Stand in solidarity with Haitian activists in Florida and beyond. Email President Obama today and ask him to stay deportations by undoing the last administration’s late-term policy reversal pending a review of U.S. immigration policy toward Haitians.
Stand in solidarity with Haitian activists in Florida and beyond. Email President Obama today and ask him to stay deportations by undoing the last administration’s late-term policy reversal pending a review of U.S. immigration policy toward Haitians read more
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
