Lil Haiti in Little Haiti

Former U.S president Jimmy Carter continues a visit to Haiti seeking greater rebuilding efforts for those made homeless by the January 2010 earthquake. Carter called on foreign governments to end interference in Haiti’s reconstruction.

Jimmy Carter: “My own hope is to build homes here for poor folks and also to have—to take home 500 ambassadors, who will be promoting the importance for the world helping Haiti with their own elected government, I hope with minimum outside interference, in the decisions made by the leaders that you all have elected.”

via Democracy Now!

Attorneys for thousands of Haitian cholera victims have announced a lawsuit against the United Nations for bringing the disease to Haiti and then failing to contain it. Some 450,000 Haitians have been sickened, and more than 6,000 have died, since the cholera outbreak erupted in October 2010. The cholera epidemic is believed to have originated with a battalion of Nepalese troops with the U.N. peacekeeping mission. Attorney Brian Concannon announced the lawsuit Tuesday on Democracy Now!.

Brian Concannon: “The U.N. put out a report in May that demonstrated the U.N. was at fault for the introduction and the spread of cholera, although the report has a conclusion that’s disjointed from the facts that are in that, and the U.N. is failing to officially acknowledge responsibility, nor is it responding as if—responding adequately to slow down and—slow down the epidemic and treat the victims.”

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You approached me with a smile on your lips 
and slapped me five, gave me a pound with your ignorance 
by telling me that I don’t look Haitian. 

You shook my hands to welcome me, 
open arms of your Statue of Liberty 
and then shook my soul with your audacity, 
stating that I don’t sound Haitian. 

Accolades and jubilee, 
citing the wonders of Haitian history 
yet you say I don’t act Haitian? 

You asked me if I was sure I was from Ayiti 
when you are not sure where you are from 
and you carry this mentality 
to the doorsteps of your white houses 
and your media coverage 
showing me impoverished 
barefoot and hungry 
seeking food and water in the slums, 
you show the negative of my cultural drums 
in a light of despair. 

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RENNES, France - The soccer player, Mikael Silvestre, former French international, will inaugurate this month, in Haiti, a vocational training center for carpentry, machinery, technology, which is at its origin and intended to help young Haitians after the earthquake.

via Defend Haiti