English Interview with Tèt Kole

The Stronger Caribbean Together Podcast is a monthly conversation between the Stronger Caribbean Together project team and Caribbean partners working on the frontlines.

For the first season, co-hosts Kristinia Doughorty and Dr. André Habet talk to people from the regional Stronger Caribbean Together network about the ways their communities are confronting the challenges of disaster capitalism as people across the Caribbean, Stand Stronger Together: ‘United Against Disaster Capitalism.’

For the second episode, Kristinia and André are joined by Pierre Mary Louise, one of the leaders of Tèt Kole, an organization fighting for peasant rights in Haiti. Tet Kole is a Haitian food producers’ organization birthed through peasant and social struggles for survival and freedom from political disasters, in the form of repressive regimes, extractive political economy and internationally abetted state violence against the nation. During the conversation, Pierre discusses the vision and organizational strategy of Tet Kole as a community-based organization founded in the context of state crises and violence, and seeking food sovereignty as a basic right against vulnerability to disasters and disaster capitalism.

To learn more about the work of Tèt Kole visit ⁠strongercaribbeantogether.org⁠.

To read a transcript of this episode, visit https://strongercaribbeantogether.org

The theme song was composed for this podcast by Alexander Evans. You can find him on Instagram @alexanderevansmusic

This podcast was produced through a grant from the Open Society Foundations.

Resources

To learn more about the massacre of 1987 read the following

Inter-American Commission of Human Rights Report

https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/57428

United Nations General assembly report

https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/424938?ln=en

Haiti: 36 years after the massacre, the peasant struggle continues

https://viacampesina.org/en/haiti-36-years-after-the-massacre-the-peasant-struggle-continues/