Category Archives: Video

Rights Groups: Stop Deportations of Haitians from U.S.

Interview of Drew Aiken, Defend Haiti | stophaitideportations.org | Press TV, YouTube. The U.S. has resumed the deportation of about 50 Haitians per month to Haiti since January 2011. Some of the deportees get detained in Haiti, including 34 year-old Wildrick Guerrier who died in prison of cholera. Many deportees have medical conditions for which they cannot get care or have U.S.-citizen children in the States whom they cannot support. Human Rights groups are calling for a consideration of humanitarian factors and a stop to the deportations.

George Gershwin’s ‘Cuban Overture’

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By Josefina Ortega, Granma | YouTube | Haiti Chery. George Gershwin was infatuated with Cuban rhythms. During a 1932 visit to the island, he was taken to a Havana radio station where the Ignacio Piñeiro Septet was broadcasting a live performance. He immediately struck up a friendship with Piñeiro and took some musical notations of his works. The ideas for the Cuban Overture were thus born.

UN Soldiers Accused of Rape By Haitian Youth in Uruguayan Court

By staff, AHP | Translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | AlJazeera, YouTube. Nineteen year-old Johnny Jean from Port-Salut was heard on Thursday May 10 by Uruguayan Judge Guido Alejandro. Jean identified in court the soldiers he accuses of having raped him in a Port Salut base of the U.N. Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). (English | French)

Trayvon Martin’s Mom: Call Your Governor On Mother’s Day

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By Sybrina Fulton, Justice for Trayvon and Global Grind, YouTube | Stephen C. Webster, Raw Story. For Mother’s Day, Sybrina Fulton asks the U.S. public to spare other mothers her grief by calling the governors of their states and urging them to reconsider laws like the one cited by the man who killed her son Trayvon Martin. Includes link to drop down scorecard with status of each state on “Stand Your Ground” law.

Fearless Bahraini Family Speaks Out About Those Inside

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By Staff, Witness Bahrain | Introduction by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. On February 9, 2012, after being sentenced to life imprisonment for peacefully calling for reforms, Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja launched a hunger strike and vowed he would persevere until freedom or death. Others from his family who have been imprisoned include his son-in-law Wafi Kamel Al-Majed, who was also arrested during the Spring 2011 crackdown and held for 10 months, and daughter Zainab al-Khawaja, arrested in April for demanding her father’s release. In these fearless interviews, Abdulhadi’s wife Khadija Al-Mousawi reports on her daughter’s arrest and her husband’s recent force feeding, and Wafi discusses his hopes for Bahrain.

Record Numbers Deported, Thousands of Their Children Taken By Current U.S. Administration

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By Staff, Huffington Post. More than 5,100 children were living in foster care in January 2012 because their parents were detained or deported, according to a study released by the Applied Research Center, which advocates for immigration reform.

Barrick in the Dominican Republic

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By Staff, Protestbarrick. As the opening date approaches for the Dominican Republic’s Pueblo Viejo mine, controversy around this mega-mine has continued to grow. According to the president of Maimón’s municipal committee, the funds Barrick has transferred to the municipality are less than the costs of the damage it has caused. Community members complain that the workers in the mine are overwhelmingly foreigners. Recently Barrick was accused of blocking the performance of the protest song “De Pascua Lama” (video included) at a Dominican Festival.

The Man Who Planted Trees

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By Frederic Back, You Tube | Based on Jean Giono’s short story “The Man Who Planted Trees.” Director Frédéric Back’s marvellous interpretation of Giono’s allegory won an Oscar for short animation. The story is a tribute to hard work and patience. (English | French | Portuguese | Spanish, 30 min.)

From Haymarket to Occupy May 1, 2012: A Day Without the 99% (UPDATED)

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By Syed Hussan, Mary-Elizabeth Dill, and Abeer Majeed, Rabble | Occupy Oakland | Occupy Wall Street | YouTube | Haiti Chery. Occupy May Day in Oakland and New York will be joined by workers the world over. Get informed about the events. Read about the contributions of immigrants to the history of labor and the designation of May 1st as International Workers’ Day. UPDATES: April 30, Peter Seeger’s ” L’Internationale”; May 1, videos of oakland protesters marching early in the day and of later attack on a young woman by police.

Francoist Nun Charged With Theft of Babies from Poor Single Women

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By Inés Benítez, IPS, Cambio3 | NY Daily News, YouTube. Eighty-year-old Catholic nun, María Gómez, is charged with involvement in the 1982 disappearance of a child who was reunited as an adult with her biological mother in 2011. The Spanish nun is alleged to have belonged to a network of francoist doctors, priests, nuns, public notaries and judges who stole babies from clinics and hospitals, mainly linked to religious organizations, and sold them to infertile couples. Such networks had continued after the Franco era, well into the 70′s and 80′s, in Spain. (English | Spanish)

West African Giraffes Back from the Brink

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By Staff, Al Jazeera | You Tube. Distinguished by its paler spots, the West African giraffe once roamed Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Benin, until drought and hunting decimated their numbers to only 50 in 1996. Helped by eco-tourism, the wild populations of this giraffe grew to some 175 individuals in 2007, 250 in 2010, and 310 in 2012, according to the Nigerian government’s counts.

City Dwellers Flock to Raising Chickens | How to Raise Urban Chickens

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By Ben Block, Worldwatch Institute | Andrew Kalinchuk, Green Home Authority | You Tube | Haiti Chery. Grassroots campaigns, often inspired by the expanding movement to buy locally produced food, are leading United States municipalities to allow limited numbers of hens within city limits. You get fresh eggs pretty much on demand and know the chicks are raised in a supportive and loving environment.

Abuse of Antibiotics in Agroindustry Generates Deadly Drug-Resistant Bacteria

By Julio Godoy, IPS | You Tube | Editorial comment by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Five prematurely born children died in the northern German city of Bremen from infections acquired in a hospital. The infections involved highly antibiotic-resistant bacteria detected in poultry sold in markets, and the hospitals are believed to have acquired these bacteria from patients who had been in contact with the contaminated poultry. (English | Spanish)

Poison Seeds, Herbicides, Pushed Again on Haitian Farmers in Spring 2012

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By Edner Son Décime, AlterPresse | Benjamin Fernandez, Le Monde Diplomatique | Marie-Monique Robin, YouTube | Translation and editorial comment by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Unwanted Monsanto hybrid and genetically modified (GMO) seeds are once again being pushed as aid on Haitian farmers. Together with expensive fertilizers, and harmful pesticides and herbicides, these seeds that cannot reproduce themselves are not genuine aid but a project to convert Haitian farmers from producers into helpers. UPDATE on April 3rd, full-length documentary video “The world according to Monsanto.” (English | French)