By Tiffany Ten Eyck Labor Notes Domestic workers in New York have won historic changes to the state’s labor law to include protections for their jobs. Final votes on Thursday ended weeks of wrangling between state Assembly and Senate leaders … Continue reading →
By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. A wealthy man in the Ganthier area is accused of expropriating over 9,000 acres of land coveted by various NGOs and selling the majority of this land to high-level members of the police force, former ministers, a former representative of Ganthier in Haiti’s parliament, and the wife of the current Minister.
Continue reading →By Kari Lydersen In These Times U.S. Social Forum Workshop participants brainstormed changes most needed to improve labor in the U.S. These included passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, immigration reform, a public black list of employers who mistreat … Continue reading →
By Ben Raines, Press-Register. Patches of submerged oil were found 40 to 100 feet off the beach, apparently collecting along rip currents and sandbars. Carcasses of sand fleas, speckled crabs, ghost crabs and leopard crabs were spread throughout the oil, a thick layer of the material caking the bodies of the larger crabs.
Continue reading →By Jill Richardson Alternet A common model in Cuba is the “organipónico,” an urban farm made up of long, narrow raised beds filled with a mix of soil and composted manure or another organic material. Often, the beds are intercropped, … Continue reading →
By Staff, Haiti Progres | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Only Port-au-Prince matters to the reconstruction effort, so there is no use for the parliament, which was dissolved in April 2010 to make way for a Clinton-led colonial coalition called the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC). (English | French)
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Despite all the donors conferences and talk of elections, little has changed in the past five months for Haiti’s homeless and dispossessed, apart from the start of the heavy rains and an increasing repression of their freedom of speech and assembly.
Continue reading →By Marcela Valente, IPS. Buenos Aires – Textile cooperatives founded by former slave labourers from Argentina and Thailand will jointly launch a new brand of clothing in June to raise awareness about exploitation and promote decent jobs in the garment industry.
Continue reading →By Ansel Herz, IPS | Media Hacker. UN troops responded to a rock-throwing demonstration by university students in front of a homeless camp Monday evening with a barrage of tear gas ganisters, flash grenades, and rubber bullets that injured women and children in the camp.
Continue reading →By Hervé Jean Michel, Haiti Liberte. Teleco, the crown jewel of Haiti’s state enterprises, was sold for the fire-sale price of $59 million.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Things haven’t cooled down in Haiti. Quite the contrary. They’re just starting to simmer.
Continue reading →By Frederick Douglas, Haiti Chery. A poem that celebrates the Haitian victory against slavery.
Continue reading →By David B. Williams, EARTH Magazine. “This is the ‘nail in the coffin’ for those who doubt that birds really are dinosaurs.” – David Fastovsky
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