Legacy of 1804 | Haiti News & Blog Review | Stop Imperialism Radio, TPS, Guy Philippe, Nan Sole

Join me this Friday night (tonight) at 9PM as I bring you an excerpt of my latest chat with geopolitical analyst Eric Draitser of  stopimperialism.org, Stop Imperialism Radio and Counterpunch Radio, clips of this week's news in Haitian media, as well as some good music:

Pawol ak Mizik opening segment with Misty Jean, live from Haiti (30 minutes) | Preview of Alice's chat with Eric Draitser on Stop Imperialism Radio titled Haiti: Poverty, Occupation and the Anti-Colonial Struggle  where we discussed MINUSTAH's withdrawal, the Moise presidency and more | Eritye Papa Desalin's take on Guy Philippe guilty plea, Hillary's upcoming visit to Medgar Evers and TPS | Nan Sole fundraiser this weekend for self-determining agriculture i.e. production of kasav in Bainet.


Listen live or archived at the live player below or at https://t.co/jNQGmakPhb. You can also listen --live only -- on the phone at 714-242-6119.





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POST-SHOW HIGHLIGHTS 



00:00 - 07:39 Li Pa Two Ta by Misty Jean | Show Intro

07:39 - 20:18 Eritye Papa Desalin clip on fundraiser for Nan Sole Kasav Tayino cooperative in Bainet, Haiti | Caller question on the project

20:18 -  40:52   Chat with Misty Jean and Q&A: why she sings konpa, her exploration of house and techno, the changing music market |

40:52 - 73:00  First half of my recent discussion with Eric Draitser on Stop Imperialism Radio titled Haiti: Poverty, Occupation and the Anti-Colonial Struggle  where we discussed MINUSTAH's withdrawal, the Moise presidency's purported crackdown on corruption, PetroCaribe, the Haitian army and more | Q&A

73:00 - End  Eritye Papa Desalin clip on Guy Philippe and TPS | Show close | Jette la Premiere Pierre by Misty Jean

Legacy of 1804 | Haiti News & Blog Review | UN & Pastor Rape, Merten Visit Aftermath, Prisons #LOF1804

Join me this Friday (tonight) at 9PM as I go over media clips and articles on the latest on the UN sexual violence and trafficking crisis in Haiti, more on the aftermath of Kenneth Merten's recent appearance at Brooklyn College and the pernicious nature of foreign aid to Haiti in the form of prisons.

You can listen live or archived at the below player or at  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pancaribbean/2017/04/08/legacy-of-1804-haiti-news-blog-review-un-pastor-rape-merten-prisons.  You can also listen live only at 714-242-6119.






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POST-SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

In addition to playing clips of recent media interventions by Dahoud André of Komokoda (on Kenneth Merten at Brooklyn College) and Ezili Dantò (on UN rape), we were joined live on the topic of rape by Cynthia Verna and Georges Bossous Jr of Word and Action. And of course Hugues Girard co-hosted.

00:00-17:00 Intro, quick Haiti news roundup

17:00 - 45:00 Komokoda reacts to Kenneth Merten visit and survey what they believe is wrong with the Haitian Studies Institute

45:00 - 1:30:00 What is statutory rape?  Is Pastor Billy Léveillé guilty of it? A conversation with rape victim advocate Cynthia Verna and Georges Bossous Jr. of Word and Action.

1:30:00 - End  The latest on UN and rape in Haiti as explained by Ezili Dantò on recent media appearances.



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Legacy of 1804 | Kenneth Merten Bamboozles Haitians in Brooklyn #LOF1804 #Haiti

Join me this Friday night (tonight) at 9PM as I summarize and play various reactions to U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Merten's recent visit to Brooklyn where he purported to offer a Retrospective of US Foreign policy in Haiti after two panelists who conveniently spoke only of Haitian government weaknesses. Merten's remarks looking back at US Foreign policy in the last 20 or so years were very short and he scraped the surface of the many serious blows dealt to Haitian rice farming, the Black pig and to the country's infrastructure through the 90s embargo.

But most of all, Merten bamboozled the community when questions were raised about his involvement in announcing election results in 2010 that were contrary to what two electoral council members and a former OAS official found to be the actual result.

The event was protested by KOMOKODA, a grassroots organization who felt Brooklyn College should not have invited someone with Merten's destructive policies towards Haiti to speak at the new Haitian Studies Institute.

Listen to reactions by Dahoud Andre of Komokoda, Daniella Bien-Aimé of the Bien-Aimé Post and Hugues Girard, among others.



You can listen live or archived at the below player or at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pancaribbean/2017/04/01/legacy-of-1804-amb-kenneth-merten-bamboozles-haitians-in-brooklyn-lof1804. You can also listen live only at 714-242-6119.




(This show will likely be pre-recorded as I am jet-lagged and away at an open knowledge conference but there is a chance I may do it live. Please be indulgent as technical problems may arise from my hotel wifi.)



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POST-SHOW HIGHLIGHTS 

Another amazing show full of serendipity what with Professor Claude Joseph, one of Merten's co-panelists calling in to offer his views of the event. We were also joined by none other than Dady Chéry of the News Junkie Post who offered, along with Hugues Girard, that listeners and guests of this show need our own think tank, one not commandeered by the State Department or dismissive of the protests and concerns of entrenched Brooklyn community groups such as Komokoda. 

We listened to clips of questions asked of Merten at the event by Daniella Bien-Aimé and me respectively on Merten's changing of official elections results in 2010 and the US' role in centralizing the Haitian government in Port-au-Prince. 

We also discussed panelist Vanessa Léon's implied thesis that the problem with US Foreign Policy in Haiti is Haitians and the Haitian government.


More highlights below.

Legacy of 1804 | Digicel in Haiti: Friend or Monopolistic Foe? | Debate with Marten Boute @mboute #LOF1804

This Friday at 9PM, join me as I welcome Digicel Chairman Maarten Boute and last week's guest Giles Colbert Charleston of  Association of Haitian Professionals (AHP) to debate Digicel's impact in Haiti today.


We'll discuss Digicel and the Haitian telecom market, specifically issues of competition, Digicel's (failed) attempt to block VoIPs, quality of service and various grievances about Digicel increasingly expressed by Haitians. Also, did Digicel meddle with the last presidential elections?

Giles Colbert Charleston agreed to come back to the show to debate what he meant when he said last week that Digicel is acting increasingly as a monopolistic actor in Haiti. This show was spurred by Digicel chairman Maarten Boute reaching out to me to take exception to this statement and asking for a chance to respond.


Join us for this promising debate!


Make sure to send us questions or join us live with them.


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You can listen live or archived at the player below or at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pancaribbean/2017/02/04/legacy-of-1804-digicel-in-haiti-friend-or-foe-lof1804. You canPOST-SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:  also listen live at 714-242-6119.






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Legacy of 1804 | Haiti News & Blog Review: Who Won the 11/20 Election? #LOF1804

Join me this Friday (tonight) at 9PM as I review news and blog commentary on the 11/20 first round presidential election in Haiti. Who won? Why have at least 3 parties declared victory?


You can listen at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pancaribbean/2016/11/26/legacy-of-1804-haiti-news-blog-review-who-won-the-1120-election-lof1804 or on the phone at 714-242-6119.






Correction to Audio: Around 01:04, I mistakenly identified "IC" in an article referenced by Elsie News as being "International Community" when in fact it stood for "Initiative Citoyenne" (Citizens' Initiative).

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LIVE TWEET HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SHOW:

Legacy of 1804 with Altagracia Jean-Joseph #Haiti #DR

Join me this friday at 9PM as I welcome Altagracia Jean-Joseph, a Dominican of Haitian descent. We will discuss the effect of the DR denationalization ruling on her life. The conversation will mostly be in Kreyòl, the only language we both speak but you can call to ask questions in English, French or Spanish.  We will translate.

Listen LIVE or ARCHIVED at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pancaribbean/2015/08/01/legacy-of-1804-with-altagracia-jean-joseph-dr-haiti. Listen LIVE on the phone at (714) 242-6119.

UPDATE: SHOW AUDIO 

The show was in Kreyòl with a  wrap-up in English in the last 20 minutes of audio.

Key takeaway:

A J-J: 45,000 ppl under tents on the #Haiti-#DR border many of which are denationalized Dominicans of Haitian descent. #lof1804

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Legacy of 1804 Haiti News and Blog Review #LOF1804

Join me tonight at 9PM as I discuss the latest Haiti news including the Red Cross in Haiti, Sean Penn's defense of it, the latest report on UN rapes of women and girls in Haiti and more. Co-host Hans Roy might join in.

Listen live or archived at  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pancaribbean/2015/06/13/legacy-of-1804-haiti-news-and-blog-review-haiti or on the phone at (714) 242-6119. 

Articles to be discussed:

UN peacekeepers sexually abused hundreds of Haitian women & girls – report — RT News http://buff.ly/1B1NJRv  #Haiti

Haïti : des soldats de la Minustah auraient abusé de centaines de femmes et de jeunes filles,... http://ow.ly/2ZNKli 

How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti ­and Built Six Homes https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes

OP-ED: An Open Letter to the Red Cross http://haitiantimes.com/op-ed-an-open-letter-to-the-red-cross-11619/

OP-ED: Our Cross To Bear, Sean Penn Response To American Red Cross Criticism http://haitiantimes.com/op-ed-our-cross-to-bear-sean-penn-response-to-american-red-cross-criticism-11590/

Documentary seeks to tell history of US Occupation of Haiti | Boston Haitian Reporter http://buff.ly/1cJa8r5  

If we have the  time:

Have you heard ‘#BeethovenWasAfrican?’ by BBC Africa on #SoundCloud? #np https://soundcloud.com/bbcafrica/beethoven-was-african?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=twitter … via @beethovenafrican 

UPDATE: SHOW AUDIO

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Raoul Peck Takes the Creole Version of Fatal Assistance on the Road in Haiti

My hero Raoul Peck has now translated Fatal Assistance into Creole and is taking the film on the road in Haiti. The below video is a conversation that happened after a screening of the film in a Port-au-Prince university. It is a kickass discussion between Peck, several journalists and the students who came to see the film.

At minute 25, Peck says that he believes that by giving their workers the same pay as people going to Kabul and Bagdad, certain NGOs are entertaining and encouraging fear about Haiti. Meanwhile, as he points out, those very workers pack the discos in Pétion-Ville and the beaches of the country. I could add they also take over whole  coastal towns such as Port-Salut.

Peck also stressed at the one hour mark that it was important to him to show Haitians in their truth: working people such as doctors and ironsmiths. He contrasts this with images of screaming helpless women that the western media like to bombard us with.

At 1:13, a woman in the audience concludes that NGOs are poisonous to countries around the world. At 1:19 Peck says "depi ayiti kreye yo trangle nou.  Yo pran resous nou, yo fè nou peye on pakèt kòb. Gen on pati nan kòb sa-a fòl retounen. Annou chanje retorik lan." At 1:22 journalist  Roberson Alphonse says "Jodi-a nou wè rezilta èd la. Nou pral goumen ak kominote entènasyonal la." At 1:24 "Wi mwen kontan ke Bill Clinton demaske nan fim nan."



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIyawY3Cu64

Some key points about the film:

• Shows how the "international community"  made it clear to Préval during the last presidential election that either their candidate (aka Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly) made it into the first round finalists or they would not recognize the result of the elections;
• Unveils the "dictatorship of aid";
• Shows particularly telling images about Bill Clinton's mismanagement of IHRC;
• Contends that reconstruction is a myth.

Here are some key points and quotes made by Peck during the film's US premiere during the Human Rights Watch Film Festival  in New York ("HRW") earlier this year:

• He worked hard to disprove the leitmotiv of some in the NGO industrial complex that the reason for the failure of relief and reconstruction was Haitians themselves;
• The theme of Haitian government corruption favored by the Western media is the war in rhetoric that we lost. The real problem is "What good is development aid"?  Africa has already reimbursed 5 times the amount of money that it borrowed. In the US, corruption is called "lobbying";
• "Haitians would love to be left alone";
• "The UN and the Clinton Foundation would love for the film to go away";
• Clinton never said no to being interviewed but each month he would push it back. Clinton staffers told Peck "we are here to defend the Clinton brand";
•  Peck is offended by the fact that so many reports  on the EQ showed dead Haitian bodies. There are laws against that in France; 
• Western media did not show the images of the Haitian doctors who provided care to fellow Haitians after the EQ;
• The aid world's "Do No Harm" rules include "Don't kill the local economy" and that rule was not respected in Haiti;
• "Yes the money has to go directly to the people, anything else is unacceptable because by the time everyone in the NGO world has taken their cut, there is nothing left for the people";

Priscilla Phelps, the female voice in the film, was in attendance at HRW and agreed that the money should in this case and in the future go directly to the people. She added that a lot of the agencies who had agreed with her book about funds going directly to the people were the same who got in the way of that advice in Haiti.  She added that since people have their own best interest at heart, funds given them directly will be spent wisely.


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Code for Dealing with Requests to Donate Money "for Haiti"

There is now plenty of evidence that the most effective number of western NGOs in Haiti are not helping Haiti at all. (See the film Fatal Assistance by Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck if you have not already.) Would you like to avoid being used towards the raising of funds for non-constructive activities by the WSIC in the area of the world of your origin? Avoid donating your hard earned money to any entities with sexy yet empty names concocting savily branded fundraisers towards vague/non-constructive goals.

Here are some examples of questions to ask members of the WSIC when they ask you to donate money towards their activities in Haiti. (You can also ask  these questions to Haitians or afro-descendants who ask you to donate in the name of  western NGOs or entities that they do not run, control and fund, especially the larger ones.) In order to increase the chance of receiving truthful answers, remember to remain calm and polite when asking your questions.

QUESTIONS:

Are you raising funds to provide Haitians a service or a good? Have you asked any Haitians who do not work for you whether they need your help towards the service/good for which you are fundraising? Have you asked Haitians who do not work for you how much of that service or good they will need and the specific form in which they would like to receive that service or good?

Since you are using the word Haiti in your fundraising drive, will  Haitians ultimately benefit  the most from the fundraising and in a way that they have deemed constructive?

Is there an NGO involved in/behind your fundraising drive? If so what is/are the name of the NGO(s)? What governments if any does that NGO receive funding/support from or work in close collaboration with?

What percentage of the money raised will go to "overhead" or to activities not linked to relief determined necessary by Haitians?

What percentage of the money raised will empower one or more Haitians to improve his/her/their life (lives) in a way that they have determined is the most constructive for them? 

Will the funds raised help to further JUSTICE in Haiti? 

Will the funds raised help to further INJUSTICE in Haiti?

What does (fill in the requesting entity's name or the fundraiser's name) mean? How does your entity accomplish what its name promises? How does your fundraiser's name accomplish what it promises?

What is the relationship of your entity to MINUSTAH?

How does your entity collaborate with MINUSTAH?

What is your entity's position on MINUSTAH remaining in Haiti indefinitely?

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Wait until your questions have been answered to decide whether donating is the most constructive use of your resources. Use this code also to deal with entities that ask you to donate time/energy.

Please react in the comments section as I would like your constructive help in enriching this code.



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VIDEO: Haiti Reporters interview Raoul Peck about his film "Mortal Assistance"

Raoul Peck is the internationally acclaimed Haitian director of such films as Lumumba, Man by the Shore and Moloch Tropical.

This interview with Port-au-Prince based young reporters about his latest film Assistance Mortelle (Mortal Assistance) which aired on French channel Arte this week and premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, is in French. I jotted down its key points in English while watching:

• "I wanted that we be the ones telling our story for a change, to turn the tables for a moment. What I see on the airwaves is the not the country I know. Haitians do not have a voice."
• "When asked why the aid is not working, "international" actors always say you can't trust Haitians, the Haitian state is weak. I had to break that litany of pretexts that prevents us from looking at the real problem."
• " Along its 60 year history and everywhere it goes (Africa, Latin America included), "Development Aid" is ultimately neither "aid" nor "development". Looking at many African countries, one has to ask, where is the evidence of success? Have the lives of these countries really changed, do those countries export more than before, are there less inequalities, is there less infant mortality?"
• "Aid" is deceptive because 40% of what is supposedly given is not spent in the supposed target country but in the donor country."
• "Had the Haitians within the CIRH/IRCH [Bill Clinton-led International Reconstruction Commission for Haiti] not been marginalized, they could have played a crucial role relaying information to the population and to the ministries both of which were kept at bay."
• Peck did the film out of the frustration of being in Haiti shortly after the earthquake and not being able to help because of the lack of coordination between various international actors who were ultimately there to serve their own interests first.

Can I go one step further Mr. Peck and say that ultimately the "aid", by functioning parallel to the Haitian government  and excluding it from "aid" coordination, ultimately weakens the very Haitian institutions it claims to bolster? 

VIDEO LINK:  http://ht.ly/k8PPK



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Raoul Peck: Haitian State Too Weak To Be Blamed for Aid Management Failure

From the Director of the forthcoming film Mortal Assistance. Couldn't have said it better myself:

« L’aide est violente, arbitraire, aveugle, imbue d’elle-même. Un monstre paternaliste qui balaie tout sur son passage. Elle fait semblant de résoudre les problèmes qu’elle s’applique à entretenir », critique le cinéaste dans le film.
En marge de la projection, Raoul Peck est intervenu pour souligner l’intérêt de sortir du discours permanent de critiquer l’Etat haïtien dans la gestion de l’aide humanitaire en évoquant comme argument la faiblesse de celui-ci.
Cette tendance empêche d’aborder les discussions structurelles, relatives au sens même de l’aide, explique t-il.
Le cinéaste plaide en faveur de la prise en compte des compétences haïtiennes dans la reconstruction du pays.
« Le terrain est vicié par un ensemble d’influences que nous ne contrôlons pas. Quand quatre-vingt pour cent de l’argent du budget d’un Etat n’est pas entre ses mains, c’est une grande perte de légitimité et de pouvoir », fait-il remarquer.
Soulignant le dysfonctionnement de l’aide, il appelle tous ceux qui sont impliqués dans cette reconstruction à rebattre les cartes et repenser l’ensemble du dialogue enclenché.

Source: L’aide à la reconstruction d’Haïti, un échec, selon le film « Assistance mortelle » projeté à Port-au-Prince http://ht.ly/jSXcy Alterpresse

TRANSLATION:

"The aid is violent, arbitrary, blind, self-important. A paternalistic monster which sweeps everything in its wake.  It acts like it is solving problems that it in fact maintains" says the director of the film.

Raoul Peck intervened to stress the importance of getting out of the discourse of permanently criticizing the Haitian government's management of the humanitarian aid citing the state's weakness.

This tendency avoids structural discussions having to do with the aid itself.

The filmmaker pleads in favor of using Haitian competencies in rebuilding the country.

"The terrain is maligned by a set of influences that we do not control. When 84 percent of the money in a government's budget is not in its hands, it is a huge loss of legitimacy and power" he adds.

Underlining the dysfunction of the aid, he calls on all those implicated in the reconstruction to reshuffle the cards and rethink the conversation."

Can I get an A-MEN? 

 (Raoul Peck is a prominent and internationally acclaimed Haitian filmmaker. His films include Man by the Shore and Lumumba.)







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Haiti: Quick facts of the day about aid money whereabouts according to Center for Global Development

"94% of humanitarian funding went to donors' own civilian and military entities, UN agencies, international NGOs and private contractors."

"You can look at procurement databases to track primary contract recipients, but it is almost impossible to track the money further to identify the final recipients and the outcomes of projects."


"Breaking the figures down by donor isn't much better: 60% of US-disbursed recovery funding is "not specified" (pdf), as is 67% of Canada's aid to Haiti (pdf). Data for the European commission shows that 67% of humanitarian funding and 43% of recovery funding is to "other international NGOs" (pdf). Data reporting becomes even more opaque when one looks for the specific organisations, agencies, firms or individuals that have received grants or contracts in Haiti. Detailed financial reports and rigorous impact evaluations are hard to find."


"Of the thousands of projects being run in Haiti, we found only 45 organisation- or project-level evaluation reports at the end of 2011. A total of 23 reports do not have specific project data and only four have any specific detail about how the money was spent."

"The Government of Haiti has received just 1 percent of humanitarian aid and somewhere between 15 and 21 percent of longer-term relief aid."

Source: Haiti's earthquake generated a $9bn response – where did the money go? | Vijaya Ramachandran and Julie Walz | Global development | guardian.co.uk http://ht.ly/gQoP0
(Authors of: Haiti: Where Has All the Money Gone? : Center for Global Development : Publications http://ht.ly/gQnTp)

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Today's Melissa Harris-Perry Show segment on UN in Haiti #MINUSTAH #ONU #cholera #MSNBC

I apologize in advance to those of you who inevitably will tell me that the Haiti footage used on the segment constitutes more of the problematic images we are usually fed by the mainstream media when it comes to Haiti. You are right and needless to say I now regret not having heeded the producer's invitation to share pictures for the segment.  It is almost impossible to ask non-natives of a country to shoot images that show compassion and knowledge of the place and its people, no matter how well meaning they are.  I suggested to the producers of Spotlight on Haiti which premiered today on YouTube to use Régine Romain's  "Portraits of Self-Determining Haiti" photos and I should have done the same for the MSNBC segment.  Overall,  despite the impossibly short amount of time allotted to this conversation, some important points were made which may not have been heard yet in this rarefied sphere of the media.

Had this conversation been a little longer, I would have made sure to add that the UN's best shot at redeeming itself after the cholera epidemic is reparations to the families of the 7,000 dead rather than an extension of its 8 year lab experiment and recent college grad job placement in Haiti. Haiti does not need more intervention but less. There are clearly too many cooks in the kitchen, and while Jon Lascher pointed that some NGOs have begun leaving, the UN force itself is showing no real sign of wanting to leave despite some lip service paid to diminishing the force by 15%.

Another point I would have made is that there is no real moral basis for certain international actors to continue formulating health policies for Haiti of the sort suggested by Lascher on the show. If one wants to use the pretext of aid, please consider that  most aid dollars and euros go back to the countries who "donate" them via contracts to their firms, salaries to their nationals or simply repayments to themselves as exemplified by the United States repaying itself for its post-earthquake troop deployment in Haiti.

I also came prepared to discuss the real manifestations in Haitian popular culture of the local frustation mentioned my Jon Katz . The nickname TOURISTAH (instead of MINUSTAH) for the UN force. Brother's Posse's carnival song and video lampooning MINUSTAH and echoing the perception of  the force as a predatory entity:  "all young men should watch their rear ends for those with guns and munitions."






Please consider that this a rare airing of certain Haitian perspectives to broader audiences, however imperfect.

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http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46987732#46987732


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kiskeácity daily is out ! Editions of Sunday, Sep. 11 and Monday, Sep. 12, 2011

VIEW SUNDAYS EDITION

• New book on the Haitian Spiralists (Franketienne, Philoctète) by Kaiama Glover. 
• Book signing for Jean-Max Calvin's Hors du Bleu coming up Sep. 25 in Uniondale, NY. 
• Cardicis3 Daily has become Cardicis3 Weekly. (Cardicis is a technology foundation and think tank dedicated to Caribbean integration and Caribbean linguistic diversity.) 

VIEW MONDAY'S EDITION

• PM Letter scandal: Two articles on how some in Martelly's entourage tried to make the PM designate sign a letter promising to resign in case of disagreement with the president. (Radio Kiskeya, InfoHaiti.net.)
• More prizes for Dany Laferriere's book The Return. 

From and about the blogs

• My article on Haitians' online reactions to UN rape scandal in French on Global Voices en Français. English version here.
• Caribbean journal interview with one of Digicel's top executives. 

Soccer

• French channel Canal+'s report on Haitian soccer team which made blogger Carel Pedre cry. CNN adds details of how the team's Brazilian coach recruited Haitian diaspora players for the team. 

And more!

Haïti : Les Casques bleus doivent partir, disent les Haitiens · Global Voices en Français

Photo courtoisie Etant Dupain 

Traduction en Français par Claire Ulrich de l'article que j'ai publié sur Global Voices il y a quelques jours:

http://fr.globalvoicesonline.org/2011/09/11/80622/






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Haiti: UN Troops Must Go, Say Haitians After Rape Scandal · Global Voices

Photo taken by Etant Dupain Monday in Port-Salut.

My latest Global Voices piece about Haitian reactions on Twitter and blogs to the UN rape scandal:


http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/09/09/haiti-un-troops-must-go-say-haitians-after-rape-scandal/









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kiskeácity daily is out ! Edition of Wednesday, Sep. 07, 2011 #Haiti #Minustah #Football #Jacmel

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Highlights


UN Rape Scandal

• Youth who leaked video receiving threats. (HPN) FR
• Uruguay apologizes. (Radio Kiskeya, BBC) FR, EN
• More and more talk of withdrawal of UN troops and specifically Brazil explicitely mobilizing for withdrawal, saying mission has run its course. FR
• Big decision day on the future of MINUSTAH  tomorrow as relevant authorities from several South American countries meet on the topic. (Haiti Libre) FR 
• Four perpetrators repatriated. (HPN) FR

From blogs and social media

MediaHacker interviews the two youth who managed to capture the UN rape video via bluetooth and leaked it to media. EN

Vague du Futur blog announces an exhibit of photographs of students from Francophone countries at the FOKAL offices in Port-au-Prince co-sponsored by Agence Universitaire Francophone (AUF). (Arts and entertainment tab) FR

www.culture509.com highlights 20 years of cooperation between Jacmel and french city Strasbourg. FR

Haiti-based Jean-Marc Tribié (@jmtribie on Twitter) posted the below picture of plywood being transported by foot in Bourdon. 

Other topics 

• Judicious editiorial in NYT by Haitian writer Isabelle Dupuy on the explosion of disaster tourism to Haiti and its translation in French by HPN. (EN in Society tab and FR in Headlines) 
• Soccer victory against Curaçao. (#Footbal tab) FR
• Jacmel's recovery a success. (Google) EN
• Haitian youth on their way to South America targeted by traffickers.(HPN) FR 
• Dominican president meets with UN representative on Haitian refugees and stateless Dominicano-Haitians. (Dominican Today) EN 
• And more!

kiskeácity daily is out ! Edition of Tuesday, Sep. 06, 2011 #Haiti #MINUSTAH

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Highlights


UN-Haiti Rape scandal:

• Demonstrations in Port-Salut, 
• exhaustive RNDDH report on sexual abuse by MINUSTAH in this and other cases in Port-Salut (including evidence of pregnancies among minors), 
• resolution for progressive MINUSTAH withdrawal, 
• Uruguay prosecuting the 4 perpetrators 
• and more.

Haitian football:
HPN poll reveals Haitian optimism for 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Labor Day West Indian Parade in NY:
No Haitian float this year!