Go to our sister organization Haiti Action Committee to contribute to their Haiti Emergency Relief Fund. Send $10 today (and more if you can). They are connected to community organizations on the ground in Haiti whose survival is crucial to the long term work ahead for a fair and just and thriving Haiti.
As we all know from Katrina rebuilding a society after a devastation such as this January 2010 earthquake in Haiti is a highly political process. Haiti will need its social justice network more than ever. Haiti Action supports that network. read more »
Il y a 49 ans
Un long calvaire se terminait
Quelque part au Katanga
Finissaient
Les souffrances
Okito
Mpolo
Lumumba read more »
Thursday 03 December 2009
Both sides of Congo war get funds from sale of minerals used in mobile phones.
A Nevada-based company’s purchase of minerals looted from eastern Congo is helping to finance a decade-long war that has claimed the lives of millions of civilians, an unpublished United Nations report claims. read more »
Wednesday 03 March 2010
by: Bill Quigley, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis
http://www.truthout.org/mercenaries-circling-haiti57337
On March 9 and 10, there will be a Haiti conference in Miami for private military and security companies to showcase their services to governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working in the earthquake-devastated country. read more »
PRESS RELEASE,
Monday, 18 January 2010, 19:10
The United Black Movement in Brazil is requesting that their government expel the Consul General of Haiti, George Samuel Antoine, from Brazil for his racist statements and attack against Voodoo. The statements of the Consul General were recorded by a journalist in São Paulo on 13-January 2010. The recording can be seen online by searching "Haiti Consul General Brasil".
Para: midialivre@yahoo.com.br
Data: Segunda-feira, 18 de Janeiro de 2010, 19:32
Movimento Negro brasileiro pede expulsão do Cônsul Geral do Haiti read more »
We must do all we can to help the island nation safeguard its dignity, writes Thabo Mbeki
The Big Read: It was difficult to hold back the tears as a deluge of news told of the catastrophe visited on the people of Haiti by the earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince on January 12.
Jan 24, 2010 10:15 PM | Times Live, South Africa http://www.timeslive.co.za/opinion/article275664.ece read more »
--When asked “How are they surviving?” Haitian journalist Wadner Pierre responded, “Well, they’re all sharing. That’s what we do. That’s the way Haitians are.” (January 16)
--“The city has seen little violence, despite persistent fears that shortages of food, water and shelter will spark unrest.” (January 21)
--Photograph of a white female US Navy medic cradling and feeding a dehydrated Haitian child. (January 21) read more »