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Democracy Now! in Port-Au-Prince: Patrick Elie on Haiti Six Months After the Earthquake

Haiti remains a nation in ruins, six months after one of the world's worst natural disasters killed more than 300,000 people. Thousands of bodies still lay under rubble. We begin today's show in Port-Au-Prince outside what remains of the Montana Hotel where some 200 people died in the earthquake. We speak to Patrick Elie, a longtime Haitian democracy activist and Haiti's former Secretary of State for Public Security."We are a people who can fend for ourselves," Elie said. "We have a vision of where we want to go so we do need friends but we don't need people to think for us or to pity us and that is probably this attitude that is playing a part in the aid not being forthcoming." Ref. Source 6

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r-pe in the Camps: Lacking Security, Women Organize to Protect Themselves

Something that gets lost in all the coverage of the Haiti earthquake is how people on the ground organize in the face of adversity. R-pe and violence against women has become increasingly widespread in the tent camps across Haiti. While Haitian police and UN forces have done little, women on the ground are organizing to protect themselves. We spoke with Malia Villard Appolon, coordinator of KOFAVIV, the committee of women for survival. Ref. Source 3

Haiti Caribbean / Tobago & Trinidad

Maybe if the United Nations with the help of specialists experts from all over the world, can determine, and remove the powerful yet greedy people who particularly oppress the country and then install an intelligent government that would create an intelligent constitution etc, educate the citizens, build the country's infrastructure, encourage and maintain foreign investment and industry. For example, the Caribbean region needs a metal, plastic, paper, and a general consumer-products rubbish recycling plant. Haiti could be the place to recycle all Caribbean consumer product waste and to create bio-degradable products as well.

I don't know what are their natural resources but they do have manpower. And there is nothing like having to recycle the rubbish of consumerism to create work for years to come.
They have enough people to make a great workforce once the country is properly managed by an intelligent government. I don't know much about the fine details of the politics of Haiti but all I know is that if I were their leader, the recycling industry is one of the first industries that I would establish there.

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Comments: Haiti is the African nation in the Western hemisphere. There is a lot of familiarity between what most African nations struggle with and what Haiti does. Right next to them is Santo Domingo, they have their share of problems but they're not so bad off you have to wonder why.

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Haiti: Six Months On
Video Report By Al Jazeera

One-and-a-half million people remain displaced, many living under tents and tarps. Rubble removal is slow, and rebuilding has yet to begin. The chasm between Haiti's poor majority and the foreign organisations that say they are here to help seems as wide as ever. Ref. Source 9

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I think it is because there is not longterm plan. no one seems to know what to do and who to lead. Haiti needs a joint government comprising of locals and foreigners who are vetted, trained, and monitored by the United Nations and other world authorities.

Haiti cannot rule itself. They need an intelligent, non-violent revolution politically, socially, individually. But they themselves have to want it first and be willing to work at it and maintain it until they can be taken off their "training wheels" and manage their affairs intelligently.

I believe they first need to have a reason to hope. Hope is a powerful tool in the midst of strife. once there is a glimmer, there is a reason to persevere. A reason to just try one more time.

we have to give them hope: they need missionaries of various fields: medical, education, psychology, vocational skills, anger management, life skills, political intervention, economic reform, innovative foreign investment of various types from innovative countries. the workforce is there but they need to be trained in something to run industries for foreign companies to produce cheaper goods and services.

We can make Haiti an additional venue for innovative industry, pro-environmental products industries, etc. Create a new progressive social order. Implement innovative agriculture for hostile soil. decades ago, the UN introduced a type of grain that can grow in the most hostile soils in Africa. This was done to alleviate famine but the corrupt officials at the time black marketed the product and the people didn't benefit from it, only the rich. But it can be tried again in Haiti but under close supervision by UN observers and the foreign military stationed there.

I am just throwing out some ideas...

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Haitian Farmers Reject Monsanto Earthquake Relief Donation and Burn GMO Seeds:

In an attempt to backdoor GMO seeds into a new market, Monsanto has taken the opportunity to donate hundreds of tons of GMO seeds to Haiti and is calling it an effort to help the people in Haiti with earthquake relief. However, Monsanto's "generosity" is being met with skepticism and outright rejection. Ref. Source 9

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Wyclef Jean for president of Haiti

Wyclef Jean intends to run for president of Haiti, says a source close to the Haitian-American recording artist. Ref. CNN