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Where Solidarity Means Survival: Lessons for the Policy Makers (Part 1)
Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution...
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Where Solidarity Means Survival: Lessons for the Policy Makers (Part II)
“If it weren’t for solidarity, Haiti wouldn’t be alive today,” is an expression commonly heard here since the earthquake of January 12. Haiti’s history is based on displays of gifting and solidarity -...
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From Disaster Aid to Solidarity: Best Practices in Meeting the Needs of...
At the request of the Platform to Advocate Alternative Development in Haiti, Other Worlds has produced a new report, "From Disaster Aid to Solidarity: Best Practices in Meeting the Needs of Haiti’s...
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Groups Around the U.S. Join Haitian Farmers in Protesting "Donation" of...
“We’re for seeds that have never been touched by multinationals. In our advocacy, we say that seeds are the patrimony of humanity. No one can control them,” said Doudou Pierre, national coordinating...
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"Help Us Produce, Don't Give Us Food": Food Sovereignty in Haiti (Part IV)
Jonas Deronzil is a farmer from the village of Mogé in Haiti’s fertile Artibonite Valley, and one of about 2,000 members of a production and marketing cooperative. Here he analyzes the problems...
View ArticleHaiti: ALBA Expands its Allies in the Caribbean
Originally posted here: http://www.normangirvan.info/camacaro-haiti-alba/.Full article here.February 23, 2012 by William Camacaro When looking at the vast array of reconstruction plans and promises of...
View ArticleMessage of Solidarity from Haiti to Alabama Residents
March 6, 2012The images of devastation in Alabama and surrounding states as a result of last week’s tornadoes have sincerely touched Haitians that are still recovering from the effects of the January...
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Withholding Water: Cholera, Prejudice, and the Right to Water in Haiti -- Part I
By Deepa Panchang May 31, 2012“Cholera is something they sent,” says graffiti on Port-au-Prince walls, “to finish killing off the rest of us.” Scientists have shown that the cholera pathogen came to...
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"Baseball in the Time of Cholera" Film Now Available Online!
Check out this announcement from RYOT Fims and see their campaign here: www.undeny.org!Baseball in The Time of Cholera is a powerful insight into the tragedy and scandal of Haiti's Cholera epidemic...
View ArticleTHE CREOLE CONNECTION: NEW ORLEANS, HAITI, AND CATASTROPHE
By Beverly BellAugust 29, 2012As a native and resident of New Orleans who has spent three decades in and out of Haiti, and as director of an organization with offices in both places, this has been a...
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Haitian activist tours U.S. demanding housing rights for the country’s...
Housing activist Reyneld Sanon is beginning a tour to key cities in the United States. The tour will raise awareness about Under Tents, the international campaign for housing rights in Haiti. The...
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Seeking Participants for a Haiti Food Sovereignty Delegation October 21-29,...
Our friends at Agricultural Missions are seeking participants for a Haiti Food Soveriegnty Delegation this October! Read more below. Agricultural Missions, Inc.A Faith Response to Rural Poverty and...
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Killing with Kindness: Haiti, International Aid, and NGOs
Cross-posted from Killing with KindnessAfter Haiti's 2010 earthquake, over half of U.S. households donated to thousands of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in that country. Yet we continue to hear...
View Article"Under Tents" Statement on Forced Evictions
December 10, 2012On the 64th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we call on the international community to act against the human rights abuses taking place in Haiti in the form of...
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Three years after the earthquake, major changes needed to avoid an aid legacy...
Cross-posted from the Canada Haiti Action NetworkStatement by the Canada Haiti Action Network, January 7, 2013Billions of dollars of aid to Haiti have been pledged or spent following the devastating...
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January 12, 2013: What are the Memories? Where are the Lessons?
Today, the Haitian Collective to Defend the Right to Housing commemorates the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Titanyen, the site of the earthquake’s mass graves. January 11, 2013 Haitian Collective to...
View Article"Because We Are: A Novel of Haiti" - Book Giveaway!
Because We Are: A Novel of Haiti from Ted Oswald on Vimeo.The following is a guest post from Ted Oswald, the author of the recently-published novel Because We Are: A Novel of Haiti. He is giving part...
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A TALE OF TWO NGO’S: IN HAITI, DISASTER AID OR AID DISASTER?
By Beverly BellMarch 5, 2013Three years after the deadly earthquake in Haiti, what has become of the commitments made on Red Cross billboards, the promises from telethon hosts, the moving declarations...
View ArticleWorld Bank must end support for Honduran palm oil company implicated in...
Press release: Friends of the Earth International, Global Forest Coalition, Urgewald, Rights Action, Rettet den Regenwald/Rainforest Rescue, Global Justice Ecology Project, Biofuelwatch 19th March 2013...
View ArticleDeclaration of the Social Movements Assembly – World Social Forum 2013
29 March 2013, TunisiaAs the Social Movements Assembly of the World Social Forum of Tunisia, 2013, we are gathered here to affirm the fundamental contribution of peoples of Maghreb-Mashrek (from North...
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Country Hospitality: Haitian Peasant Organizations Provide Humanitarian Aid
Haitian peasant organizations have stepped in to fill the void left by the inadequate and chaotic international response to the earthquake. Here, a humanitarian aid provider. Photo:...
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Haiti: The Clock is Set at Zero
Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay, one of many grassroots organizations working...
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JOBS AND JUSTICE: RAISING THE FLOOR ON WORKER RIGHTS AND WAGES IN HAITI
by Beverly Bell, Alexis Erkert, and Deepa PanchangMay 23, 2013Garment assembly workers in Caracol, Haiti's newest free trade zone. Credit: Joris Willems, www.avec-papiers.be Over the past few weeks in...
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A Glittering Industrial Park in Haiti Falls Short
Cross-posted from Al Jazeera By Jonathan M. KatzCARACOL, Haiti — The young men playing dominoes in this tin-roofed fishing village used to have high hopes for the industrial park being built up the...
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Haiti’s displaced – How long must they clamour until they are heard?
Cross-posted from Amnesty International 8 October 2013By Chiara Liguori, researcher for the Caribbean at Amnesty InternationalJustine had her life torn apart when the January 2010 earthquake struck...
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Haiti’s Imported Disaster
Cross-posted from the New York TimesHaiti’s cholera epidemic, now entering its fourth year, has killed more than 8,300 people and sickened more than 650,000. It is a calamity, though one fundamentally...
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The UN owes Haiti
Cross-posted from NY Daily NewsANDRES MARTINEZ CASARES/EPAWorld body must take responsibility for a horrific cholera outbreakHaitians bury cholera victim Tikont Dolamard in October 2010.The United...
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Dominicans of Haitian Descent Cast Into Legal Limbo by Court
Now, intensifying a long and furious debate over their place in this society, the nation’s top court has declared that the children of undocumented Haitian migrants — even those born on Dominican soil...
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Haiti: Uruguay Will Withdraw from MINUSTAH, President Says Beginning of End...
Cross-posted from Global ResearchBy Kim IvesFollowing a visit earlier this month from Haitian Sen. Moïse Jean-Charles, Uruguay’s President José Mujica told a council of ministers on Oct. 28 that he...
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URGENT ACTION: MASS DEPRIVATION OF NATIONALITY UNDERWAY IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Cross-posted from Amnesty InternationalThe Constitutional Court ruling which deprives thousands of individuals of foreign descent of their Dominican nationality is being implemented. This has created...
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