Fight for Haiti’s Ile a Vache: Interview With KOPI’s Jerome Genest
The Organization of Ile a Vache Farmers (KOPI, or Konbit Peyizan Ilavach) has been at the vanguard of a fight between the residents of this traditionally agricultural 20-square mile island off of the southern coast of Haiti and the country’s executive branch. The conflict began after the administration decreed Ile a Vache to be a […]
Antarctica’s Accelerating Ice Collapse: Massive Sea Level Rise in Decades
Imagine Antarctica. Imagine an island, with mountains, peaks, ridges, and valleys. Imagine further that a thick layer of ice covers, not only the surface of the island that lies above the sea but also an extensive portion of the perimeter that is beneath the sea. The peaks are higher above sea level than on any […]
Racism and Discrimination: More About Poverty than Race
Only a story about race, sex and money could have displaced from the headlines the sabre rattling from the United States, the European Union, and Russia that had, for weeks, promised a bloodbath in Ukraine and kept everybody in fear of World War III. That’s not all. There was also race and death: specifically, a […]
What Kind of Tourism Is Sustainable for Haiti’s Ile a Vache? Interview With Melinda Wilson
In the wake of natural disasters, or in advance of events such as World Cup or Olympic games, various governments and private concerns have connived to appropriate coastal lands. Ile a Vache is a case in point. For over a century, this 20-square mile island, about seven miles from the southern Haitian city of Cayes, […]
Human Rights Organizations: Widespread Abuse and Police Brutality in Haiti’s Ile a Vache
The struggle between Haiti’s peasants in Ile a Vache and the country’s executive branch is not a simple misunderstanding. The peasants have cared for and forested the offshore island to the extent that it has caught the world’s attention as being the most pristine island in the Caribbean. By contrast, Haiti’s governments have made no […]
