As Haiti Toll Revised to 230,000, Journalist Reed Lindsay Reports on Scarcity of Aid in Devastated Port-au-Prince

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Thu, Feb 11, 2010 8:38AM

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 :One month after the earthquake in Haiti, the official death toll is now at 230,000. On Tuesday, Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said it would take another ten years to rebuild Haiti and admitted officials have no clear plan for relocating the one million Haitians made homeless by the earthquake. We go to the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince to speak with journalist Reed Lindsay.

Guest:

Reed Lindsay, Washington, DC bureau chief of Telesur, the Latin American satellite TV network. He’s been in Haiti since January 13th, a day after the earthquake struck. Reed Lindsay was formerly the Haiti correspondent for Telesur from 2004 to 2009.

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§"Haiti: Killing the Dream": Excerpt of Documentary on Centuries of Western Subversion of Haitian Sovereignty

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Thu, Feb 11, 2010 8:39AM

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 :To put the history of Haiti in context, we turn to the 1992 documentary Haiti: Killing the Dream produced by Hart and Dana Perry of Crowing Rooster Productions and narrated by Ossie Davis. In this excerpt, the film looks at the nearly twenty-year occupation of Haiti by US Marines beginning in 1915.

"Killing the Dream", excerpt of documentary produced by Hart and Dana Perry of Crowing Rooster Productions and narrated by Ossie Davis.

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§Danny Glover: Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide "Mystified" at US Resistance to His Return

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Thu, Feb 11, 2010 8:40AM

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 :Actor, activist and TransAfrica Forum chair Danny Glover joins us just after returning from South Africa, where he met with the ousted former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Glover reports Aristide wants to come back to his country five years after his ouster in a US-backed coup, but the Obama administration hasn't dropped the US stance of blocking Aristide's return to the Western hemisphere.

Guest:

Danny Glover, Actor, activist and TransAfrica Forum chair.

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