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Throughout the world, solutions to some of the greatest challenges of the day are either nascent or fully thriving. Organized people's movements - sometimes with help from supportive government - are changing the structures which cause violence, poverty, inequality, and environmental destruction.

Rebuilding a Just Haiti

Haiti is known around the world as a troubling, godforsaken place where troubling, godforsaken things happen.  Its poverty and state-sponsored violence are well-known, while the international policies which have contributed to them are not.  The January 12 earthquake is just the latest disaster to befall this country.

Another Haiti is Possible

IACHR tells Haitian government to stop violent evictions from earthquake displacement camp, provide clean water

Submitted by admin on Wed, 04/03/2013 - 18:18

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights tells Haitian government
to prevent excessive force and violence in evictions from earthquake displacement camp


Re-posted from IDJH

(Port-au-Prince, March 27, 2013)— Yesterday, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights granted precautionary measures to residents of Grace Village, one of approximately 450 earthquake displacement camps in Haiti.  The Commission advised the Government of Haiti to immediately take steps to prevent any violent evictions and provide clean water and security to camp residents, especially women and children.

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Reflections on the Reconstruction

Submitted by admin on Tue, 04/02/2013 - 13:45

Haitian and international media have published many articles on the progress of Haiti’s reconstruction.

The watchdog partnership Haiti Grassroots Watch (HGW) has been investigating this subject, in depth, for almost three years now. For a change, HGW decided to approach some of the major players to inquire about the following three aspects of the reconstruction process.

1)    Aid, dependence and sovereignty

2)    The Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC)

3)    The question of vision, leadership and coordination

HGW made numerous requests for interviews, several of which were refused, namely those with government ministers and several members of parliament  [1]. Nonetheless, HGW was able to access numerous national and international actors important to the reconstruction, such as: four former members of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC), three current and former employees of the Haitian government, and the Haitian representatives of the World Bank (WB), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Chávez’ Legacy: A New Model of Popular Power

Submitted by Beverly Bell on Fri, 03/29/2013 - 11:18

 


An Interview with Camille Chalmers
By Beverly Bell
March 29, 2013

 

 

Economist Camille Chalmers is a leader in Latin American social movements and executive secretary of the Platform for Alternative Development in Haiti (PAPDA).

 

Hugo Chávez’ battle, with all the strength of determination the man had, is a huge legacy for every person everywhere who wants liberation for all.

Chávez, Internationalism, and Socialism: An Interview with Camille Chalmers

Submitted by admin on Thu, 03/28/2013 - 07:05


By Beverly Bell
March 28, 2013

Since the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez on March 5, thousands of memorials have transpired across the Americas, from national ceremonies to village wakes. They have been organized by those inspired by the new models of economic, political, and internationalist power propelled by the Venezuelan president. Camille Chalmers, Latin American social movement leader, gave the keynote speech at a memorial at the State University of Haiti on March 14. Beverly Bell caught up with him later in Port-au-Prince, tape recorder in hand, and recorded his thoughts.

Garbage In, Garbage Out

Submitted by admin on Tue, 03/26/2013 - 12:08

Port-au-Prince, HAITI, March 24 2013 – A foreign company that hopes to set up a “trash-to-electricity” incinerator in Haiti has misled the Haitian public, and perhaps Haitian authorities, with what appear to be false claims and deliberate attempts to avoid answering key questions raised in a January 22 article by the investigative journalism partnership Haiti Grassroots Watch.

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http://bit.ly/HaitiTrashTruth

Urgent Action: Displaced Families Face Forced Eviction in Haiti

Submitted by admin on Mon, 03/25/2013 - 14:08

Re-posted from Amnesty International

DISPLACED FAMILIES FACE FORCED EVICTION IN HAITI
Hundreds of families who were left homeless after the January 2010 earthquake face
imminent forced eviction from their makeshift camp in the Port-au-Prince municipality of
Carrefour. Amnesty International is concerned that if evicted they will once again be left
homeless.

Haiti - Agriculture : 40,000 walkers for Food Sovereignty

Submitted by admin on Fri, 03/22/2013 - 11:18

Re-posted from Haiti Libre

The Papaye Peasant Movement (Mouvement Paysan Papaye - MPP), historical partner of the NGO « Frères des Hommes » celebrates its 40th anniversary from 17 to 22 March in the city of Hinche, where some nearly 300 delegates peasants, but also many international defense organizations of farmers and international leader peasants, came to participate in this annual conference, to demand a more coherent organization in Haiti, which imports more than half of its food products.

An opportunity for the MPP, to make an assessment on the actions performed for 40 years and the place of movement in the strengthening of the Haitian civil society, around of theme such as : agro-ecology, food sovereignty and empowering of peasants.

Phoenix Project... born again?

Submitted by admin on Fri, 03/15/2013 - 13:20

Re-posted from Haiti Grassroots Watch

DUVALIER ON TRIAL: JUSTICE OR JOKE?

Submitted by admin on Fri, 03/15/2013 - 10:35

By Beverly Bell
March 15, 2013

Twenty-seven years later, the unimaginable has become real. Former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier has been brought to trial for crimes against humanity.

Will justice finally arrive for the hundreds of thousands who were murdered, tortured, imprisoned, beaten, savaged, and degraded by him and his father, François “Papa Doc” Duvalier?

 

Haiti, MINUSTAH and the necessity for true solidarity policies

Submitted by admin on Mon, 03/11/2013 - 14:10

February 24, 2013

by International Relations, Capital CTA

[Excerpt]

 On Saturday, February 23, a workshop and debate on the removal of MINUSTAH troops was organized by the Argentine Committee for Solidarity with Haiti.