Posts Tagged ‘Haiti’

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The Nation Of Islam Delivers Purified Water To Haiti

by Madam Toussaint on August 19th, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: GREEN, GIVING IS GREEN

Photo: MHAVE Minister Edwin Paraison, Ezili Danto The Nation of Islam has partnered with an organization called the Ezili Danto’s Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network and the Haitian army to donate a 3o,000 gallon-per-day water purification system to aid in Haiti’s recent cholera outbreak. According to Defend Haiti the first of 2 purification units were Be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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VIDEO: Arcade Fire Raises Relief Funds For Haiti, Launches Haiti Blog

by Madam Toussaint on April 20th, 2011 at 3:30 pm
Posted In: GREEN, GIVING IS GREEN

Photo Credit: Leah Gordon Album Of The Year Grammy Award winners Arcade Fire are raising money for Haiti throughout their 2010 and 2011 tours. While in Haiti frontman Will Butler has been blogging about his experiences there on tumblr at Be Sociable, Share! Tweet

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VIDEO: Haiti Stands With Japan

by Madam Toussaint on March 21st, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: GREEN, PEOPLE

I’ve heard comments about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan recently and it seems, unfortunately, every disaster of this kind will make some compare whatever recent tragedy to the devastating earthquake in Haiti. What’s missing from the analysis are always those being discussed, how they feel and how they relate to others in need. Hopefully […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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VIDEO: The Black Power Mixtape 1967 – 1975 Trailer

by Madam Toussaint on January 26th, 2011 at 12:02 pm
Posted In: FRESH, ART

No, it’s not a mixtape and no it’s not free. Goran Hugo Olsson’s The Black Power Mixtape 1967 – 1975 is a film directed by Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson, and co-produced by Danny Glover and his Louverture Films. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet

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The 1 Year Anniversary Of The Earthquake In Haiti

by Madam Toussaint on January 11th, 2011 at 9:06 pm
Posted In: GREEN, PEOPLE

Photo Credit: UN Photo/Logan Abassi United Nations Development Programme (originally posted to Flickr as Haiti Earthquake) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons I’m sorry. I just don’t have it in me to write about this. Here’s some in depth coverage from Democracy Now! Be Sociable, Share! Tweet

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Text Messages Against Cholera

by Madam Toussaint on October 28th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Posted In: GREEN, HEALTH

The Artibonite district in Haiti is where cholera epidemic first struck. In order the prevent the disease from spreading the Red Cross is using mobile technology to track and blast more than 70,000 people migrating from Artibonite to other parts of the country in the next week. Today, for instance, 30,000 cell phone users in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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France Urged To Repay Haiti’s 200 Year Old Debt

by Madam Toussaint on August 16th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
Posted In: GREEN, PEOPLE

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.- Frederick Douglass In a letter, Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, members of Parliament in Europe, Canada and the Philippines, scholars, journalists and activists from the international communtiy and Haiti urged French president Nicholas Sarkoy (above) to give reparations money back to Haiti. Post […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Could Wyclef Become The First Rapper Turned President?

by Madam Toussaint on August 3rd, 2010 at 12:40 pm
Posted In: GREEN, PEOPLE

His uncle, Raymond Alcide Joseph, has been the Haitian ambassador to the United States since 2005 and helped Wyclef’s drive to raise money and relief aid for victims of the massive earthquake.” ~allhiphop.com [1] Sources close to Haitian musician Wyclef Jean confirm that the 37 year old will announce his plans to run for president […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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(VIDEO) Haiti: 6 Months of Tent Cities, Lack of Recovery & “Charity”

by Madam Toussaint on July 15th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Posted In: GREEN, PEOPLE

Haiti is struggling to recover six months after the earthquake—one of the worst natural disasters in history. Up to 300,000 were killed, and more than 1.5 million were made homeless. Here’s some video of the coverage Democracy Now! did. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet

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The 6 Month Anniversary of Haiti’s Earthquake

by Madam Toussaint on July 12th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Posted In: GREEN, PEOPLE

While I was there I saw both devastation and rebuilding efforts. I also broke bread with people who had lost their entire family. Literally, everyone but them was deceased. Then there were those whose grief centered around losing a mother, father, brother, sister, son, or daughter as a direct result of what happened. It should […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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