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.
By Staff, National Geographic. While looking through Haiti’s forests, scientists rediscovered the critically endangered La Hotte glanded frog and half a dozen Haitian frog species that had not been seen for almost 20 years and occur nowhere else.
Continue reading →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)
Continue reading →By Rebecca Morelle, BBC News. Rare footage of one of the world’s most strange and elusive mammals has been captured by scientists.
Continue reading →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 →
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.
Continue reading →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)
Continue reading →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)
Continue reading →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.
Continue reading →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.
Continue reading →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)
Continue reading →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.
Continue reading →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.
Continue reading →By Erika Blumenfeld Al Jazeera In April 2010, BP’s Macondo well explosion leaked oil into the Gulf of Mexico, causing one of the worst environmental disasters in US history. Now, over a year later, problems continue. On September 13, 2011, … Continue reading →
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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