Financial Help Needed for Medical Shipment
November 15, 2008
One week ago, volunteers with Haiti Solidarity BC, the Vancouver affiliate of the Canada Haiti Action Network (CHAN), assisted in loading a forty-foot shipping container with hospital beds, wheelchairs, surgical supplies and other medical equipment destined for Haiti. The shipment was made possible through the work of the Rotary
(original article from commondreams.org; link here)
“No one cares about the children, living or dead,” one furious father of children in the collapsed school outside of Port au Prince, Haiti swore Sunday in an interview. “No one has come to provide any counseling to the children and families who survived. Nothing has been done for the families whose children died. The children now have no school and no books. They are sick and have nightmares. Government officials and people from all the NGOs, they all come, take pictures, make speeches and they leave us with nothing. We need action!”
(original story from Reuters; link here)
By Joseph Guyler Delva
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The death toll in the collapse of a ramshackle school in Haiti rose to at least 82 on Saturday when rescue workers uncovered a room with 21 dead, many of them children, officials said. Read the rest of this entry »
(original article from Mute Magazine; link here)
By supporting NGOs, is the left suppressing a radical politics in Haiti and elsewhere? And is it possible to defend a popular movement without deifying its leader? Richard Pithouse reviews Peter Hallward’s new book on the containment of popular politics in Haiti
(original article from CounterPunch; link here)
By BEN TERRALL
As the death toll from Hurricane Ike was over 70 in the U.S., but the storm’s aftermath in Haiti was much worse. Four tropical storms in a month killed between 500 and 1,000 Haitians, and left hundreds of thousands homeless. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), up to 800,000 people - almost 10 percent of Haiti’s population - are in dire need of humanitarian assistance. Read the rest of this entry »
A former US-backed Haitian death squad leader has been sentenced to thirty-seven years in prison for mortgage fraud. Emmanuel “Toto” Constant was found to have orchestrated a scheme to flip New York properties at inflated prices by selling them to so-called straw buyers. Human rights groups say Constant ordered killings and torture in Haiti before fleeing to the United States. He has evaded deportation after threatening to go public with the extent of his ties to the CIA. Constant’s attorneys say they plan to appeal. In sentencing Constant, Judge Abraham Gerges noted what he called a “truly heinous record of violence, murder, torture and intimidation.”
(original article in Haiti Liberté)
by Yves Pierre-Louis and Kim Ives
On October 14, the Security Council voted unanimously to renew for another year the mandate of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), the force of some 9,000 soldiers and police officers which has militarily occupied Haiti since June 1, 2004. Read the rest of this entry »
(original article from Haiti Liberté; link to article on Haitianalysis.com)
NGOs in Haiti counterproductive, says activist
Montreal conference criticizes international intervention in Haitian hurricane relief
Ashley Joseph, News Writer McGill Daily
http://www.mcgilldaily.com/article/4820-ngos-in-haiti-counterproductive-says
Haiti’s long history of international interference has crippled the country’s ability to sustain itself in times of disaster, according to Montreal writer and political activist Yves Engler. Read the rest of this entry »
This week’s CBC Radio One program “Dispatches” featured two segments on Haiti. It aired on Monday, September 29 and repeats this Sunday, October 5 at 6:30 pm. Links to the program can be found here (see further down this page for more information).
On Saturday, October 4, CBC Newsworld’s Our World will repeat a television version of this story. It airs at 11:30 am and 1:30 pm Pacific time. Check your local listings for broadcast times in your area. Read the rest of this entry »