Haiti
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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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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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Black Agenda Report 4 August, 2010: Mongrel / White Citizenship / Invisible Negroes / Persecuting Maxine Waters
4 August, 2010 — Black Agenda Report “Mongrels”: Historically, and from Obama’s Mouth by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Barack Obama behaves as if he has no historical or cultural knowledge of “the nation over which he presides.” The president’s labeling of African Americans as “mongrels” reveals an astounding and fundamental disrespect for Black Americans Continue reading
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Stealing La Navassa Island – add it to the list of what's owed to Haiti
20 July, 2010 — HLLN Ezili Danto’s Note: For the third straight time this week, Haitians have requested, that HLLN does not forget La Navassa when we are listing what is illegally taken, by force from Haiti. So I herein, revised this sentenced to the piece HLLN just sent out (http://bit.ly/cmycRv) on “The Ezili Danto Continue reading
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HLLN 7 July, 2010: Emmanuel Dred Wilmè, Haiti's warrior assassinated by UN/US occupiers on July 6, 2005 | “There will always be more Dred Wilmés as long as there is misery and exclusion imposed on Haiti” says participants at Wilme's funeral
“…The Haitian resistance against the Western bicentennial re-colonization of Haiti lives on. Below, we bring again the voice of Drèd Wilme, speaking a few days after the Apaid-hired-gun, Labanye, was killed and the UN occupation troops themselves had entered Site Soleil to continue the Haitian extermination campaign begun when the U.S. Marines kidnapped President Aristide… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 23 June, 2010: No Solution to U.S. Crises / Black Politics Ends / U.S. Social Forum Begins / Fascism Enters Through "Terror" Door
23 June, 2010 — Black Agenda Report America Can’t Solve Crises Because It’s a Company-Owned Town by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Great Gusher in the Gulf is a political, not simply an economic and environmental, crisis. “No amount of public disgust at BP has moved Obama to behave as if he is beholden Continue reading
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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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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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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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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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New on North American Congress on Latin America 22 April, 2010
Soon after the June coup in Honduras, the de facto government unleashed a vigorous PR campaign against ousted president Manuel Zelaya, accusing him of being involved in drug trafficking. This linking of Zelaya to drugs remained a prominent feature of the coup government’s propaganda during its seven-month reign, and offers an insight into the the… 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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New on nacla.org
8 April, 2010 — North American Congress on Latin America Coca-Cola Sued for ‘Campaign of Violence’ in Guatemala by Lisa Skeen On February 25, José Armando Palacios and José Alberto Vicente Chávez, along with their families, filed a lawsuit against the Coca-Cola Company in the New York State Supreme Court. The company is accused of Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 7 April, 2010: Are Blacks Sinking to New Bottom? / Burn Hollywood Burn!
The Black job market is imploding, even as the moneyed classes congratulate themselves on having “turned the corner” toward economic recovery. Alarming Black unemployment patterns indicate that “a perfect storm of racial disadvantage” has occurred. “Virtually nothing prevents the boss from acting out his prejudices and greed with impunity.” There’s nothing “post-racial” about the current… 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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HLLN 24 March, 2010: Haiti's Great White Hope? by JOHN MAXWELL | What's Clinton's empty apology worth to Haiti?
History is littered with treachery. In the noisome Slough of Dishonour are mired thousands of reputations, most of those who betrayed their own countries, like Pierre Laval, Vidkun Quisling, Jonas Savimbi and Augusto Pinochet. 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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