By Staff, AsiaOne | Editorial comment by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Bangladeshi UN “peacekeepers” have sent home nearly $1.24 billion during the past three years. In 2010 Bangladesh sent its first female MINUSTAH contingent, a group of 110, to Haiti.
Continue reading →By Josh Eidelson, In These Times | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. A turning point in the power of American labor was the passage of the National Labor Relations Act, and especially its 1945 Taft-Hartly Act provisions, which recognized the right to collective bargaining but banned mass picketing and secondary boycotts. The NLRA is examined in light of the growing disregard for unions by corporate bosses and the increasingly successful partnerships of labor with the Occupy movement.
Continue reading →By Steve Rintoul, CSIRO | Staff, SPX via Terra Daily. Australian and US scientists have found a 60% reduction in the amount of Antarctic Bottom Water off the coast of Antarctica since 1970. This is worrying because the sinking of dense water around Antarctica is part of a global pattern of ocean currents that strongly influences climate.
Continue reading →By Eric W. Dolan, Raw Story | Occupy Buffalo. Buffalo, New York USA City Comptroller Mark J. F. Schroeder announced that the city will pull $45 million from an account with JPMorgan Chase, following concerns raised by members of the Occupy Buffalo movement.
Continue reading →By Frantz Duval and Robenson Geffrard, Le Nouvelliste | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Satisfied with his achievements during his first year, but frustrated about red tape that has his palace band without instruments, Michel Martelly announced that his team has started to think about an emergency law. (English | French)
Continue reading →Report, Interamerican Development Bank via Relief Web | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti chery. Land tenure informality has been an obstacle to grabbing Haitian lands for use by big agricultural, mining, and power companies. Cambodia has undergone a process of mapping of land ownership similar to one proposed for Haiti. The land grabs and killings have begun in Cambodia. (English | French)
Continue reading →By David Moberg, In These Times. Overcoming the classic town-gown social divide, students at various ivy-league universities have formed labor-action movements to win major victories for hotel workers in their fight against appalling working conditions at university-financed hotels.
Continue reading →By Davey D, Davey D’s Hip Hop Corner Blog | twitter: @alyssa011968 | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. At a town hall meeting in Oakland about the shooting of 18-year old Alan Blueford, attendees turned their backs on what they perceived to be lies from the police chief. A bullhorn called “Justice!” and got the response “For Alan Blueford.” Chris Moreland, the man who spoke into the bullhorn, is in jail on trumped up charges.
Continue reading →By Roberson Alphonse, Le Nouvelliste | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. According to Dieuseul Anglade, director of Haiti’s Office of Mines and Energy in Haiti, during the negotiations for mineral exploitation, the Haitian State will keep a close watch to ensure that Haitian citizens benefit from the country’s wealth. Meanwhile, the mayors have been dismissed, and land prices have skyrocketed. (English | French)
Continue reading →Interview of Angus Wright with Robert Jensen, Common Dreams | By Chris Edgar and Burl Carraway, Texas Forest Service. Half a billion trees scattered across Texas USA have died from the unrelenting 2011 drought. Angus Wright comments: “I don’t see enough people having sufficient awareness, understanding, and determination to bring about the major changes we need.”
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. “These Southerners have found Haiti to be the veritable promised land of ‘jobs for deserving democrats’…. In Port-au-Prince many of them live in fine villas. Many of them who could not keep a hired girl in the United States have a half-dozen servants. All of the civilian heads of departments have automobiles furnished at the expense of the Haitian Government… It is interesting to see with what disdain, as they ride around, they look down upon the people who pay for the cars.” – James Weldom Johnson
Continue reading →By David Moberg, In These Times | Haiti Chery. At a Friday, May 18, 2012 rally in Chicago to kick off no-NATO protests, nurses wore Robin Hood attire to demand a financial transaction tax, also called the Robin Hood tax.
Continue reading →By Staff, with reporting by Milagros Salazar (Lima), Emilio Godoy (Mexico City) and Alice Marcondes (São Paulo), Tierramerica. Environmental innovation projects to obtain clean gold, fuel, and water demonstrate the capacity of Latin American researchers to develop virtuous circles.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Charlemagne Peralte organized the Cacos after escaping his enslavement by the U.S. occupation. The revolutionary Cacos soon grew to thousands of guerillas, including many Dominicans won over by Peralte to the anti-imperialist cause, and a provisional Caco government was declared in northern Haiti.
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