Tèt Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen ( Heads Together Small Producers of Haiti) is a Haitian peasant movement organization. It is one of Haiti’s two national peasant farmer movements. It was born in 1970 under the Duvalier dictatorship and has faced violence at the hands of large landowners.
It is a grassroots organization with a strong presence in rural Haiti. It has a network of local chapters throughout the country. TK’s members are mostly small-scale farmers who are struggling to make a living in a country with a long history of poverty and inequality.
The organization works to promote sustainable agriculture, land reform, and food sovereignty, important in Haiti a vital cause for Haiti where neoliberal policies have led to the decline of peasant agriculture and the abandonment of agriculture to go to the city or to other countries.
Tèt Kole has also been active in the fight against neoliberal policies and the privatization of natural resources, particularly land.
Through it’s international outreach, including it’s membership in the La Via Campesina and the Stronger Caribbean Together (SCT) network, helps to raise awareness of the plight of Haitian peasants, while its work on the ground plays a key role in the development of the country’s peasant movement. TK has also been successful in advocating for policies that benefit Haitian peasants, such as land reform and support for sustainable agriculture.
Showcasing stories of Caribbean organizations at the foreground of the struggle against disaster capitalism in the Caribbean. Our network of participants in the Greater Caribbean region connect, learn, share their hands on responses to the impacts of the twin threats of the climate crisis and disaster capitalism in our region.
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WAVE (Progressive Reform Movement)
Tèt Kole
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