Ezili Dantò/Marguerite Laurent

“search-and-rescue operations have been intensely focused on buildings with international aid workers, such as the crushed U.N. headquarters, and on large hotels with international clientele. Some international rescue workers said they are being sent to find foreign nationals first…For better or worse, it will likely be the residents of Petionville who through their government connections,…

There is a connection between farm subsidies, health and food security – in both the United States and in countries like Haiti. The US government’s food policies and profit priorities harm the planet as well as the people who eat processed foods, which are full of contaminants such as pesticides from production, additives, and bacteria…

Veye Yo is Father Gerard Jean Juste’s grassroots human rights organization on 54th Street, Miami, Florida, which he founded in 1979. – “Don’t cry when I die,” said Father Gerard Jean Juste, I leave the rest for all of you.” Inside the Veye Yo headquarters, on June 6, 2009, after the Church memorial at the…

The road is long and hard, his shadow gave us shelter, rest and comfort. But now, he’s gone. He did not deserve this end – li kite rès la pou nou menm – he’s left the rest to us. I had thought after living through two US-sponsored Coup D’etats in Haiti, their death squads’ persecution…