Hommage to Father Jean Juste. Aristide Audio 2009

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The Rev. Gérard Jean-Juste, a Roman Catholic priest who championed the rights of Haitians in the United States and was twice imprisoned in Haiti for his staunch support of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and criticism of the interim government installed in 2004, died Wednesday in Miami.

The cause was complications of a stroke and a lung problem.

He was 62.
Father Jean Juste was the spoke-person of the poor, the homeless, and for all who thirst for justice.

Father Jean Juste was a megaphone for the victims of exclusion, those hungry for love, those suffering from the selfishness of others and inequalities of all sorts.

Father Jean Juste was the flag bearer for Haitian immigrant rights, for those without papers, for those who braved the shark-infested seas and for whom Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is still denied.

Father Jean Juste was a man of justice, his very name called forth what's just. Again in the years to come, we shall hear, all across Little Haiti in Miami, the echo of his voice denouncing discriminatory immigration laws. Through time, his voice shall still wholly resound on Haiti, saying no to violence, no to exile, no to arbitrary arrests, indefinite detentions, no to Coup D'etats.

Jean Juste lives on and it is now that his butchers will tremble.

For without confessing their wrongs and without altering their ways they allowed their victim to die, a man whose heart was filled only with compassion and tolerance.

Marguerite Laurent Tribute
margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/JJTribute.html#honor
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/JJTribute.html
Hommage du President Jean Betrand Aristide a Gerard Jean Juste, Pretoria Africa, May 28, 2009
(Audio Recording of President Aristide Message - MP3)
margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/A...

Gerard Jean-Juste Video on Youtube

"L'entraide fraternelle date du temps où, tous, nous fûmes encore dans les entrailles de l'Afrique-mère'
jafrikayiti.com
http://www.godisnotwhite.com
New York Times Article
nytimes.com/2009/05/29/world/ameri...

Jafrikayiti, May 31 2009, 2:48 AM

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