Toronto Haiti Action Committee (THAC)

(The second of two parts)
By Isabeau Doucet

http://www.haiti-liberte.com/front%20cover%20news%20of%20the%20week%20en...
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“Nou bouke ap domi sou fatra” ( We’re tired of sleeping on garbage.)
Sign made by residents of Cité Soleil’s Camp Immaculée

On Aug. 16 in Port-au-Prince’s Carrefour district, all 210 families of Camp Napoleon were forcibly evicted by the landlord. Another eight camps in the area comprising about 15,000 families are faced with imminent expulsion, according to Suze Jean, an activist working to organize all eight camps.

By Peter Duffy

Aug 31 2010, 9:04 AM ET | Comment

http://www.theatlantic.com/food/archive/2010/08/lessons-from-haiti-how-f...

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Marion Doss/flickr

In reviewing William Easterly's book on the failures of development aid, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Effort to Aid the Rest Have Done so Much Ill and So Little Good (2006), Nobel laureate Amartya Sen wrote in Foreign Affairs, "The challenge is to respond to the plight of the hopelessly impoverished without neglecting to insist that help come in useful and productive forms."

Source: Church World Service (CWS)

Date: 27 Aug 2010

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-88R4TY?OpenDocument

By Chris Herlinger/CWS

Petite Riviere de l'Artibonite, Haiti–It was nearing the end of another hot, sunny day near Petite Riviere in the northern department, or province, of Artibonite, and Arnold Alcimé stood on his two-acre plot of land and shook his head in frustration.

by Alexander Billet / August 17th, 2010

http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/08/haiti%E2%80%99s-hip-hop-president/

If I was president…
…instead of spending billions on the war
We can use some of that money in the ghetto.

– Wyclef Jean’s “President”

Profound words. And with their author now in the race to become Haiti’s next president, it might be easy to think they’re on the verge of becoming reality. On August 7th, the Grammy-winning artist announced he wants to lead his homeland–still reeling from the disastrous effects of the January earthquake.

Isabel Macdonald

Academics, authors and activists from around the world are proposing a bold solution to the shortfall
Published On Mon Aug 16 2010

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/847863--billions...

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and Haitian President Rene Preval view earthquake damage in February. The French government is being asked to give back the money Haitians were forced to pay for their independence.

http://sfbayview.com/2010/haiti-hanging-with-rea-dol-at-the-site-of-the-...

May 18, 2010

by Wanda Sabir

Building the wall of the new school - Photo: Wanda Sabir

Rea Dol and Dodo were at the airport with a sign with my name when I arrived. We then headed to the building site, where a wall is going up around the perimeter. [Rea is the principal of SOPUDEP School in Port au Prince, founded as part of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s National Literacy Project, and she’s building a new school to replace the one that was damaged in the earthquake.]

August 2, 2010

by Charlie Hinton, with editing assistance from Kiilu Nyasha

http://sfbayview.com/2010/wyclef-jean-for-president-of-haiti-look-beyond...

Wyclef Jean holds a Haitian flag as he considers running for president of Haiti.
Beware! Wyclef is Haitian, but he is no friend of the Haitian people as a whole, who remain loyal to President Aristide.

http://socialistworker.org/2010/08/02/betrayal-of-haiti

Analysis: Ashley Smith

Conditions in Haiti are still appalling six months after the quake, reports Ashley Smith.

August 2, 2010

SIX MONTHS after Haiti's catastrophic earthquake, the promises of the world's most powerful governments to provide billions in aid to one of the world's poorest and weakest governments have been betrayed.

Beverly Bell
Associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies
Posted: July 30, 2010 09:50 AM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/beverly-bell/citizen-mobilization-for_b_66...

"We're mobilizing people in the camps and the shantytowns to let them know that getting housing is a right. Our vision is to make the problem of housing a focal point of people's struggle," said Reyneld Sanon of the Force for Reflection and Action on Housing (FRAKKA by its Creole acronym).

This report maybe read on the CHAN website at: http://www.canadahaitiaction.ca/node/498