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Connecticut young professionals are doing what they can for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. CT4Haiti, a collaboration between Connecticut Social, Hip Hop Republicans and the Will Gregory for Congress campaign, has been holding small fundraisers. http://bit.ly/cR2Xfc
“We want to help, but it feels so distant,” 24-year-old Bryan Flemming said. “All we can do is make donations and hope for the best.”
Another attendee, Nikita Akramovich, 23, said he doubted he or any of his peers would actually go to Haiti and help.
“Everyone wants to go, but we can’t do more than just talk about it,” Akramovich said. “I will donate, but I still don’t feel like I’m really contributing.”Connecticut young professionals are doing what they can for the victims of the... more
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Vegan Bake Sale for Haiti
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One of the poorest and least developed countries in the world, Haiti in recent years has struggled with problems ranging from near-constant political upheaval, health crises, severe environmental degradation and an annual barrage of hurricanes.
On Jan. 12, 2010, a massive earthquake struck Haiti, reducing much of its capital to rubble. It was the worst earthquake in the region in more than 200 years. A preliminary assessment from Haiti's government put the body count at 150,000 on Jan. 23. The devastation created serious obstacles to those attempting to deliver promised foreign aid.
Huge swaths of the capital, Port-au-Prince, lay in ruins, and thousands of people were trapped in the rubble of government buildings, foreign aid offices and shantytowns. Schools, hospitals and a prison collapsed.
Haiti occupies an area roughly the size of Maryland on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Nearly all of the 8.7 million residents are of African descent and speak Creole and French. The capital is Port-au-Prince.
The country is, by a significant margin, the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, with four out of five people living in poverty and more than half in abject poverty. Deforestation and over-farming have left much of Haiti eroded and barren, undermining subsistence farming efforts, driving up food prices and leaving the country even more vulnerable to natural disasters. Its long history of political instability and corruption has added to the turmoil.
During the 18th century the western portion of Hispaniola, called Saint-Domingue, was one of the richest colonies in the French empire, known for its lucrative sugarcane and coffee plantations. (The rest of the island was controlled by Spain.) In 1791 the African slave population revolted, eventually winning independence from Napoleon Bonaparte's France and becoming the second country in the Americas to free itself from colonial rule and the world's first black republic. The country was renamed Haiti.
Haiti's history has been marked by many periods of profound political disarray, including frequent changes of governments, military coups and, beginning in 1915, a two-decade occupation by the United States. The most infamous of Haiti's leaders was François Duvalier, known as Papa Doc, who was elected president in 1957, beginning a long rule known for corruption and human rights abuses that left Haiti increasingly isolated. His son Jean-Claude Duvalier controlled the country from 1971 until he fled in 1986, leading to another period of alternating civilian and military rule.
Despite bouts of optimism in recent years brought on by the implementation of a new constitution and the first peaceful transfer of power between two elected presidents in the nation's history, Haiti's politics remain as tumultuous as ever.
In 1991, Jean-Bertrand Aristide took power after winning 67 percent of the vote in a presidential election, but was overthrown shortly after taking office in a violent coup leading to a three year period of military rule that ended only after the intervention of a United Nations force led by the United States. While the 1995 election of Rene Preval, a prominent political ally of Mr. Aristide, was widely praised, subsequent elections were plagued with allegations of fraud, including the 2000 restoration of Mr. Aristide to his old post.
More on This @ http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/haiti/index.htmlOne of the poorest and least developed countries in the world, Haiti in recent years... more
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The new mission for Guido Bertolaso (Head of Italian Civil Protection) is the devasteted island of Haiti. "The situation is pathetic", he said, putting at risk Italian relations with the United States. And Hillary Clinton said, "Here is not L' Aquila".
http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/world/haitibertolasohillaryclinton250110.htmlThe new mission for Guido Bertolaso (Head of Italian Civil Protection) is the... more
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A Native Haitian group supplies 200,000 Haitians with one gallon of clean water each day through a system that Haitians themselves developed.
Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV - After the Earthquake two weeks ago, a local Haitian group developed a system in which they are helping to deliver water to Haitians. Haitians are helping Haitians. The Haitian group Dlo Pwop (clean water in creole) is affiliated with International Action. Dlo Pwop/International Action supplies 200,000 Haitians with one gallon of clean water each day.
This local Haitian group located water storage tanks which are undamaged and able to hold at least 1600 gallons each. The local group is now paying local water truckers to fill storage tanks and to deliver drinkable water directly to the population in the poorest parts of Port-au-Prince.
Dlo Pwop/International Action is adding chlorine to each truckload of water. Each truck holds 3000 gallons of water and can make 5 trips a day to many parts of the city.
So far, Dlo Pwop/International Action has been renting 10 trucks each day and plans on renting still more as roads are cleared of earthquake debris.
Since May of 2006 until before the quake, Dlo Pwop/International Action had installed chlorinators on 140 water tanks in Port-au-Prince. From these tanks the group then supplied drinkable water on a daily basis to pre-earthquake 400,000 Haitians.
In the first three days after the quake, Dalebrun Esther, the director of Dlo Pwop, supplied 20,000 gallons of water to the poorest neighborhoods using the group’s small tank truck. Now he devotes his time to recruiting commercial truckers who normally haul water to wealthy neighborhoods where residents pay high sums for water. In this critical time, International Action is funding these high priced truckers to redirect them to poor neighborhoods and the Haitian staff is adding chlorine for safety.
International Action is developing a plan for rebuilding at least 23 water tanks damaged by the quake and for adding water tanks in those neighborhoods currently without water tanks. This effort will reach 2 million residents in a period of 5 years.
More funding and more support from CAMEP - the city’s water agency - and even help from the US military now in Haiti could speed up the schedule. Groups that want to cooperate can reach International Action at info ( @ ) HaitiWater dot org or 202-488-0735 dot Staff are Lindsay Mattison, Youngmin Chang and Jeffrey Sejour (Jeff speaks Creole) dot In Haiti, call Dalebrun Esther at (509) 554-5549 and (509) 3712-6918 dot Chlorinatos are made by Norweco at Norwalk, OH and chlorine tablets are made by Arch Chemicals at Norwalk, CT dot
Donations can be made through International Action’s website, www.HaitiWater.org.
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http://www.1888pressrelease.com/from-their-very-own-local-water-a-haitian-group-is-deliverin-pr-180576.htmlA Native Haitian group supplies 200,000 Haitians with one gallon of clean water each... more
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"A well known quote in permaculture is: “The problem is the solution.” In the case of Haiti, urbanization has been a significant problem that devastated the relatively stable economy made up of many small farmers. Not too long ago, Haiti exported rice, sugar cane and many other crops and grew enough food to feed itself. What happened? Well that is a sordid and complex tale, perhaps best illustrated in a novel of intrigue, but when subsidized corporations go out of their way to undersell local rice farmers and put them out of business, one has to wonder – why? Especially when viewing all the suffering that has occurred as a result. The cost has been much higher than any possible profits made by those companies.
Currently, the water situation around Port Au Prince is grim. Well water has been compromised, pumps are down, water mains are broken, and it is the dry season so water tanks are low, if they weren’t ruined completely in the earthquake. Sanitation is also a major issue – there is a danger that human waste will get into groundwater supplies and other vulnerable areas, spreading disease like cholera and typhoid in a city of 3 million.
What permaculturists can do for these problems is to put in sustainable water supply and sanitation systems that will be permanent and will also return a yield. Rainwater catchment systems will prevent the water from running into the ocean, and with greywater systems it can be used more than once before leaving the site. Human waste is one of the best sources of nitrogen, potassium and phosphate around (the three major nutrients for agricultural use)."...."A well known quote in permaculture is: “The problem is the... more
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(CNN) -- Alone in the darkness beneath layers of rubble, Dan Woolley felt blood streaming from his head and leg.
Then he remembered -- he had an app for that.
Woolley, an aid worker, husband, and father of two boys, followed instructions on his cell phone to survive the January 12 earthquake in Haiti.
"I had an app that had pre-downloaded all this information about treating wounds. So I looked up excessive bleeding and I looked up compound fracture," Woolley told CNN.
The application on his iPhone is filled with information about first aid and CPR from the American Heart Association. "So I knew I wasn't making mistakes," Woolley said. "That gave me confidence to treat my wounds properly."
Trapped in the ruins of the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, he used his shirt to bandage his leg, and tied his belt around the wound. To stop the bleeding on his head, he firmly pressed a sock to it.
Concerned he might have been experiencing shock, Woolley used the app to look up what to do. It warned him not to sleep. So he set his phone alarm to go off every 20 minutes.
Once the battery got down to less than 20 percent of its power, Woolley turned it off. By then, he says, he had trained his body not to sleep for long periods, drifting off only to wake up within minutes.
Woolley's job keeps him tech savvy. He oversees interactive projects for the Christian child advocacy organization Compassion International in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
With his injuries tended to, he wrote a note to his family in his journal: "I was in a big accident, an earthquake. Don't be upset at God. He always provides for his children even in hard times. I'm still praying that God will get me out, but he may not. But even so he will always take care of you."
The journal is stained with his blood.
After more than 60 hours, Woolley was pulled from the rubble.
"Those guys are rescue heroes," he said of the crew that pulled him out.
His colleague David Hames has not been found. The two had been standing together when the earthquake struck and the Hotel Montana crumbled. They were making a film about poverty in Haiti and had just gotten back to the hotel, heading to the elevator in the lobby.
"Then all of a sudden just all craziness broke loose," Woolley said. "Convulsions of the ground around us, the walls started rippling and then falling on us. [Hames] yelled out, 'I think it's an earthquake!' I looked for someplace safe to jump to and there was no safe place."
When the shaking stopped, Woolley couldn't see. And his friend was not with him.
He turned on the focus light of a camera he was wearing around his neck, but he didn't have his glasses. "So I actually took some pictures and would look at the back of the lens of the camera and saw in one of those pictures the elevator that I ended up hobbling over to. And that became my safe place."
Once in the elevator, he used the app -- called "Pocket First Aid & CPR" from Jive Media -- to tend to his injuries. Woolley said his phone "was like a high-tech version of a Swiss Army knife that enabled me to treat my own injuries, track time, stay awake and stay alive."
Woolley heard voices of some other people trapped nearby, and they spoke with each other.
"About a day, maybe day and a half in, we heard rescuers, and they had a list of our names at that point, because they were able to talk to one of the people we were talking with. And so then it seemed like, OK, this is going to happen, we're actually going to get rescued.
"But then it just took a long time and there were times where I didn't hear anything or I'd hear drilling in a far part of the building and just didn't get any reassurance they were still coming for me," Woolley said.
"The scene outside was a lot more chaotic and less simple than I imagined in my head. ... But eventually they came for me and did an amazing rescue."
Back home now in Colorado Springs with his wife Christina and children Josh, 6, and Nathan, 3, Woolley said he's grateful to God for getting him through the ordeal.
"Happiness is a morning with ... family, filled with Legos, kissing boo-boos and normalcy."
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/24/haiti.survivor.phone.app/index.html(CNN) -- Alone in the darkness beneath layers of rubble, Dan Woolley felt blood... more
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They fear unscrupulous traffickers may try to exploit the chaos and social turmoil following the January 12 quake to spirit defenseless infants out of the impoverished country through the airport or across the land border with the Dominican Republic.
A police unit tasked with protecting minors has sent officers to the border but officials said that like every other Haitian institution, the unit was hit hard by the earthquake that killed at least 120,000 people and probably many more.
"We are very concerned that there are increasing reports that children are being picked up and trafficked out of the country," said Kent Page, a spokesman for the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF). But he had no details of specific cases.
Authorities also fear that legitimate aid groups may have flown earthquake orphans out of the country for adoption before efforts to find their parents had been exhausted.They fear unscrupulous traffickers may try to exploit the chaos and social turmoil... more
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Q'orianka Kilcher joins forces with other Hollywood celebrities to bring awareness to the crisis in Haiti and raise funds for the International Medical Corps. The Corps was on the ground in Haiti within 24 hours of the earthquake. They are providing much needed medical supplies and medical car to the victims on the ground.Q'orianka Kilcher joins forces with other Hollywood celebrities to bring... more
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Haiti's catastrophic earthquake separates a young couple from the children they are days from bringing home to the U.S. Their story inspires a group of musicians to come together for a benefit concert that will help to repair the damaged orphanage that is caring for the couple's soon-to-be children, and many others.Haiti's catastrophic earthquake separates a young couple from the children they... more
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Did mining and oil drilling behind UN/US guns trigger the Haiti earthquake?
by Ezili Danto'
Haitians have been under occupation by the US through the proxy UN mission since the 2004 Bush regime change/coup d'etat.
Before the earthquake, Rene Preval, the president of Haiti answered to Washington not the people of Haiti. I've written extensively about this and that information is readily available. The mining in Haiti and the digging up of Haiti was going on without any oversight. (See, Recommended HLLN Links (Energy and Mining in Haiti): The wealthy, powerful and well-armed are robbing the Haitian people blind and, Oil in Haiti - Economic Reasons for the UN/US occupation and Oil in Haiti by Dr. Georges Michel; See also, Fayed's Forgotten Years: The Conman, The Dictator and the CIA Files.)
Since the earthquake hit, it's been clear that the power-brokers who control the US military, the free marketeers, are exploiting this Haiti earthquake shock, when the Haitian people are hurt, in pain, disorientated and horrifically more defenseless than usual, to impose their privatization and further entrench their corporate domination in Haiti. (Haiti Disaster Capitalism Alert: Stop Them Before They Shock Again.)
I know some folks are saying there are sophisticated equipment ( HAARP and Tesla) that are used to deliberately set off weather anomalies such as earthquakes, but I'm wondering whether the drilling, possibly for oil and gas in Haiti behind the UN guns - offshore at the Gulf of La Gonave and at the Island of La Gonave and around the bay of Port-au-Prince fairly near the epicenter of the earthquake - exacerbated the fault line in Haiti, causing the January 12, 2010 Haiti earthquake as an unattended consequence? (At Fault: Does Drilling Cause Earthquakes? See also, the map showing where the oil sites of Haiti are located.)
Scientists Ginette and Daniel Mathurin say that Haiti is filled with hydrocarbons and that they have identified 20 oil sites in Haiti. Five of them are considered of great importance by specialists and politicians. There's oil in Haiti's Central Plateau, including the region of Thomonde, the plain of the cul-de-sac and the bay of Port-au-Prince, they say. In fact, Daniel Mathurin says that "the oil reserves of Haiti are more important than those of Venezuela. An olympic pool compared to a glass of water that is the comparison to illustrate the importance of Haitian oil compared with those of Venezuela," he explains...The specialists contend that the government of Jean Claude Duvalier had verified the existence of a major oil field in the Bay of Port-au-Prince shortly before his downfall. (See, Haiti is full of oil say Ginette and Daniel Mathurin: Haiti has larger oil reserves than Venezuela says scientists, [French Original], Radio Metropole, Jan 28, 2008.)
And if, as the oilman said, there's not the "slightest doubt natural-gas drilling causes earthquakes" and there was drilling in addition to the mining of gold, copper, coal, uranium and iridium, stealthy going on behind the UN guns, then the question becomes, which of the coup detat countries - US, France, Canada - using the UN proxy occupation to drill for oil, gas and to dig for gold, iridium, marble, granite, et al, helped cause the earthquake?"
Was that the reason for the US delay in getting to the survivors?
Was there more pressing concerns of cover-up to attend to, before the modern world and the all-seeing cameras headed to Haiti, got to Haiti? What were the thousands upon thousands of UN soldiers, from the 9,000 in Haiti, posted outside of Port-au-Prince doing that they did not appear on the scene to help with the rescue? Where were they?
These soldiers get paid and tell all and sundry they are in Haiti to "help" Haitians and have been paid billions of dollars in five years, over $600 million per year for the "help." Where was this help?
We seem to always be "helped" to death while the private sector uses the military to secure profit. Isn't everyone thinking about this? We are watching earthquake survivors die, as the US tells the world that its priority after the earthquake is security. Whose security? (See, Oil in Haiti - Economic Reasons for the UN/US occupation; and Haiti is full of oil say Daniel & Ginette Mathurin: Haiti has larger oil reserves than Venezuela says scientists.)Did mining and oil drilling behind UN/US guns trigger the Haiti earthquake?
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Peter Hallward, Danny Glober, and Anthony Fenton contribute to breaking down the media avoidance of Haiti's history of foreign intervention. According to Hallward, Haiti's poverty can be explained as a series of foreign responses to the independence and strength of the Haitian people, but since the media doesn't acknowledge this, they are forced to propose weakness and bad luck as the sources of Haiti's poverty. Glover adds that without the history, we are prone to misunderstanding and the blaming of the victim, which in some cases serves to absolve us of our own responsibility for the situation. Fenton reminds that it's not only the U.S. that has taken part in undermining democracy in Haiti, in recent years Canada has played a very significant role, among others.
Bio
Peter Hallward is a Professor of Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University in England. In 2007 he published the acclaimed historical account of post-1990 Haitian politics, Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment. He is the editor of the journal Radical Philosophy and a contributing editor to Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.
Danny Glover is a long-time actor and activist. While attending San Francisco State University, Glover was a member of the Black Students Union who along with the Third World Liberation Front led the five month strike. Not only did this help to create the first school of Ethnic Studies in the U.S., but it was also the longest student strike in the history of the United States. He is presently chair of the TransAfrica Forum, "a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the general public — particularly African-Americans — on the economic, political and moral ramifications of U.S. foreign policy as it affects Africa and the Diaspora in the Caribbean and Latin America". Glover is the director of the upcoming movie Toussaint, detailing the life of Toussaint Louverture, leader of the Haitian Revolution.
Anthony Fenton is a Canadian-based independent researcher and journalist. He is the co-author of Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority. His work has been published by Asia Times, The Dominion, Foreign Policy in Focus, IPS, Mother Jones, Upside Down World, THIS Magazine, and others.Peter Hallward, Danny Glober, and Anthony Fenton contribute to breaking down the media... more
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Earlier this week, a Spanish newspaper quoted Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez as saying the U.S. Navy caused the Haiti earthquake with a tectonic weapon. The Venezuelan media reported that the earthquake “may be associated with the project called HAARP, a system that can generate violent and unexpected changes in climate,” Press TV reported on January 21.
For the FULL Story, Hugo Chavez Video, and Full Conspiracy Theory HAARP episode w/ Jesse Ventura..... A must WATCH!!!...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/chavez-and-russia-u-s-used-haarp-%E2%80%9Cearthquake-weapon%E2%80%9D-on-haiti-as-described-by-jesse-venturas-conspiracy-theory-full-video/
Chavez cited a report from Russia’s Northern Fleet. According to the report, the U.S. Navy made a mistake with a secret “earthquake weapon” and the result was the Haitian earthquake. The Russians believe the intended target was Iran. “Though Russian Northern Fleets’ report was not confirmed by official sources, the comments attracted special attention in some US and Russian media outlets including Fox news and Russia Today,” writes Pragmatic Witness blog. “Russia Today’s report said that Moscow has also been accused of possessing and utilizing such weapons.”Earlier this week, a Spanish newspaper quoted Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez as saying... more
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http://getwititmagazine.com/2010/01/25/2137/
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“Beware of those Western men who wear the tight pants and switch,” he warned. “Even in this time of tragedy that their own have caused, tempting our sons and brothers with water, food and money, they prey on our meat, our manhood. Tell them: dites-leur pas de sexe oral pour le pain. Tell them they can not perform oral sex on you for bread!” http://whitehomosexualreliefworkers.lookera.net/“Beware of those Western men who wear the tight pants and switch,” he... more
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The International Medical Corps (IMC) was on the ground in Haiti within 24 hours of the earthquake. They are working around the clock to supply much needed medical care and supplies. Celebrities in Los Angeles, California, speak out on behalf of IMC and encourage donations. To donate: Text "Haiti" to 85944 and reply "Yes" to confirm your donation. You can also visit their website at: www.imcworldwide.orgThe International Medical Corps (IMC) was on the ground in Haiti within 24 hours of... more
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Celebrities come together to support the International Medical Corps who are working around the clock to save the lives of people in Haiti. You can make a donation to the Corps by texting "Haiti" to 85944 and reply "Yes" to confirm your donation. You can also donate on the website: www.imcworldwide.orgCelebrities come together to support the International Medical Corps who are working... more
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