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- Alternative Resources on Haiti
- Resources listed on this page do not necessarily reflect the views
of IRTF, SRRT, or ALA.
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- Contents
- Alternative News, Analysis, and Commentary
- Special Reports and Publications
- Organizations
- Reference and Background
- Resolutions, Petitions, and Other Activities
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- Alternative News, Analysis,
and Commentary
- Amnesty International:
Crisis in Haiti "Amnesty International is extremely concerned
by the ongoing human rights abuses between rebel forces, armed pro-Aristide
militias and Haitian National Police since the beginning of the armed insurrection
on 5 February."
- The Black Commentator "Commentary,
analysis and investigations on issues affecting African Americans."
- Council on Hemispheric Relations
"Monitoring Political, Economic, and Diplomatic Issues Facing the
Western Hemisphere."
- Counterpunch "CounterPunch
is the bi-weekly muckraking newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and
Jeffrey St. Clair."
- Democracy
Now!: Haiti Under Seige "Democracy Now! is a national, daily,
independent, award-winning news program airing on over 140 stations in
North America" Website includes transcripts as well as audio recordings.
- Haitian Times "The
Haitian Times aims to provide its readers with the best coverage of
Haiti and Haitian-American communities through the highest standards."
- Haiti Star "Latest news
from WN Network"
- Haiti Progres "The
journal which offers an alternative." In Creole, French, and English.
- Human Rights Watch:
Americas: Haiti "Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting
the human rights of people around the world."
- Independent Media
Center "Indymedia is a collective of independent and alternative
media activists and organizations offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage
of important social and political issues."
- NACLA (North American
Congress on Latin America): In the News: Haiti "NACLA provides
policy makers, analysts, academics, organizers, journalists and religious
and community groups with information on major trends in Latin America
and its relations with the United States."
- The Nation The Nation
"will. . . , make an earnest effort to bring to the discussion of
political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war
upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which
so much of the political writing of the day is marred." (On Haiti,
see especially articles by Amy Wilentz.)
- Pacifica Radio ". . . the
only radio network in the United States to function unconstrained by corporate
underwriting and policy decisions."
- Resource
Center of the Americas.org: News and Commentary: Haiti "The Resource
Center of the Americas informs, educates and organizes to promote human
rights, democratic participation, economic justice and cross-cultural understanding
in the context of globalization in the Americas." See also Spotlight on
Haiti for "a selection of background and analysis articles on
the current situation in Haiti:"
- United Haitians Home Page Includes
links to news articles, Haitian government websites, and other "Haiti-oriented"
websites.
- World Press Review
Online: The Americas " World Press Review is the journal
of record for an influential global audience, providing an unprecedented
platform for ideas and opinions on topics of significant international
concern."
- Z Magazine/Z Net,
Haiti Watch "The US has done it again in Haiti, with another violent
regime change against a popularly elected leader, this time with plenty
of help from France and Canada. ZNet has tried to collect some materials
on it here."
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- Special Reports and Publications
- Haiti: A Slave Revolution:
200 Years After 1804, edited by Pat Chin, Greg Dunkel, Sara Flounders,
Kim Ives. "The Haitian Revolution is a singular event in history.
Never before or since has an enslaved people risen up, broken their chains,
and established a new state." Read chapters online, or order copies
of this book.
- Hidden from the
Headlines: The U.S. War Against Haiti "New Pamphlet Explodes Haiti
Myths" Read pamphlet online or order copies of pamplet from the Haiti
Action Committee.
- Investigating
the Human Effects of Withheld Humanitarian Aid, Report of the Haiti
Reborn/Quixote Center Delegation, January 11-19, 2003 "This report
details the observations and findings of a twenty-one member delegation
that visited Haiti in January [2003]."
- "Option
Zero in Haiti," Peter Hallward, New Left Review 27, May-June
2004"A very multilateral coup. Franco-American harmony and unanimous
blessings from the Security Council for the overthrow of a constitutional
government and crushing of popular hope, in the Western hemisphere’s
poorest nation-state."
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- Organizations
- A Directory
of Organizations Working In and For Haiti Prepared by the staff of
Haiti Reborn, a program of the Quixote Center.
- Dwa Fanm "Committed to the
Rights of Haitian Women and Girls"
- Haiti Action "The
Haiti Action Committee is a Bay Area-based network of activists who have
supported the Haitian struggle for democracy since 1991. Members foster
extensive contacts with the grassroots movements in Haiti. We also wish
to link journalists who want to hear an alternative viewpoint with sources
both in Haiti and in the United States."
- Haiti Reborn "Haiti Reborn
a project of the Quixote Center, works in the United States on behalf of
the Haitian people to build an active grassroots solidarity movement and
to advocate for a more just U.S. foreign policy." Site includes news,
anlalysis, and what you can do to help.
- Haiti Support Network
"The Haiti Support Network is a coalition of Haitian and North American
groups and individuals in the New York City area which raises political
and material support for democratic and popular forces in Haiti. . . .
We oppose any form of collaboration with the US/UN military occupation
of Haiti, including participation in the Haitian government or any elections
while Haiti is militarily occupied."
- International A.N.S.W.E.R.
(Act Now to Stop War & End Racism) Site includes news coverage of events
in Haiti, press statements, and plans for upcoming demonstrations.
- PeaceWomen:
Women, Peace andSecurity Initiatives: Haiti "PeaceWomen.org is
a project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
United Nations Office, in New York City. The PeaceWomen Project monitors
and works toward rapid and full implementation of United Nations Security
Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security."
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Reference and Background
Resolutions, Petitions, and
Other Activities
- Haiti Emergency
Relief Fund ". . . which supports organizations giving humanitarian
aid to the people of Haiti"
- Organizational
Petition on Haiti "As organizations and institutions working for
global justice . . . . [w]e ask you to sign the petition asking for immediate
and unconditional re-instatement of President Aristide of Haiti. We are
also demanding an investigation into the role of the Bush Administration
in its violation of international laws."
- SRRT
Resolution on Haiti (1993)
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