By Kevin Pina
“Institutional memory is a collective of facts, concepts, experiences and know-how held by a group of people. As it transcends the individual, it requires the ongoing transmission of these memories between members of this group.”
- Wikipedia.com
US Marines, Canadian Special Forces and troops of the French Foreign Legion were authorized by the UN [...]
Time for a serious music-dance break this evening. If you have never heard of the West African group, Africando, I hope you will check out the two videos I have posted below. With Cuban music as its base (and yes, the roots of Cuban music are based in Africa) and melodies sung variously [...]
http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/2_10_8/2_10_8.html
By Kevin Pina
Poor Haiti, the nation they would have us believe is close to a failed state, needs our help once again.
A recent AP article shook charitable institutions to their core by revealing that Haitians are eating cookies made of mud to fill their bellies. After more than an estimated 2 billion dollars of international [...]
If you want to learn about Haiti, The Black Jacobins by CLR James is the best and first book you should read.
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/yang030208.html
The Black Jacobins 70 Years Later
by Manuel Yang
This year marks the seventieth anniversary of C.L.R. James’s The Black Jacobins: Touissaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. This classic account of the Haitian Revolution [...]
Haiti’s wealthy prosper while the poor decline
http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/1_29_8/1_29_8.html
HIP - Port au Prince, Haiti — Cite Soleil, a seaside shantytown of more than 300.000 people residing in homes made of cinder blocks with tin roofs, has been described as poorer than India’s infamous slums of Calcutta. On any given [...]
REFLECTIONS BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF
“THE ANTITHESIS OF ETHICS”
http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/2008/ing/f290108i.html
On the day when hundreds of intellectuals coming from every continent are
meeting in Havana to take part in an International Conference for World
Equilibrium on the date of José Marti’s birth, on that same day, by some
strange quirk, the President of the United States spoke. In his last [...]
From: www.haitiaction.net
Haiti: Vanessa Redgrave joins appeal for kidnapped human rights activist
GWS - London, UK — Acclaimed actress Vanessa Redgrave joins a growing list of prominent people worldwide who have expressed concerned with the safe return of Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, the missing human rights activist kidnapped in Haiti on 12 August 2007 after meeting with a [...]
After reading a few commentaries that chastise (gently and not so gently) President Chavez for requesting other governments to quit referring to the FARC as a terrorist organization and to support instead a “belligerent status” for it, opening the door for real political movement on this issue in Colombia, I am sharing two important [...]
The US shoots off its mouth all over the world lodging outrageous accusations against world leaders as the prelude for regime change. This time it was John Walters, US drug czar, who suggested that Venezuela was not doing its part on drug interdiction. The article below shows that Venezuela is doing plenty in [...]
The Cuban ambassador to Nigeria called for the restructure of the UN in order to break the vise grip that the Security Council and especially the permanent members of the Council have over United Nations operations. Of course, the US is the main “gripper” here. Cuba is the perfect country to raise this [...]
