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New Book & Upcoming Events: "Tectonic Shifts: Impacts of Haiti’s Earthquake"
We’d like to introduce a new book, Tectonic Shifts: Impacts of Haiti's Earthquake (Mark Schuller and Pablo Morales, Eds., Kumarian Press), an anthology in which two Other Worlds staff have chapters....
View ArticleHaiti’s New Industrial Park Hailed by Officials, Condemned by Local Activists
From NotiCenJanuary 20, 2012As government officials, diplomats, and representatives of international finance institutions celebrated at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new industrial park in the north...
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Open Letter for the Prosecution of Jean-Claude Duvalier
Before the end of the month, a Haitian judge will decide whether or not "Baby Doc" Jean-Claude Duvalier will face trial for the crimes against humanity committed during his 15-year dictatorship....
View ArticleNew Survey Shows Residents of Haiti’s Capital Have Negative View of UN Troops...
February 15, 2012Contact: Mark Schuller, mschuller@york.cuny.eduA newly published survey indicates that a majority of residents of Haiti’s capital have a negative opinion of UN troops stationed in...
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“When it rains, we will grow again”: Haitian women observe International...
by Alexis Erkert, photos by Ben DeppMarch 14, 2012“As activists, we commemorate this as a day of struggle, a day to make our voices heard until someone pays attention and helps provide solutions to...
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Fighting Fire in Haiti
By Alexis ErkertMarch 28, 2012When police and the landowner commanded Michelène Pierre to vacate her tent on a Sunday afternoon so that they could light it on fire, she responded: “If you want to light...
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BIRTHING JUSTICE: And You, What Are You Waiting For?: A World without Slavery
By Beverly BellJune 16, 2012Helia Lajeunesse |Port-au-Prince, HaitiThe restavèk system is modern slavery. When a family takes in a restavèk to live with them, they stop doing any work in the house....
View ArticleSocial Movements' Letter to UNASUR Demands Withdrawal of MINUSTAH Troops from...
Last week, Latin American social movements sent the following letter to defense ministers of UNASUR member states, demanding accountability from the UN and withdrawal of MINUSTAH troops from Haiti....
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“Under Tents”: International Campaign Launch for Housing in Haiti
"The quantity of people who are homeless in Port-au-Prince today is not acceptable. We need the support of other governments, like the US, to demand that the Haitian Government create a social housing...
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"Homelessness, Displacement, Evictions . . . This Sounds Familiar": New...
Cross-posted from the New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center.Posted on 05. Jul, 2012 by Sophie RosenBy Hannah Adams, Guest ContributorThere are a number of obvious parallels between housing needs in...
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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...
View ArticleSome Haitians Are Still Waiting for Permanent Housing
Cross-posted from PRI's The World.By Amy Bracken⋅ October 1, 2012 When the earthquake hit Haiti in January 2010, many in the impoverished country lost what little they had.Nearly three years later,...
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What dreams are made of: Haiti Kanpé
Cross-posted from the Trinidad & Tobago Review Column, posted on Miriam Chancy's website.Trinidad & Tobago Review Column, Sept. 2012Prince Luc, artist, Director, FOSAJ, w/Papier Maché Carnival...
View ArticleA LETTER FROM THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS AND MOVEMENTS OF THE AMERICAS TO THE...
In this letter to defense ministers of the Americas, an agglomeration of social justice organizations across the Americas rebuke the recent (and longstanding) militarization of development on the...
View ArticleURGENT ACTION: LAWYERS IN HAITI THREATENED AND INTIMIDATED
Cross-posted from Amnesty InternationalThree lawyers in Haiti are reporting an increase of threats and intimidation against them in recent months. They believe they may be targeted for their activism...
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KOFAVIV co-founder Malya Villard-Appolon Named 2012 CNN Hero
Cross-posted from CNN By Allie TorganMalya Villard-Appolon is a rape survivor who co-founded KOFAVIV, an organization that helps victims of sexual violence in Haiti. She is a top 10 nominee for CNN's...
View ArticleA Message to Occupy Sandy from New Orleans And Haiti
Cross-posted from Occupy Wall Street.By Beverly BellAs a native New Orleanian and as someone who has lived and worked in Haiti off and on for more than three decades –since the earthquake, mostly on– I...
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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...
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Reclaiming Our Imaginations from 'There Is No Alternative'
Cross-posted from Common DreamsBy Andrea BrownerWe live in a time of heavy fog. A time when, though many of us dissent and resist, humanity seems committed to a course of collective suicide in the name...
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Guatemala ex-dictator to stand trial on genocide
Cross-posted from York DispatchGUATEMALA CITY—A former U.S.-backed dictator who presided over one of the bloodiest periods of Guatemala's civil war will stand trial on charges he ordered the murder,...
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