Haiti
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Nine Months After the Quake – A Million Haitians Slowly Dying By Bill Quigley
The Associated Press reports only 2 percent of the rubble has been removed and only 13,000 temporary shelters have been constructed. Not a single cent of the US aid pledged for rebuilding has arrived in Haiti. In the last few days the US pledged it would put up 10% of the billion dollars in reconstruction… Continue reading
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Report: Haiti Recovery 'Paralyzed'
Refugees International says agencies co-ordinating Haitian relief efforts are “dysfunctional” and “inexperienced”. Continue reading
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Haiti: The catastrophe continues By G. Dunkel
The situation for the homeless in Port-au-Prince is so grim that a 10-minute rain storm with high winds on Sept. 24 left at least five people dead, hundreds injured and thousands of shelters tents, tarps and sheets destroyed. As of Sept. 26 the government had not reported the toll for towns outside of the capital. Continue reading
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Fields of grass, soup kitchens at risk in Haiti By JONATHAN M. KATZ
The soccer pitches and running tracks in the destitute Cite Soleil slum are a physical embodiment of the grassroots aid experts say is needed in Haiti — an example of Haitians helping themselves. Yet despite the billions donated to Haiti after the disaster, L’Athletique and many other small groups are scrambling to stay afloat amid… Continue reading
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Haiti: Partners in Health Works for Justice and Rights By Beverly Bell
Partners in Health is widely recognized as changing the potential for health for low-income people and countries throughout the world. Partners in Health’s extraordinary success comes from its philosophies regarding health and justice, which include a belief in the power and dignity of the patient; a commitment to health care as a human right; and… Continue reading
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France Must Repay Historic Debt to Haiti!
19 August, 2010 — The B u l l e t Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 403 Below is an English translation of an open letter to the French government published in the August 16 French daily Libération, concerning the $21-billion (current dollar equivalent) extorted by France from Haiti from 1825 to 1944. This was Continue reading
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France urged to repay Haiti billions paid for its independence By Kim Willsher
A group of international academics and authors has written to Nicolas Sarkozy calling on France to reimburse the crushing “independence debt” it imposed on Haiti nearly 200 years ago. The debt dates back to when Haiti, then St Dominique, was France’s most profitable colony thanks to slavery. In 1791 the slaves revolted, and in 1804,… Continue reading
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Gender-Based Violence In Haiti By Stephen Lendman
When rape crimes aren’t investigated or prosecuted, violence is implicitly condoned, making illegal acts normal and justice denied. Most victims are girls under 18 – impoverished, displaced and denied redress under the 2000 UN Resolution 1325 and UN Guiding Principles on International Displacement, requiring a gender-based perspective to ensure their human rights, including preventive measures… Continue reading
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HLLN: Ezili Dantò interviewed about Wyclef & Sean Penn | A thorough investigation is necessary: Haiti quake caused by previously unknown fault
11 August, 2010 — HLLN Recommended HLLN Link: Ezili Dantò on Wakeup Call w/ Esther Armah speaking on Wyclef and Sean Penn August 10, 2010 – bit.ly/cPseIE ( Entire one hour WBAI broadcast, here- bit.ly/cu8xzL) Sean Penn and Wyclef Jean: Hollywood, Hip Hop and Haiti bit.ly/bhT38H In 2004 Wyclef voiced support for Haiti rebels as Continue reading
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HLLN 9 August, 2010: Hollywood, Hip Hop and Haiti: Sean Penn on Haiti, his best & worst lines on the Charlie Rose show
Sean Penn on Charlie Rose – recycling unfounded charges against Pres. Aristide, showing his dearth of knowledge, but he does mention ngos are a business and cites Timothy Schwartz’ Travesty in Haiti Continue reading
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Rapper is No Friend of Haiti — Wyclef Opposed Aristide By Charlie Hinton
To cut to the chase, no election in Haiti, and no candidate in those elections, will be considered legitimate by the majority of Haiti’s population, unless it includes the full and fair participation of the Fanmi Lavalas Party of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Continue reading
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Haiti Gears Up for Polls – Again, Sans Lavalas By Wadner Pierre
In the last round of senatorial elections before the earthquake, less than three percent of the electorate participated. Fanmi Lavalas, widely seen as the most popular political party in the country, was excluded from the election on technical grounds, along with some other parties. Now, the party has again been banned from participating in the… Continue reading
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Voices of Haiti Speak Out on Presidential Politics
As Jean, 40, announced his candidacy, he entered a fractious, and an often dangerous, political milieu. The past 40 years in Haiti have included dictatorship, military coups and, in recent times, the death of more than 20 percent of civil servants after the catastrophic Jan. 12 earthquake. Continue reading
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Incompetent, egotistical Wyclef Jean offers only false hope for Haiti By Ansel Herz
The pre-disaster financial improprieties of Jean’s charitable organization, Yele Haiti, have been well documented. To take one example, Jean claims he founded it in 2005 with a personal donation from his multi-million dollar fortune. Records show he didn’t contribute a cent. Continue reading
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The Betrayal of Haiti By Ashley Smith
Six months after Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake, the promises of the world’s most powerful governments to provide billions in aid to one of the world’s poorest and weakest governments have been betrayed. Continue reading
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Child Inmates Crowded Into Haiti's Dangerous Post-Quake Prisons By Alice Speri
Suze is the youngest of 58 minors currently incarcerated in Port-au-Prince’s penitentiaries, held next to adult inmates, with no trial and in degrading conditions, Haiti’s National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) denounced last month. Continue reading
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Haiti's Ransom By Isabel MacDonald
It has been nearly seven months since a devastating earthquake killed upwards of 250,000 people in Haiti. But judging from recent media coverage, it would appear the country’s future hinges on just one question: “Will Wyclef be the next Haitian president?” Continue reading
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Haiti's colonial overlord By Ashley Smith
To the U.S. media, Clinton is a compassionate statesmen, with only the best interests of the Haitian people at heart. Ordinary Haitians have a different view. They remember Clinton as the man who, while president, demanded Haiti follow the ‘Plan of Death’–the neoliberal prescriptions of the IMF and World Bank that ‘structurally adjusted’ the Haitian… Continue reading
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The Haiti story you won't read By Laura Wagner
When I came back to Haiti in early April, after having been injured during the earthquake and evacuated a few days after, I was prepared to be shocked by the transformation of a city I once knew. Instead, what struck me was how quickly I adjusted to empty lots and mounds of broken-down rubble where… Continue reading
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Crossover Dreams: A guide for American journalists: How to report on Haiti when you visit again six months from now By Ansel Herz
Actor Sean Penn, who is helping manage a camp of displaced earthquake victims in Haiti, is making pointed criticisms of journalists for dropping the ball on coverage of Haiti. He’s wrong. I’ve been on the ground in Port-au-Prince working as an independent journalist for the past ten months. I’m an earthquake survivor who’s seen the… Continue reading
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