Haiti
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HAITI EARTHQUAKE LIVE BLOG: Bodies Lying in the Streets of Port-au-Prince By Jason Leopold
13 January 2010 3:42 pm PDT: Another aftershock with a magnitude of 5.1 has reportedly taken place between Port-au-Prince and Leogane at 5:21 pm EDT. 3:35 pm PDT: CNN has footage of bodies lying in the streets of Port-au-Prince. The cable network’s Gary Tuchman reports that “no emergency officials in sight, and residents are watching Continue reading
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Haiti Earthquake: With Aid Groups Already There, Relief Efforts Ramp Up Quickly By Sara Miller Llana
The International Red Cross estimates as many as three million people may have been left homeless by Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti. With daylight, a clearer assessment of the scale of the challenge ahead. Continue reading
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Stand with the people of Haiti! – What the U.S. government isn't telling you
At such a moment, it is also important to put this catastrophe into a political and social context. Without this context, it is impossible to understand both the monumental problems facing Haiti and, most importantly, the solutions that can allow Haiti to survive and thrive. Hillary Clinton said today, “It is biblical, the tragedy that… Continue reading
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Haiti Report for January 13, 2010: Haiti Chief Says Thousands May Be Dead
The wailing of survivors pierced the air in pockets of this devastated city on Wednesday as people dug desperately through the rubble of collapsed buildings and piled bodies of the dead on roadsides under white sheets. Huge swaths of the capital, Port-au-Prince, lay in ruins, and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble… Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 13-14 January, 2010
14 January, 2010 Haiti New York Times Once again, the world weeps with Haiti. The earthquake that struck on Tuesday did damage on a scale that scarcely could have been imagined had we all not … www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/opinion/14thu1.html 150 UN staff members remain trapped under rubble in Haiti Washington Post Haiti was rocked on Jan. 12 Continue reading
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Haiti Report for January 11, 2010
– UN Peacekeeping Mission Helping Prepare for Upcoming Elections – Latin American Solidarity Coalition Delegation in Haiti Releases Statement – UN Representative Says Elections are Key to Preserving Progress – UN Secretary General says UN will Provide Security and Logistical Support for Elections – President Preval Promises Fair Legislative Elections, Emphasizes Importance of Stability for… Continue reading
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HaitiReport 11 January, 2010: Elections Without Voters: Eroding Participation in Haiti
Twenty years after its first democratic elections, Haiti is preparing for a vote to fill all but one seat in its Chamber of Deputies and ten of its thirty Senate seats. However, as the election date of February 28 rapidly approaches, the United States and other donor countries should withhold funding and observers from what… Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 5-10 January, 2010
Selected links to stories. Continue reading
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Kiyes nou ye? | Jean Jacques Dessalines, Haiti’s liberator and his three ideals | Paying Homage to Father Gerard Jean Juste: Yon Gwo Mapou Tonbe
These links and pages are posted on the occasion of the 206th anniversary of Haiti’s Independence. We remember we are a BLACK nation with a Vodun culture from mother Africa. We remember Jean Jacques Dessalines, Haiti’s liberator and his three ideals. We remember Dessalines’ Law and that Blacks were the original peoples on the planet,… Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks for 30 December, 2009
This is a new departure for Creative-i. Formerly I used InI to network these daily compilations of newslinks, so we’ll see whether it’s worth the daily effort to do it here. I’m starting with Haiti as it’s a grossly under-reported country and yet another forgotten disaster of the Empire’s making. Continue reading
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Haiti Report for December 30, 2009
The Haiti Report is a compilation and summary of events as described in Haiti and international media prepared by Konbit Pou Ayiti/KONPAY. Continue reading
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US Repression of Haiti Continues
The US government plans to expropriate and demolish the homes of hundreds of Haitians in the shantytown of Cité Soleil to expand the occupying UN force’s military base. The US government contractor DynCorp, a quasi-official arm of the Pentagon and the CIA, is responsible for the base expansion. The base will house the soldiers of… Continue reading
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Haitian Narration By Burleigh Hendrickson
Laurent Dubois’s Avengers of the New World builds on a body of Caribbean scholarship that has been torn between trying to place Haiti’s independence from France into the larger context of late eighteenth-century transatlantic revolution and giving voice to revolutionaries whose histories are not always captured in the archives. Continue reading
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A Giant Step for Mankind – Made in Haïti The Bwa Kay Iman uprising against slavery by Jean Saint-Vil
11 August, 2009 — Ezili’s Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network There was a time, not so long ago, when popes, kings and queens enriched themselves and built vast empires on the profits made with the sweat and blood of kidnapped men, women and children loaded on ships, stacked like sardines and reduced to slavery on plantations Continue reading
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Michael Deibert interviews Haitian Prime Minister MICHÈLE PIERRE-LOUIS
Since her installation as Prime Minister, Pierre-Louis has presided over a stabilising of the security situation in this often politically unstable country, weathered the fallout and relief efforts after a trio of hurricanes killed at least 600 people last year and traveled both within Haiti and internationally to plead her government’s case. Continue reading
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The blood pours: UN soldiers shoot at Haitian mourners outside church funeral of Father Jean Juste in Haiti by Marguerite “Ezili Danto” Laurent
In the fracas, the people immediately took the body of Father Jean Juste to protect it from being vandalized, because when mourners were coming out of the church, the U.N. started shooting. The people also picked up the body of a young man who was killed in front of the church by U.N. soldiers and… Continue reading
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Mourners at Father Gerard Jean-Juste's funeral accuse Catholic church, Haitian leaders of complicity in his death By Marguerite 'Ezili Dantò' Laurent
I listened to the men and women of Veye Yo recount their many bittersweet memories of Father Jean Juste. It was a sad and tragic telling of a life of struggle, suffering and untold persecutions by the church and the political powers, both in the U.S. and in Haiti. Amongst all the telling, two veterans… Continue reading
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Marchers accuse UN of shooting at Haiti funeral By JONATHAN M. KATZ
Marchers accused U.N. peacekeepers of killing the unidentified man during protests surrounding the funeral of the Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste, who was a close ally of exiled former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The protesters are incensed by the presence of foreign troops on Haitian soil. Continue reading
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