This is the 172nd diary on the earthquake disaster in Haiti. The first diary was by Dallasdoc and previous diaries are linked below. This is the Justice, Not Charity action edition of the diary.
"The Haitian people are asking not for charity, but for justice."
The Uses of Haiti last paragraph pg. 307
What, then is to be done? Speaking of events since the 1991 coup, Noam Chomsky has noted that "honest commentary would place all of this in the context of our unwavering opposition to freedom and human rights in Haiti for no less than 200 years." The first order of business, for citizens of the United States, might be a candid and careful assessment of our ruinous policies towards Haiti. Remorse is not a very fashionable sentiment. But for many, old-fashioned penitence might be the first step towards a new solidarity, a pragmatic solidarity that could supplant both our malignant policies of the past and the well -meaning but unfocused charity that does not respond to Haitian aspirations. The Haitian people are asking not for charity, but for justice.
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This is where Paul Farmer's book The Uses of Haiti ends. This is where our new diary begins. Farmer answers our question- what to do first, "The first order of business, for citizens of the United States, might be a candid and careful assessment of our ruinous policies towards Haiti." that is what this diary will attempt to do (mainly through the discussion that takes place in the comments). Many of us are new to learning about Haiti. But we really want to help. This diary is a place to learn about Haiti, about US policy towards Haiti, and to advocate for Haiti.
Join us in today's action, help reunite Haitian families. It won't take long. Be sure to also see diaries by Bev Bell for informed ground-level information on Haiti's needs.
Immigration: Help Reunite Haitian families: Action Alert below: |
COHA, Disparities in U.S. Immigration Policy toward Haiti and Cuba: A Legacy to be Continued?
by COHA Research Associates Alice Barrett & Kelsey Cary
• Shameful distinction between treatment of Haitians and Cubans
• U.S.-Cuba immigration strategy is emulated nowhere else in the world, while desperately needy Haitians are instantly interdicted back to their island
• State Department administers a broken policy bereft of inspired leadership
• Cuban-American lobby continues to rule the roost of U.S. policies toward Latin America
• Looking ahead: Haiti Earthquake highlights that environmental factors must gain a foothold in immigration policy
Many points of comparison exist between Haiti and Cuba, as Ruth Ellen Wasem contends in a Congressional Research Report: “Both nations have a history of repressive governments with documented human rights violations. Both countries have a history of sending asylum seekers to the United States by boats.” In spite of these similarities, several political and economic factors have spurred divergent U.S. directives in these two island nations.
Immigration policy and the US press: The Uses of Haiti pg. 217-218:
The New York Times describes Guantanamo Bay detentions camps for Haitian's that were intercepted in international seas:
"U.S. Base is an Oasis To Haitians," reads the headline of a November 28, 1991, article in the New York Times, often termed our national paper of record. The perspective of Yolande Jean, interned there for eleven months, is somewhat different from that of the Times:
We were in a space cordoned off with barbed wire. Wherever they put you, you were meant to stay right there; there was no place to move, The latrines were brimming over. There was never any cool water to drink, to wet our lips. There was only water in a cistern, boiling in the hot sun, When you drank it, it gave you diarrhea...Rats crawled over us at night...When we saw all these things, we thought, it's not possible, it can't go on like this. We're humans, just like everyone else.
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The Uses of Haiti pg. 239.
Another lawyer puts it succinctly: "By treating Haitian's differently than any other refugee group, the U.S. government has created a two - track asylum process-one for Haitian's and one for everyone else."
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Action Alert: |
Action Alerts:
Immigration
Alert: Haitians in America must file for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) by July 20th. Institute For Justice and Democracy in Haiti has launched a new website to help:
This site will make it easier for the hundreds of lawyers and law students who offered their services after Haiti’s earth quake to find local volunteer opportunities with organizations that are trying to meet the needs of eligible Haitian immigrants to apply for TPS before the deadline,” said Brian Concannon, Jr., Director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH). “It will also facilitate the sharing of legal research and other information among the providers themselves.
Read Deoliver47's action diary calling for pressure to be applied to congress to relax the caps for Haitian visa applicants. Allie123 found an easy way to fax or e-mail congress using existing templates and form letters. Frisco wrote a letter to President Obama and gives permission for it to be used as a template by others.
RE: Open our doors to Haitian refugees
Mr. President,
I am writing to implore you to work with Secretary of State Clinton and with the Congress to provide relief in expediting "green card" processing for Haitian immigration applicants caught up in the horrible aftermath of the 12 January earthquake that so devastated that country. I am further asking that you work with Congress to temporarily raise the limits on Haitian immigration levels for 2010.
These two actions would have the effect of reducing the on-site relief requirements in Haiti and providing funding for relief aid and rebuilding in the form of funds sent back to Haiti by members of the Haitian diaspora (currently estimated to be about 25% of Haiti's normal GNP).
With the impending rainy season nearly upon them, Haitians are facing a turn from horrendous living conditions to **unlivable** - with rain, mud and waste running in the streets and ditches throughout the tent & tarp "cities" that are currently everywhere in that nation.
Please help, Mr. President. The time for action is RIGHT NOW. Thank you.
Regards,
New America Media has an article about the work Lawyers from Inst for Justice & Democracy in Haiti and others are doing to help Haitian's that want to come to the U.S. and qualify for humanitarian parole, Haitians Hope for Humanitarian Parole. We can help by asking our Senators, Rep, Homeland Security, State Dept., Immigration committees and the President to open the doors to Haitian refugees.
BAI, which hosted a delegation of lawyers and doctors from the Bay Area, which I joined, was there to assess possible candidates for so-called humanitarian parole. These are people whose conditions are so unbearable that they need to leave Haiti in order to survive. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security enacted the program following the Haiti earthquake to allow individuals with urgent humanitarian needs to come to the United States for a temporary stay
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
US Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520
202-647-4000
Urge Secretary Napolitano to Reunite Haitian Families here.
Urge Your Legislators to Reunite Haitian Families here.
Immigratioin Committee Contact information, here.
White House, here
White House Comment line: 202-456- 1111; Fax: 202-456-2461
Additional Action Alerts:
TransAfrica Forum
Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti
Stand up and be counted (Partners in Health)
HAITI ACTION COMMITTEE ACTION ALERT
Update March 11: allie123 has finished a detailed list of contact information for the committees, subcommittees, offices, and office holders who have influence over these policies. |
Join us Thursday's for book day : Current book is Damming The Flood: Haiti, Aristide, And The Politics Of Containment, by Peter Hallward: Chapter 2 |
Ravet pa janm gen rezon devan poul
Roaches are never right when facing chickens
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Center For Economic and Policy Research, has a great roundup of articles and an Action Alert, see Get Your Free Poster and Urge DHS to Parole in 55,000 Approved Beneficiaries to Reunite Families and Spur Haiti's Recovery::
HIAS has created a laminated poster that asks people to urge DHS (202 282 8495) and Congress (202 224 3121) to reunite these 55,000 separated Haitian families. To get a free poster, email dc.intern2@hias.org with your name and address, and post them widely.
Support for this proposal began soon after the quake. "What Haiti Needs: A Haitian Diaspora," by Elliot Abrams, appeared in the Washington Post on January 22, followed on January 29 by its excellent editorial, "The U.S. should welcome Haitians in." On February 4 and 5, Senator Gillibrand and Rep. Yvette Clark introduced S. 2998 and H.R. 4616 to give V visas to accomplish this goal, hoping to spur Administration action. On March 8 leading Democrats and four Republicans urged DHS Secretary Napolitano to bring them in, as did 75 organizations on March 12 who urged creation of a Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program for this purpose. On March 22 the Miami Herald editorial board urged parole of the 55,000, as did Haitian-American leaders on April 5 in their meeting with Vice President Biden in Miami. City councils have passed resolutions, as did the United States Conference of Mayors on June 14 in a strongly worded document. As the World Bank reported on May 17, "Haiti Remittances [Are] Key to Earthquake Recovery," but the Administration has remained silent! IJDH has been in the forefront of this fight.
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We will be auctioning this Obama Poster #2470/5000. I bought it from his campaign website artists for Obama. I know it isn't as good as the Change poster but it is a good poster to commemorate his historic campaign. I have some more numbered posters but not sure if I will auction. I bought a bunch as a way to donate to his campaign and get a cool poster.
News Update: |
Election
IJDH's report is helpful. I am speculating that if the US and International Community fund an election for Haiti where Preval's unconstitutional CEP's decision to exclude the most popular party in Haiti the Lavalas is upheld, then the US and International Community are the ones calling the shots and either making or helping Preval uphold the exclusion of the Lavalas party. If the US and International Community refuse to fund the corrupt election Preval is planning and refuse to recognize the results, then it is Preval making the decision to uphold the exclusion of the Lavalas and other political parties.
This answers many questions about the election. Must Read: IJDH Releases Report Calling for “fair, inclusive and constitutional elections” in Haiti
IJDH is shap ing the dia log around elec tions in Haiti with a new com pre hen sive report that ana lyzes con sti tu tional pro vi sions in depth and breaks the myths around elec tion mechan ics. The report dis cusses the impor tance of “fair, inclu sive and con sti tu tional elec tions” in Haiti, and ana lyzes the main obsta cles to achiev ing this goal.
CARICOM SUMMIT: Transparent elections needed for Haiti
Kim Ives, Marc Bazin is Dead:
Marc Louis Bazin, a former World Bank economist who lost Haiti’s historic 1990 presidential election to former priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide by a landslide, died at his home in Thomassin, Haiti on Jun. 16. He was 78. A family member said the cause of death was prostate cancer. In 1992, Bazin became the second de facto prime minister, after Jean-Jacques Honorat, to front for the military regime of Gen. Raoul Cédras and Col. Michel François, which overthrew Aristide in 1991. Bazin held the post for a year before resigning.
Preval rejects calls for fair elections; How will Washington and the international community respond?:
Preval, however, defended the action, the AP writes:
He also defended the prohibition on the exiled Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas party in last year's elections, a ban that came after rival factions of the party submitted competing lists of candidates.
"International donors need to look for an accord with the CEP and the political parties and the factions of Fanmi Lavalas," Preval said. "We are giving (the parties) the support that they need, and the factions need to figure it out (for themselves)."
Miami Dade, Préval closes door on elections panel revamp:
AFP, Polls in quake-hit Haiti set for November
CEPR, With Date for Elections Set, Next Step is to Ensure Full Participation:
Haitian President Rene Preval signed a decree on Tuesday setting November 28, 2010 as the election date, the AP reports. According to AFP, not only will a new president be elected, but the entire Chamber of Deputies and one third of the senate are also up for grabs. Serious issues, however, have yet to be resolved. As we have noted numerous times before, the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) excluded 15 political parties from participating in the legislative elections planned for February. Among the parties excluded was Fanmi Lavalas, the most popular party. There has been no indication if the exclusion will hold for the November elections.
Miami Herald, Préval closes door on elections panel revamp
Bill Clinton/Trade/Aid
Haiti’s Future: Repeating Disasters:
[2] The plan mainly called for the country to open access to the world market by: 1) using its cheap labor to attract foreign investments in the export assembly industry or garment production, which would be carried out in Free Trade Zones (FTZs); and 2) prioritizing the production of selected agricultural goods for export, mainly mangoes. In Haiti and its diaspora, there was substantive opposition to this plan on the ground, though this was virtually ignored in mainstream media. Haitian grassroots organizations and long-term advocates called for a more humane approach that would be less detrimental to Haiti's future. The Collier plan would only maintain the recirculation of foreign capital. Those fortunate enough to land one of the 125,000 jobs the plan sought to create would have to contend with exploitative labor relations aimed at reinforcing the concentration of wealth at home and abroad.
Vulture Capitalism
The Washington Informer, Halliburton in Haiti:
Montreal Gazette, Haiti's camps of despair:
Thursday is Haiti diary book day: Book List : |
This is our book list so far:
In the Parish of the Poor by Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
Mountains Beyond Mountains, Damming The Flood, The Uses of Haiti, Travesty in Haiti, Partner To The Poor A Paul Farmer Reader, Walking on Fire, Brother, I'm dying,
Bitter Sugar: Slaves Today in the Caribbean by Maurice Lemoione [1985],
The Black Jacobins, C.L.R. James (h/t Deoliver47),
Edwidge Danticat's TheFarming of Bones,
The Chosen Place, The Timeless People,
Krik? Krak!PIH has a book list,
Breath, Eyes, Memory,
The Rainy Season - Haiti after Duvalier by A. Wilentz,
PIH has a new website. They have recommended reading, book list, links to websites with action alerts. Articles.
Videos
The Agronomist,
Aristide and the Endless Revolution,
Life and Debt ,
Poto Mitan,
Any suggestions? We are looking for books, articles, websites where we can get accurate information about Haiti. Please share any information.
Sources We Like |
Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA)
Canada Action Network
Democracy Now!
Center For Economic and Policy Research
Common Dreams.org
Global Policy Forum
HaitAction.Net, Haiti Action Committee Action Alert
Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (ijdh)
Kim Ives is the editor of Haiti Liberte
Partners in Health (PIH), PIH-For Advocates
Rabble.ca
SF Bay View
TransAfrica Forum
News Organizations: |
Al Jazeera English
AlterNet
BBC
Caribbean Net News
CNN
Haitian Times
Huffington Post
IPS
MiamiHerald.com
NPR
reliefWeb
"Dye mon, gen mon."
Translation: Beyond the mountain is another mountain.
(A proverb of both patience and the recognition of how difficult life in Haiti is.)
ijdh:
Anyone interested in democracy and rights has reason to be interested in Haiti. Over two centuries ago, Haitians challenged the notions of human rights taking root in Europe and the nascent United States, insisting that all people are human and that slavery could have no place in any republic worthy of the name. This was the beginning of the modern human rights movement.
— Paul Farmer, Co-Founder, Partners in Health
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Reliable source articles: |
Any articles that we missed? Please leave comment.
Haiti's History
President Aristide
US-Haiti-trade policy
Agriculture
AID and here.
Video: |
Watch Paul Farmer and Brian ConcannonVideo, Change Haiti Can Believe In: here.
Watch: Haiti Dreaming for More Than $3 a day
Life and Debt
Aid/Change?:
The Washington Informer, Halliburton in Haiti:
Haiti’s Future: Repeating Disasters:
Tectonic Shifts? The upcoming donors' conference for Haiti
TransAfrica, Workers Unite in Haiti:
Summary of HOPE legislation: This is the same trade policy that we usually have to force Haiti to accept. But now we art told to celebrate it as an accomplishment? When did sweatshops become reason to celebrate?
CounterPunch, How NGOs are Profiting Off a Grave Situation: Haiti and the Aid Racket
CounterPunch, Aid Should Go to Haitian Popular Organizations, Not to Contractors or NGOs: Chomsky on Haiti
CounterPunch, Haiti Five Months After the Quake
Center For economic and policy research, Katrina Redux: New Disaster, Same Contractors
tout moun se moun —
(every human being is a human being)
Damming The Flood, (pg. xxxiv): Mantra from Aristide's 1990 campaign:
"Alone we are week, together we are strong; all together we are Lavalas, the flood [yon se`l nou feb, ansanm nou fo, ansanm nou se Lavalas]."
Aristide
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The now requisite warnings: |
Please do your research before donating. The Charity Navigator tool is a useful resource for this purpose. For those not familiar, Charity Navigator evaluates and rates charities according to their financial responsibility and sustainability. Their homepage now lists comprehensive information the major organizations on the ground in Haiti now. (h/t DeepHarm and deb s) An additional resource for researching charities is the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance site.
A note about ratings listed here: We have looked up all of the charities listed here and we've put ratings next to the ones that have actually been rated. It looks like this: (****/A). The number of stars (1-4) indicates the rating from Charity Navigator and is also a clickable link to a detailed review of that particular charity. The letter grade is from AIP and is explained here.
The lack of a rating does not mean that something is wrong with it. A lot of good (and bad) organizations have yet to be rated. For more tips, see: Evaluating Charities Not Currently Rated by Charity Navigator.
NGOs: |
The Aristide Foundation for Democracy (AFD) was created in 1996 by former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide (the first democratically elected president of Haiti) with a simple principle in mind: "The promise of democracy can only be fulfilled if all sectors of Haitian society are able to actively participate in the democratic life of the nation." |
Can-Do.org is intensely dedicated to working on the local level to provide lasting solutions to some of the world’s most critical issues, from environmental degradation to natural disasters, humanitarian crises to educational inequity. Their donation page is here.
Fonkoze (***) , a micro-lending organization in Haiti. From their Web site:
Fonkoze is Haiti’s Alternative Bank for the Organized Poor. We are the largest micro-finance institution offering a full range of financial services to the rural-based poor in Haiti. Fonkoze is committed to the economic and social improvement of the people and communities of Haiti and to the reduction of poverty in the country.
According to their Web site, their offices have taken quite a hit. This is another one in the category of long-term rebuilding. (h/t parryander and dizzydean)
Haiti Emergency Relief Foundation:
Haiti’s grassroots movement – including labor unions, women’s groups, educators and human rights activists, support committees for political prisoners, and agricultural cooperatives – are funneling needed aid to those most hit by the earthquake. They are doing what they can – with the most limited of funds – to make a difference. Please take this chance to lend them your support. All donations to the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund will be forwarded to our partners on the ground to help them rebuild what has been destroyed.
Healing Hands for Haiti (a physical rehab and prosthetics organization based in Port au Prince), Lamp for Haiti, and a group that umbrellas several projects called Healing Haiti. parryander has personal experience with these groups, so I suggest checking out their comments.
Another organization, The Honor and Respect Foundation, was described in a story on Narconews called Getting Help to Haiti. The foundation was created by journalist Reed Lindsay, who is now Telsur's D.C. Bureau Chief, for children who couldn't get into other schools. Their website says that it "seeks to establish funds in support of several specific programs carried out by grassroots groups in the poorest neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince." I have a phone number for a contact there and will get direct information tonight.
Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti:
We fight for the human rights of Haiti’s poor, in court, on the streets and wherever decisions about Haitians’ rights are made. We represent the unjustly imprisoned and victims of political persecution, coordinate grassroots advocacy in Haiti and the US, train human rights advocates in Haiti and disseminate human rights information worldwide.
IJDH is simply the most reliable source for information and analysis on human rights in Haiti. — Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)
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L'Athletique D'Haiti:
“While many children and parents see the club as a way to make it to the Haitian National team and also as a route ?to college scholarships or professional teams outside of Haiti, there’s more to the program than sports. By encouraging youngsters from wealthier families to compete with those from the slums, Robert Duval is also chipping away at the barriers of long divided Haitian society. And as Duval points out, ‘Some of these kids have a lot of talent, not only for soccer. Maybe it’s school or music or writing poetry. But sports will lift them to the next level of life.’” ?- Finbar O’Reilly, National Post, Canada
L'Athletique D'Haiti parryander describes Bobby Duval
Besides being an immensely generous and charming man, he can be delightfully blunt and wonderfully funny. He has no time for crap. He has been through the wars - those of his personal experience being a prisoner of Baby Doc, and also those of the violence in Cite Soleil - the gang wars.
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The Lambi Fund (****) is a secular non-profit nonprofit whose mission is "to assist the popular, democratic movement in Haiti. Its goal is to help strengthen civil society as a necessary foundation of democracy and development. The fund channels financial and other resources to community-based organizations that promote the social and economic empowerment of the Haitian people." They support "projects that embrace the following principles: non-violent, non-partisan, community-based, promoting the advancement of women, using education and training for empowerment, and promoting the overall democratic movement."
Partners in Health (****/A+) has now started a BLOG about its efforts called Stand with Haiti. It has very useful information. Partners in Health is also putting out a call for health volunteers, in case you are a medical professional who can help out that way:
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We are deeply grateful for the multitude of people who have contacted us wanting to provide medical assistance. As patients flood to our sites from Port-au-Prince, we're finding ourselves in need of both medical personnel and supplies. In particular, we need surgeons (especially trauma/orthopedic surgeons), ER doctors and nurses, and full surgical teams (including anesthesiologists, scrub and post-op nurses, and nurse anesthetists). If you are a health professional interested in volunteering, please send an email to volunteer@pih.org with information on:
• Your credentials
• Language capabilities (Haitian Creole or French desired)
• Overseas experience (if any)
• Any prior experience in emergency/post-disaster relief efforts
• Availability
• Contact information
As phone lines in Haiti remain down and transportation and communication are difficult, PIH is still in the process of determining where we can set up operations in Port-au-Prince, and how we can transport patients and volunteers to our sites. We will be able to offer more concrete information after these logistical matters are resolved. Once again – thank you for your support. Kenbe fèm.
The Jean Cadet Restavek Foundation. Restaveks are child slaves. This is an organization for children run by a Haitian man who is a former child slave.
Reiser Relief, a group that parryander works with
Matching Funds
Turn a $25 donation into a $50 donation.
Matching funds currently available at this link for Reiser Relief, a group that parryander works with:
Reiser Relief is a charity started by my friend Father Reiser - it funds our water truck, pays teachers salaries, feeds kids, and it supports orphanages and homes for the elderly and women.
A total of $20K in matching funds have been provided for Reiser Relief from Razoo.
As of May 13, over $4K remain (this number does not appear to be updated daily, but we will keep it as current as possible).
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ShelterBox: TexMex is busy moving, but carolina stargazer is still watching the store. The next ShelterBox diary is planned for Tuesday morning, but activity in
Friday's diary will be monitored until then. Matching funds are available.
SOIL is based in Haiti (founded by two American females) and although their regular mission is :Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting soil resources, empowering communities and transforming wastes into resources in Haiti, they are in the streets in PAP providing normal disaster relief services and translation (they speak Kreyol). They have said that all donations in the next 30 days (at least) will go directly to their relief work rather than their usual mission. They have been in Haiti for several years and are very familiar with it.
Social Networking Efforts: |
Media Make Change has this to say:
Too often, we hear stories that are told about the survivors, where a narrator with a minimal connection to the tragedy attempts to explain lives that s/he doesn’t truly understand. But Haitian citizens have the right to tell their own stories; they have the right to engage in public discussion about how to remedy the crisis in Haiti.
Check out their 5 Easy Ways to Help page. In particular, they would like to have your old digital camera to put in the hands of a Haitian citizen.
Past diaries in this series: |
Be sure to also see diaries by Bev Bell for informed ground-level information on Haiti's needs.
Mokurai has contributed The Real Story in Haiti and Haiti: Dimensions of Disaster.
FishOutofWater takes a moment to explore the benefits of Partners in Health's commitment to solar powered health centers.
Meteor Blades points the way to a better and more sustainable future for Haitians in Haiti Could Use a New Deal.
As the MSM (in the United States) turns attention away from Haiti, Deoliver47 reminds us that things are not suddenly all better: Raining Disease and More Deaths.
For some good pre-earthquake background on Haiti, see Daisy Cutter's Book Review: "Damming the Flood" by Peter Hallward, pt 1. This diary was published in July 2008 and presents a history of Haiti up to 1999 using Hallward's book as a reference. Excellent.
Two recent diaries by Deep harm remind us that the rains are coming and tents are needed.
ShelterBox: TexMex is busy moving, but carolina stargazer is still watching the store. The next ShelterBox diary is planned for Tuesday morning, but activity in Tuesday's diary will be monitored until then. Matching funds are available.
Other news and information: |
Thursday is Haiti diary book day. Here is the Book List
:We are cutting back the diary to 3 days a week but diaries will have new information in them. If you are interested in posting a dairy please leave comment.
UPCOMING DIARIES
Monday: allie123
Thursday: Book day - allie123
Saturday: ***open***
If you would like to volunteer to contribute a diary to continue this series, please volunteer in the comments below. Norbrook has created a Google documents file with the source code for the first version of the diary with the NGO list. allie123 created a Google doc for the new series Justice, Not Charity. However, because we are cutting back to 2 or 3 diaries a week we will be adding a focus and new information to each diary now.
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The icons and March 13 formatting revision of this diary series are courtesy of the html artist known on Daily Kos as Pluto. The "Help Haiti" image at the top of the diary that has become the "logo" of this series is courtesy of AuntKat. Big thank you to swampus for maintaining the google doc for months.