By Nnamdi Lumumba
On December 13, 2011 the Haitian government announced a
partnership with two well known tools of U.S. imperialism, the Organization of
American States (OAS) and the Non-governmental organization Teachers Without
Borders. Both organizations are front organizations for carrying out U.S.
policy in formally colonized and neo-colonialized nations.
Supported by the neo-colonial U.S. puppet government in
Haiti, Dr Frantz Casseus, chief of staff of the Education Minister, was quoted
as commending the OAS for this initiative and reiterated continued support from
his ministry. Over the next three years, the OAS will facilitate training for
more than 260 teachers.
Dr. Casseus is commending the OAS, an organization formed by
the infamous imperialist General George Marshall when he was the U.S. Secretary
of State. The OAS was created with the explicit purpose of fighting socialist
democracies from taking root in the Americas.
As early as 1960, the Cuban administration correctly
characterized the OAS as the "Ministry of Colonies" of the United
States of America. In 1962, at the
instruction of the U.S., the nation of Cuba was suspended from the OAS as an
active member. The wording of the
resolution put forward for Cuba’s suspension spoke directly to the fact that
Cuba was a worker’s state that defeated and expelled blood sucking white
nationalist and capitalists. It called Cuba’s socialist democracy, “…
incompatible with the principles and objectives of the inter-American system.”
Teachers Without Borders are an NGO founded
in the U.S. in 2000. It puts forward an agenda that articulates itself as a
tool to help teach educators in poor nations teach its children better. It
promotes its agenda with the following programs: Certificate of Teaching
Mastery, Emergency Education, Peace, Education, Millennium Development
Ambassadors, Voice of Teachers Radio Show and Voice of Teachers Journal. None
of these education programs seem capable of criticizing imperialism, capitalism
and the oppression of the laboring peoples of the world by parasitic ruling
classes.
Teachers Without Borders, like so many of
programs that send young U.S. teachers throughout the world are similar
function similar to the Peace Corps. An organization that on its face pretends
to be about helping people but in reality helps feed the U.S. intelligence
gathering services.
No nation of formally enslaved, colonized and
oppressed people can be gullible enough to believe an imperialist nation like
the U.S. is sincerely interested in education of the masses. Within the U.S.
borders, the education system provided to domestically colonized Africans,
colonized Mexican and other indigenous people serve to reinforce the
socio-economic relationship of parasitic white power. There is no education to teach African people
how to be free and self-determined. There can be no such education exported
outside the U.S!
The education received by colonized peoples
only attempts to deepened their dependency and allegiances to the forces of
imperialism. This is not an education that can be used to answer our issues and
solve our problems. In the words of Chairman Fred Hampton Sr, “ You’ll get
answers that don’t answers and conclusions that don’t conclude…”
Pan-African Internationalists must build the
capacity to develop our own programs that will train and transport educators
throughout the African and oppressed world. We must engage in the work of
building dual and contending institutions so the people can clearly see what
forces in the world represent their true interests. African educators must not only be committed
to educating the people but also arming the people with knowledge that serves
their need to be free and independent on their own terms.
Pan-African Internationalists must be clear
that Dr. Casseus’ support of the OAS is a veiled support for U.S. imperialist
control of Haiti and the brains of our African people. It is doubtful that any support by the OAS
and Teachers Without Borders that does not come without a struggle by
progressive and revolutionary nations in the Americas can be good for Haiti or
any member state.
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