Lessons for Libya?
One thing that was striking about the run-up to the invasion is how rarely we heard from the many Haitians who struggled for Aristide's return but opposed any US military action.
by David L. Wilson, World War 4 Report
July 1, 2011
On the night of September 29, 1991, Haitian army officers launched a coup d'état against the country's elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. By the next afternoon, soldiers had arrested Aristide and had started gunning down coup opponents in the street. The toll would reach more than 3,000 over the next three years.
US liberals didn't take long to see that the Haitian crisis could provide a good test case for the newly fashionable doctrine of "humanitarian intervention." [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.ww4report.com/node/10053
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Friday, July 1, 2011
Sunday, July 18, 2010
An Open Letter on Haitian Agriculture to the CEO of Monsanto
By Peter Costantini, Huffington Post
July 5, 2010
To: Hugh Grant, President and CEO, Monsanto
As you are no doubt aware, your offer to donate hybrid corn and vegetable seeds has stirred up quite a controversy in Haiti.
I'd like to call your attention to an article I wrote on this issue recently for Inter Press Service. While I was in Haiti for the month of May, I had a conversation with Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, the head of a major Haitian peasant organization and a leader of the international confederation La Via Campesina. He criticized your donation from a perspective on seeds and agriculture based on a very different world view that might be worth your time to understand. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/crossover-dreams/an-open-letter-on-haitian_b_635751.html
July 5, 2010
To: Hugh Grant, President and CEO, Monsanto
As you are no doubt aware, your offer to donate hybrid corn and vegetable seeds has stirred up quite a controversy in Haiti.
I'd like to call your attention to an article I wrote on this issue recently for Inter Press Service. While I was in Haiti for the month of May, I had a conversation with Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, the head of a major Haitian peasant organization and a leader of the international confederation La Via Campesina. He criticized your donation from a perspective on seeds and agriculture based on a very different world view that might be worth your time to understand. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/crossover-dreams/an-open-letter-on-haitian_b_635751.html
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Agriculture and Haiti's Long-Term Future: An Analysis
By Beverly Bell, Lambi Fund Newsletter
May 2010
What would it take to transform Haiti's economy such that its role in the global economy is no longer that of providing cheap labor for sweatshops? What would it take for hunger to no longer be the norm, for the country no longer to depend on imports and hand-outs, and for Port-au-Prince's slums to no longer contain 85% of the city's residents? What would it take for the hundreds of thousands left homeless by the earthquake to have a secure life, with income? [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.lambifund.org/Newsletter2010-1/2010-1p2.shtml
May 2010
What would it take to transform Haiti's economy such that its role in the global economy is no longer that of providing cheap labor for sweatshops? What would it take for hunger to no longer be the norm, for the country no longer to depend on imports and hand-outs, and for Port-au-Prince's slums to no longer contain 85% of the city's residents? What would it take for the hundreds of thousands left homeless by the earthquake to have a secure life, with income? [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.lambifund.org/Newsletter2010-1/2010-1p2.shtml
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Aid and Reconstruction for Haiti: The Grassroots Perspective
Three articles by Beverly Bell.
Raising Up Another Haiti
Common Dreams, February 23, 2010
As Haiti moves forward from the current point of devastation of its population, capital city, and economy, what could a different nation look like?
Who knows better than the Haitian majority? Why not ask them what they need and want?
Their perspectives have been sorely lost from the post-earthquake plans of some of the world's strongest powers. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/23-5
Haiti: Peasant Organizations Provide Humanitarian Aid
Daily Kos, February 24, 2010
“Yon sèl dwèt pa manje kalalou,” says Christroi Petit-homme, a member of a peasant farmer organization. You can’t eat gumbo with one finger. Peasant groups throughout rural Haiti form the fingers of the hand, reaching out with humanitarian aid for those left bereft after the earthquake.
U.S. Ambassador Ken Merten said at a February 12 State Department briefing, "In terms of humanitarian aid delivery, frankly, it's working really well, and I believe that this will be something that people will be able to look back on in the future as a model for how we've been able to sort ourselves out as donors on the ground and responding to an earthquake." Judging from hundreds of interviews, that impression is not shared by survivors of the earthquake. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/2/24/840201/-Country-Hospitality:-Haitian-Peasant-Organizations-Provide-Humanitarian-Aid
A Future for Agriculture, A Future for Haiti
Upside Down World, March 2, 2010
"We plant but we can’t produce or market. We plant but we have no food to eat. We want agriculture to improve so our country can live and so we peasants can live, too."
- Rilo Petit-homme, peasant organizer from St. Marc, Haiti
What would it take to transform Haiti’s economy such that its role in the global economy is no longer that of providing cheap labor for sweatshops? What would it take for hunger to no longer be the norm, for the country no longer to depend on imports and hand-outs, and for Port-au-Prince’s slums no longer to contain 85% of the city’s residents? What would it take for the hundreds of thousands left homeless by the earthquake to have a secure life, with income? [...]
Read the full article:
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/haiti-archives-51/2383-a-future-for-agriculture-a-future-for-haiti
Beverly Bell coordinates Other Worlds, http://www.otherworldsarepossible.org/ , which promotes social and economic alternatives. She is also associate fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies.
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Reminder: People in the New York metropolitan area can learn more about grassroots perpectives at "Haiti Beyond Disaster: Planting Seeds of Change," a discussion about Haiti's Mouvman Peyizan Papay (Papaye Peasant Movement, MPP) and the Seeds for Haiti campaign, with special guests Joanne Veillard and Bastien Jean-Baptiste, Haitian-American New Yorkers who visited Haiti's Central Plateau with a Seeds for Haiti delegation January 7-11, then survived the earthquake in Port-au-Prince.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
6:30pm-8:30pm
More information:
http://grassrootssolidarity.blogspot.com/2010/02/haiti-beyond-disaster-planting-seeds-of.html
Raising Up Another Haiti
Common Dreams, February 23, 2010
As Haiti moves forward from the current point of devastation of its population, capital city, and economy, what could a different nation look like?
Who knows better than the Haitian majority? Why not ask them what they need and want?
Their perspectives have been sorely lost from the post-earthquake plans of some of the world's strongest powers. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/23-5
Haiti: Peasant Organizations Provide Humanitarian Aid
Daily Kos, February 24, 2010
“Yon sèl dwèt pa manje kalalou,” says Christroi Petit-homme, a member of a peasant farmer organization. You can’t eat gumbo with one finger. Peasant groups throughout rural Haiti form the fingers of the hand, reaching out with humanitarian aid for those left bereft after the earthquake.
U.S. Ambassador Ken Merten said at a February 12 State Department briefing, "In terms of humanitarian aid delivery, frankly, it's working really well, and I believe that this will be something that people will be able to look back on in the future as a model for how we've been able to sort ourselves out as donors on the ground and responding to an earthquake." Judging from hundreds of interviews, that impression is not shared by survivors of the earthquake. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/2/24/840201/-Country-Hospitality:-Haitian-Peasant-Organizations-Provide-Humanitarian-Aid
A Future for Agriculture, A Future for Haiti
Upside Down World, March 2, 2010
"We plant but we can’t produce or market. We plant but we have no food to eat. We want agriculture to improve so our country can live and so we peasants can live, too."
- Rilo Petit-homme, peasant organizer from St. Marc, Haiti
What would it take to transform Haiti’s economy such that its role in the global economy is no longer that of providing cheap labor for sweatshops? What would it take for hunger to no longer be the norm, for the country no longer to depend on imports and hand-outs, and for Port-au-Prince’s slums no longer to contain 85% of the city’s residents? What would it take for the hundreds of thousands left homeless by the earthquake to have a secure life, with income? [...]
Read the full article:
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/haiti-archives-51/2383-a-future-for-agriculture-a-future-for-haiti
Beverly Bell coordinates Other Worlds, http://www.otherworldsarepossible.org/ , which promotes social and economic alternatives. She is also associate fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies.
=============
Reminder: People in the New York metropolitan area can learn more about grassroots perpectives at "Haiti Beyond Disaster: Planting Seeds of Change," a discussion about Haiti's Mouvman Peyizan Papay (Papaye Peasant Movement, MPP) and the Seeds for Haiti campaign, with special guests Joanne Veillard and Bastien Jean-Baptiste, Haitian-American New Yorkers who visited Haiti's Central Plateau with a Seeds for Haiti delegation January 7-11, then survived the earthquake in Port-au-Prince.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
6:30pm-8:30pm
More information:
http://grassrootssolidarity.blogspot.com/2010/02/haiti-beyond-disaster-planting-seeds-of.html
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