Why the U.S. Must Rape, Er, Help, Haiti
By Glenda Beckk, World News. “Did I say rape and pillage? What I meant was ‘profit from.'”
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The Haiti Situation: An Interview With Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Interview of Jean-Bertrand Aristide With Nicolas Rossier, Z Magazine. “The Haitian people who are moving from misery to poverty with dignity should continue to move straight towards that goal. If we lose our dignity we lose everything.” J.-B. Aristide
Continue reading →The Slave Revolution that Created a Nation
Film by Clifford Pierre, Ray Sykes, Charlie Steiner on the Haitian Revolution: the world’s only successful slave revolt.
Continue reading →Haiti Cholera Outbreak Spreads to Port-au-Prince Prison
By Staff, BBC | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. How does cholera manage to move from the Artibonite River to a Port-au-Prince prison?
Continue reading →Genocide in Haiti: Carelessness or Malice?
By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The United Nations and 42 non-governmental organizations (NGO) are asking to be paid about $600 for every Haitian to be contaminated with cholera. There is money in cholera.
Continue reading →Cholera for Sale In a Blue Plastic Bag: Infected Water Distributed in Haiti as Purified
By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. As of October 28, 2010, over 300 Haitians have died and over 4,000 have fallen ill of cholera. The press immediately blamed “poor sanitation in the camps” for the outbreak, although the outbreak began in the pristine small towns of St. Marc and Mirebalais that had not suffered any earthquake damage.
Continue reading →Almost All of Port-au-Prince’s ‘Gingerbread Houses’ Managed to Survive the Quake
By Haitian Truth | Al Jazeera (video). Despite the billions of dollars worth of damage caused by the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti in January, many of the capital’s oldest buildings still stand.
Continue reading →Lots of Sharks, Lots of Oil Seen Off Bon Secour
By Ben Raines, Press-Register. Patches of submerged oil were found 40 to 100 feet off the beach, apparently collecting along rip currents and sandbars. Carcasses of sand fleas, speckled crabs, ghost crabs and leopard crabs were spread throughout the oil, a thick layer of the material caking the bodies of the larger crabs.
Continue reading →Haitian Filmmaker Sees Inspiration Through the Cracked Lens of Despair
By Jessica Leeder, The Globe and Mail. There are some things in Jacmel, Haiti, that the earthquake didn’t change. One is the sight of Claudel Chery, better known as Zaka, a charismatic but pensive young man with a wild mane of dreadlocks, traipsing about town with a video camera in hand.
Continue reading →Focus on Haiti – The Politics of Rice
Focus on Haiti – The Politics of Rice Al Jazeera … Continue reading →
Haitian doctor takes 100 patients into his home
By Mike Melia, The Independent. It wasn’t long after Tuesday’s earthquake leveled nearly all of the houses next to Dr. Surena’s that neighbors started to show up at his doorstep.
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