Monthly archive
Watch the discussion, which took place January 27th in Boston, here. Moderated by Amy Goodman.
From the Partners in Health website:
Paul…
(original story from the Boston Globe; find link here).
Change Haiti can believe in
By Paul Farmer and Brian Concannon; January 25…
(A .pdf version of this statement is downloadable here: chan-5th-anniversary).
Foreign Occupation Troops Out of Haiti!
Freedom and Justice…
(Haiti Liberté recently issued a list of ten demands for the incoming Obama Administration. This list is the Canada Haiti Action Network’s…
This list of ten demands for Obama from Haiti is drawn from a Haiti Liberte article (link here).
1. Apologize for the US-led 2004 Coup.
2.…
(original story from Haiti Liberte; find link to site here)
HAITI’S TOP TEN DEMANDS TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
by Haiti Liberté
With…
In a piece celebrating Canada’s future in Haiti, Gildan, a t-shirt maker, is noted as Haiti’s largest employer after the Haitian government…
(The following is excerpted from an article on Agence Haitienne de Presse, featured below in its entirety, with link to the original here…
BUILDING SOLIDARITY IN A TIME OF CRISIS
Itinerary for the Canadian Labour Delegation to Haiti
January 15, 2009
The planned trade union…
(original story from the Miami Herald; find link here)
Misery in Haiti is expected to worsen
A perfect storm of hurricanes, politics, donor…
The Chair of the Ryerson School of Journalism, and former Globe and Mail correspondent for Latin America, Paul Knox, reviews Peter…
Peter Hallward has offered the following response to Paul Knox’s recent review of Damming the Flood.
Dear Paul Knox,
Thank you for…
Canada’s Governor General, the Haitian-born Michaëlle Jean, is currently visiting Haiti (15th-18th January 2009). She calls for Canadian…
(original article from Counterpunch; link to original here)
Port-Au-Prince is Griding to a Halt
Haiti’s Gas Gang
By RICHARD MORSE
The…
(original article from the Christian Science Monitor; find original here)
Eyeing tourism, Haiti battles its violent reputation
Once a…
(article from the National Post; find original here)
Ottawa opens bids for Haitian police training
Andrew Mayeda, Canwest News…
(This article was originally published in Press for Conversion! in Issue #63 November 2008.)
An Excuse to Destabilize Haiti’s Democracy
By…
The outgoing Bush administration has rejected a proposal by Haitian President René Préval to allow tens of thousands of Haitians in the U.S…
(original story from Upside Down World; link to original here)
Haiti and the Danger of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
by Anthony…
Haitian President Rene Preval, speaking in the northern city of Gonaives at a ceremony marking the 205th anniversary of Haitian…
Land tenure issues in rural Haiti : review of the evidence (1988 report)
Authors: Bloch, Peter C.; Lambert, Virginia; Singer, Norman J…
The Top 10 Ways Canada Aided the 2004 Coup and its Reign of Terror
By Richard Sanders, Coordinator of the Coalition to Oppose the Arms…
The misleadingly named ‘Eurasian Minerals Inc.’, in fact, a Vancouver-based mining firm, has acquired rights to mine for gold in Haiti.
The…
(original article from Al Jazeera English; find original here)
More harm than good?
by Julian Madsen
They are meant to protect the innocent…