More Haitians Learn to Read and Write with Cuban Program
By staff, Cuba News Agency. A literacy program by Cuba and Venezuela graduated 214 people in Leogane last week and has so far trained 51,163 Haitians to read and write.
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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.
Government Distributes Land to Yukpa Indians | Nunca es tarde cuando la tierra llega
By Humberto Márquez, IPS. The Venezuelan government has expropriated 25 ranches to distribute 15,800 hectares (39,042 acres) to communities of Yukpa Indians in the northwest of the country who have been protesting to be returned the lands from which they had been driven. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →Landgrabbing in Ethiopia: Legal Lease or Stolen Soil?
By Philipp Hedemann, IPS | Street News Service. Since 2008 there has been an unprecedented rush to secure farmland in Africa, South America and Asia. The main commodities include sugar cane, maize, rice, wheat, soy, sorghum, sesame, oil seeds, and child labour.
Continue reading →Yet Another Vaccine Recall
By Jonathan Benson, Natural News via OpEd News. Baxter is recalling 300,000 doses of its Preflucel influenza vaccine due to an excessive number of adverse events.
Continue reading →Unions Get Revenge as Issue 2 Fails
By Jim Siegel and Joe Vardon, Columbus Dispatch. Voters defeated Senate Bill 5 — Issue 2 — which would have limited collective bargaining by the Ohio public sector, this U.S. state’s biggest employer of people of color.
Continue reading →Pulled Over: from Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s ‘Good Omens’
By Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (1990), publishers Gollancz (UK), Workman (US) | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Excerpt from Good Omens: a prescient and hilarious book about the coming end times. This excerpt describes being pulled over by an extraterrestrial.
Continue reading →Climate Change Melting Polar Regions Faster Than Ever Before
By Steve Connor, The Independent. From the Arctic sea to the Antarctican ice shelves, the frozen “cryosphere” is showing the unequivocal signs of climate change.
Continue reading →Massive Protests Against Colombia Higher Education Reform | Educación en Colombia: los estudiantes promueven la toma de Bogotá
By Adriaan Alsema, Colombia Reports | By Helda Martínez, IPS | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Nationwide protests are planned by Colombian students, teachers, and labor unions against a law that would allow private businesses to invest in public institutions for higher education. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →Landslide Vote for Sandinistas in Nicaragua
By Toni Solo, Tortilla con Sal | Martha Grevatt, Grevatt blog. This electoral landslide represents an enthusiastic vote of approval for the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) and a huge blow to the Nicaraguan right.
Continue reading →China on ‘Harmonious Mission’ in the Caribbean to Show It’s a Responsible Power
MercoPress via Haiti Chery. China’s People’s Liberation Army “Peace Ark” ship carries more than 100 medical volunteers who are providing free surgery, CAT scans, eye care and other procedures to Jamaica’s needy.
Continue reading →Hispaniolan Parakeet
BirdLife International | Haiti Chery. The Hispaniolan Parakeet (Aratinga chloropteras) might be common in Haiti’s Massif de la Selle and la Citadelle area of the Massif du Nord.
Continue reading →Resistance is Fertile: Palestine’s Eco-War
By James Brownsell, Al Jazeera | Haiti Chery. As Israeli civil and military forces uproot olive trees and replace them with eucalyptus on 12 km along the edge of the Gaza Strip, Palestinians gardeners and their supporters plant many more olive trees.
Continue reading →Whooping Crane Spotted in Jackson County, Fewer Than 500 in the Wild
By Holly Klaft, Jackson Citizen Patriot. Only 500 whooping cranes are left in the wild, and this year one stopped for the first time in a small Louisiana town during his southerly migration.
Continue reading →Drinking Water Discontinued from Haiti Camps for the Displaced | Arrêt définitif de la distribution d’eau gratuite dans 17 camps d’ici fin novembre 2011
By Staff, AlterPresse | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. DINEPA, Haiti’s office for the National Administration of Sanitation and Drinking Water announced that it will no longer distribute drinking water to 17 of the Port-au-Prince camps for the internally displaced. (English | French)
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