Calling on the French government to reimburse the 90 million gold francs France extorted from Haitians following Haiti's independence
In an open letter published today in the French national newspaper Libération, more than 90 leading academics, authors and other prominent figures from around the world are publicly calling on the French government to reimburse the 90 million gold francs France extorted from Haitians following Haiti's independence
to French President Nicolas Sarkozy
August 16, 2010
In an open letter published today in the French national newspaper Libération, more than 90 leading academics, authors and other prominent figures from around the world are publicly calling on the French government to reimburse the 90 million gold francs France extorted from Haitians following Haiti's independence.
Amongst the signatories are MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, journalist Naomi Klein, authors Eduardo Galeano and Ariel Dorfman, Princeton professor Cornel West, French philosophers Alain Badiou, Étienne Balibar and Jacques Rancière, and several members of the European parliament, including anti-globalization activist José Bové. Members of the national assemblies of France and of Québec, and Walden Bello, author and elected member of the Philippine House of Representatives, have also signed
Zurück: LiMesse: 1. Libertäre Medienmesse für den deutschsprachigen Raum (3. - 5. September 2010)
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