Legacy of 1804 | Naïka Apeakorang | Holistic Health, Haitian Healing Traditions #LOF1804

Host: Alice 

Guest: Dr. Naika Apeakorang

Topic: Holistic health and Haitian Healing Traditions 

When: 9 PM this Friday 

Places to listen: Player below or at kiskeacity.com  | Phone: 714-242-6119 | BlogTalkRadio Link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pancaribbean/2017/12/16/legacy-of-1804-naka-apeakorang-holistic-health-haitian-healing-traditions



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Legacy of 1804 Haiti News and Blog Review: Matthew, How to Help, Postponed Elections #LOF1804

Join co-host Hans Roy, Haiti-based contributor Pascal Antoine of HaitiXchange and I  this friday (tonight) at 9PM as we review the latest news and media on Haiti and Haitians including the aftermath of  Hurricane Matthew and Haiti's postponed elections. We will also discuss how to help for those living outside of Haiti.

Listen  online at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pancaribbean/2016/10/08/legacy-of-1804-haiti-news-and-blog-review-matthew-how-to-help-elections

Call-in number to listen/participate live is 714-242-6119.



(Post-show link and live tweet recap will be available soon.)

HOW TO HELP:

 In addition to the ones in the Live Tweet Recap below, here are some orgs you can contact:

HCRFF Hurricane Matthew Relief: https://www.facebook.com/events/2130330553857940/

Bethesda Church of God 1280 Flatbush Ave B 11226 718-421-4241

Project St-Anne (for Camp-Perrin Relief): https://www.gofundme.com/psahurricanerelief

Judith Depestre (coordinating Matthew Haiti relief efforts in Rhode Island)

Haitian Consulate in NYC 212-697-9767

SOFA (Women's org in Haiti)

Please avoid the Red Cross and the Clinton Foundation who Haitians no longer trust after their handling of 2010 Earthquake Relief.

LIVE TWEET RECAP (links, quotes, relief orgs related to the show):

HAITI: Quick Facts of the Day regarding Venezuela and regarding vaccines

More than 90,000 Haitians received a Red Cross cholera vaccine this year | Red Cross Progress Report Raises Some Questions | Relief and Reconstruction Watch http://ht.ly/gHR7q

However: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been skeptical about the effectiveness of vaccination against cholera in this setting. It has instead emphasized cleaning up the water supply and improving sanitation as the best ways to check the spread of the disease. http://ht.ly/gHSOG



"90% of projects achieved in Haiti are courtesy of the people of Venezuela." - PM Laurent Lamothe | Haïti-Coopération : Finalement, Lamothe est parti pour le Venezuela http://ht.ly/gHSbH





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Haitian brain drain contributions to #Quebec #Haiti

 

Had to repost this quote by Haitian poet and journalist Anthony Phelps who recently turned down an award by Sweet Micky and was subsequently honored on his birthday by Haiti Cultural Exchange at Pwezi Anba Tonèl 2012 in Brooklyn. Please use your google translator as I have to run out of the door in 2 minutes and don't have time to translate:

"J’en ai ras le bol de vous entendre dire, avec contentement, qu’Haïti est le pays le plus pauvre du monde, alors que grâce à ce pays le plus pauvre du monde, le Québec a pu :

1.- Mettre en place son nouveau système de soin de santé, dans les années 70, avec l’arrivée de plusieurs dizaines de médecins et d’infirmières venus d’Haïti.

2.-Réaliser sa réforme de l’éducation, les cegep, grâce aux dizaines de professeurs et professeures, venus de ce pays le plus pauvre du monde.

3.- Implanter sa deuxième université de langue française, les UQA, grâce aux professeurs haïtiens.

N’avez-vous pas honte d’avoir accepté ces intellectuels, ces médecins, infirmières, professeurs, dont vous n’avez pas financé la formation.

Ces femmes et ces hommes, venus du pays le plus pauvre du monde, ont formé nombre de vos enfants. Soigné tant de vos malades ?

Encadré combien d’universitaires ?

S’il vous plaît, auriez-vous l’extrême reconnaissance, lorsque vous parlez d’Haïti, de ne plus lui coller cette étiquette méprisante : le pays le plus pauvre du monde ?"

http://www.canalplushaiti.net/?p=3518

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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.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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kiskeácity daily is out ! Commented edition for Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011 #Haiti #FNE #Belizaire #Army

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Topics include Martelly's National Education Fund, Thierry Mayard-Paul and the Bélizaire affair, Haitian-Americans United for Hope's upcoming gala in Baldwin, NY.



Metro News offers a segment of Martelly's speech to the nation on his desire to move on from the Bélizaire debacle, an interview with ex-General Acédius Saint-Louis on  misconceptions about the role of Haiti's army in past coup d'états, more on cholera and a car giveaway by Delimart.

kiskeácity daily is out ! Edition of Monday, Aug. 22, 2011

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Highlights


PotoFanm has just launched its first program, PotoFi. See a PDF of the  briefing note of this survey and services program for Haitian girls facing sexual violence in the media section of the newsletter. (FR, EN)

Tropical storm Irene worried some yesterday as it approached Haiti.

Controversial biometric passport and border controls program being implemented in Haiti.

EcoAlert podcast with Nadine Patrice of Operation Green Leaves.

Upcoming National Haitian-American Health Alliance conference in P-au-P.

From the blogs - www.culture509.com remembers a Haitian rapper and his song on the Bwa Kayiman ceremony.


Video - La Troupe Makandal at Haiti Cultural Exchange's Pwezi Anba Tonèl Saturday night. 

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kiskeácity daily is out ! Edition of Friday, Aug. 12, 2011

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Highlights


Politics - Increasing worries about the back to school season. Martelly travels through Latin America without first nominating a prime minister then denounces what he calls a dictatorship of Parliament. More on color tensions in Parliament. Martelly wants Chile to replace its military mission with a development mission. $3.3 Billion plan to rebuild Port-au-Prince announced by mayor. (Stories by Haiti Libre and Le Nouvelliste.)

From the blogs - Imaj Info posts pictures of student demos against perceived delinquency of IDB camp dwelles. Réseau Citadelle posts pictures MINUSTAH chief's visit to the defiled cathedral in Cap Haitien. (See #Haiti tab.)

Video - Metro News explores the continuing prime minister crisis and the hospital workers strike at Hopital General.








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kiskeácity daily is out ! Edition of Sunday, Aug. 07, 2011

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Haiti - Letter from ex-presidential candidate Dr. Bijou to Martelly with specific recommendations on education at the eve of the back to school season. (Does she see signs that Martelly will not be able to deliver on his promises on education?)


Caribbean -  All from www.mnialive.com: DeVry institute just purchased a medical school in the Caribbean. Scholarship fund for Caribbean filmmakers. Rihanna criticized by African-American blogs for her dancing at Bajan carnival. (Have they seen Beyoncé's  videos lately? Or even Rihanna's own morbid Disturbia video? Is it okay ONLY when heavily commodified? Puh-leeze. What about the fact that cropover and the dancing that goes along with it is a long-standing cultural tradition in her native Barbados, the point well made in www.mnialive.com's article?) 

From the blogs - Just added a haiti-based blog on culture www.culture509.com and a Haiti-based blog by a Haitian repatriate  Pale Avè'm... Talk to Me to my aggregator of Haitian blogs http://haitianbloggers.collected.info/. Two articles from www.culture509.com are posted in the newsletter, one on Azor and one on Clarens Fortuné, both of whom are Haitian cultural vectors who recently passed away. Funny article from Global Voices on a Zambian site.


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kiskeácity daily is out ! Edition of Saturday, Jul. 30, 2011

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(This is the only edition for this weekend as I took a break from posting stories yesterday afternoon and this morning to spend time with friends and family.)


Highlights

Politics and culture - Former presidential candidate Mirlande Manigat weighs in on Martelly's woes with Parliament. Martelly apologizes to journalists in Jacmel.  More on the attack against Martelly in Cap-Haitian. Rara used to fight cholera.

From the blogs - Jean-Marie Théodat's moving goodbye to legendary Haitian musician Azor, possibly his last post on the France-Info blog. Le Monde du Sud/Elsie News' take on the latest wikileaks revelations about what the American Ambassador called a post-earthquake gold rush. From Polycarpediem, a tribute to Haitian artisans.


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kiskeácity daily is out ! Edition of Sunday, Jul. 24, 2011

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Topics include: Martelly's renewed commitment to housing, health grant by the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, this weekend's West Indian Parade in New Jersey, a Haitian-American named CEO at Chrysler, musician Azor's national funeral, Caribbean-American heritage awards gala and more.






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