Haitian Senate Calls for Withdrawal of U.N. Troops by October 2012 | Le Sénat haïtien demande le retrait de la MINUSTAH en Octobre 2012

Staff, HPN | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The Haitian Senate unanimously approved a resolution that calls for MINUSTAH’s departure by October 2012, but this resolution was non binding on the executive. (English | French)

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Egypt, Ethiopia Mull Nile Dams Dispute

UPI via Terra Daily Editorial Comment. Finally there is a move afoot to reconsider the water agreements between Nile countries. The previous agreements for sharing the Nile waters had been unfair and involved the U.K. bullying upstream countries for the … Continue reading →

Longshore Union Protests ‘Police Brutality’ as President Surrenders

By Evan Rohar, Labor Notes. An attempt by a big grain exporter to operate a new state-of-the art facility without longshore union labor has met stiff resistance from the rank and file in the Pacific Northwest.

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Aristide Foundation University (UNIFA) Reopens Tabarre Medical School | Ouverture Mardi de l’Université de la ‘Fondation Docteur Aristide’ à Tabarre

Staff, HPN | Laura Flynn, Aristide Foundation | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The Aristide Foundation University (UNIFA) School of Medicine at Tabarre has resumed its activities. (English | French)

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Remove the Occupation Forces from Haiti | Retirar las fuerzas de ocupación de Haití

By Raúl Zibechi, SURda | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. There is another Latin American attitude towards the plight of Haiti. A most impressive approach that deserves to be lauded is that of the Landless Peasant Movement (MST) in Brazil, which started initially with four members sent in 2008 by the Brigade Dessalines. (English | Spanish)

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Plant a Tree for Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, Who Died on September 25, 2011

Eric Law, The Independent | GRITtv. Wangari Maathai died of cancer on Sunday, September 25, 2011. The organization she founded, the Green Belt Movement, planted millions of trees.

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Wikileaked U.S. Cables Paint Portrait of Brutal, Ineffectual and Polluting U.N. Force in Haiti

By Dan Coughlin, Haiti Liberté. The United Nations forces that occupy Haiti are poorly trained. They have spied on student groups, impaired elections, and recklessly shot, killed and wounded hundreds of civilians.

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Choucoune Story and Song, With English Translation of Lyrics By Dady Chery

First English translation of complete lyrics by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | Original Creole lyrics written by Oswald Durand, courtesy of Gage Averill | Music by Michel Mauleart Monton | Sung by Martha Jean-Claude | History by Louis J. Auguste, M.D., Pikliz. Osward Durand’s Choucoune was considered to be the best poem in kreyol from the moment it appeared in print. About 10 years later, it was put to music by Michel Mauleart Monton. (Kreyol | English)

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No Birds Sing in Monoculture ‘Forests’

By Inés Acosta, IPS. Artificial single-species forests are expanding fast in countries of the developing South, fueled by low production costs and incentives from governments, and causing severe social and environmental impacts.

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On Ecology, Economy, and Human Health

By Sandra Steingraber, ORION. My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer at age forty-four. I have uncles with colon cancer, prostate cancer, stromal cancer. My aunt died of the same kind of bladder cancer—transitional cell carcinoma—that I had. But here’s the punch line to my family story: I am adopted.

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CCR Statement on the Execution of Troy Davis

CCR Press Release | Haiti Chery. The execution of Troy Anthony Davis by lethal injection at 11:08 p.m. on September 21 marked a low point for justice in the U.S. Mr. Davis was executed despite serious doubts about his guilt and despite reports of a deeply divided parole board in which one vote may have tipped the balance between life and death.

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