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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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HLLN: Helping Haitians to work | Heavy Rains Destroy Makeshift Camps In Haiti
Helping Haitians to Work |Editorial, New York Times, Heavy Rains Destroy Makeshift Camps In Haiti Continue reading
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Our Hands and Help For Haiti By Elaine Brower
Last week my daughter, Tanya, and I went to Haiti. We packed, with the help of some very good friends, 5 large duffle bags of food and medical supplies to carry to the people who were terribly stricken by the January 12th earthquake, and the ensuing aftermath. Continue reading
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Collapsed House, No Number By Beverly Bell
“Collapsed house, no number” is an old expression that Haitians use to indicate that their flimsy homes of sticks and mud or shoddy concrete blocks have finally fallen apart. Today that expression could serve as the motto for the capital city of Port-au-Prince. 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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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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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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Haiti Newslinks 3-5 February, 2010
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
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Haiti: From the front lines By Flavia Cherry
It is a disgrace for so much money to be circling around to all kinds of aid groups and every single day I see so many people hungry, desperate. This situation is simply not acceptable. There are women in camps who have not had anything to eat for days. There are many available Haitians who… Continue reading
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Haitians will defend their sovereignty Pt.4
Ronald Charles: Three critical things that must be done to solve the problems of Haiti’s future Continue reading
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Spoof: World Economic Forum – Bill Clinton on Haiti
Bill Clinton, former U.S. President, reflects on America’s historic hand in Haiti’s poverty, and on changing the patterns of history Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: HAITI – THE BROKEN WING
In our search of the Lexis Nexis media database (February 3) we checked for articles containing the word ‘Haiti’ over the last month. This gave 2,256 results (some online press articles are not captured by Lexis Nexis). Our search for articles containing ‘Aristide’ gave 47 results. The words ‘Haiti’ and ‘Voodoo’ gave 53 results. The… Continue reading