Haiti Chery

Workers and Students Beat University-Funded Hotel-Flipping Firm

Dady Chery — Sun, 27 May 2012 05:00:48 +0000

By David Moberg, In These Times. Overcoming the classic town-gown social divide, students at various ivy-league universities have formed labor-action movements to win major victories for hotel workers in their fight against appalling working conditions at a set of university-financed hotels.

Butterflies Are Back!

Dady Chery — Sat, 26 May 2012 01:00:18 +0000

By Michael McCarthy, The Independent. My feelings for butterflies are intense, and I have been trying to work out why. It's partly a delight in color and the way evolution has allowed butterfly wings to be broad canvases on which so much color is boldly painted, often in dazzling combinations.

Taking It to the Streets: Justice for Alan Blueford! Release Chris Moreland! (UPDATED)

Dady Chery — Fri, 25 May 2012 01:00:31 +0000

By Davey D, Davey D's Hip Hop Corner Blog | twitter: @alyssa011968 | Editorial comment by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. At a recent townhall meeting in Oakland about the shooting of 18-year old Alan Blueford, attendees turned their backs on what they perceived as being lies from the police chief. A bullhorn called "Justice!" and got the response "For Alan Blueford" Chris Moreland, the man who cried "Justice!" into the bullhorn, is himself now in jail on trumped up charges.

The Rush to Haiti’s North

Dady Chery — Thu, 24 May 2012 01:00:26 +0000

By Roberson Alphonse, Le Nouvelliste. According to Dieuseul Anglade, director of the Office of Mines and Energy in Haiti (Bureau des Mines et de l'Energie, BME), the outlook is encouraging, and during the negotiations for exploitation, the Haitian state will keep close watch to ensure that the citizens of Haiti benefit from the country's mineral wealth. Meanwhile, the region's mayors have been dismissed, depriving the citizens of a voice in their local government, and land prices have skyrocketed. (English | French)

No More Water: The Fire Next Time

Dady Chery — Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:44 +0000

Interview of Angus Wright with Robert Jensen, Common Dreams | By Chris Edgar and Burl Carraway, Texas Forest Service. Half a billion trees scattered across Texas USA have died from the unrelenting 2011 drought. Angus Wright comments: "I don’t know if there is a way out, but we have to try. My own expectations are pessimistic because I don’t see enough people having sufficient awareness, understanding, and determination to bring about the major changes we need."

Charlemagne Peralte: Haitian Hero, ‘Supreme Bandit’ of First US Occupation – Part III

Dady Chery — Tue, 22 May 2012 01:00:01 +0000

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. “These Southerners have found Haiti to be the veritable promised land of ‘jobs for deserving democrats’…. In Port-au-Prince many of them live in fine villas. Many of them who could not keep a hired girl in the United States have a half-dozen servants. All of the civilian heads of departments have automobiles furnished at the expense of the Haitian Government… It is interesting to see with what disdain, as they ride around, they look down upon the people who pay for the cars.” - James Weldom Johnson

Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans Discard Service Medals at No-NATO Protest

Dady Chery — Mon, 21 May 2012 01:00:38 +0000

By Mary Wisniewski, Reuters | Jon Michael Turner, Veterans Today, Democracy Now, YouTube | Aaron Hughes, Democracy Now! Nearly 50 U.S. military veterans at an anti-NATO rally in Chicago threw their service medals into the street on Sunday May 20 in rejection of the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Occupations don’t build democracies, don’t extend individuals’ freedoms. The movements—the Arab uprising, the Arab Spring—that was building democracy. The movements of Gandhi, the movements of the civil rights movements here in the United States, people’s movements, that extends democracy, not military force." - Aaron Hughes.

Nurses Lead Protest Against NATO, For Financial Transactions Tax

Dady Chery — Sun, 20 May 2012 23:30:30 +0000

By David Moberg, In These Times | Haiti Chery. Nurses around the world are calling for a tax on financial sector speculation, which caused the ongoing crisis, so the proceeds may be used to reduce inequality, provide for health and other public needs, and create a healthy economy with full employment. At a Friday May 18 rally in Chicago kicking off the no-NATO protests, the nurses wore Robin Hood attire -- red shirts and green caps -- to demand the Financial Transaction Tax, also called the "Robin Hood Tax."

Latin-American Environmental Innovations for Clean Water, Fuel and Gold

Dady Chery — Sat, 19 May 2012 19:00:12 +0000

sustBy Staff, with reporting by Milagros Salazar (Lima), Emilio Godoy (Mexico City) and Alice Marcondes (São Paulo), Tierramerica. Environmental innovation projects to obtain clean gold, fuel, and water demonstrate the capacity of Latin American researchers to develop solid virtuous circles.

Charlemagne Peralte: Haitian Hero, ‘Supreme Bandit’ of First US Occupation – Part II

Dady Chery — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:00:43 +0000

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Charlemagne Peralte organized the Cacos after escaping his enslavement by the U.S. occupation. The revolutionary Cacos soon grew to thousands of guerillas, including many Dominicans won over by Peralte to the anti-imperialist cause, and a provisional Caco government was declared in northern Haiti.

Charlemagne Peralte: Haitian Hero, ‘Supreme Bandit’ of First US Occupation – Part I

Dady Chery — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:30:56 +0000

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. After more than a century sailing along as an independent black nation, Haiti collided with the Monroe Doctrine in the person of U.S. kingmaker Roger L. Farnham in 1915. He soon met his match in Haitian hero Charlemagne Peralte.

Rights Groups: Stop Deportations of Haitians from U.S.

Dady Chery — Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:01 +0000

Interview of Drew Aiken, Defend Haiti | stophaitideportations.org | Press TV, YouTube. The U.S. has resumed the deportation of about 50 Haitians per month to Haiti since January 2011. Some of the deportees get detained in Haiti, including 34 year-old Wildrick Guerrier who died in prison of cholera. Many deportees have medical conditions for which they cannot get care or have U.S.-citizen children in the States whom they cannot support. Human Rights groups are calling for a consideration of humanitarian factors and a stop to the deportations.