June 27-July 1, 2007ART is offering a full slate of dynamic workshops together with our partner networks from Mexico, Central and South America and Canada. For a full description of workshops, times and locations, read more. read more
Jeb Sprague and Wadner Pierre wrote a great article for Inter-Press Service on the strike last week – providing background on PetroCaribe implementation and more background on the demands of the strikers. The article also appears on Haiti Analysis and was picked up by the Caribbean News Net.
Congress will vote today on McGovern Amendment to close the School of Assassins – that has trained some of the worst human rigths abusers in the Latin America. Make the call! Below is an alert from SOAWatch with an introduction from the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti. read more
See story from Alter-Presse – (translated from French below) Haiti : Strike of Public Transport against price increase of petrol products Translated from French by Menno Ernst Tuesday 12th June 2007
The New York Times ran a front page story yesterday based on the findings of a recent study that found an extremely high level of bias in the way that asylum cases are decided. The paper, titled Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication, will be in the Stanford Law Review’s next issue and can be read on-line here.
Sarah Anderson of the Institute for Policy Studies wrote an excellent commentary on Mr. Zoellick’s nomination to run the World Bank. Anderson reminds us of Zoellick’s hardball tactics and many uncompromising, ideological stances that have been the hallmarks of his career in the Bush administration read more
The Bush administration will be putting forth Robert Zoellick as their nomination to be the next head of the World Bank – in the wake of Paul Wolfowitz’s resignation amidst a corruption scandal.
The following is from The Associated Press – On the title: perhaps a minor point – but victims are looking for U.S. courts to prosecute Constant and put him in jail – not looking to the U.S. for “justice.” The U.S. government was intimately involved with Constant. In Haiti, victims of ex-paramilitary look to U.S. for justiceThursday, May 24, 2007PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Malya Villard was laying in bed when masked killers from the hated FRAPH paramilitary group kicked down her door and gang-raped her. Fifteen years later, Villard is still looking for justice.
The main tree nursery for the reforestation program in Gros Morne is loaded with seedlings – which will soon be making journeys to sites through out the parish, and beyond. Several agencies in Gros Morne have committed to planting 500,000 trees this year! The nursery in Grepin – which many of you support – will be responsible for 100,000 of these trees. Almost half of this is evident in these two pictures.
Marleine Bastien, from Fanm Ayisien Nan Myiami (FANM) delivered testimony in Congress yesterday. Her testimony was covered in the Miami Herald this morning.
