Haiti
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Community and Popular Radio in Haiti Today By Beverly Bell
I ask Sony to tell me about the importance of community radio in Haiti, the first priorities for rebuilding it, and the role it can play in reconstructing a just Haiti. First, he clarifies my terminology. SAKS works with community radio, but views itself as part of the network of popular radio, which he defines… Continue reading
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Mass protests greet Sarkozy visit to Haiti By Alex Lantier
Sarkozy, the first French head of state ever to visit Haiti, was greeted with street protests by thousands of Haitians demanding the return of elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Ousted by a US- and French-backed coup in 2004, Aristide was flownto the Central African Republic, a former French colony. Aristide now lives in exile in South… Continue reading
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Bringing Hope to Haiti By Chris Meagher
Even before January’s earthquake, Haiti often was described as devastated. A tragic history of natural disasters and corrupt leaders had contributed to making the country the poorest in the Western Hemisphere: Seventy-eight percent of its 8.9 million inhabitants make less than $2 a day; 52 percent of the adult population is illiterate; major infectious diseases… Continue reading
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Protesters clash with police following rain in Haiti By Kevin Pina
At 4:30 am as the rain began to fall a collective wail could be heard rising from the makeshift camps of those left homeless due to a massive earthquake that rocked Haiti on January 12. Cries of helplessness and misery quickly turned into shouts of anger and invectives against Haitian president Rene Preval as thousands… Continue reading
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HaitiReport: As Haiti Toll Revised to 230k, Reed Lindsay Reports on Scarcity of Aid
It has been a month since the earthquake struck Haiti, and now it is carnival weekend. Instead of three days of dancing and singing – all of Haiti rejoicing and celebrating together – there will be three more days of fasting. With $600 million raised for Haiti it is incomprehensible that the conditions for the… Continue reading
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U.S. Attempts to Erase Haitian Nationhood By Glen Ford
Proud Haiti has been reduced to a de facto ‘protectorate’ of the United States – a grotesque form of non-sovereignty in which the subjugated nation is ‘protected’ by its worst enemy. Namibia under white-ruled South African administration comes to mind, although in Haiti’s case the United Nations does not even pretend to be on the… Continue reading
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Anonymity in the field By LETICIA MARTÍNEZ HERNÁNDEZ
“You see all of this here? They’ve set it all up. And every time we have a problem, there they are. They’re ‘doctors’ too, but doctors who take care of us.” That is how surgeon Suárez talks about the team of medical electronics technicians who set up Cuba’s five field hospitals in Haiti. In addition… Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 9-10 February, 2010
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
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Haiti: Four weeks after earthquake hunger sparks growing protests By Bill Van Auken
On Sunday, Haiti saw one of its largest protests since the January 12 earthquake, as four weeks after the disaster, frustration with continuing hunger and homelessness mount. Thousands of demonstrators, most of them women, marched through the streets of Petionville, a Port-au-Prince suburb, denouncing the local mayor, Lydie Parent, for hoarding food for resale and… Continue reading
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U.S. "missionaries" had tried to take 40 other Haitian kids | Haitian man survived 4 weeks in rubble | Ezili Danto interview on situation in Haiti
Ten Americans in Haiti already charged with kidnapping 33 Haitian children. Officer says that the group had tried to take another group of kids out of country illegally Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 8-9 February, 2010
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
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Action Alert: A call for help from Croix-des-Bouquets at zone Li Lavoix, Haiti
Zili, he said, I’m taking care of 1500 children in Croix-des-Bouquets at zone Li Lavoix along with their families since the earthquake. We need help. We need food, water, medicine, tents and, and flashlights. Continue reading
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Pierre Labossiere on Haiti: ‘This is criminal’
As Haitians organize to rebuild their lives in the midst of an escalated military occupation, we demand that the Obama administration stop its destructive interference in Haiti. Haitians must be at the head of relief efforts and the long term rebuilding of their country. Fanmi Lavalas, the democratic grassroots movement of Haiti, must be at… Continue reading
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GLOBAL RESEARCH FUNDRAISING INITIATIVE FOR HAITI
Global Research, in collaboration with AKASAN (Haitians Helping Haitians) and the Canada Haiti Action Network (CHAN), is launching a Haiti fund raising campaign in support of Haitian grass-roots initiatives. Continue reading
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Child Slavery in Haiti By Stephen Lendman
In November 2009, PADF published a report titled, ‘Lost Childhoods in Haiti: Quantifying Child Trafficking, Restaveks & Victims of Violence.’ It’s a disturbing picture of ‘extremely poor children who are sent to other homes to work as unpaid domestic servants,’ and end up being beaten, sexually assaulted, and exploited by host families. Later, in their… Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 8 February, 2010
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
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HLLN 7 February, 2010 – Ratcheting up genocide in Haiti
Before earthquake the killing was by UN bullets, exclusion, NGO false benevolence, US false charity and cruel immigration laws. After Jan 12 it’s all those PLUS our people are allowed to die of critical earthquake injuries, starvation, suffering, trauma and thirst Continue reading
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Relief, Occupations and the Haiti Crisis by Justin Podur
Justin Podur visited Haiti in 2005 to study the UN occupation and the government after the 2004 coup. This is a recording of a public event that took place in Toronto on February 2, 2010 at the Centre for Social Justice. Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 7 February, 2010
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
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Letter to Haiti by M. Nourbese Philip
Haiti, I weep for you. I hide my tears because I’m on a flight from Kelowna, British Columbia, to Toronto, and who knows, with all the heightened security I fear they may think something’s amiss. That I’m weeping as a prelude to joining my ancestors. So paranoid have we become. But I weep for you,… Continue reading
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