By Alexis Erkert March 28, 2012 When police and the landowner commanded Michelène Pierre to vacate her tent on a Sunday afternoon so that they could light it on fire, she responded: “If you want to light me on fire…
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Business as Government: Capitalizing on Disaster in Post-Earthquake Haiti
by Deepa Panchang and Beverly Bell “I am optimistic that in 18 months, yes, we will be autonomous in our decisions. But right now I have to assume… that we are not.”[i] With these words, Haiti’s Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive…
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“Best Practices” and “Exemplar Communities”: Ivory Tower Housing Solutions for Haiti
Crossposted from Other Worlds. In a 2011 Forum on the Crisis of Housing in Haiti, a group of camp residents and advocates asked “grassroots organizations and all other movements to mobilize with us on the housing issue so that we…
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MINUSTAH: Keeping the peace, or conspiring against it?
Nou dwe sèl mèt bout tè sa a: We should be the only owners of this land. This was Haitian protesters’ message at a demonstration last month against the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti, known by its French acronym, MINUSTAH.…
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