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Gender-Based Violence in Haiti
one of many problems plaguing Haiti...
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2010 9:00am PDT
France Pledges €17 Billion to Help Haiti
PARIS (AFP) The French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs today announced that France is committing €17 billion to help Haiti rebuild after the catastrophic earthquake that struck the impoverished Caribbean nation six months ago claiming up to 300,000 lives.
The announcement was made in a press conference this morning in Paris, where the ministry unveiled the French government’s new bilateral Framework Initiative for Haiti’s Reconstruction (FIHR).
©AFP...
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2010 1:00pm PDT
France Unveils Bastille Day Framework Initiative for Haiti’s Reconstruction
STATEMENT OF THE SPOKESPERSON OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AND EUROPEAN AFFAIRS
SEE VIDEO: http://www.diplomatiegov.fr/rubrique.gb-14-07-2010.html...
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2010 12:36pm PDT
Chomsky on Haiti: "US and France Should be Paying Massive Reparations At This Point"
Noam Chomsky calls for U.S. and France to pay reparations to Haiti.
In this talk Chomsky shares his insights regarding the ongoing problems confronting the beleaguered nation of Haiti, particularly the US role minimizing and undermining their economic development, resulting in horrendous destruction and loss of at least 300,000 lives from the recent earthquake....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2010 11:03am PDT
Haiti Earthquake: Capitalism, Occupation and Revolution
The earthquake that wrecked the capital of Haiti and surrounding areas on January 12 produced human tragedy of almost unfathomable proportions. It has been termed “the most destructive natural disaster in modern times.” Five months later, Haiti is no longer in the headlines or on the nightly TV news, but for the hard-hit Haitian population the scene has hardly changed. Now a new disaster is in the making as the hurricane season begins. This was a calamity made by capitalism: the earthquake wa...
Posted: Tue, Jul 6, 2010 7:20am PDT
Haiti: Struggle and Solidarity After the Cataclysm
An Interview with Batay Ouvriye...
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2010 5:51am PDT
Volunteer Minister Returns from Haiti
“…Many, many people are pitching in” to rebuild Haiti...
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2010 5:32am PDT
WNU #1032: Haitians Protest “Emergency Law”
Two of the coalition’s most prominent spokespersons are longtime opponents. René Civil is the leader of the militantly pro-Aristide Popular Power Youth (JPP), while former radio commentator and Port-au-Prince mayor Evans Paul (“K-Plim”), a leader of the Democratic Unity Committee (KID), worked to drive Aristide from office in 2004....
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2010 8:48am PDT
U.S. Puts Haiti Into Receivership (Under Gouverneur Bill Clinton)
The Obama administration saw the Haiti earthquake as a golden opportunity to repair the U.S.’ image, badly tarnished by the imperialist war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. The Democrats in power in Washington would pose as leaders of a people-friendly empire, in contrast to the Darth Vader-like Republican regime of George Bush II. But behind all the talk of “helping” Haiti, what they actually did was what Yankee imperialists always do: send paratroops to occupy the Haitian capital and...
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2010 7:12am PDT
Open Letter from the Internationalist Group to the Spartacist League and ICL
The Spartacist League/U.S. and the International Communist League it leads are in deep political trouble. On April 27, the International Executive Committee of the ICL issued a statement “Repudiating Our Position on Haiti Earthquake,” headlined “A Capitulation to U.S. Imperialism.” After three months of “zealous apologies for the U.S. imperialist military intervention” in the name of humanitarian aid, the ICL suddenly declared that this was a fundamental “betrayal” and the Internationalist Gr...
Posted: Sun, May 9, 2010 10:52am PDT
Ignoring the Grassroots in Latin America
Our independent media tend to ignore grassroots struggles in Latin America and the Caribbean until something happens that gets them covered by NPR or the New York Times....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2010 10:05am PDT
WNU #1029: Honduras Government Settles With Campesinos
The OAS “confirmed during its visit to Honduras that…there have been grave human rights violations, including deaths, arbitrary declaration of a state of siege, repression of public demonstrations using disproportionate force, criminalization of social protest, arbitrary arrests of thousands of people, ...arbitrary restrictions on the right to freedom of expression, and grave violations of political rights.”...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2010 8:31am PDT
WNU #1028: Haitian Cops Evict Earthquake Survivors
“Nothing’s been prepared to receive them in another center,” said a man wandering in the stadium. “The government’s not serious.”...
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2010 7:04am PDT
Lives in Transition
The town of Leogane was the epicenter of the disastrous earthquake. Upto 30,000 dead and nearly every house destroyed. This is Haiti's story of Reconstruction , Resilience and Rebirth......
Posted: Tue, Mar 30, 2010 6:57pm PDT
Trusteeship Proposed By Senator Dodd Is A Misguided Response And Misunderstanding Of The H
We would solicit the help of the Senator to get a loan allocated to Haiti in the amount of $20 billion which would be backed up by a combination of revenue bonds generated by the new infrastructure and direct investment of the Haitian Diaspora in Haiti.
If nothing else is done, help Haiti in laying out 5,000 kilometers of roads, 1,500 megawatts of electricity and a telephone plant with at least 1 million lines. If you built it they will come. These 3 requests are capable of putting Ha...
Posted: Tue, Mar 30, 2010 6:36pm PDT
The U.S. is the Country of the Tonton Macoutes
It was proven that those that had nothing could have less on Tuesday January 12th.The earthquake in Haiti devastated the little reconstruction that was done by the U.N. forces which are still controlled by the regional power with global intentions: Brazil....
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2010 6:52am PST
The U.S. is the Country of the Tonton Macoutes
It was proven that those that had nothing could have less on Tuesday January 12th.The earthquake in Haiti devastated the little reconstruction that was done by the U.N. forces which are still controlled by the regional power with global intentions: Brazil....
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2010 5:16am PST
Peter Hallward on "Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment"
Monday, February 22, 2010 :Haitian President René Préval said Sunday that the death toll from the earthquake could reach 300,000 once all the bodies are recovered from the rubble. We speak to Peter Hallward, professor of Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University. "Unless prevented by renewed popular mobilisation in both Haiti and beyond, the perverse international emphasis on security will continue to distort the reconstruction effort, and with it the configuration of Haitian politic...
Posted: Mon, Feb 22, 2010 10:56am PST
"Haiti - The Politics of Rebuilding": A Video Report from Avi Lewis of Al Jazeera
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 :Much of Port-au-Prince remains under mountains of rubble, and Haitian officials say it will take years to clear out the rubble and begin the process of rebuilding the destroyed city. As pledges of billions of dollars of international aid and investment are made, debates over the vision of a new Haiti are already underway. Journalist Avi Lewis was recently in Haiti exploring the politics of rebuilding the shattered country. He spoke to a number of people, including...
Posted: Tue, Feb 16, 2010 7:55am PST