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 →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)
Continue reading →By Staff, Haiti Libre | Staff, AlterPresse | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Canada and the U.S. are itching to build prisons in Haiti, although Haiti has the lowest per-capita number of inmates in the Caribbean, and 70 percent of those incarcerated have never been tried. (English | French)
Continue reading →Video by Yvon Vilius and Ansel Herz, Media Hacker. Anti-UN demonstrations in Port-au-Prince and Leogane this month were reported as involving a couple of hundred people. See for yourself.
Continue reading →By Eduardo Soriano-Castillo, Labor Notes. An all-out attack on immigrant workers, their families, and communities continues in the U.S. South and West. In Alabama, immigrant workers met it with a day of wildcat strikes.
Continue reading →By Jesse Hagopian, Truthout | Isabel Macdonald and Isabeau Doucet, The Nation and Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. A supposed reconstruction of Haiti’s schools by the Clinton Foundation and the Inter-American Development Bank is exposed in two articles as a textbook case of the shock doctrine.
Continue reading →By Dialogue 200 and Jubilee South Network, Press Release. We support the demands of our partner organizations in Haiti, who reject the presence of this occupation force and demand that the UN, instead of bringing new problems such as rape, murder and the cholera epidemic that has so far claimed more than 6,000 lives, proceed to apply exemplary sanctions and offer compensation to the victims.
Continue reading →By Staff, Xinhua via COMTEX and GTW | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Haiti’s Senate has ratified Garry Conille, a Duvalierist Clinton aide and U.N. employee, as Prime Minister. See Conille translate for his boss, Bill Clinton, in the accompanying video.
Continue reading →By Michaëlle Desrosiers and Franck Seguy, A l’Encontre | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | Translated by Diaro Octubre. MINUSTAH almost exclusively attacks those who are most despised, humbled, and impoverished. (English | French | Spanish | Portuguese)
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Julian Assange talks about truth. But, like Colin Powell, he should also know that the timing of truth matters.
Continue reading →Editorial Comment At 4:30 Friday morning Rene Gonzalez became the first of the Cuban Five to be released after 13 years in prison for monitoring the activities of terrorist groups. Florida District Court Judge, Joan A. Lenard, decided however, that … Continue reading →
By HPN staff, HPN | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The National Coalition for Haitian Rights (NCHR) fears for freedom of the press after Martelly threw lewd insults to a journalist and then explained: “I did not like the way I was approached. That’s my answer. That’s all.” (English | French)
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery (English, French) | Spanish translation by Fernando Moyano | Portuguese translation by Murilo Otávio Rodrigues Paes Leme. MINUSTAH’s worst crime so far is killing over 8,000 Haitians with cholera. It is a degraded, degrading, and unwanted occupation force that must go. (English | French | Spanish | Portuguese)
Continue reading →By Jay Donahue Solitary Watch via San Francisco Bay View “This is the largest prisoner strike of any kind in recent U.S. history,” says Ron Ahnen of California Prison Focus. “The fact that so many prisoners are participating highlights the … Continue reading →
