An open letter to French President Nicolas Sarkozy - August 16, 2010 Aug 22. 2010 | Comments (11)
An open letter to French President Nicolas Sarkozy • En français • Watch the original hoax vidéo • Sign the petition 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. * * *The French government has indicated...