May 5, 2008
Kevin Pina is an independent journalist and filmmaker and the founding editor of the Haiti Information Project, an alternative news service providing coverage and analysis of developments in Haiti. He talked to Emmanuel Santos about the roots of the food crisis in Haiti.
WHAT IS the current situation in Haiti after the April protests?
UNFORTUNATELY, [...]
ACTION ALERT FROM HAITI ACTION COMMITTEE
Protest brutal attack on Haitian street vendors by UN soldiers!
Bullet holes are visible in this photo from UN assault on Haitian street vendors
On Saturday, April 11th, a little past 3 p.m., a MINUSTAH (UN) soldier, Nigerian Cpl. Nagya Aminu, was shot and killed in downtown Port-au-Prince. While this killing was [...]
Guy Philippe was one of two primary leaders of a paramilitary group that the US housed, trained and armed in the Dominican Republic to make cross-border attacks into Haiti beginning in 2002 in order to kill their countrymen aligned with the administration of the democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Last year, he started shooting his [...]
This is an excellent and comprehensive summary of the “weak state” prescription that the international community has been administering to Haiti for years. Now, Haiti is more sick than ever. Darren Ell is right — the only way this will stop is for the citizens of US, France, and Canada to learn [...]
On February 29, 2004, Bush’s Deputy Ambassador in Haiti, Luis Moreno, and US Special Forces kidnapped the democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and put him on a plane to the Central African Republic. Bush’s initial objective in Haiti had been achieved — the guy who bucked the neoliberal system was out of the way. [...]
P. Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Pretoria, South Africa
Dear Friends,
May the spirit of International Day in [...]
Lavalas movement in Haiti will not quit
HIP- The Lavalas movement of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti simply will not quit. Despite pronouncements by the United Nations that the movement was dead nearly six months ago, over ten thousand supporters demonstrated in Port au Prince this last February 29, 2008. The date was auspicious in [...]
Today, February 29, is the fourth anniversary of the 2004 coup in which the US government kidnapped the democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A purge of Lavalas supporters was in full swing already but no one was prepared for the slaughter that was to come, especially at the hands of UN “peacekeepers.”
Below are [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
