Haiti Briefings on Natural Disasters and/or the Haiti Earthquake

Wage Slavery (HB21)

Haitian workers in the capital’s assembly plants work in hot, airless, and dimly lit factories sewing gloves, underwear, sports clothes and

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Haiti Photos & Art (HB12 Sup)

As well as paintings and ironworks by Haitian artists the exhibition features photos of Haiti by twenty international photojournalists here previewed

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Uncoordinated and Unworkable Plan: Haiti Grassroots Watch Reports

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Photo: Corail-Celesse – © Oxfam International

Port-au-Prince, Haiti – nine months after the catastrophic earthquake which killed some 300,000 and left 1.3 million homeless, as reports and articles denounce the terrible conditions in Haiti’s 1,354 squalid refugee camps, the new grassroots “reconstruction watch” effort, Ayiti Kale Je or Haiti Grassroots Watch decided to look into the issue.

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Subsidizing Starvation

Subsidizing Starvation. January 11, 2013  Maura R O’Connor, Foreign Policy How American tax dollars are keeping Arkansas rice growers fat

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Haiti ‘got very lucky’ as Tomas Skirted Island

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Photo: Tomas aftermath in Leogane – © Canadian Red Cross

JONATHAN M. KATZ, The Associated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Tropical Storm Tomas pushed northward Saturday after hitting parts of Haiti as a hurricane, leaving villagers to mop up, evacuees to return to their tents and most everyone relieved that the country did not suffer what could have been its first big disaster since the January earthquake.

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