Monthly archive
The Haitian people overthrew slavery, uprooted dictators and foreign military rule, and elected a liberation theologian as president. The…
PIH co-founder Paul Farmer testifies at U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
01/29/2010
Dr. Paul Farmer, PIH co-Founder and United…
Andy Kershaw: Stop treating these people like savages
Posted by The Independent (UK) Thursday, 21 January 2010 at 01:00 am
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Peter Hallward
January 13, 2010
Any large city in the world would have suffered extensive damage from an earthquake on the scale of the…
By Mark Danner
New York Times, January 21, 2010 http://www.markdanner.com/articles/show/156
HAITI is everybody’s cherished tragedy.…
DemocracyNow! is reporting that:
Haiti Postpones Parliamentary Vote
Préval announced he would indefinitely postpone parliamentary elections…
Below are 10 things Canada should do to help Haiti overcome Tuesday [January 12th]’s earthquake that has left upwards of a 100 000 people…
Haiti reconstruction conference must respect
sovereignty and empower ordinary Haitians
Militarization of aid is a bad omen
FOR IMMEDIATE…
(Original story in the Hour; see here)
Who’s a friend of Haiti?
A group called “Friends of Haiti” met in downtown Montreal today for the…
By Peter Hallward, first published on January 22, 2010.
Nine days after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010…
The following letter was published in the January 22, 2010 edition of the UK daily The Guardian.
We the undersigned are outraged by the…
Haiti: the growth of aid and the decline of humanitarianism
Editorial: The Lancet
January 23, 2010
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet…
Spirit and strength will pull Haiti’s people through
As the tremors and the NGOs recede, Haitians continue the fight against colonialism…
(click here to sign the petition)
21 January 2010
We, the undersigned, are outraged by the scandalous delays in distributing essential aid…
By Cynthia McKinney
Global Research, January 19, 2010
President Obama’s response to the tragedy in Haiti has been robust in military…
CANADIAN & US MILITARY SHOULD NOT TREAT VICTIMS OF HAITI’S EARTHQUAKE LIKE ENEMY COMBATANTS
EXAGGERATED REPORTS OF LOOTING THREATEN…
Al Jazeera has a feature on the militarization of aid in Haiti. In addition to the UN and U.S. forces featured in this report, Canada is…
By Roger Annis
January 15–Evidence of monstrous neglect of the Haitian people is mounting following the catastrophic earthquake three days…
By Kim Ives, Haiti Liberte, January 13 – 19, 2010
At 4:53 p.m. Eastern time on Jan. 12, 2010, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the…
by Deepa Panchang
Published in the November, December 2010 issue of NACLA Report
Was it naive to think it couldn’t get worse? First,…
The United Nations own news centre is announcing that the ‘UN pledges full security and logistical support for Haiti's upcoming elections…
The Canada Haiti Action Network is expressing grave concern over the party registration process that has taken place in Haiti in advance of…
By Latin America Solidarity Coalition (Bay Area, USA) (2009)
Documents the visit of 11 academics, journalists, and Latin American…