Courtesy of Tortilla con Sal, You Tube | Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Nicaragua and Haiti have shared the same history of repelling a U.S. occupation only to face the harder task of resisting the unpatriotic army the occupation left behind. Nicaraguans are reclaiming their country, with the youth leading the charge and being the living proofs that the smiles are well worth the process.
Continue reading →By PP International. Pirate Parties are in place or being formed in over 50 countries. See the Principles of Pirate Party.
Continue reading →By Martin Luther King Jr, In: Why We Can’t Wait (Harper & Row, N.Y., 1963) | Charles Moore, Photos | Estate of Martin Luther King Jr, Statement by Clergymen | Assembled by Haiti Chery. “Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.” – MLK
Continue reading →By Staff (jep kft gp apr), AlterPresse. Ten Haitian senators will see their terms expire on the second Monday of January 2012, without elections being held to decide their replacements. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Houda Trabelsi, Magharebia. Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali on Thursday (December 22nd) presented his government to the Constituent Assembly. Tunisia’s first democratic government promises to create tens of thousands of new jobs. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Deena Stryker, Daily Kos. In Iceland the financial crisis resulted in people recovering their sovereign rights through a new approach to direct participatory democracy that led to a new Constitution. (English | French | Portuguese | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Staff, AHP | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Thousands of Fanmi Lavalas supporters rallied on Friday December 16th to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the elections that brought Father Jean Bertrand Aristide to the presidency of Haiti with more votes in 1990 than both presidential candidates combined received in the 2011 2nd-round elections. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Eric Kamba, SF Bay View. The U.N. force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is called MONUSCO and is headed by Roger Meece, a former U.S. ambassador to the DRC. In addition to fixing elections, killing, raping, and generally doing everything MINUSTAH does in Haiti, MONUSCO deals in weapons and valuable minerals.
Continue reading →By Staff, Ahram Online | Staff, TV New Zealand. Suez Port workers blocked the delivery of an initial 7-ton shipment of tear gas into Egypt. A three-stage shipment totaling 21 tons is on course for the port from the American port of Wilmington, with tear-gas canisters made by the American company Combined Systems.
Continue reading →By Move to Amend. Beware of the decoy 28th amendments that are being proposed in congress. The most serious version of the 28th is one from the grassroots; the text from Move to Amend is reproduced here.
Continue reading →By Toni Solo, Tortilla con Sal | Martha Grevatt, Grevatt blog. This electoral landslide represents an enthusiastic vote of approval for the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) and a huge blow to the Nicaraguan right.
Continue reading →By Esam Al-Amin, OpEd News. Nearly 90% of all Tunisian registered voters participated, with some waiting as long as four hours to cast their votes. The huge win by Ennahda, followed by Congress for the Republic (CPR), represents a total break from the parties and political movements of the corrupt and repressive era of Ben Ali.
Continue reading →By Fabrizio Tassinari, Rasmus Alenius Boserup, Project Syndicate via Al Jazeera | Jake Lippincott, IPS | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The word revolution is so casually bandied about these days that it is quickly losing all meaning. Nevertheless real revolutions are happening. Tunisia’s is a case in point.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery (English, French) | Spanish translation by Fernando Moyano | Portuguese translation by Murilo Otávio Rodrigues Paes Leme. MINUSTAH’s worst crime so far is killing over 8,000 Haitians with cholera. It is a degraded, degrading, and unwanted occupation force that must go. (English | French | Spanish | Portuguese)
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