FEMA Turned Away Aid, Rescue Crews, Cut Emergency Communication Lines: Witnesses
Agency draws ire of frustrated volunteers and donorsIn the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, several witnesses have alleged that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) turned away volunteers who...
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Displaced Louisianans settle in Houston's Astrodome. photo: Houston Indymedia [video] Jesse Jackson and Bruce Gordon are just two of many high-profile Black leaders who have expressed indignation at...
View ArticleReconstructing Disaster
Profiteers and Pink Slips Ravage the Gulf Coast George Bush and Joe Allbaugh in 2001. Formerly Bush's campaign manager and FEMA head, Allbaugh now works as a lobbyist. photo: FEMA Three months have...
View ArticleDecember in Review
Halted deportations, Lakota secession, and social tension in Latin America In Vancouver, 1500 demonstrators effectively paralysed the Vancouver International Airport and halted the planned deportation...
View ArticleSecurely Prosperous
New Orleans.jpgOpening up before us is New Orleans as we finish our last leg of the trip in Louisiana. Stories of ghosts fill our entry as they fill our first day in this town. Coming here for the...
View ArticleFree Trading USA
New Orleans.jpgIntermingled amongst brand new hotels and entertainment swag are the ghosts of New Orleans. Abandoned buildings with boarded up windows are on every side street off Canal. Hidden only by...
View ArticleNew Orleans: America's Palestine
Right of Return.jpgOnce the catastrophe hit it was a long time before people started to understand what was really going on. By then, the world had abandoned the already marginalized communities,...
View ArticleAn Artful Recovery
Artists respond to post-Katrina New Orleans On Friday, August 26, 2005, visual artist Elizabeth Underwood made the decision to evacuate New Orleans when she learned that Hurricane Katrina had...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Churches - One in Haiti, the other in New Orleans
P8300006.JPGwadnermercedespictures 056.jpgWadner Pierre Fr.Jean-Juste, Haiti , 6janv, 2008 138.JPG.jpegBy Wadner Pierre-www.haitianalysis.comIn 2006 two struggles were going on in two different...
View ArticleHaiti: Upcoming Elections to be a Set Back to Haiti's Democratic Development
Maxine01.jpgBy Wadner Pierre©Photo Randal WhiteThe U.S. Representative, Californian Congresswoman, a long-time supporter of democracy in Haiti Maxine Waters, qualified the Haiti's upcoming election to...
View ArticleHaiti: A 7.0 Earthquake Hit the Western Part of Haiti.
3055_1125866300284_1035946819_30369754_7560759_n.jpg“People cry, and many lives have gone, but Haiti can rebuild.” by Wadner PierreEarly this morning, I spoke to some of my friends in Haiti and had a...
View ArticleIn Memory of Father Gerard Jean-Juste
Wadner Pierre.jpgBy Wadner PierreOne year ago, Father Gerard Jean-Juste, who was like an adoptive father to me for many years, passed away after a courageous fight with leukemia. I'm happy anytime I...
View ArticleHaiti Post-Earthquake: Discrimination and Prejudice
Wadnerpierre.JPGBy Wadner PierreThe January 12 remains and will remain the darkness day in the history Haitian people. Many reasons make this date important and unforgettable for Haitian people. Even...
View ArticleHaitian Culture Versus Non-governmental Organizations Culture
Wadner Pierre_2.JPGBy Wadner PierreHaiti, so called the poorest country in the American hemisphere, sometimes developing country, and even the capital of NGOs. It is amazing to see how Haitian people...
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