‘Manifesto for Human Rights of Haitian Immigrants in Brazil’ Drafted by Latin Americans | Des universités et organisations du Brésil et de l’Amérique latine exigent la défense des droits humains des migrants haïtiens | MANIFESTO EM DEFESA DOS DIREITOS HUMANOS DE IMIGRANTES HAITIANOS

Jesuit Refugee Service for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC SJR), AlterPresse | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti | Centro de Direitos Humanos e Cidadania do Imigrante. Signatories to a manifesto for the human rights of Haitian immigrants recommend that the Brazilian government work with Latin-American governmental and non-governmental organizations to host the new Haitian immigrants in South America. (English | French | Portuguese)

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Where the Devil Did the Reconstruction Money Go? | Mais où diable est passé l’argent de la reconstruction?

Bill Quigley and Amber Ramanauskas, Courrier Internationale | San Francisco Bay View | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | Live from Haiti, Video. Emergency aid funds for Haiti were used by the U.S. mostly to pay itself. Another way to think about this story is to consider that earthquake-ravaged Haiti has become the world’s biggest aid donor per capita. (English | French)

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The Garzon Trial: Petty Vengeance

By Robert Bosschart, Radio Netherlands. More than anything, Judge Baltasar Garzon is paying the price for seeking to uncover a vast corruption ring (the so-called Gurtel case) within a Conservative party that embezzled millions during its previous administration and has just returned to power.

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Pirate Party: a Global Civil Rights Movement

By PP International. Pirate Parties are in place or being formed in over 50 countries. See the Principles of Pirate Party.

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How to Blackout Your Site Wed Jan 18th to Protest PIPA

By Jon Fox, Torbit. PIPA will come up for a vote on Tue Jan 24th in the U.S. Senate. Although SOPA is indefinitely postponed, the protest against PIPA is still on. Here’s how to blackout your site on Wed Jan 18.

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PIPA Fight Still On, Wikipedia Joins Wed Jan 18th Blackout

By Andrew Couts, Digital Trends | Background, Haiti Chery. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) vote has been delayed indefinitely, but the equally intrusive Protect IP Act (PIPA) is still scheduled for a U.S. Senate vote on Tue Jan 24th. Reddit, BoingBoing, Mojang, Destructoid, Anonymous, Wikipedia (English) and the entire Cheezburger Network have announced blackouts for Wed Jan 18th to protest PIPA.

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Haiti-Bound Cholera Vaccine ‘Absolutely Useless’ According to Bangladesh Field Trial | Le vaccin pour Haïti contre le choléra est ‘absolument inutile,’ d’après un essai au Bangladesh

By Dr. Rashid Haider, The Independent | Ahmed Sadiq, News from Bangladesh | Translated by Dady Chery for Haiti Chery. Incidents of scientific fraud have reached a record high, and one area that requires careful scrutiny is vaccine trials in far-away developing countries. A detailed report of Bangladesh’s 2011 field trials, for the Shanchol vaccine being pushed on Haiti, thoroughly disproves claims made about this vaccine. (English | French)

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail

By Martin Luther King Jr, In: Why We Can’t Wait (Harper & Row, N.Y., 1963) | Charles Moore, Photos | Estate of Martin Luther King Jr, Statement by Clergymen | Assembled by Haiti Chery. “Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.” – MLK

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Cholera Vaccines Unnecessary, Ineffective, Expensive, and Dangerous

By Rashid Haider, Haiti Chery | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Cholera vaccines are being pushed on Haiti, especially Shanchol, a vaccine that protects only 45 percent of those vaccinated during the first year and is unsuitable for controlling epidemic or endemic cholera. Shanchol is expensive. In addition, preparations of it for use in developing countries contain the mercury-based preservative thiomersal.

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Thousands Deliver Grievances to Haitian Parliament | Haïti-Séisme-2 ans : Des milliers de manifestants s’adressent au Parlement

By Staff (gp jsr kft), AlterPresse | Translated by Dady Chery for Haiti Chery. Thousands marched through Port-au-Prince on the eve of the 2nd anniversary of the earthquake to present to the Haitian Parliament a document that calls land reform, decentralization, social housing, and transparency in the management of public affairs, among other things. (English | French)

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Nigeria: Billions Siphoned by Corruption Could Have Been Used to Maintain Fuel Subsidy | Nigeria: La corrupción encendió la mecha

By Mustapha Muhammad, IPS. Nigeria is paralyzed by protests and a nationwide strike against the lifting of a fuel subsidy that could have been maintained if billions of dollars had not been lost to corruption. (English | Spanish)

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MoveYourDomain to Protest Internet Blacklist Bills

By Rainey Reitman, Electronic Frontier Foundation. To protest the internet censorship bills SOPA and PIPA, several companies are challenging the internet community to transfer domain names and offering special deals for these transfers.

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Block a January 24th U.S. Senate Vote to Censor Online Communication

By Jane Wells, Word Press Planet. Internet censorship bill SOPA PIPA to allow the U.S. government to take down web sites (presumed to be involved in copyright infringement) will be voted on by the Senate on Tuesday, January 24th. Unless 41 senators can be found to help block this vote, it is going to pass.

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