I'm just back from Port-au-Prince, where, as always, I met people with extraordinary courage. Here is my up-to-date report in The Nation, in which I present one of them -- Pierre France, a 35-year-old electrician who, along with his friends, risked their own lives to prevent the cholera epidemic from invading their tent encampment.
I conclude that nearly a year after the killer earthquake, "a delayed and sometimes bumbling international and Haitian government response contrasts sharply with decisive, effective action by many Haitians, both here and in the 1-million-strong diaspora."
Does the US plan on installing another puppet dictator who will oppress the people of Haiti, or will the US stand aside and let “the natives” decide for themselves how they want their country to be run?
RE: “I’m just back from Port-au-Prince” – North
MY COMMENT: Did you check on baby Israel? How is he doing?
BABY ISRAEL – link to monstersandcritics.com
Hard-working hospital workers in Brooklyn and Miami and taxi drivers in Montreal are rebuilding their homeland in several-hundred-dollar increments.
it seems insurmountable. kudos for you going there james, admirable. i’d like to go. not sure how much i could help out. i recall your other post, about people building their homes in incremental steps. one bag of cement at a time.
Palestinians and Haitians have much in common. Both have been in a long continuous struggle for their freedom and independence (Haitians for more than 200 years, Palestinians for 62 years), both have puppet governments in which the U.S. pulls the strings (along with Israel when it comes to the Palestinian government), both have a predominately young populace, who. from their formative years, follow in the footsteps of generations of freedom fighters. And it is the youth who keep both struggles alive, their modus operandi being the slave revolt in which everyone’s a leader, the better to make it impossible for the oppressor to to “cut off the head of the snake”. In addition, having no vested interest in the system that oppresses them, these young freedom fighters cannot be bought or fooled by tricksters posing as patriots. As for patience, while always a virtue, it becomes a necessity in such long term struggles, being that hope, then, has to be viewed with suspicion; otherwise, too many false starts, with wasted energy, spirit and even lives.
Mr. North, it is good to see that the people of Haiti are sticking together, this is very good report. Lets see who is helping to “fix” the elections in Haiti –
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION “FIXING” HAITI’S ELECTION
And lest you think this is a relatively new phenomena –
HAITI: WHY THE BLOOD IS ON OUR HANDS
Just by way of clarification.
Gee, what would Obama’s daddy say about his son’s activity here? And would sonny commence babbling about omelettes?