By Jemima Pierre

Another earthquake in Haiti provides another opportunity for the NGO community, the Haitian oligarchy, and foreign imperialists to consolidate their profits and power.During a visit to Haiti in early April, 2010, I traveled with a friend to the Club Indigo Hotel. Club Indigo was located 45 minutes north of Port-au-Prince near the ( Read more... )

• Kashmiris still basically locked down (collective punishment)
• 50,000 Palestinian children locked up since 1967, many of them tried in military courts (and illegally of course)
• Labor seems to have forgotten... haha, sorry, "seems to have". Qld Labor fucking protesters, unions, blowing corporations
• Palmer basically openly bribed for permission for his ( Read more... )

Multitudinous mobilizations were held across Haiti on Dessalines Day to continue demanding the resignation of President Jovenel MoïseOn October 17, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across Haiti in commemoration of the national revolutionary and liberator Jean-Jacques Dessalines and to demand the resignation of US-backed president ( Read more... )

I know that Haiti is one of many countries to which I don't pay a lot of attention but, like Egypt, there's actually quite major events actually going on in the country. Haiti has always been one of the more revolutionary-minded and, therefore(?) colonially screwed countries around. Their history of overthrowing dictators only for the USA to come ( Read more... )