Haiti
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Interview: Hervé Junior Bijou – Haiti's needs are still desperate
Hervé Junior Bijou returned to Haiti on April 21 for the first time since the earthquake struck in January. He is from the town of Jérémie, where he graduated from law school in 2006. While studying, he co-founded an organization to provide legal assistance to detainees who could not afford an attorney—Haiti has no public… Continue reading
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The plantation called Haiti: Feudal pillage masking as humanitarian aid By Marguerite 'Ezili Danto' Laurent
The champagne bottles were popping at the U.N. for the pledging session’s success – $5 billion, $10 billion pledged for the future. Whose future? What Haitians in Haiti need is a hoe, a tractor, some lifting equipment, so they might not have to use their bare hands to dig out the corpses still under the… Continue reading
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Broadcasting Women's Voices in Haiti's Reconstruction By Beverly Bell
Haitian women have been increasingly vocal and active in social, political and economic issues since the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986. Though it has not come easily, their progress in changing gender relations of power within the home, within social movements and within the nation has been steady. Continue reading
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US military enforces attacks on Haitian unions Pt2 By Didier Dominique
Didier Dominique: Deliberate US policy weakened Haitian farming to create pool of cheap textile labor Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 30 April, 2010: Food Aid Hurts Haiti's Farmers
30 April 2010 US Jewish communities building ties to Haiti Cleveland Jewish News By Larry Luxner PETIT-GOAVE, Haiti (JTA) — Not a single Jew lives among the 170000 inhabitants of Petit-Goâve, nor among the 20000 refugees from … www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2010/04/30/news/nation_and_world/doc4bda01c02f17d202332392.txt Continue reading
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US military enforces attacks on Haitian unions By Didier Dominique
Didier Dominique: US military helping to repress organizing of textile worker’s unions in Haiti Continue reading
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HLLN 29 April, 2010: UPDATE: The Douglas Perlitz Case – Abandoned Children
29 April, 2010 — HLLN Recommended HLLN Links: The Douglas Perlitz Case – HLLN: Page 1 bit.ly/9nt0Oq Perlitz Case – HLLN: page 2 bit.ly/aWGmxx UN Peacekeepers and Humanitarian Aid Workers raping, molesting and abusing Haitian children bit.ly/3yJpcn In this post – Abandoned Children By: Chris Simmons, Fairfield Mirror, April 28, 2010 fairfieldmirror.com/2010/04/28/abandoned-children/ Continue reading
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HLLN 29 April, 2010: Dukens Raphael, Haiti Union Leader Interview: “We’re Looking for Solidarity. Charity We’re Not Interested In.”
29 April, 2010 — HLLN Recommended HLLN Link: HLLN’S To TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT HAITI FORUM Text- bit.ly/bqIRHp Photos – bit.ly/bgs8P4 | Agenda – bit.ly/duoSbh The Plantation called Haiti: Feudal Pillage Masking as Humanitarian Aid bit.ly/929NXS HLLN Photogallery – Djab la di l ap manje nou, se pa vre!…Sa a se blag Timoun yo, sa Continue reading
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For $10 Billion of "Promises" Haiti Surrenders its Sovereignty By Kim Ives
It was fitting that the Mar. 31 ‘International Donors Conference Towards a New Future for Haiti’ was held in the Trusteeship Council at the United Nations headquarters in New York. At the event, Haitian President René Préval in effect turned over the keys to Haiti to a consortium of foreign banks and governments, which will… Continue reading
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Haiti: There Is Aid, and Then There Is US Aid By Paco Arnau
Cuban health workers assisted 227,143 victims of the earthquake. The US assisted 871. Continue reading
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Confronting the Occupation: Haiti, Neo-liberalism, and the US Occupation By Kali Akuno
The three-month marker for the earthquake that devastated Haiti is now upon us. The significance of this marker is not one determined by the Haitian people, but rather by the enemies of the Haitian people and peoples’ movements throughout the world. Continue reading
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Promoting Human Rights: Haiti's Resurrection By Mark Schuller
Today is Easter, an important symbol of rebirth. Christians everywhere rejoice in the victory over death. In Haiti the faithful celebrate in ra-ra bands, processions in the street led by a brass band, often hand-fashioned instruments. Children fly hand-made kites, symbolizing the resurrection and hope. This year there is little cause to celebrate, particularly for… Continue reading
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HLLN 6 April, 2010: Statement of Cuban Foreign Minister at UN Donors Meeting on Haiti | US/Euro pillage masking as humanitarian aid
Below we post the Haiti-Cuba proposal for building health care in Haiti that considers the needs of the poorest of the poor in Haiti and is without the unseemly large budget of the cork-popping champagne fanfare of the UN/Papa-Mama Clinton March 31st media show and pledging session that just took place. Continue reading
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HLLN 4 April, 2010 — After Haiti refugee detainment, Obama must get control of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | Bohoun – Vodun Ceremony to expedite soul of those lost back to the sacred primordial waters
After Haiti refugee detainment, Obama must get control of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | Giving Up the Search for Haiti’s Last Lost American | Vodun Ceremony to expedite soul of those lost back to the primordial waters Continue reading
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What Haitians Want From Americans (and What They Don't) by: Beverly Bell
We asked Haitians in civil society organizations, on the streets, in buses, “What do you want from the US? What help can Americans give Haiti?” Here are some of their answers. Continue reading
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HLLN 3 April, 2010: Relevant points about the Donor's Conference for Haiti
This week former Presidents Clinton and Bush are in Haiti, trying to drum up support for Haitis reconstruction and setting the stage for the upcoming donor conference at the U.N. on March 31. There is no shortage of needs, and even plans to address them. Yet the process has as yet to be transparent. Continue reading
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HLLN 1 April, 2010: Urgent HLLN Action : Ask Obama to release the earthquake victims from US prisons, stop all deportations to Haiti
1 April, 2010 — HLLN Recommended HLLN Link: Contact info at www.margueritelaurent.com/campaigns/campaigntwo/TPS_08.html#sampleTPSletter Please mail letters demanding that the Obama Administration release the earthquake victims from US prisons, provide them with trauma and other medical help, re-unite families, grant humanitarian parole as necessary and stop all deportations to Haiti. CC: erzilidanto@yahoo.com In this post – Rushed Continue reading
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Another worthless UN donor pledging session set for March 31st in New York
Another worthless UN donor pledging session set for March 31st in New York | Changing Haiti’s Paradigm : Haitians must rebuild Haiti not the failed Internationals (UN/USAID/Clinton/IFIs/NGO poverty pimp industry in Haiti) Continue reading
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Solidarity Economy's Role in Haiti's Survival By Beverly Bell
“If it weren’t for solidarity, Haiti wouldn’t be alive today,” is an expression commonly heard here since the earthquake of January 12. Haiti’s history is based on sharing and cooperation—expressed with gifts and solidarity toward those surviving on the margins. These displays usually go unnamed and unnoticed. Continue reading
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Haiti versus Chile: Earthquake Olympics by John Feffer
Chilean citizens enjoy an average income 10 times that of Haitians. Fully 80 percent of Haitians live below the poverty line, compared to fewer than 20 percent of Chileans. Is Chile’s economic development a result of its unabashed embrace of capitalism? In 1970, Chile’s gross national income per capita was also 10 times that of… Continue reading
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