This is the 195th diary since the earthquake in Haiti. The first diary was by Dallasdoc and previous diaries are linked below. This is the Justice, Not Charity! 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.
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It is a critical time for Haiti. There is an upcoming election November 28, 2010, that will determine how Haiti is rebuilt. It will determine whether there is justice, opportunity and equality in Haiti, or whether the elite and US continue to pillage the country. Unfortunately so far it looks like it will be the latter -- so much for build back better.
Background
In preparation for the election in 1990, the US picked a candidate- Marc Bazin (with Serg Gilles as running mate.) The US spent an astonishing $36 million on his campaign. They also launched a propaganda campaign and brought the notorious Macoute chief, Roger Lafont, back to Haiti to run as an ultra right wing candidate and scare Haitians into voting for Bazin. This did not work out as Bush planned it to. What it did was to motivate Aristide to run for President of Haiti. Aristide knew that the election was sponsored by the US and meant for show only. He thought, rightly, that the Lavalas movement could use the election to make a change despite the US' intentions. As soon as people found out about Aristides’ candidacy, they rushed and registered to vote.
On December 16, 1990 Haiti elected its first democratically elected president. Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide was now President Aristide. He won the election with a whopping 67% of the vote. A full 80% of Haitians voted. Bazin won 14% of the vote. For the first time in Haiti's history the people had a voice; they had picked their own president. The excitement was everywhere. Poor neighborhoods around Haiti erupted with joy.
The elite, the US, and the international community panicked. How did the plan go so wrong? It did not take long for the US to act. They sent former President Carter with a group of high-level US officials to Haiti. Carter asked Aristide to step down and to denounce his own victory. The idea was to give the position to the pro-US candidate, Bazin, who had won only 14% of the vote. Even though 67% of the Haitian people voted for Aristide.
The US recognized that Aristide and the Lavalas movement were the biggest threat to the US' interests: A bigger threat than secular Marxist-Leninism and bigger than the labor unions. "A US official spoke for a more general Washington consensus when he said that 'Aristide-slum priest, grass-roots activist, exponent of Liberation Theology-represents everything that the CIA, DOD and FBI think they have been trying to protect this country against for the past 50 years'." (P37; Damming The Flood)
Within the first couple of days of his Presidency, Aristide opened the doors of the Duvalier torture chamber and stopped political persecution and government sanctioned violence. He invited poor people to the Palace and had soldiers serve them a nice meal of rice and beans. The soldiers were furious. He did not try to turn Haiti into a socialist country over night. He knew that would cause a huge backlash. Instead he went about enacting reasonable policies. He balanced the budget. He enforced the tax laws and collected import fees. He began the process of replacing the hated section chiefs with police that would report to elected government officials instead of the army. He appointed honest lawyers and judges to investigate the numerous political murders. He slowly took steps to redistribute fallow land, started a literacy program, lowered the price of food, cracked down on drug trafficking and he slightly increased the minimum wage. He was cautious.
The elite, the army, the US, and the international community saw these small changes as a mortal threat to the world's social, economic structure. This is when Aristide lost the support he had from the liberal, anti-Duvaleir elite faction. They would not tolerate any higher taxes, no matter how small.Aristide's presidency was a symbol for the poor that they mattered. Poor people had a little more confidence.
The notion of poor people voting for a President that would represent them horrified Haiti's ruling class, the US and the International Community. Every election since the world has literally conspired against the Haitian poor to disenfranchise their vote.
2010 Elections
The methods of controlling Haiti's elections may change but the US and IC are behind the scenes calling the shots just as they always have, imo. Haiti's current Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) lacks legitimacy and is probably just a front organization that is carrying out the wishes of, perhaps Preval, but definitely the US and IC. Both the US and IC had cried foul when the CEP illegally excluded the Fanmi Lavalas and 14 other political parties from the 2009 election and refused to reconsider for the 2010 elections; however, by the time the election took place both the US and IC touted what an achievement it was and treated the outcomes as fair and legitimate.
The US only publicly supports democratic elections while they simultaneously covertly undermine them. The US is astonishingly sloppy about concealing "covert" policies. Perhaps it is the policy makers arrogance. They realize that the US public rarely follows issues closely enough to catch the contradictions and outright hypocrisy. (My purse was stolen last year. This kid/teenager grabbed it off the table and ran. My friend ran after him, almost caught him but I just sat there stunned -- like how rude he could have at least waited until I wasn't looking and took it -- US covert action operates a bit like teenage purse grabber.)
The US and International Community (IC) are funding Haiti's utterly undemocratic and illegitimate upcoming elections. Fanmi Lavalas (FL) is excluded from the elections. FL is by far Haiti's most popular political party but they also represent the possibility of the US', IC's and Haiti's elite's biggest fear-a shift in the distribution of wealth and power. This would be nothing less than a colossal disruption of the natural social order that was established during slavery, maintained with colonization and now continued by various forms of force, Democracy Promotion Programs," and humanitarian programs. There is an action alert at the end of this diary pleas take a few minutes for Haiti and ask President Obama to withhold funds until the ban on the Lavalas is revoked.
Perhaps it was the "build back better" slogan, or it could have been Clinton's "apology" for destroying Haiti's farm economy, or maybe it was the moving response and the outpouring of generosity and show of solidarity from the International Community (IC) for Haitians, that made even cynics have hope that the IC had a change of heart towards Haitians and no longer saw them as nothing more than a source of cheap labor to be exploited and oppressed.
"....The coup of 2004 did not simply disrupt the Lavalas organization and kill thousands of its supporters. It was also intended to complete a task that began back in 1991: the task of reversing Lavalas' achievements and of inverting their significance. It didn't serve merely to put an end to the "threat of a good example," but also to discredit it beyond repair. Haiti's mobilization had proved that "the poorest people in the hemisphere", Elie goes on, " can know more about democracy than the people who are pretending to be beacons of civilization [...]. For the US, Haiti is an example that must be crushed, that must be made to fail." (P xxxII; quotes from Lavalas activist Patrick Elie)
I compared Haiti's November 2010 election to the US excluding the Democrats from our upcoming midterm elections. However, In a recent interview on Talk Back Radio Brian Concannon explained it more accurately. He said that it is the equivalent of President Obama starting a third party and excluding both the Democrats and Republicans from the election. That is exactly what President Preval is doing and there is no way he is doing this without the backing of the US and IC.
On June 30, 2010, the Institute for Justice and Democracy issued areport on Haiti's upcoming elections. It gives a detailed description of Haiti's electorial process (IJDJ has few one and two page summaries of the report).
The report laid out the three principle problems that affect the elections: Parliament has been closed since terms expired in May 2010; The legitimacy of Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) is in question; Preval's term expires February 7,2011.
Haiti's Constitution set election dates for 1/3 of the senate and the full House of Deputies for November 2009. Preval did not appoint the CEP for the elections until October 2009. The Council then scheduled elections for February 2010 which had to be postponed after the earthquake. The Senate now is operating with 1/3 of the seats vacant and Parliament is closed since their terms expired in May.
The International Community Should Support Prompt and Fair Elections in Haiti (HAWG)
The CEP suffers a credibility crisis because a) the CEP was established through a process not recognized by the Haitian Constitution; b) a predecessor CEP, including a majority of the current members, improperly excluded all candidates presented by Haiti’s largest political party, Fanmi Lavalas, from 2009 Senatorial elections; and c) before the elections scheduled for February 2009 were postponed, the CEP announced the exclusion of 14 political parties from the elections. The current CEP is also involved in corruption scandals, with one member facing criminal charges.
The current CEP started off tainted because Preval handpicked its members. Haiti's 1987 Constitution mandated the creation of the CEP because the members of the council would be so powerful the Constitution also outlined specific instructions on how members would be chosen.
Under the 1987 Constitution, elections are to be administered by a Permanent Electoral Council, which is to be chosen through the “ASEC system.”11 The ASEC system is a large pyramid structure, designed to decentralize democracy by ensuring that those in power are involved in politics at the very local level, where it is hard for centralized money to penetrate. (P5)
b. The Current Electoral Council
Unfortunately, the decentralized ASEC system has never been implemented in the Constitution’s 23 years. Instead, a provisional electoral council has run every election held during that period. The 1987 Constitution allowed for an initial provisional electoral council to run the first elections, which specified 9 different groups that could each send one representative to make up the council. Rather than implementing the ASEC system in time for the second elections, each president since then has instituted a similar provisional council. Without a Permanent Electoral Council, election results can always be contested for being run by an unconstitutional provisional council. (P6)
Preval did not follow precedent; he made up his own selection process wherein he handpicked CEP members. While Preval has been a pathetic leader of Haiti during this crisis, he simply lacks the power to be solely responsible for this sham of an election. The US and IC are calling the shots. At what point do we stop pretending that Preval or any Haitian politician is responsible for excluding Haiti's most popular political Party Fanmi Lavalas? The US and International Community have gone to great length and invested huge amounts of money to destroy the popular movement that brought Haiti's first Democratically elected president to office.
Preval refused to appoint new members to the CEP and we are on our way to yet another show election. He did schedule the elections for November 2010 so that there will be a someone to replace him when his term expires in February.
The report goes on to stress the importance of the elections. It states that while the elections will not be easy to do, it is possible and necessary.
There is no question that holding elections in Haiti will not be easy. Registering voters following the earthquake will be a challenge, with the loss of over 200,000 people and the internal displacement of over 2 million others, many having lost proofs of along with their homes. But these types of challenges have been overcome in the past, most notably in 1864 in one of the most important presidential election in the U.S. Abraham Lincoln had ample justification to postpone the elections for his second term in office. The U.S. was in the middle of a civil war, with the loss of over one-half of a million Americans and the displacement of millions others. The confederate states boycotted the elections, so only the Union states would be voting. The popular vote would test President Lincoln’s policies of war and the Proclamation of Emancipation. But as one historian put it, “The spirited yet orderly process of the 1864 elections, with relatively little corruption and negligible violence, became a sterling example and vindication of the democratic process itself. Furthermore, it was an election in which voters cast ballots to determine crucial questions about the direction of the war, the government, and the society.”19 (P8)
The current elections are a sham and I don't believe for a second that Preval is solely, if at all, responsible.
NACLA Kevin Edmonds, "The Assault on Haitian Democracy," here.
As the prin ci pal offi cial elec toral insti tu tion in the coun try, the CEP has banned the participation of Lavalas and 14 other political parties in the upcoming November elections. While under Haitian law the Préval-picked CEP does not have the legal authority to exclude any legally recognized political party, it has continued to ignore both internal and international pressure to reverse its decision. Indeed, it seems to have made a habit of under min ing Lavalas’s efforts to take part in the demo c ra tic process.
In the run-up to the 2006 elections, for example, the Haitian government imprisoned a pop u lar Lavalas pres i den tial can didate, Father Ger ard Jean Juste, on a bogus mur der charge in an effort to block him from tak ing part in the elec tion. While in prison Jean Juste was unable to ful fill the CEP’s demand of reg is ter ing in per son, and was banned from par tic i pat ing in the election.
"Haiti's ruling class became in the nineteenth century what it remains to this day - a parasitic clique of medium-sized and authoritarian land-owners on the one hand, combined in uneasy alliance with an equally parasitic though more "outward-looking" assemblage of importers, merchants and professionals." (P13 Damming The Flood)
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Haiti's elite, ruling class, or as Herbert Gold calls them the "morally repugnant elite" MRE, are a group of families that help the US and International Community exploit and oppress the vast majority of the population. They speak French or English and as neo-liberal policies have caused Haiti's economy to plummet and the poor to slide into ever more devastating poverty the richer these families become. They live in gated communities, heavily guarded and armed. The ruling class looks down on the poor; they feel nothing but disdain for them. They also fear them. And they will not allow an honest election -- they can't.
A group of us are reading Damming The Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment, by Peter Hallward. While we read about the programs that the US developed in the past 20 years to suppress popular democracy in Haiti's elections we see the same things play out in this election as if they were actors in a play following a script.
As Yvon Neptune said, "Our ruling class wants a democracy without the people."
Christian Science Monitor,Wyclef Jean appealing Haiti election ruling, says 'trickery' used:
IJDH spokesman Brian Concannon says that Jean's exclusion appears justified based on the residency requirement. But he adds that Jean's fight might bring overdue attention to the election commission's controversial rulings.
“It is distressing to see so much international concern over a candidate who is clearly ineligible and has never held elected office,” Conannon says about the rejection of Wyclef Jean’s candidacy. “But the CEP has excluded Fanmi Lavalas from the legislative component of the elections without legal justification, so in the absence of a clear explanation for the presidential exclusions, people left out can be justifiably suspicious.”
Brian Concannon went on to say that it looks like Wyclef does not meet Haiti's Constitutional residency requirement. He say's that while Wyclef is strong role model and inspiration for many Haitians, he does not see that translate into automatic political support from Haitians. Wyclef's star appeal is much stronger with the international media and corporations than it appears to be with Haitians. There are reports of crowds at his rallies, along with, reports that people are paid to attend. He said it is unfortunate that Wyclef is getting all the media attention and Parties that have legitimate complaints are not be covered. The CEP did not issue a real justification why they excluded parties and/or specific candidates and that leads to legitimate suspicion. Concannon said, if Wyclef was eligible, it would be for Haitians to decide whether he qualifies to be president.
IJDH, "The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Statement on the Conditions in Haiti Seven Months After the Earthquake," here.
All the people we encountered in the camps and the popular movement continuously raised concerns not only about the deplorable health conditions and lack of long term planning but also the need for free and fair elections in Haiti that include lifting the ban of Fanmi Lavalas from the upcoming elections, creating a legitimate electoral council and allowing the return of Jean Bertrand Aristide who the people still view as their legitimate leader.
Haitian history didn't begin after the earthquake. Kevin Pina/Latin Waves, here.
"Haiti's ruling class became in the nineteenth century what it remains to this day - a parasitic clique of medium-sized and authoritarian land-owners on the one hand, combined in uneasy alliance with an equally parasitic though more "outward-looking" assemblage of importers, merchants and professionals." (P13 Damming The Flood)
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tout moun se moun —
(every human being is a human being) |
Action Alert:
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Action Alert: Election:
The International Community Should Support Prompt and Fair
Elections in Haiti. Fanmi Lavalas has the support of the largest percentage of the Haitian electorate and
elections that forbid their presence is essentially undemocratic and disenfranchising the choice of the vast
majority of Haitians (h/t ny brit expat). The US and International Community should not fund illegitimate elections.
It is like the Democratic Party being excluded from our upcoming midterm elections.
To stand in solidarity with Haiti at this crucial time, please contact US government officials, your local
senators, and representatives and tell them not to fund illegitimate elections that Lavalas must be allowed to
participate in free, democratic elections. The US should withhold aid for the elections unless the ban is lifted.
The ban on Lavalas in the upcoming elections must be revoked.
White House: 202-456-1111
Email at www.whitehouse.gov
US State Department: 202-647-4000
Congressional switchboard: 202-224-3121
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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 Damming The Flood, (pg. xxxiv)
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Top Storiy: See comments for Today's News Update:
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Haiti Liberte, "The Drama of Haiti’s Internally Displaced":
"Nou bouke ap domi sou fatra" ( We're tired of sleeping on garbage.) Sign made by residents of Cité Soleil's Camp Immaculée
On Aug. 16 in Port-au-Prince's Carrefour district, all 210 families of Camp Napoleon were forcibly evicted by the landlord. Another eight camps in the area comprising about 15,000 families are faced with imminent expulsion, according to Suze Jean, an activist working to organize all eight camps.
NACLA Kevin Edmonds, "The Assault on Haitian Democracy,"
While the presidential candidacy of rapper/entertainer Wyclef Jean in Haiti’s upcoming presidential and legislative elections has garnered much international attention, underneath the glare of this hype are the continued assaults on the country’s democratic process. Much is at stake in this key election, scheduled for November 28. The winner will be responsible for the colossal task of rebuilding the nation’s shattered infrastructure and psyche after the January 12 earthquake. Jean’s glitz and glamour have stolen international headlines (despite Haiti’s August 20 ruling denying him the candidacy), however, the real story is that the country’s strongest and most popular political force will again be excluded from these elections.
The United States and the principal international power brokers have stated over and over again that the promotion of a stable and democratic political process is a primary goal in Haiti. However, international elites continue to support and fund an election that openly excludes the political party Famni Lavalas, the party founded by former Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide. Not only has Lavalas been excluded from Haiti’s political process by the country’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP), its supporters are continually intimidated and violently suppressed by a United Nations army that continues to be in Haiti six years after the 2004 coup that ousted Aristide from the presidency. The CEP and the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) continue to work in coordination with each other to make sure only the Haitian and international economic elite have their say in the country.
TOP STORY:
Join us Sunday's for book day : Current book is Damming The Flood: Haiti, Aristide, And The Politics Of Containment, by Peter Hallward: Chapter 5:
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This is our book list so far:
Isabel Allende (h/t Deoliver47): Island Beneath the Sea, here;
Jean-Bertrand Aristide:: In the Parish of the Poor, here; Eyes of the Heart here;
Beverly Bell: Walking on Fire, here;
Edwidge Danticat: Brother, I'm Dying here; The Farming of Bones here; Krik? Krak! here; Breath, Eyes, Memory here;
Paul Farmer: The Uses of Haiti here; Partner To The Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader here; Getting Haiti Right This Time: The U.S. and the Coup here;
Peter Hallward: Damming The Flood here (2010 updated edition will be out soon. You can pre-order it now) here. h/ty NY brit expat published date is 11/30/10);
C.L.R. James: The Black Jacobins here, (h/t Deoliver47);
Erica James: Democratic Insecurities: Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti,here;
Tracy Kidder: Mountains Beyond Mountains here;
Maurice Lemoine: Bitter Sugar: Slaves Today in the Caribbean [1985] here;
Paule Marshall: The Chosen Place, The Timeless People here;
Randall Robinson, An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President, here;
Timothy T. Schwartz: Travesty in Haiti here;
Amy Wilentz: The Rainy Season - Haiti after Duvalier here;
IJDH, Summer Reading list: here.
PIH has a new website here; They have a recommended reading list here; a book list, links to websites with action alerts, and articles.
videos:
Aristide and the Endless Revolution here; Life and Debt here; The Agronomist here; Poto Mitan here.
Any suggestions? We are looking for books, articles, websites where we can get accurate information about Haiti. Please share any information.
I found one. The World Traveler - Haiti page.: This website has links to articles about Haiti and it has excerpts from books including The Uses of Haiti and Damming The Flood.
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"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. Will revise the list soon. Any recommendations?
History
Aristide,
Agriculture,
Immigration,
Trade Policy,
Vulture Capitalism,
(will add more articles).
Video:
Brian Concannon and Paul Farmer Video, Change Haiti Can Believe In: here,
Haiti Dreaming for More Than $3 a day Watch, here: Life and Debt, here:
Edwidge Danticat on US immigration detentions 60 minutes, here: Jeremy Scahill on Democracy Now! responds to Clinton being appointed as UN envoy to Haiti, here: Reuters, here:The Tonton Macoutes (VSN) part 1/2, here.
US has always funded/trained/supported Haiti s biggest killers pt. 1 (end pt.1/beg. pt. 2)
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NEWS ORGANIZATIONS:
Al Jazeera English, here; AlterNet, here; BBC, here; Caribbean Net News, here;
CNN, here; COHA, here; Common Dreams.org, here: gaurdian. co.uk, here;
Huffington Post, here; IPS, here; MiamiHerald.com, here; NPR, here; ReliefWeb, here;
The Root, here; Reuters, here.; NewsNow: (Haiti), here; Upside Down World, here.
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Aid - Change?
Aid - Change?
IJDH, “We Became Garbage to Them,” here.
Nicole Lee, "Haiti: An Opportunity For A New Model," here.
Mark Schuller, "Falling through the cracks or unstable foundations?" here
IJDH, “Haitians in IDP Camps are living better now than before the earthquake? Are you kidding me?” here
Kim Ives, "Land Ownership at the Crux of Haiti's Stalled Reconstruction," here.
CIRH, Interim Haiti Recovery Commission here, Clinton & Bellerive co-chairs, 26 members 13 foreigners and 13 of Haiti's elite business people. One of which Reginald Boulos was a backer of both coups. Another memberGarry Lissade, the former lawyer for Cedras during the 1993 Governor's Island post-coup negotiations.
Mark Schuller, "Tectonic Shifts? The upcoming donors' conference for Haiti" here,
CounterPunch, "How NGOs are Profiting Off a Grave Situation: Haiti and the Aid Racket" here,
More Articles, here..
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Please support Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti:
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Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti:
Mission
We strive to work with the people of Haiti in their non-violent struggle for the consolidation of constitutional democracy, jus tice and human rights, by distributing objective and accurate information on human rights conditions in Haiti, pursuing legal cases, and cooperating with human rights and solidarity groups in Haiti and abroad.
IJDH draws on its founders’ internationally-acclaimed success accompanying Haiti’s poor majority in the fields of law, medicine and social justice activism. We seek the restoration of the rule of law and democracy in the short term, and work for the long-term sustainable change necessary to avert Haiti’s next crisis.
"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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Past diaries in this series:
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The World Traveler - Haiti page.: This website has links to articles about Haiti and it has excerpts from books including
The Uses of Haiti and
Damming The Flood.
Be sure to also see diaries by
Bev Bell for informed ground-level information on Haiti's needs.
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.
Sunday is Haiti diary book day. Here is the Book List
UPCOMING DIARIES
Tuesday:
Thursday: allie123
Sunday: RunawayRose book diary
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.