISTWA NOU
Ayití (ki vle di kote ki gen mòn) se tè Taino yo. Kristòf Kolon te anvayi peyi a an 1492. Espayòl yo te fè anpil Taino vin esklav epi touye yo. Yo te pote ekonomi plantasyon an ak maladi. Taino ki te siviv yo te entegre nan kominote Afriken esklav yo ke Britanik yo ak Fransè yo te mennen pita pou travay nan plantasyon. Nan ane 1700 yo, Afriken esklav yo, ki te itilize Vodou, yon relijyon ki soti nan Afrik Lwès ak Taino, te reziste esklavaj epi yo te fè lagè ak moun ki te fè esklav yo. An 1804, Ayiti te pran endepandans li anba dominasyon kolonyal Anglè, Panyòl ak Fransè. Se te premye nasyon Nwa lib la. Ayisyen yo te oblije peye yon ranson bay ansyen moun ki te fè esklav yo. Plis pase yon syèk apre, Ayiti te anvayi ankò, fwa sa a, pa Etazini. Malgre okipasyon an te fini, pèp Ayisyen an toujou ap goumen JODI A pou dwa pou gouvène tèt li.
POUKISA
Pwojè tè sa a fèt pou retabli diyite nou kòm desandan moun kolonize ak esklav yo. Li pral adrese bezwen fondamantal nou genyen pou kominote ak apatenans pou nou ka pwospere! Pwojè sa a entèseksyonèl. Li santre sou moun Nwa ak Natif Natal yo, fanm ak gason trans, moun ki pa binè, moun ki elaji nan sans sèks, ak moun entèseks, moun lezbyèn, omoseksyèl, biseksyèl, ak aseksyèl, moun ki gen po nwa, moun ki gra, moun andikape ak moun ki gen maladi kwonik (tankou Long COVID, ME/CFS, ak VIH), moun ki toujou ap reziste COVID ak lòt maladi kontajye, moun pòv, moun ki pa gen kay ak moun ki pa gen sekirite lojman, travayè sèks, travayè domestik, ak lòt travayè enfòmèl, jèn yo, moun ki bay akouchman ak moun ki sipòte yo, sivivan vyolans domestik ak agresyon seksyèl, moun ki fè pati sa yo rele "Twazyèm Mond lan", moun ki pratike espirityalite endijèn/ki baze sou animis, plant, chanpiyon, dlo, lè, tè, ensèk ak lòt kreyati ki pa imen. Pwojè sa a dirije pa moun ki egziste nan entèseksyon sa yo ki gen pèspektiv dekolonyal.
OBJEKTIF NOU YO
Faz 1: Reprann Tè
Liberasyon an kòmanse ak aksè a tè epi nou kontan anonse ke NOU GEN TÈ! Yon granmoun Ayisyen te ban nou 15,000 pye kare (~0.34 kawo tè), ki te gen gwo swe pou jèn yo rebati Ayiti. Li konfye nou pou nou kontinye eritaj liberasyon Ayiti a. Mèsi, Michou.
Faz 2: Lojman Aksesib ak Dirab
Lajan an pral ede nou bati sistèm: lojman, manje, dlo, enèji, jesyon dechè, ak tretman dlo egou ki travay AK Latè epi non pa kont li. Lojman an pral aksesib pou moun ki nan chèz woulant. Li pral ase laj pou akomode moun tout gwosè. Li pral itilize epi resikle fatra pou konstwi estrikti a epi netwaye Latè. Li pral grandi epi elaji avèk nou!
Faz 3: Agrikilti
Tè sa a pral nouri nou. Nou pral kiltive pwòp manje nou, nou pral vin mwens depann sou leta ak antite prive pou nou viv. Kiltive pwòp manje nou vle di reprann pouvwa nou epi onore zansèt nou yo ki te kiltive manje anvan nou.
Ki sa lajan an pral fè?
La Jan sa yo pral kouvri acha materyo konstriksyon pou lojman adaptab, espas kominotè, sistèm alimanté ak pri travay la. Don ou a se yon demonstrasyon solidarite.
RETOUNEN TÈ!
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