Race-Talk contributor Bill Quigley is on the ground in Haiti his latest diary entry Smoke and flames rose from the sidewalk. A white man took pictures. Slowing down, my breath left me. The fire was a corpse. Leg bones sticking out of the flames. Port-au-Prince police headquarters is gone, already bulldozed. A nearby college is [...]
Continue reading …Hundreds of thousands of people are living and sleeping on the ground in Port au Prince. Many have no homes, their homes destroyed by the earthquake. I am sleeping on the ground as well – surrounded by nurses, doctors and humanitarian workers who sleep on the ground every night. The buildings that are not on [...]
Continue reading …What will happen when the U.S. media interest in Haiti’s tragic story begins to fade? Already, just several days after the deadly 7.0 earthquake, we are beginning to experience the answer. After a few days of televised coverage of the tragic events and devastation, major news organization’s television anchors began to return to media centers [...]
Continue reading …By Bill Quigley Why does the US owe Haiti Billions? Colin Powell, former US Secretary of State, stated his foreign policy view as the “Pottery Barn rule.” That is – “if you break it, you own it.” The US has worked to break Haiti for over 200 years. We owe Haiti. Not charity. We owe [...]
Continue reading …There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair. ~ Dr. Martin Luter King, Jr. A Letter from a Birmingham Jail I take time on Dr. King’s birthday, ever year, to re-familiarize myself with why he was such an [...]
Continue reading …Mitigating unnatural disasters: Transformative change and rebirth after the Haiti earthquake
January 22, 2010 Comments OffIn Haiti, everyone is hurting. The inconceivable happened in Haiti on January 12, 2010 when a 7.0 earthquake struck miles outside of its densely populated capital. Port-au-Prince is home to twenty percent of the population. With the epicenter near such a large population center, the estimated death toll has been unimaginably high, in the [...]
Continue reading …The latest tragedy to befall Haiti was not an act of God. It was a failure of humanity. The death and disaster in Haiti are the direct result of the world’s failure to repay its greatest debt to a heroic nation whose citizens stood up for freedom at a time when others wilted in the [...]
Continue reading …By Nezua, Unapologetic Mexican I’VE TOUCHED ON THE SUBJECT in a couple small ways lately. I don’t have much more than that to say now…except to remember out loud that when I lived in Miami Beach for a few years—a place that brought me great happiness as an adolescent aged boy—Haitian gente were as common [...]
Continue reading …Pat Robertson made a deal with the devil or I know why the hunted pig squeals
January 22, 2010 Comments OffIt would be really easy to simply dismiss Pat Robertson as a senile, old racist—a typical redneck “good ol’ boy” with a decrepit mind that hates gays and wants political leaders assassinated. Y’know, an albino Clayton Bigsby. But that would be a mischaracterization—Pat’s not blind. He’s not albino either—he’s just really, really, really pale. It [...]
Continue reading …By Danny Schechter, AlterNet Every disaster plan is built to some degree around the idea of triage — deciding who can and cannot be saved. The worst cases are often separated and allowed to perish so that others who are considered more survivable can be treated. There is a tragic triage underway in Haiti thanks [...]
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