By Nicole Martinelli, International Journalists’ Network (IJN). The idea that a drone can become an eye-in-the-sky witness taking pictures or video of protests or other breaking news events is a timely one.
Continue reading →By Gerald Tenywa, New Vision | Photos and video added by Haiti Chery. Rwanda gained 51 percent more forest cover between 1990 and 2005, or around 400,000 acres. This is the fastest growth rate in the world. Almost 20 percent of the country, about 1.2 million acres, is forested.
Continue reading →By Patrick Glennon, In these Times | Balázs Nagy-Navarro, You Tube. Four journalists and members of Hungary’s Television and Filmmakers Independent Trade Union are in the seventh day of a hunger strike to protest their government’s infringements on free speech.
Continue reading →By Angelo Van Schaik, Radio Netherlands via All Africa. Senegalese immigrants expressed their outrage on the streets of Florence, Italy, after the news on Tuesday December 13 that an Italian man linked to extreme right-wing circles killed two Senegalese street venders and critically injured three others before shooting himself.
Continue reading →By Nnimmo Bassey and staff, Friends of the Earth International via Common Dreams. The UN climate talks in Durban take the world a step back by undermining an already inadequate system. The developing countries’ promised reductions are greater than those of the industrialized world, which is responsible for 75 percent of the total human emissions in the atmosphere. (English | French)
Continue reading →Press Release. “Now that it is clear that Mumia should never have been on death row in the first place, justice will not be served by relegating him to prison for the rest of his life—yet another form of death sentence.” Desmond Tutu. From death row Mumia Abu-Jamal has called for the release of human-rights activist Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine and spoken up about the coups against President Aristide, the reasons for the high death toll from the earthquake, and many other issues concerning Haiti. Push for Mumia’s freedom. DC
Continue reading →By Mirta Yurnet-Thomas, A Taste of Haiti | YouTube. Kremas is a sweet and creamy alcoholic beverage native to Haiti and made with coconut cream, condensed and evaporated milk, spices, and lots of rum. Step-by-step video demonstration included.
Continue reading →By Eric Kamba, SF Bay View. The U.N. force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is called MONUSCO and is headed by Roger Meece, a former U.S. ambassador to the DRC. In addition to fixing elections, killing, raping, and generally doing everything MINUSTAH does in Haiti, MONUSCO deals in weapons and valuable minerals.
Continue reading →By Staff, Haiti Grassroots Watch. Part 1 of 7. In Haiti, the minimum wage went from $3.00 per day in 1982, to 200 gourdes today, which is about $1.61 PER DAY in 1982 dollars. This represents a 46 percent drop in real salary compared to 1982 wages. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Anthony Phelps. “I ask myself, oh my country, what hand has drawn on the register of nations a little star by your name.” – Anthony Phelps. One of Haiti’s most important writers, with poetry and novels translated in tens of languages. (French)
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. More frog species live in Haiti than anywhere else in the Caribbean, and many different species of the small lizard anole also make Haiti their home. These animals have attracted the attention of well-meaning conservationists as well as soulless seekers of fame.
Continue reading →By Roger Cohn and Doug Peacock, Yale Environment 360. “…if the bear can make it, I always assume maybe we’ve got a shot, too. The bear is equally important to me because it’s the one animal out there that can kill and eat you about any time it chooses to, even though it seldom does. And it just stands as an instant lesson in humility.” – Doug Peacock
Continue reading →By Marga Ortigas, Al Jazeera | You Tube | Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development. In integrated rice-duck farming, farmers forgo pesticides or fertilizers; ducks fertilize the fields, keep the water in the paddies fresh, and they remove weeds and other pests that might damage the crops.
Continue reading →By Move to Amend. Beware of the decoy 28th amendments that are being proposed in congress. The most serious version of the 28th is one from the grassroots; the text from Move to Amend is reproduced here.
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