Author Archives: Dady Chery

About Dady Chery

Dr. Dady Chery is a Haitian-born poet, playwright, journalist and scientist. She is the author of the book "We Have Dared to Be Free: Haiti's Struggle Against Occupation." Her broad interests encompass science, culture, and human rights. She writes extensively about Haiti and world issues such as climate change and social justice. Her many contributions to Haitian news include the first proposal that Haiti’s cholera had been imported by the UN, and the first story that described Haiti’s mineral wealth for a popular audience.

Cholera Vaccines Unnecessary, Ineffective, Expensive, and Dangerous

avatarPosted on by July 30, 2022

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

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

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

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

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

avatarPosted on by December 12, 2018

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

avatarPosted on by December 12, 2018

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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Haitian CELAC Participants Warned to Avoid Conflict as Haiti Assumes ‘Zombie Presidency’ of OAS | Dirigeants haïtiens qui ont participé au sommet de la CELAC appelés ‘à éviter toute situation de conflit’ dans L’OEA

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

By Staff, AHP | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Haitians leaders who participated in the CELAC summit in December 2011 have been warned by Haiti’s Foreign Ministry to behave themselves in the Organization of American States (OAS). (English | French)

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Energy Return on Investment (EROI) Nears Limit for Oil and Gas Discovery, Production

avatarPosted on by February 26, 2019

By Jay Kimball, 8020 Vision. Producing a barrel of oil consumes more and more energy. As we approach an EROI of 1:1 (in other words, consuming 1 barrel of oil to produce 1 barrel of oil) it’s game over.

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Bigger Greenhouse Gas Footprint from Fracking

avatarPosted on by February 26, 2019

By Lynn Herrmann, Digital Journal. According to a study by scientists at Cornell University, compared to conventional oil, gas, or coal, the shale gas from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has a greater impact on climate change because of a bigger greenhouse effect due to release of high levels of methane.

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Fracking for Shale Gas Pollutes Water, Leads to Earthquakes

avatarPosted on by December 20, 2018

Staff, British Columbia Women’s Institute Josh Fox, You Tube. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is looking increasingly like a technology that will have to be left alone, not only because it pollutes the atmosphere and water, but also because the high-pressure injection of waste water from this process is thought to allow ancient faults to slip, leading to earthquakes.

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Gerard Fortune: Art Imbued With a Passion for Life, Nature, and the Gods

avatarPosted on by February 26, 2019

Gérard Fortune is one of Haiti’s most imaginative self-taught painters. He was born in 1925 in Petionville, Haiti. He was originally a houngan (Vodou priest) and pastry chef and did not start to paint until around 1980. His work has been exhibited the world over and is described in most books on Haitian art.

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Aid as a Trojan Horse: On the Anniversary of the Haitian Earthquake

avatarPosted on by January 30, 2021

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Long before the word sustainable became fashionable, before Henry David Thoreau noted that “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone,” there was Haiti.

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Hunger in the U.S.

avatarPosted on by February 26, 2019

By Staff, Minority News | Black Radio Network. A USDA report shows that “food insecurity” (hunger) is high for households near or below the poverty line ($22,350 for a family of four) — typically households with children headed by a single woman or man, and black and Hispanic households.

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Haitians Emigrating to Brazil Undocumented

avatarPosted on by December 27, 2018

iBy Staff, Listín Diario | By Najla Passos, Carta Maior | Translated from Spanish and Portuguese by David Holmes Morris for lo-de-alla. Some 500 undocumented Haitian immigrants entered the Brazilian city of Brasileia, in the last three days of 2011. The illegal entry might have been dangerous and mediated by human traffickers. On Feb 2, 2012, during a visit to Haiti, Brazilian President Dilma Rousef said her country would grant Haitians 1,200 visas per year for the next five years. (English | Spanish | Portuguese)

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