I suggest checking out two ZNet nightly commentaries. Ten Things the US [and, for the most part, Canada] Can and Should Do for Haiti, which I received Thursday, and Too Little Too Late for Haiti? Six Sobering Points which I got sometime last night.
What in the hell are we waiting for?
The first segment of today’s Democracy Now broadcast, concerning Haiti and the aftermath — and, more importantly, the contributing factors to the devastation — of yesterday’s catastrophic earthquake, is desperately needing your attention.
Everyone needs to get the news about Haiti you won’t get wasting everyone’s time, watching Crappy News Network’s talk their shit about what Haiti is like now. Haiti doesn’t need your pity. They need your help!
Today Chris said it best;
“There’s no good place for a 7.0 magnitude earthquake to hit, but Haiti, the Western Hemisphere’s poorest (and most interfered with) nation, is definitely one of the worst.
According to the Canada-Haiti Action Network, the “illegal coup of 2004 (supported by the Canadian, French and US governments) has had an extremely negative impact on Haiti’s social fabric—breakdown in government services, including education and health care; increased poverty; decline of agricultural production…â€
…so the last thing the people of Port-Au-Prince needed on top of this continuing foreign domination of their country was a 7.0 magnitude earthquake to add to their misery.
In immediate terms, we obviously encourage people who want to help, to contact a trusted, pro-democracy aid organization directly. We recommend Partners in Health. PIH are a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care, specifically in Haiti. ((from Propagandhi’s post, … To Benefit Partners In Health))”
Please consider giving what you can to someone, not just anyone (please see, nearing the end of the aforementioned DN segment, for what they say regarding aid), in the position to lend a much needed hand. Thank you…
I trust people who don’t realize the costs of having their turkey dinners this weekend, will be willing to learn. Might I suggest starting here?
I realize this is a lot late, and now that John McCain’s campaign has shifted to something else he hasn’t a leg to stand on, but yesterday a buddy pointed me to an article posted on RollingStone.com. It was about the McCain campaign while on the road during the primary season. I couldn’t read it all. Frankly I found it quite uninteresting.
However towards the beginning of the piece, they dedicated a fair chunk of it to his time as a POW. I don’t know about you, but I’m a lot bored with people telling, and him allowing them to tell, those “tales.” I always have been. In fact I find the whole “hero” label and him being labeled one fairly problematic.
Everybody faces challenges every day. Some not as dire. Yet some worse. Not everyone lives to be recognized for their struggles. Or hopes to benefit from them quite as much as him being elected President might prove. I, for one, was a little more impressed with him when he “didn’t like to talk about it.” Even knowing full well that his reluctance to discuss his time in Vietnam was just a “warm-up” for things that followed. Call me a cynic, but we all should have known… Continue reading Irresponsibility