Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Support for Haiti: Lambi Fund
Support the Lambi Fund of Haiti
About The Lambi Fund of Haiti
We are a diverse group of individuals from many walks of life who work together toward economic justice, democracy and alternative sustainable development in Haiti.The Lambi Fund of Haiti is a 501(c)(3), tax exempt not for profit organization.
http://www.lambifund.org
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Haiti - a history of intervention, occupation and resistance
As predictions for the death toll from the Haitian earthquakes rise over 200,000, ABC News have reported that planes carrying medical equipment and relief supplies are having to compete with soldiers for the valuable slots at Port-au-Prince airport which was taken over by the US military after the quake. Since the start of the great anti-slavery republican insurrection nearly 220 years ago, Haiti has been presented as a dangerous place incapable of running its own affairs and requiring foreign intervention. Yet the reality is its people were the first enslaved population to deliver themselves from slavery and also carried out what was only the third successful republican insurrection on the planet. Read More>>>
In the early 1920's --> "The US occupation imposed a new constitution which allowed foreign companies to own land. In a warning for what lies in wait for the survivors of the Haitian earthquake, the US State Department justified this as being in the interests of the Haitian people, reporting that "It was obvious that if our occupation was to be beneficial to Haiti and further her progress it was necessary that foreign capital should come to Haiti...and Americans could hardly be expected to put their money into plantations and big agricultural enterprises in Haiti if they could not themselves own the land on which their money was to be spent." In reality, these changes saw peasant freeholders forced off the land to become labourers in the vast plantations that US corporations created as they bought up that land." Read more>>>
borrowed from Anarkismo.net.
In the early 1920's --> "The US occupation imposed a new constitution which allowed foreign companies to own land. In a warning for what lies in wait for the survivors of the Haitian earthquake, the US State Department justified this as being in the interests of the Haitian people, reporting that "It was obvious that if our occupation was to be beneficial to Haiti and further her progress it was necessary that foreign capital should come to Haiti...and Americans could hardly be expected to put their money into plantations and big agricultural enterprises in Haiti if they could not themselves own the land on which their money was to be spent." In reality, these changes saw peasant freeholders forced off the land to become labourers in the vast plantations that US corporations created as they bought up that land." Read more>>>
borrowed from Anarkismo.net.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Haiti: 360°
Haiti earthquake: 360° video
Take a look at 360° degree video from Haiti after the Earthquake
And Photos of the Haiti Earthquake aftermath
Click here to go to CNN Photo gallery
Take a look at 360° degree video from Haiti after the Earthquake
And Photos of the Haiti Earthquake aftermath
Tell IMF and IDB to forgive Haiti's Debt!
No shock doctrine for Haiti: tell the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB) to forgive Haiti's debt. Click here to Sign the Petition! @credomobile Pls RT #Haiti
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Resources for volunteer opportunities in Haiti
HAITI RELIEF NEWS: Resources for volunteer opportunities in Haiti
Operation USA will not be sending volunteers to Haiti–yet there are many groups that will. With the large number of inquiries, we wanted to share these resources.
Operation USA Haiti Relief
Operation USA will not be sending volunteers to Haiti–yet there are many groups that will. With the large number of inquiries, we wanted to share these resources.
Operation USA Haiti Relief
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