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Haiti two years on: Beyond relief, beyond belief

Submitted by CHAN on January 27, 2012 - 21:00
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The following article is the most thorough and informative article written on the second anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti. Another excellent article in the same issue of New Internationalist examines earthquake aid funding to Haiti, Where did all the money go?--CHAN editors.

By Phillip Wearne, New Internationalist, January/February 2012

The earthquake in Haiti on 12 January 2010 proved so devastating partly because the country’s development model had failed so completely. Now those funding the reconstruction of the country are pursuing the same disastrous path, as Phillip Wearne explains.

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In PBS interview, actor Sean Penn praises Martelly, downplays Duvalier, and dismisses Aristide

Submitted by CHAN on January 25, 2012 - 13:18

By Roger Annis, published in Haiti Liberté, January 25, 2012

Last week, the PBS television interview program Tavis Smiley featured two half-hour evenings with Hollywood actor Sean Penn, a leading force in humanitarian relief work in Haiti since the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake. Subtitled by the program as an ‘Actor/Humanitarian,’ Penn strongly defended the new neo-colonial order established in Haiti through the foreign-sponsored exclusion election of 2010/11 and the foreign-led, post-quake “reconstruction” plan spearheaded by Bill Clinton.
(Full article attached here in pdf format)

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Toward a Second Haitian Revolution

Submitted by CHAN on January 21, 2012 - 19:59

By Steven Stoll, published in Harper's Magazine, April 2010
(available online to subscribers only)

We are pleased to make this remarkable article available to readers, attached in pdf format to this page. It is a sharp insight, beautifully written, into the history of the degradation of Haitian agriculture and economy by the successive colonial and imperialist plunderers of Haiti.

"Capitalists have hated the agrarian household since the seventeenth century, calling its members savages, outliers, slackers and draggers, backward and degenerate, and wasteful of land and labor—at best curiosities, at worst forest- or mountain-dwelling insurgents without political allegiances or ties to centralized authority..."

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Haiti: “Open for Business”

Submitted by CHAN on December 15, 2011 - 09:28
Textile workers start sewing at early hours in Charles Baker's One World Apparel factory. Photo Ansel Herz.jpg

A study by Haiti Grassroots Watch on factory investment in Haiti, December 2011

The following is a groundbreaking, seven-part study by Haiti Grassroots Watch (Ayiti Kale Je) on the past, present and future of   sweatshop factory investment in Haiti. The study asks, "Can a "new" Haiti really be built on sweatshop wages and free trade zones.This posting of the study to the CHAN website is a text version. It reproduces some, but not all, of the charts in the study and none of the photos. To see the extensive photos and charts contained in the study, go the original posting of the article on the website of Haiti Grassroots Watch. There, you can watch a very telling and imaginative five-minute video adding up the cost of living of a Haitian factory worker. Haiti "Open For Business" ing is a groundbreaking, seven-part study by Haiti Grassroots Watch (Ayiti Kale Je) on the past, present and future of   sweatshop factory investment in Haiti. The study asks, "Can a "new" Haiti really be built on sweatshop wages and free trade zones.This posting of the study to the CHAN website is a text version. It reproduces some, but not all, of the charts in the study and none of the photos. To see the extensive photos and charts contained in the study, go the original posting of the article on the website of Haiti Grassroots Watch. There, you can watch a very telling and imaginative five-minute video adding up the cost of living of a Haitian factory workerThe following is a groundbreaking, seven-part study by Haiti Grassroots Watch (Ayiti Kale Je) on the past, present and future of   sweatshop factory investment in Haiti. The study asks, "Can a "new" Haiti really be built on sweatshop wages and free trade zones.This posting of the study to the CHAN website is a text version. It reproduces some, but not all, of the charts in the study and none of the photos. To see the extensive photos and charts contained in the study, go the original posting of the article on the website of Haiti Grassroots Watch. There, you can watch a very telling and imaginative five-minute video adding up the cost of living of a Haitian factory worker.
The following is a groundbreaking, seven-part study by Haiti Grassroots Watch (Ayiti Kale Je) on the past, present and future of   sweatshop factory investment in Haiti. The study asks, "Can a "new" Haiti really be built on sweatshop wages and free trade zones.This posting of the study to the CHAN website is a text version. It reproduces some, but not all, of the charts in the study and none of the photos. To see the extensive photos and charts contained in the study, go the original posting of the article on the website of Haiti Grassroots Watch. There, you can watch a very telling and imaginative five-minute video adding up the cost of living of a Haitian factory worker.TTtTis a groundbreaking, seven-part study by Haiti Grassroots Watch (Ayiti Kale Je) on the past, present and future of   sweatshop factory investment in Haiti. The study asks, "Can a "new" Haiti really be built on sweatshop wages and free trade zones? The full article can be read in the pdf below, or at this page of the CHAN website. This posting of the study to the CHAN website is a text version. To see the extensive photos and charts contained in the study, go the original posting of the article on the website of Haiti Grassroots Watch. Pour lire la version française de cette étude, cliquez ici.

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MINUSTAH By The Numbers

Submitted by CHAN on December 12, 2011 - 14:23

This three-page document was published on the website of CEPR, Dec 8, 2011. It is an informative and imaginative description of the the United Nations Peacekeeping operation in Haiti, known by its acronmym as MINUSTAH. The operation has been the target of recent popular protests and a source of controversy because of its role in re-introducing cholera to Haiti, the sexual assault of a young Haitian man and other past abuses. On November 3, 2011 the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti and Bureau des Avocats Internationaux filed a legal complaint on behalf of over 5,000 cholera victims seeking damages from the United Nations. The UN has so far not responded or given a timetable for a response. The document is also posted to the news archive of the CHAN website, where you will also access its full links.

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Key Dates in Haitian History

Submitted by CHAN on December 9, 2011 - 19:56

This two page sheet is a summary of the key dates in Haiti's history, from the first landings of the country's African ancestors to the present day. It is attached here as a pdf.

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