By Evan Rohar, Labor Notes. An attempt by a big grain exporter to operate a new state-of-the art facility without longshore union labor has met stiff resistance from the rank and file in the Pacific Northwest.
Continue reading →Eric Law, The Independent | GRITtv. Wangari Maathai died of cancer on Sunday, September 25, 2011. The organization she founded, the Green Belt Movement, planted millions of trees.
Continue reading →First English translation of complete lyrics by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | Original Creole lyrics written by Oswald Durand, courtesy of Gage Averill | Music by Michel Mauleart Monton | Sung by Martha Jean-Claude | History by Louis J. Auguste, M.D., Pikliz. Osward Durand’s Choucoune was considered to be the best poem in kreyol from the moment it appeared in print. About 10 years later, it was put to music by Michel Mauleart Monton. (Kreyol | English)
Continue reading →By Sebastian Walker Al Jazeera Sebastian Walker saw firsthand how Haitians dug up their dead from the rubble with their bare hands. He witnessed people struggling to recover from an earthquake, violent weather and disease. Millions throughout the country were … Continue reading →
By Evan Rohar, Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes | Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes. Confrontations have exploded between West Coast longshore workers and anti-union exporters.
Continue reading →By Whitney Phillips, Cronkite Borlerlands Initiative | Florida Center for Investigative Reporting | El Nuevo Herald. Vigorous enforcement of new laws in the Dominican Republic means that hundreds of thousands of people of Haitian descent are finding it increasingly difficult to get access to their birth certificates, which are required to get married, obtain a high school diploma, start a business, get a driver’s license or passport. or even sign up for a phone plan. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | Spanish translation by Fernando Moyano | Portuguese translation by Murilo Otavio Rodrigues Paes Leme. This article was first published in Aug 2011 when newly sworn Brazilian Defense Minister Celso Amorim said he wanted to conclude Brazil’s participation in the notorious United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). (English | French | Spanish | Portuguese)
Continue reading →By Saul Landau, Institute for Policy Studies. Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. This documentary explains what the Cuban Five actually did and why they should be freed.
Continue reading →Neil deGrasse Tyson, Raw Replay | Raw Story. In a recent interview with the activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), reknowned astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson suggests that as human ethics continue to evolve, the practice of eating animals will come to appear more and more primitive, especially as science learns about the true mental faculties of ostensibly dumb beasts.
Continue reading →By Amy Goodman, Roderick Harrison, Juan Gonzalez, and Paul Taylor, Democracy Now! | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The average net worth of Blacks and Latinos in the U.S. is 20 times lower than the net worth of Whites: a racial disparity worse than when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive.
Continue reading →By Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives The Nation Préval’s dramatic inauguration day oil deal won high marks from many Haitians, who had demonstrated against high oil prices and the lack of electricity. But it ushered in a multiyear geopolitical battle … Continue reading →
Editorial Comment Last year this video was making the rounds of all the Haitian news sites, but a few months before Haiti’s November 2010 first-round presidential elections, the video was scrubbed from the internet. Luckily, it was copied by the … Continue reading →
By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. “American military will not be sent to Haiti in advance of the election results,” U.S. embassy speaker Jon Pietchowski answered last Friday when confronted with rumors that U.S. soldiers were en route to Haiti to enforce security on the announcement of the presidential and legislative election results.
Continue reading →By President Jean-Bertrand Aristide | Translated by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. “The problem of exclusion, its solution is the inclusion of all Hatians without favoritism, because tout moun se moun!” (English | French)
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