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 Sandra Steingraber ORION Well-informed futility flourishes whenever there are discontinuities in the messages we receive, as when we are told that a problem is dire (climate chaos) but the proposed solution (buy new light bulbs) seems trivial. If the … Continue reading →
By Richard Manning, Harper’s. The total amount of plant mass created by Earth per year is called the planet’s primary productivity. We humans, a single species among millions, consume about 40 percent of Earth’s primary productivity. We, six billion, have simply stolen the food: the rich among us a lot more than the rest. (English | Portuguese)
Continue reading →By Ansel Herz Haiti Liberté Faced with growing outrage over an alleged sexual assault (in July 2011) by UN occupation soldiers on 18-year-old Johnny Jean in the southern town of Port Salut, the UN is pledging to investigate the incident … Continue reading →
By FIS/MP, MercoPress. A team of marine scientists urge an end to most commercial fishing in the deep sea and instead recommend fishing in more productive and local waters. The only question is: whose productive local waters.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Dr. Renaud Piarroux led a team including Haitian epidemiologists that tracked Haiti’s cholera to the Nepalese MINUSTAH base in October 2010 (English | French).
Continue reading →By Fernando Moyano, SURda | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Mujica fails to specify that this is an army of occupation soldiers. The proof that this is a military occupation is the fact that it violates the self-determination of people and promotes the moral degradation of the soldiery. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Yves Pierre-Louis, Haiti Liberté | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | Translation by Dady Chery for Canada Haiti Action Network. Garry Conille is a U.N. employee and Bill Clinton’s aide. He has not lived in Haiti for the last seven years though he is not a diplomat. He does not qualify for the post of Prime Minister. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Sebastian Walker Al Jazeera Sebastian Walker saw firsthand how Haitians dug up their dead from the rubble with their bare hands. He witnessed people struggling to recover from an earthquake, violent weather and disease. Millions throughout the country were … Continue reading →
By Evan Rohar, Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes | Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes. Confrontations have exploded between West Coast longshore workers and anti-union exporters.
Continue reading →By Jacobo G. García, El Mundo – Spain | Translated by Camden Luxford, Watching America | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Now that money for legitimate science has dried up in the U.S., there are probably many more John Cutler(s). (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Patrick Worsnip, SwissInfo | Relief Web | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. If this peacekeeping cancer isn’t removed, it will metastasize all over the world.
Continue reading →Editorial Comment The title of this article should be: United Nations Soldiers Trade Food for Sex. These are invading troops, not peacekeepers. Furthermore, the trade of food for sex is not in the past; it is happening right now, everywhere … Continue reading →
By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. It took nearly a year to provide conclusive scientific proof that Haiti’s cholera came from Nepal because, despite an epidemiological link of the disease to a UN base full of Nepalese troops, scientists had not bothered to compare the cholera from Haiti to cholera from Nepal. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Whitney Phillips, Cronkite Borlerlands Initiative | Florida Center for Investigative Reporting | El Nuevo Herald. Vigorous enforcement of new laws in the Dominican Republic means that hundreds of thousands of people of Haitian descent are finding it increasingly difficult to get access to their birth certificates, which are required to get married, obtain a high school diploma, start a business, get a driver’s license or passport. or even sign up for a phone plan. (English | Spanish)
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