Lessons from MLK: How to Free Haiti from Foreign Occupation
The dissolution of Haiti’s parliament on January 12, 2015, coming so close Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday, brings forth reflections on the utility of non-violent action as a tool to fight a foreign occupation. An occupation, of course, is not the same as the struggle of a disenfranchised group of people for equal rights within […]
Midnight of Haiti’s Parliament on the Earthquake’s Anniversary
Just as the earthquake had rattled the ground under the feet of Haitians, the dissolution of the Haitian Parliament at midnight, 00:00 on January 12, 2015, exactly five years later, has shaken to the core Haiti’s republican institutions. Right at the day’s start, the terms expired for all 99 members of the House of Representatives […]
Haiti: Time for Clinton and Co to Pack and Go
Once more, we have tasted salt. We have mourned our dead from the earthquake and the cholera epidemic. The collective depression, the temporary zombification has lifted. It is time to evict the occupier and pursue the traitors and enemies of our independence. No exception. This is not the first time the United States has occupied […]
Fox in the Chicken Coop: Outsourcing Customs Tax Collection in Haiti and Elsewhere
Haitian President Michel Martelly, along with dozens of cabinet ministers and members of the private business sector, went on a European tour from October 27 to November 2, 2014, to promote the notion that Haiti is “open for business” with Europe. We are beginning to get a glimpse of the kind of business they had […]
Overpopulation Fuels Climate Change: Breeding Ourselves to Extinction
By Dady Chery and Gilbert Mercier The United Nations has held countless meetings on climate change, at great consumption of fuel, that have amounted to nothing but reports and promises of more talk. After many of these alarming reports, in November 2014 the G20 leaders decided to throw several billions of dollars at the problem. […]
