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Make the connections: Debt, action, and the “free” market

Posted in activism, debt, global, global economics, haiti, make the connections, natural disasters, policy on February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

(image by Chris Coady)
There’s real hope for Haiti, and it’s not what you’d expect
From Johann Hari and The Independent/UK:
When people live so close to the edge, even small price increases can break them.
In the weeks after a disaster like the Haiti earthquake, journalists always search for an upbeat twist to the tale. You know it [...]

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Good news from Haiti: Journalist Ben Skinner returns a life-saving favor

Posted in activism, americas, haiti, natural disasters, refugees, video on January 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Haitian anti-slavery activist Bill Nathan was taking a break from his work with abandoned and former slave children, when the earthquake hurtled him from the seventh-floor garden of the orphanage.
Ben Skinner, an anti-slavery activist and journalist, writes in Time:
Two minutes later, the quake smashed open the building, and the top three floors pitched northward, hurling [...]

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Before the quake: The roots of Haiti’s destruction

Posted in americas, global economics, haiti, natural disasters, policy, refugees, video on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

While earthquakes are acts of nature, extreme vulnerability to earthquakes is manmade,
Tracy Kidder wrote in The New York Times, referring to last week’s cataclysmic quake in Haiti.  Kidder, who has written about the work of the legendary Dr. Paul Farmer in rural Haiti, explains in his article what many others have also voiced about the [...]

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The consequences-of-poverty iceberg

Posted in americas, awareness, children, global economics, haiti, labor on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Arthur Fournier, on the Huffington Post, responded to Dan Harris’ investigation into child slavery in Haiti in a recent Nightline special (see previous post on Human Goods).

Slavery, he says, is only the “tip of the ‘consequences-of-poverty’ iceberg”:
Given how little most Americans understand about Haiti and how this lack of understanding during the early years of [...]

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