New opportunities, new challenges

by Mark Schuller Editor’s note: The latest in our series of guest bloggers during Haiti Solidarity Week is Mark Schuller. Mark is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology at York College, the City University of New York and is co-producer and co-director of forthcoming documentary Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy.It has been three years since the election of René Gracia Préval as president of Haiti. The Constitution mandates new elections in Haiti in two years.

Haiti’s Twin Crises: Poverty and the Environment

By Melinda Miles
Editor’s note: Haiti Reborn welcomes Melinda Miles (formerly of the Quixote Center) to our series of guest bloggers during Haiti Solidarity Week. Melinda lives in Jacmel, Haiti and is the co-founder of KONPAY, focusing the majority of her time and resources on coalition-building and direct assistance projects for the environment.

Haiti’s Twin Crises: Poverty and the Environment

By Melinda Miles Editor’s note: Haiti Reborn welcomes Melinda Miles (formerly of the Quixote Center) to our series of guest bloggers during Haiti Solidarity Week. Melinda lives in Jacmel, Haiti and is the co-founder of KONPAY, focusing the majority of her time and resources on coalition-building and direct assistance projects for the environment.

The Injustice of Debt

Editor’s note: We continue our series of guest blog posts from partners throughout the US and Haiti today with one from Brian Concannon. Speaking to the issue of debt and its impact on Haitians, Brian says the current Dear Colleague letter going through Congress is a good place to start in relieving Haiti from this burden. Follow this link to email your Representative and urge them to sign onto this letter. Deadline for signatures is 5 p.m. Wednesday.

Action Alert: Write Congress TODAY!

Haiti needs your help TODAY.Rep.Waters (D-CA), Rep. Bachus (R-AL), Rep. Frank (D-MA), Rep. Alcee L.Hastings (D-FL), and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) are circulating a “DearColleague Letter” asking World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick to grant complete debt cancellation to Haiti and suspend immediately all further debt service payments from Haiti.

Guest blog: Jubilee USA—What's on Your Heart?

Editor’s Note: Throughout Haiti Solidarity Week Haiti Reborn will host a series of guest blog posts from partners throughout the US and Haiti as we seek to change what we do by changing what we see. HSW kicks off with a post by Mercedes Mack of Jubilee USA.The Price of Poverty…Haiti, the debt crisis, and what you can doBy Mercedes Mack

Change Haiti Can Believe In

Tuesday night at the JFK Presidential Library in Boston, MA, Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health; actor and activist Matt Damon, who recently visited Haiti to assist victims devastated by hurricanes; Massachusetts State Representative and Haitian-American Linda Dorcena Forry; and Brian Concannon, Jr., director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, shared their stories of eradicating disease and injustice in one of the world’s poorest nations, and discussed how changes in U.S.

Letter in Support of Roy Bourgeois Published

Dear Friends,

Letter in Support of Roy Bourgeois Published

Dear Friends,

Because of your support, the open letter in support of courageous priest Father Roy Bourgeois was published in the National Catholic Reporter Christmas issue. We especially wish to recognize Frank Meuers, Marilyn Lieber, Raymond McGrath, Barbara O’Connor, whose names were left off of the published copy of the ad by mistake. Thank you for helping make this community effort possible!

Civil Society Organizations Ask President-Elect Obama to Re-negotiate NAFTA

Dear President Elect Barack Obama,                                       January 5, 2008We wish to congratulate you on your recent electoral victory.Throughout the electoral campaign we, the undersigned, followed with great interest your repeated commitments to fair trade and the renegotiation of poorly designed trade agreements like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). read more