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Haiti Cholera toll Passes 1,000 as

Unrest Fears Grow

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PORT-AU-PRINCE– Haiti's cholera death toll passed 1,000 on Tuesday as mounting anger at the health crisis saw tensions spike with UN peacekeepers accused by some of being the source of the outbreak.

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The recent election of Ms. Rodneyse Bichotte is somewhat the real thing that will enable a Haitian-American person to be at the table in the real deci-sion making /voting sense on the grassroots level in the state of New York Political machine, national and city politics as the Female State Committee Woman in the 42nd Assembly District in Brooklyn.

A New Rising Star in Brooklyn’s Political

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Part 2 of a two part series where Haiti Grassroots Watch takes a look at cash-for-work programs and answers the following questions. Haiti Grassroots Watch journal-ists – in Port-au-Prince and at five com-munity radio stations across the country – interviewed CFW staff, economists and aid workers, and studied documents from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and agencies implementing cash-for-work (CFW) and food-for-work (FFW) programs.

While most workers were happy to have a CFW job, journalists found examples of corruption and mismanagement in the programs. A work crew was managed by a motor cycle taxi-driver who was the cousin of the “peasant leader” and it had at least one under-age worker (Perèy); IN at least two places, workers reported having to pay a “finder’s fee” – 500 gourdes and 1,500 gourdes, respectively – in exchange for get-ting a job. (Perèy and Carrefour-Feuilles). Other problems were found such as work crews frequently had fewer workers than they were supposed to, were often seen not working and frequently knocked off work early in Port-au-Prince and other places; an incumbent candidate from the ruling Initè

political party controlled the hiring of CFW workers for many crews in Léogane.

Haiti Grassroots Watch’s other findings – related to the effects of CFW – are more con-cerning than these examples of corruption.

Undermining the concept of “work”CFW programs are infamously under and

even un-productive. One foreign CFW coor-

dinator called them “Cash for Standing Around and Doing Nothing.” This phenom-ena is not unique to Haiti. In the US, even though the Conservation Corps or Work Projects Administration produced lasting structures and employed hundreds of writers and artists, the WPA also had nicknames like “We Piddle Around” and “Whistle, Piss and Argue gang” because its road crews were

not always productive. Haitian economists and even some CFW impelenters are wor-ried about the long term effects of CFW programs.

“I worry that we’re creating maybe a bad work ethic because I think that you see a lot of cash for work teams all over the city and the country and if you watch, those work teams aren’t necessarily working,” Deb Ingersoll, CFW Coordinator for Ameri-can Refugee Committee said. “I worry that we’re providing… a visual association of working with not necessarily working hard.”

“They know that they are earning money doing something that is not really work-ing. They are very aware of this. You see it clearly when you see people working on the rubble piles. They pick up one block or rock at a time… it creates a kind of deformation in peoples heads about what work should be,” Camille Chalmers said.

Undermining government legitimacy and allowing foreign NGOs and agencies to take the government’s place

Already in it’s six-month report on relief efforts, last July the UN’s Inter-Agency Standing Committee noted that CFW pro-grams, whose workers often wear tee-shirts

Is Cash-For-Work Working?

A woman cover her face from the smoke of burning tires set up by demonstrators Nov.15. See story on page 3

see WORK on page 12

SPORTS

PORT-AU-PRINCE - As Hai-ti's cholera toll neared 1,000, candidates insisted the health crisis should not derail loom-ing presidential polls with the rebuilding of the quake-hit nation at stake.

Haiti Polls must Go ahead Despite

Cholera

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“They know that they are earning money doing

something that is not really working. They are very

aware of this. ”

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Art & CultureCarimi Played for

Burkinabe President

DOHA (AFP) – Argentina coach Sergio Batista says he is relishing the chance to put one over regional rivals Brazil when he makes his official bow as the man at the helm after being confirmed in his job as Diego Maradona’s successor early November.

Wednesday’s match here is the perfect opportunity for Batista to show his cre-dentials after he won two friendly matches as interim coach - against Ireland and at home to world champions Spain before a surprise loss in Japan.

And he says there is no need to be afraid of Brazil, despite the undeniable pedigree of the five-times world champions.

“If I were afraid of Brazil I’d have stayed at home,” Batista told reporters Tuesday.“I hold them in respect but I do not fear them. They are our traditional rivals and we respect each other.”

Win, lose or draw Batista say he does not expect the result to change much as he seeks to shape a new side in the run-up to a

Copa America in July on home soil.“I don’t think the result will affect my

career much. I was confirmed in my post two weeks ago and our target is the 2014 World Cup in Brazil,” where an Argentina triumph really would send his reputation skyrocketing.

Batista says that target - the Copa aside - is one reason he is thinking at least medium term “but we still want to put one over our great rivals” in Doha.

“But this (his job) is a process which is just beginning and the result is not the priority.”

Argentina have not beaten the auriverde in five years and have lost four of their past five meetings but Batista says Wednesday is a chance to stop the rot.

“What has happened has happened. Like the whole of Argentina I don’t like to lose to Brazil - people want us to beat Brazil.

“I hope we get a good result but the main thing is to concentrate on the future,” he insisted.

Argentina’s Batista Relishing Brazil Test

Argentina coach Sergio Batista

WARSAW (AFP) – The mascots for the Euro 2012 football championships to be co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine were officially unveiled Tuesday at a Warsaw ceremony attended by senior UEFA offi-cials and the two national football federa-tions.

Like Euro-2008 co-hosted by Austria and Switzerland which had their twins Trix and Flix, the 2012 mascot also features footballing brothers, each wearing a jersey in their national colours, white and red for Poland, blue and yellow for Ukraine.

As in the 2008 championship, the names

of the mascot brothers will be decided in a vote open to the public on UEFA’s official website www.uefa.com. The result will be announced December 4.

Inspired by Polish and Ukrainian sur-names, voters will be able to choose between Slavek and Slavko or Siemko and Strimko or Klemek and Ladko.

Warner Bros. designed the mascots, for the fourth consecutive championships.

Four stadiums in Poland - in Warsaw, Wroclaw, Poznan and Gdansk - and four in Ukraine, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv and Lviv will play host to Euro-2012.

Euro 2012 Mascots Unveiled in Poland

November 17-23, 2010The haiTian Times2

OuestPort-au-Prince

Plusieurs milliers de personnes ont par-ticipé hier à un grand mouvement de protestation contre les casques bleus de la Minustah. On ignore ce qui a déclenché ce vaste mouvement. Toutefois certains manifestants ont accusé les casques bleus d'avoir déversé un liquide blanchâtre dans une rivière de la région. En colère la foule a attaqué deux baraquements des casques bleus chiliens et népalais. Aux jets de pierre les soldats étrangers ont riposté avec des tirs d'armes automa-tiques. L'intervention des policiers de l'Unité partementale de Maintien de l'Ordre (Udmo) allait provoquer une dété-rioration de la situation. Les policiers haïtiens auraient fait feu en direction des manifestants faisant au moins 4 bles-sés. En représailles les manifestants ont

incendié les sous commissariat de Bar-rière Bouteille et Pont Neuf. D'autres heurts entre casques bleus népalais et manifestants ont causé d'autres blessures par balles. La mobilisation anti Minustah s'est poursuivie jusque dans l'après midi. Les manifestants réclamant le départ des casques bleus et sollicitant l'aide de l'ex commissaire de Police Guy Philippe pour déloger les soldats étrangers. Dans les quartiers populeux les manifestants ont provoqué un climat de tension. Des pierres et tessons de bouteilles ont été lancés durant la journée. Aucun bilan offi-ciel sur le nombre de blessés n'a été four-ni par les autorités locales. Les medias capois font état de plus d'une dizaine de blessés. Au moins une personne aurait été blessés lors d'affrontements entre casques bleus et manifestants dans la région de Carenage. Le délégué départemental Ard-ouin Zephirin avait lancé un appel au calme à la population.

****La Mission des Nations Unies pour

la Stabilisation en Haïti (MINUSTAH) déplore les actes de violence contre les forces de l'ordre haïtienne et onusienne survenus au cours des manifestations vio-lentes au Cap-Haitien et à Hinche pendant

la journée. La façon dont les événements se sont déroulés porte à croire que ces incidents ont une motivation politique, visant à créer un climat d'insécurité à la veille des élections. La MINUSTAH appelle la population à rester vigilante et à ne pas se laisser manipuler par des ennemies de la stabilité et de la démocra-tie dans pays. Dans un communiqué l� Organisation declare que ces violences ont occasionné plusieurs blessés dont six membres du personnel de la Mission au niveau de Hinche. A Quartier Morin, dans le département du Nord, des manifestants armés ont tiré sur des casques bleus. Un de ces manifestants a perdu la vie lorsqu'il a été atteint d'une balle provenant d'un casque bleu qui a riposté en légitime défense. Une enquête a été ouverte pour déterminer avec précision les circon-stances de ce décès. La MINUSTAH réitère son ferme engagement à appuyer la Police Nationale d'Haïti dans le main-tien de l'ordre et de la sécurité du pays afin d'assurer la poursuite du processus électoral et de reconstruction en Haïti. conclut le communiqué.

****L'épidémie de choléra qui a déjà fait

plus d'un millier de morts a fait son appa-

rition dans les prisons haïtiennes où plu-sieurs détenus sont morts. Les autorités pénitentiaires ont indiqué que 5 détenus sont décédés des suites de choléra dans la prison civile de Hinche et plusieurs autres sont atteints de cette maladie. Alors qu'au Pénitencier National, le plus grand centre carcéral du pays, l'épidémie a déjà tué 6 prisonniers. Les responsables du ministère de la santé publique ont fait remarquer que plus d'une trentaine de décès sont par ailleurs recensés dans la capitale haï-tienne où la maladie semble gagner du terrain. On craint déjà une propagation de l'épidémie dans les camps en raison des mauvaises les conditions d'hygiènes qui y prévalent. Rappelons que selon une pro-jection de l'Organisation Mondiale de la santé, plus de 270 mille personnes pour-raient être touchées par cette épidémie durant les prochaines années.

****Les différents secteurs de la vie poli-

tique sont unanimes quant à la réalisation des élections, en dépit de l’expansion de l’épidémie de choléra et les manifes-tations dans certaines régions du pays en début de semaine.Les candidats con-

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

Par Edwidge DanticatPrinceton University Press, 2010.

L’oeuvre littéraire d’Edwidge Danti-cat, pour l’instant, est composée de trois romans, Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), The Farming of Bones (1998), Behind the Mountains (2002) ; deux recueils d’histoires courtes Krik ? Krak! (1996) et The Dew Breaker (2004); une autobi-ographie Brother, I’m Dying (2007); un livre d’anthologie littéraire The Butterfly’s Way (2001) et une collection d’essais Cre-ate Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (2010). Danticat a aussi publié After The Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti (2002), Behind the Moun-tains (2002) et publiera au début de l’année prochaine un deuxième livre d’anthologie littéraire Haïti Noir. L’une des choses qui me fascine le plus chez Danticat, c’est sa passion créatrice pour Haïti. Danticat est l’enfant chéri de l’establishment littéraire américain et elle le mérite immensément. Mais elle ne cesse jamais de mettre Haïti au centre de son inspiration littéraire. Danticat, c’est « Haïti jusqu’au bout ». Chacun de ses textes soulève un concert d’admiration non seulement de la part de la grande presse américaine, mais aussi et surtout chez les érudits des plus grandes universités américaines. Jamais un écrivain d’origine haïtienne n’a été autant célébré et récompensé par la critique américaine.

En 1995, son recueil de nouvelles Krik ? Krak ! a été finaliste pour le « National Book Award ». En 1996, le célèbre maga-zine littéraire britannique GRANTA lui a décerné le prix du « Best Young American Novelists » pour son premier grand texte littéraire Breath, Eyes, Memory ; en 1999, elle a reçu le « American Book Award » pour son roman The Farming of Bones » ; en 2005, le « Story Prize » lui a été attribué pour The Dew Breaker ; en 2007, son auto-biographie Brother, I’m Dying lui a valu le « National Book Critics Circle Award » ; l’année suivante, en 2008, le même livre reçut le « Dayton Literary Peace Prize » et en 2009, il lui a été décerné ce qui est peut-être la récompense suprême : le « MacAr-thur Fellows Program Genius Grant » d’une valeur d’un demi-million de dollars.

Malgré ces sacres, Edwidge Danticat n’a jamais eu la grosse tête et sa sim-plicité légendaire n’a pris aucune ride. « Create Dangerously : the immigrant art-ist at work » qui est son plus récent texte littéraire révèle un écrivain au sommet de son art, mature, toujours passionnée mais plus lucide que jamais. Ce livre n’est pas un roman, ce n’est pas non plus une collection d’histoires courtes, ni un texte autobiographique comme l’inoubliable Brother, I’m Dying. « Create Danger-ously » rassemble une série de conférences qu’elle a données à Princeton University en mars 2008 dans le cadre de la deuxième série de conférence annuelle Toni Moris-son, la somptueuse écrivaine, professeure et femme de lettres américaine, Prix Nobel de littérature en 1993. Le titre et le sous-titre du livre énoncent la problématique de ce texte. Écrire peut faire courir des dangers mortels à certains écrivains qui, dans leur société d’origine, font face aux pratiques répressives du régime dictatorial sous lequel ils vivent. Mais l’écrivain n’est

jamais seul dans cet acte de témoignage dont il ne peut se passer. Il/elle entraîne forcément avec lui / elle, le lecteur / la lectrice qui, tout aussi consciemment, tout aussi délibérément participe de cet acte de désobéissance sociale, d’atteinte à cette norme forcée, imposée par le pouvoir. Danticat écrit ceci: « Reading, like writing, under these conditions, is disobedience to a directive in which the reader, our Eve, already knows the possible consequences of eating that apple but takes a bold bite anyway. » (page10). (L’acte de lecture, comme l’acte d’écriture, dans ces condi-tions, représente une désobéissance à une directive où le lecteur/ la lectrice, notre Ève, connaît déjà les conséquences pos-sibles de l’acte de manger cette pomme mais y prend un petit morceau malgré tout. » (Ma traduction).

Le texte qui ouvre le livre et lui donne son ton s’intitule justement « Create Dangerously : The Immigrant Artist at Work » Il raconte une exécution publique à Port-au-Prince le 12 novembre 1964, celle de deux Haïtiens, Marcel Numa et Louis Drouin, qui avaient échoué dans leur tentative de renverser la dictature de François Duvalier. Cet acte d’une audace sans pareille aux yeux du dictateur allait déclencher sa rage culminant dans cette punition publique extrême destinée à mar-quer les esprits qui se seraient permis de marcher sur les traces des deux rebelles. Edwidge Danticat n’était pas encore né le 12 novembre 1964 quand a eu lieu cette exécution publique qu’elle raconte avec des détails impressionnants. Mais ce point d’histoire, nous dit-elle, fait partie de ces mythes créateurs qui l’ont hantée et obsédée.

Elle se réfère en tout premier lieu au plus célèbre de tous, le mythe d’Adam et Ève, qui avaient désobéi à l’ordre émis par « Dieu » de ne pas manger la pomme la

plus désirable du jardin d’Eden, désobéis-sance pour laquelle ils avaient été bannis d’Eden et condamnés à toutes sortes de peines, la plus douloureuse étant celle qui survient au moment de donner nais-sance. Malgré l’ensevelissement temporel dans lequel se perd ce mythe, Danticat montre son rapprochement urgent avec l’aventure sanglante de Marcel Numa et Louis Drouin qui sont morts en patriotes pour que d’autres Haïtiens puissent vivre. Elle montre aussi qu’ils étaient immi-grants, comme elle, mais n’ont pas hésité à abandonner le confort de leurs existences américaines et se sont sacrifiés pour leur terre natale.

L’une des implications de cette exécu-tion publique a été la suspicion qu’elle a fit peser sur l’acte de lire en général, sus-picion qui conduisit des familles à bruler leurs bibliothèques quelque soit le contenu des livres qui y figuraient. Tout au long de cette histoire tout à fait officielle, Danticat accumule des références personnelles ou relatives à sa famille et à ses parents. C’est ce qu’on trouve aussi dans la majorité des autres onze essais contenus dans ce livre. J’ai aimé particulièrement l’essai intit-ulé « I am not a journalist » (p.41-58) et celui qui vient tout de suite après intitulé « Daughters of Memory ». Tous les deux discutent profondément d’une question fascinante : comment l’art (particulière-ment l’art haïtien) se fait sous les dictat-ures. L’histoire d’Haïti est une histoire de tragédies au sens le plus profond du terme. Comment peut-on continuer à écrire malgré la pluie de désastres qui se sont acharnés sur ce morceau d’île ? L’œuvre d’Edwidge Danticat nous permet de com-prendre ce paradoxe.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE– Haiti's cholera death toll passed 1,000 on Tuesday as mounting anger at the health crisis saw ten-sions spike with UN peacekeepers accused by some of being the source of the outbreak.

Burning tires wafted thick black smoke across the northern city of Cap-Haitien, where thousands of protesters went on the rampage Monday, setting a police station ablaze and threatening to torch a UN com-pound.

Two Haitians died in the riots, including one shot by a peacekeeper in an incident that raised fears of further unrest targeting the unpopular United Nations force, which is known by the acronym MINUSTAH.

Six UN peacekeepers were injured in a second protest Monday in the central city of Hinche, near the base of a Nepalese unit accused of bringing the Vibrio cholerae bacterium into the country.

”We are monitoring the situation in other towns where demonstrations were attempt-ed this morning,” a police officer told AFP Tuesday on condition of anonymity. He said Interior Minister Paul-Antoine Bien-Aime and Haitian police chief Mario Andresol would lead a delegation to the north in the coming days to help restore calm.

The cholera death toll rose Tuesday to 1,034, the health ministry said, with about 16,800 people hospitalized since the disease surfaced in late October -- the quake-hit nation's first outbreak since the 1960s.

Haitian officials have struggled to battle the disease in a nation still ravaged by a January earthquake that killed 250,000 people and left 1.3 million people homeless.

Officials fear the cholera epidemic could spread like wildfire if it infiltrates squalid camps around the capital where hundreds of thousands of quake refugees live in cramped and unsanitary conditions.

MINUSTAH issued a statement linking the protests to presidential elections in less than two weeks time and calling on Haitians

not to allow themselves to be manipulated by ”the enemies of stability and democracy.”

”The way the events unfolded leads to the belief that these incidents were politically motivated, aimed at creating a climate of insecurity ahead of the elections,” it said.

There are claims the outbreak emanated from septic tanks at the Nepalese base which is suspected of leaking diseased feces into a tributary to the Artibonite River on Haiti's central plateau.

A Nepalese army spokesman in Kath-mandu hit out at the ”false rumors” and told AFP they had reinforced security for their peacekeepers in Haiti and had even drafted in Haitian police to help with their

protection.MINUSTAH has said it has tested some

of the Nepalese and found no trace of cholera, and health officials have said that although Haiti's cholera is a south Asian strain this is no smoking gun as the strain is very common.

US experts are running more DNA sequencing tests on samples collected from Haitian cholera victims, but experts say the exact origin of the strain causing the epi-demic in Haiti will never be known.

The November 28 elections could even be in doubt as there are now cholera cases in every one of Haiti's 10 departments and leading aid group Doctors Without Borders

(MSF) says its facilities in the capital are overrun.

”We're worried that we won't have the capacity to treat all patients in the coming days,” said MSF emergency coordinator Caroline Seguin.

”They're arriving in large numbers, our hospital is completely full, we're even hav-ing to refuse referrals because we know we?re unable to treat them.”

During the first days of the epidemic, MSF said its teams were receiving three new patients with cholera-like symptoms each day in Port-au-Prince, and now they're seeing 300.

The story was first published by AFP.

Haiti Cholera toll Passes 1,000 as unrest Fears grow

The United Nations mission in Haiti has deplored yesterday’s acts of violence against local and UN security forces during demonstrations in the cities of Cap-Haitien and Hinche, saying the riots, which resulted in several injuries, were politically motivated.

“The way the events unfolded sug-gests that these incidents were politically motivated, aimed at creating a climate of insecurity on the eve of elections,” the mission, known as MINUSTAH, said in a statement.

“MINUSTAH calls the people to remain vigilant and not be manipulated by ene-mies of stability and democracy in the country,” the mission added.

Those wounded included six MINUS-TAH personnel in Hinche. At Quartier Morin in the northern department, armed demonstrators opened fire on peacekeep-ers, the mission said. One of the demon-strators was killed when he was hit by a bullet fired by a UN peacekeeper, who shot back in self-defense. An investiga-tion is under way to determine the exact circumstances of the death.

“MINUSTAH reiterates its firm com-

mitment to supporting the Haitian Nation-al Police in maintaining order and security in the country to ensure the continuation of the electoral process and reconstruction in Haiti,” the statement added.

The elections are scheduled for 28 November. The Caribbean country is still

reeling from January’s quake, which killed an estimated 200,000 people and displaced about 1.3 million others. In addition, a recent cholera outbreak has made over 12,000 Haitians ill and claimed the lives of an estimated 900 people.

uN Deplores ‘Politically Motivated’ Violence in Haiti

“The way the events unfolded suggests that

these incidents were politically motivated, aimed at creating a

climate of insecurity on the eve of elections.”

The Dominican Republic has detected its first case of cholera, following the outbreak of the dis-ease in neighbouring Haiti last month.

The patient is a Haitian migrant who had recently returned from his homeland, the health minister said.

The Dominican authorities had stepped up border controls and health checks to try to stop cholera from spreading from Haiti.

More than 1,000 Haitians have died of the disease.

Dominican health minister Bau-tista Rojas said the patient, a 32-year-old Haitian construction worker, was being treated in isolation in the eastern town of Higuey.

Like Haiti, the Dominican Republic had not had a confirmed case of cholera in more than a century until this year.

In Haiti, the government says 1,034 people have died and the disease is still spreading rapidly.

'Drastic measures'The charity Medecins Sans Frontieres

(MSF) said its treatment centres in the capital, Port-au-Prince, were being over-whelmed by new patients.

”If the number of cases continues to increase at the same rate, then we are going to have to adopt some drastic measures to be able to treat people,” said MSF's head of mission Stefano Zannini.

”I can easily see this situation deteriorat-ing to the point where patients are lying in

Haiti Cholera Reaches Dominican Republic

Dominican health minister Bautista Rojas

see DOMINICAN on page 23

As cholera rapidly spreads through Haiti, protestors marched in Port-au-Prince to denounce the UN peacekeep-ing mission known as MINUSTAH. Here a protester paints MINISTA=KOLERA on a vehicle.

November 17-23, 2010The haiTian Times4

In an Oval Office meeting Nov. 16, the President and leaders of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) – U.S. Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, U.S. Representative Nydia Velazquez of New York, and U.S. Representative Luis Guti-errez of Illinois – discussed the options on immigration reform immediately fac-ing the Congress. He thanked them for their constant efforts on this issue.

According to a pub-lished note from the White House Office of the Press Secretary, the President reiter-ated his support for fixing the broken immigration system and urged the CHC leaders to work to restore the bipartisan coalition backing comprehensive immi-gration reform. The President repeated his hope that, with the election season’s pressures past, Congressional Republicans would work with their Democratic col-leagues not only to strengthen security at

the nation’s borders, but also to restore responsibility and accountability to what everyone agrees is a broken immigration system. The President reiterated his strong support for bipartisan Congressional action on immigration reform at the earli-est opportunity, noting that the American people expect both parties to work together

to tackle the chal-lenges confronting our nation.

The President and the CHC lead-ers believe that, before adjourn-ing, Congress should approve the DREAM Act. This legislation has tra-

ditionally enjoyed support from Democrat-ic and Republican lawmakers and would give young people who were brought as minors to the United States by their parents the opportunity to earn their citizenship by pursuing a college degree or through military service.

President Obama Reiterated his support for Fixing Broken Immigration system

The President and the CHC leaders believe that, before adjourning, Con-

gress should approve the DREAM Act.

Immigration news continues to dominate national headlines, and on Nov.15, the news was out of the state of California - a hot bed for immigration discussions and legislation. The California Supreme Court ruled unanimous-ly Monday illegal aliens are eli-gible for in-state college tuition, not higher rates charged out-of-state students.

Justice Ming W. Chin in the

court's opinion said California law, which guarantees lower tuition to those students who attend and graduate from high schools in the state, does not conflict with a federal ban against giving illegal immigrants edu-cational benefits based on state residency.

The Los Angeles Times said California is one of several states that allow illegal immigrants

lower college tuition when they graduate from state high schools. The newspaper said about 25,000 illegal aliens get in-state tuition rates in California.

An anti-illegal immigration group filed a lawsuit contending the California law violated the federal ban on giving educational benefits to illegal aliens, but not to all U.S. citizens, based on resi-dency. The challenge was suc-

cessful in a lower court, but the state appealed.

The Times said college stu-dents who are illegally in the United States are excluded from federal financial aid programs, and the U.S. Supreme Court is expected eventually to rule on whether the lower tuition rates also violate federal law.

Illegal Immigrants in California get Tuition Break

New Mexico Gov. Bill Rich-ardson on Saturday said the new Congress has a better chance at enacting comprehensive immi-gration reform than the current Democrat-controlled Congress.

”I do believe the chances are improved, (but) not dramatically improved,” Richardson told jour-nalists attending CapitolBeat, a meeting for political and state-house reporters from across the nation held in downtown Phoe-nix.

That's because Republicans will need something to show for their gains in the midterm elec-tions, he said. The GOP won con-trol of the House and narrowed its disadvantage with Democrats in the Senate.

”It's going to have to not be the 'Party of No,' ” he said of the Republicans, adding that immi-gration reform is ripe for a bipar-tisan accord.

Richardson, a Democrat, is wrapping his second term as New Mexico's governor.

But while he sounded hopeful that the long-stalled issue might get moving, Richardson said in comments after his speech that he doesn't see anyone stepping forward yet to lead the charge.

Leadership, he said, has to come from the president but also from the Republicans.

”It's a dynamic that has to hap-pen,” he said.

He said relations with neigh-boring Arizona have remained good even as the state's politi-cal leadership has shifted from Democrat Janet Napolitano, with whom he worked closely on many issues, to Republican Jan Brewer.

”There's been a bit of a rift over the immigration issue,” he said. But cooperation on envi-ronmental and other issues has continued.

Richardson reiterated his oppo-sition to Senate Bill 1070, the immigration-enforcement mea-sure, telling reporters it is a fed-eral duty to enforce immigration

laws.And, noting the growing influ-

ence of Hispanics in this month's elections - notably in the Nevada Senate race and the New Mexico governor's race - Richardson, himself Hispanic, said politi-

cians need to recognize they have concerns beyond immigration or civil rights.

”It's very easy to put Hispan-ics in a corner (and say) 'Let's put a sombrero on and get their votes.' Those days are over,” he

said. This growing voter bloc has very mainstream concerns, which currently revolve around job creation and improving the economy, he said.

The story was first published in the Arizona Republic.

Immigration Reform has better Chance Passing in New CongressJustice Ming W. Chin

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson

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MIAMI - A campaign debate among Haiti's presidential hopefuls in Miami drew only three of the 19 candidates vying to lead the poor Caribbean island nation.

The so-called ”Presidential Debate of the Diaspora” took place at Florida International University's Biscayne Bay campus before an audience of several hundred Sunday night, The Miami Her-ald reported.

Of the 19 candidates in the Nov. 28 election, only three showed up: Mir-lande Manigat, Garaudy Laguerre and Gerard Blot. Charles Henri Baker tried to participate by an Internet telephone connection but was stymied by technical difficulties.

Candidates addressed reconstruction after the earthquake and the cholera outbreak.

Laguerre said he would investigate the source of the epidemic. He said there were rumors that United Nations soldiers were the source of the contami-nation of Haiti's water supply.

”Too often, Haitians die without rea-

sons and without consequences,” he said. ”This time there will be conse-quences.”

Blot also called for investigating the source of the outbreak and holding accountable whoever is responsible.

Manigat said her top priority would be to house those still living in tent encampments, but cautioned the audi-ence the housing problem cannot be solved immediately.

The story was first published on upi.com.

3 of 19 Haiti President Candidates Debate

”Too often, Haitians die without reasons and with-

out consequences,” he said. ”This time there will

be consequences.”

Haitian Presidential candidate Garaudy Laguerre smiles as he greets peo-ple before his presidential debate

PORT-AU-PRINCE - As Haiti's cholera toll neared 1,000, candidates insisted the health crisis should not derail looming presidential polls with the rebuilding of the quake-hit nation at stake.

Less than a month after the emergence of Haiti's first cholera outbreak in half a century, the confirmed number of fatalities is at 917 and rising by more than 50 each day on average.

At least 27 deaths have been recorded in the teeming capital Port-au-Prince, includ-ing its largest slum Cite Soleil.

Officials fear the scale of the epidemic could increase exponentially if cholera infiltrates makeshift camps where hun-dreds of thousands of earthquake survivors live in cramped and unsanitary conditions.

And with patients struggling to find care in the rural heart of the country where the outbreak is fiercest, it is hard to imagine

how Haiti can vote in crucial elections in less than two weeks time.

But Mirlande Manigat, the former first lady who has emerged as the favorite to succeed President Rene Preval, told AFP the polls must go ahead as planned.

”We are now at the point where we can-not step back because there is a momentum within the population. It's clear that on February 7, President Preval must leave, so we need to have the election now, on November 28.”

Another candidate, Leslie Voltaire, agreed with Manigat that it was not ideal with the cholera epidemic, not to men-tion a recent hurricane, but warned that delaying the poll would only aggravate the situation.

”We cannot postpone the election because of the cholera. You don't know, if you postpone the election by a month or

two, the cholera may be worse than it is today,” he told AFP.

”We could face a new political crisis in Haiti if we have another provisional gov-ernment after Preval,” Voltaire added.

The elections, which will also see over 100 lawmakers chosen, were originally scheduled for February 28 but were put on hold due to the January earthquake that flattened Port-au-Prince and killed more than 250,000 people.

Whoever wins will have the mammoth task of rebuilding what was already the poorest country in the western hemisphere -- a Caribbean nation facing vast chal-lenges even to get back to where it was before disaster struck.

Problems of corruption, infrastructure and education have now been compounded by the cholera epidemic, which UN health officials are warning has taken root and

could see hundreds of thousands of cases in the next few years.

”All of the hospitals in Port-au-Prince are overflowing with patients and we're seeing seven times the total amount of cases we had three days ago,” Doctors Without Borders (MSF) head of mission Stefano Zannini said this weekend.

”It's a really worrying situation for us at the moment. Patients are coming from everywhere, throughout the city, slums and wealthier areas.”

Almost 15,000 people have been treated in hospital and many in rural areas near the epicenter of outbreak in the central Artibo-nite River Valley did not even make it that far, dying en route.

”Certainly this is going to continue for months, and if you look at other epidemics, it could move into years,” UN humanitar-ian coordinator Nigel Fisher told AFP. ”We're in unknown territory here in Haiti.”

Of Haiti's 10 provinces, six now have been touched by the cholera epidemic.

The United Nations is asking for 164 million dollars to fight the disease, most to be used for water, sanitation and improv-ing hygiene awareness.

Although easily treated, cholera has a short incubation period and causes acute diarrhea that can lead to severe dehydra-tion and death in a matter of hours.

Haiti Polls must go ahead Despite Cholera

United Nations agencies and their part-ners today appealed for $164 million to support Haiti’s efforts to fight the deadly cholera outbreak that has already claimed several hundred lives in the small Carib-bean nation.

The funds sought for the Cholera Inter-Sector Response Strategy for Haiti launched today will go towards getting additional doctors, medicines and water purification equipment to respond to the epidemic, which has spread quickly since it was first confirmed on 22 October.

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), over 12,000 Haitians having been hospitalized so far, and over 800 people have died from the disease, which is spread by contaminated food and water.

Up to 200,000 cases of cholera are expected to be reported over the next 6 to

12 months in Haiti, which is also dealing with the aftermath of January’s devastat-ing earthquake and flooding in the wake of Hurricane Tomas, which struck the country last weekend.

“A major effort has already been made, but the sheer quantity of relief items that need to be delivered in the days and weeks ahead is going to require more logistical and financial support for the Government by all humanitarian agencies and donors and very close coordination,” said Nigel Fisher, UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Haiti.

“Without this the epidemic could well outrun our efforts,” he said.

Five out of the ten departments, or administrative divisions, that make up Haiti have been directly affected by chol-era since the outbreak.

Nearly half a million water tablets, soap

and oral rehydration salts are being dis-tributed, targeting areas where cholera has already been detected. Cholera treatment centres – an essential first line of response – are now open in 15 urban centres across the country, including seven in the capital, Port-au-Prince.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan-American Health Organiza-tion (PAHO), in conjunction with the World Food Programme (WFP), are iden-tifying and preparing other suitable loca-tions for cholera treatment units.

The bulk of the appeal – around $89 million – will be used for water, sanitation and hygiene, while $43 million will be used for health, and $19 million for efforts in the camps housing people displaced by the earthquake.

uN Launches $164 Million Appeal To Fight Deadly Cholera Outbreak

Mirlande Manigat

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It Is selection Time; Therefore Time to Vote

The one certainty about the November 28th upcoming legis-lative and presidential

elections in Haiti is that they will be declared “free and fair” by the inter-national community, despite the illegal machinations of Provisional Electoral Council (CEP). In contrast, the Novem-ber 7th election in Myanmar (formerly Burma) was, for all purposes and intents, declared unfair and undemocratic by the international community, even before the first votes were cast. Two elections with similar dynamic; Haiti and Myanmar’s two largest political parties are excluded in both instances and their leaders, Jean Bertrand Aristide and Aung San Suu Kyi, in exile and under house arrest, respec-tively. Apparently, free and fair elections, the bedrock of democracy, far from being a universal concept are actually subjec-tive. Based on that reality, wouldn’t it be fair for Haitians to be asked whether they want to be part of this charade?

It is by now an historical fact that vot-ing for the wrong candidate can have terrible consequences for Haiti and its people, the electorate should therefore refrain itself from engaging in an exer-cise that is being used to suppress its aspirations. Unless the people’s choice, no matter misguided it may be, can be validated and respected, what is the point in participating in a protracted process that is expensive and, most importantly, lacking credibility. Obviously, we are going back to the days when a king, hav-ing converted to a new faith, orders his subjects to embrace it, regardless of their aversion to it, or face the harshest of pun-ishments. The analogy being: unless the Haitian people conform to this tyranni-cal, perverted and discriminatory form of democracy, they will be ostracized from the family of nations and made to suffer the consequences.

It should be noted that the Haitian people are receptive to the notion of electing their own leaders, which is a core democratic principle, as opposed to sticking with their country’s storied history of imposed rule. They have done so on several occasions but their choice was scornfully and violently rejected by the international community. There are apparently no discernible differences between the two political systems, which are inherently narcissistic and based on unaccountability, subjugation, exploita-tion and exclusion.

Hence, voting on November 28th is tantamount to the Haitian people will-ingly endorsing the tyrannical rule of their tormentors, as it will be all but impossible to get rid of the tyrants except through the ballot box which, in itself, is stacked against their aspirations. Try imagining an armed rebellion against a Gerard Latortue-type tyrant, not sanc-tioned by the international community. Unlike Guy Philippe, the wannabe gen-eralissimo, who spearheaded the 2004

armed insurrection against the country’s democratically elected government, any would-be liberator will be sitting on the dock at The Hague answering for a pleth-ora of crimes before the International Criminal Court.

Though it may be naïve to expect a modicum of decency from the select-ed crop of candidates in the upcoming November 28th presidential election, this great little nation deserves better none-theless. Exceedingly ambitious and cor-respondingly short on ethical and lead-ership qualities, this slate of politicians is the embodiment of self-preservation and political expediency and rightfully deserves the labels collaborators” and “puppets.” No one among them can stand up against the politic of organized chaos created by outsiders with the help of the mulatto elite, which allows the interna-tional community to present itself as “the savior” rather than the instigator of the cycle of destruction and misery.

Though it has been established that the strain of cholera creating havoc in Haiti is South Asian, U.S medical experts are now concerned about its possible spread to the U.S and other countries, which implies that Haiti may be considered ground zero for the epidemic.

Yet, Michel Chancy, the Haitian minis-ter in charge of coordinating a response to the epidemic concluded: “Haitians will always complain; it is part of the culture. They blame everyone and anything from colonialism to international aid agen-cies.” Basically, the man is saying there is nothing to complain about, and no one asks for his resignation. It shows that despite a succession of calamities befallen Haiti since February 29th, 2004, many of which the doings of the occu-piers, Haitian politicians remain active participants in the enslavement of their fellow countrymen.

A perfunctory look at the problems facing Haiti and the slate of candidates clearly show that the elections will not solve anything. Consider the two front-runners, Myrlande Manigat and Jude Celestin, as examples. Ms. Manigat is an over-emotional woman who angrily refused to participate in a run-off for a senate seat she was slated to win. This, after René Préval was declared the winner in the UN-organized, fraud-marred, 2006 presidential and legislative elections in which her husband, Leslie Manigat, received a little over 13 percent of the vote and denied a run-off. Even the most dedicated feminist should have second thoughts about voting for such an impulsive leader.

As for Célestin, how can he convince the Diaspora and foreign investors to come and invest in Haiti when he, him-self, saw fit to invest in real estate ven-tures in the U.S rather than injecting the money into the Haitian economy and helping create jobs?

As per the selective process, one of these two politicians will be president of Haiti on February 7th 2011, and the cycle of apathy, misery and condescension will endure. Aptly, the electorate should desist from participating in this charade until the present situation is reversed.

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By Garry Pierre-Pierre

As the 19 presidential candidates criss-crossed through the mountainous Carib-bean nation of Haiti, most of them are boasting crowds in the thousands that have turned out to hear them.

The spin from the candidates is that their message resonates with the public and they are the best hope for a brighter Haiti. While the numbers who come out are real, the reason for the large crowd is quite easy one to explain. These days, with unem-ployment hovering around 80 percent in the country, people don’t have much to do. And so a high profile visitor is likely to draw a curious throng. The same people come out for different candidates.

It is unclear how galvanizing if any of the candidates have been. I haven’t heard all of the candidates messages, lest the few who campaigned in New York City. But I’m sure no one is telling the Haitian peo-ple what they need to hear. From Charles Henri Baker, to Michel Martelly to Jacques Edouard Alexis and everyone else, we hear lots of vague and ambitious plans on how they plan to restore Haiti to its grandeur that peaked in 1804 and has seen a steady decline ever since.

So if I were one of the candidates, this is the speech I would give to the 40,000 or so people who come out to hear them.

My fellow Haitians, today I come to you as your presidential candidate. Whether or not you elect me as your president, I want to leave you with some wisdom. First, we need to shed our mendicant mentality. To prove that to you, I will not beg you for an adoken coin for my campaign. I’m calling on all of fellow politicians to stop begging when they go overseas and when we have foreign delegations in Haiti. The world is broke and they don’t have any money to give to us. But if we’re willing to open up the country to real investors, we can get some people in here and create jobs.

Speaking of creating jobs, the first thing we need to do is to build primary schools and universities to educate the million high school graduates that have nothing to do, except to be ‘chimeres’ in training. My

opponents have told you that they plan on making agriculture the cornerstone of their plan so that Haiti can be self-sufficient. They are lying to you. We can’t do this alone, we have to get international firms to come in with their technology so our prod-ucts can be competitive in a world mar-ket. A machete these days is not enough to plow the land. You need an educated ‘agricole’ to know exactly what to plant, when to plant and how to defend against the elements.

Another opponent who was here recent-ly swore that with our abundant sunshine and beaches we can lure tourists who are looking another place to visit in the winter months of rich countries. What he didn’t tell you is that first we have to clean up our image and that we have to build our roads and electricity and infrastructure before we can convince any tourist that they will not be eaten by werewolves, will not catch AIDS, cholera and be hacked to death by machete wielding mobs. What he didn’t tell you is that to run a real tourist industry, you need highly educated people who are willing to smile all the time in the face of tourists to make them feel welcome and that the people making money are the hotel owners and not necessarily the hired hands, which need to be trained in all aspects of a service industry. Did he tell you how he plans on getting the money so that tourists can flock to Haiti? I’m sure he didn’t, because most likely there is an international organization with grants for Haiti to create its tourism industry.

Now don’t get me wrong, these are good plans and should help you and your children get jobs, but can you build your house with the third floor. You don’t have to answer that one. You can’t, even if we Haitians have done the impossible in the past. Certain feats cannot be repeated or be counted on.

My fellow Haitians, what I want to offer you is a chance to build 600 public schools and four universities across the country to educate you and restore your dignity. Believe me you cannot work in any capacity if you are unable to read and

What the Candidates Are not Telling the Haitian People

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The transition of power or change of government is always a good moment to reflect

on where we have been, and where we want to go. In essence, this is a great junc-tion to reflect on what the vision forward really is for the country and the people. More than ever, Haiti needs a transfor-mational leader or leading group that can articulate and execute a share vision for the benefit of all Haitians, regardless of social and economical status.

The upcoming elections are significant and could be a major set-point to re-evalu-ate what is the shared vision of the Haitian people. It is not enough to continually be living in the past and be critical of miss-opportunities, but rather to take advantage of the few opportunities we have and make possible what many think is impossible.

My encounters and talks to fellow com-patriots have led me to believe that we all want to be free to control our destiny. Besides demanding access to the basic necessities of life, such as schooling, hous-

ing, healthy food, healthcare, security and the right to be civically engaged, the Hai-tian people want to be a cohesive society. It is in our DNA to embrace each other, and preserve the ideals that every person is somebody. We have desire to be a great nation, where freedom for all with be the blood that makes circulate our desire to progress. The Haitian vision is not that much different than what other people aspire. We want to be able to live in peace and harmony, where the conditions for prosperity can sprout like a tulip in the spring.

It took a solar eclipse to validate the law of relativity; many Haitians thought the earthquake could do for Haiti what the eclipse did for the law of relativity, but conditions after the quake have only vali-dated on thing that it would take a massive Haitian involvement to get Haiti on that right track. We need an open government that will practice a policy of inclusion and that will treat everyone according to the law of the land.

In the execution of our shared vision, we will find that it’s possible to think of a new Haiti. A country, where our past will not be zombie to us and haunt every good intentions that we have as a people, but rather to use the past to correct the wrong of the present and set the precedence for an

irreversible prosperous future.If we take for example the unification of

Germany in 1990, and understand where that country came from to where it cur-rently is in the geo-political stratosphere, we will come to realize that with a frater-nal bond, and seeing our future through a common lens that indeed our potential to be great is limitless. Many times, when the world counted us out, we found a way to

disprove them; some thought, we would go extinct after the earthquake, but we found the strength to live. We need to harness that energy, in order to build a society for the well-being our children.

There cannot continue to be animos-ity among us over petty things. We are too great of a people to be drowning in the ocean of misery. This is our moment to once again disprove the fallacy that Haitians cannot do for themselves, for ever since our inception we have been

surviving solely on our capacity to do for ourselves. A belief in the common vision focus towards openness to prosperity for all will not only guarantee our survival as the greatest among the greats, but also it will emphasize the sheer belief that all Haitians believe in freedom.

Our nation has stumbled many times. We have made plenty of mistakes, just like all other nations, but the key to our survival in the face of all these adversi-ties have been our core belief that we are destined to be free and with freedom the sky is really the limit. Together, we fight; together, we fall and together we will once again rise to rejoice in our victory as nation of determined people.

Our next president, whoever that might be, will deserve all of our supports, hard work ethics, determination to succeed, and above all our respect, in order for them to lead us out of this obscurity to the field of illumination. This is our opportunity as a people to be part of the solutions and be part of the state. The government philoso-phy might be different than ours, but the roots that hold us all together breathe and bleed Haitians. We need to share the vision of a free and prosperous Haiti for all Hai-tians. As one people, one government, we will say we are all Haitians.

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A shared Vision: Haiti ForwardIlio'sOdysseyBy Ilio Durandis

By Edris Erisnor

What a year it has been for Haiti, 2010, that is. Early on, she was hit by Mother Nature in what is seen as the biggest trag-edy in the Americas in recent memory, losing over 250,000 people in the earth-

quake of January 12th; a merely 9

months later, an epidemic of cholera intertwined with tropical storm Tomas, killing more than 1000 combined. Now, Haiti is poised to embark in yet another tragedy, but one that is avoidable.

In less than two weeks, Haiti will hold presidential and parliamentary elections; elections that Social Scientists, Political Experts and political pundits of all sec-tors concurred to be the most important elections in years to be held in Haiti. It is our hope that these elections will go forward peacefully and Haitians, includ-ing the international community, should

have an open minded attitude that these elections will not be perfect and there is no reason we should expect them to be so; however, whatever the outcome of these elections, Haiti deserves a break from going through one nightmare to another. We should avoid any political stalemate and try to accept the outcome of these elections however difficult it might be; but allowing a political stalemate would simply imply dismissing the sufferings of the Haitians.

This is not implying or advocating for electoral fraud. This would not be the remotest possibility of the truth. This is about looking at the bigger picture and thinking out of the box. With so much going on in Haiti, so much to do to better the lives of the Haitians, we have a duty as citizens and friends of Haiti to stand together after these elections. A political stalemate would be a disservice to Haiti and it would undoubtedly shift focus off Haiti.

Imagine a scenario where the world gets tired of Haiti’s nonsense political controversies and shifts it focus to other needy people. With the world community out of Haiti, the country will be left alone to die. There is no reason to believe oth-erwise, for in these times of turbulence, we have seen the eagerness of the world to help; we have had financial pledges from most govern-ments of the world except our own. We have no reason to believe that these individuals back home really under-stand the magnitude of Haiti’s prob-lems, nor should we remotely think that in the absence of the world community, these guys would not have resigned from their official duties and that includes the office of the presidency.

The world rallied and continues to rally behind supporting Haiti; let’s give them a reason to stick around or to put up with our usual nonsense. Already, we have the so-called leaders waiting to sabotage and contest these elections. The Haitian peo-ple need to stand united against this irrel-evant clan of the population, for it must be clear by now that these elections are the beginning of a new Haiti. November 28th is decision day; it is to either choos-ing between going forward or backward and the decision is only ours to make.

Haiti seems to always fail to seize its moment. This is Haiti’s time to rethink its future; a future which I might remind you

that is heavily relies on these scheduled elections. So let’s not continue to further shame ourselves in these times of needs. For too long, we have blamed others for our misery, though history would not be too harsh on this claim, we have to bare some responsibilities for our failures to better the lives of the Haitians. At times,

people doubt our love for this coun-try. It is not a matter of loving Haiti. I believe that Haitians love Haiti enough but could it be that we love it so much that we don’t know how to care for it?

One important thing we can do in helping to resus-citate Haiti is to encourage a massive get out the vote, and that way, we would avoid a possible run

off and set Haiti off to the era of pros-perity. Otherwise, to borrow a phrase from one of my prior articles, a win for candidate X could very well be a loss for Haiti; and the question becomes, can Haiti afford another loss in any shape or form?

In the event that we see beyond our misgivings of each others and avoid a political stalemate after the elections, Haiti will be applauded and the world would be more enthuse to help and invest in Haiti. We have nothing to gain and everything to lose in elections contesting. So let’s show the world that once again we are the true sons and daughters of Des-salines and united we will prevail.

Edris Erisnor is a political analyst.

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write. Otherwise, they will have to import workers to do everything and you will not be better off for it.

Now how do we go about creating these schools, the government will invest some of its own money and get other universi-ties across the country to open partnership with universities overseas. Now we will attract some factories and these investors will have to create and maintain a spe-cific amount of schools as part of their tax break they will get to operate in Haiti for 25 years.

The international community likes to

brag of our resilience. Yes, we are a resil-ient people, let’s use that resilience to advance our country. Believe me if you want, NO ONE will “hand” us any money. In the streets of the United States inner cities, there is a saying that goes “thing for thing.” We have to adopt that mindset and if our leaders think they can outsmart the rest of the world, then you’re doomed to remain bare foot, wear second hand clothes and eat expired food. Now when you go to the polls on November 28, you can vote for reality or you can choose false promises being delivered by my opponents. The choice is clear vote for me, None of the Above.

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In the execution of our shared vision, we will find

that it’s possible to think of a new Haiti.

For too long, we have blamed others for our misery, though history would not be too harsh on this claim, we have

to bare some responsi-bilities for our failures

to better the lives of the Haitians.

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Watching the results of recent local elections in the city of NY, it is safe to say the Haitian-American community is beginning to make important foray into the political machine of the state. Granted that we already have achieved the prover-bial milestone for having the first Haitian-American elected official, councilman Mathieu Eugene. But the recent election of Ms. Rodneyse Bichotte is somewhat the real thing that will enable a Haitian-American person to be at the table in the real decision making /voting sense on the grassroots level in the state of New York Political machine, national and city politics as the Female State Committee Woman in the 42nd Assembly District in Brooklyn. In this business access is every-thing. She has become one of the King’s men. Kings County has the largest regis-tered Democratic voters in the country. In a county where the voting pattern favors Democratic candidates by a ratio of 7 to 3 for Republican votes in most downstate contests, this qualifies it as a Democratic stronghold. It is safe to say that once a candidate wins a primary election in Kings County he or she would have basically won the contest.

We worked hard from near and far to elect them that we should be entitle to see results for the sacrifices we made said a

supporter of Ms. Bichotte. I agree another one replied. In the packed room of Crystal Palace lounge on Flatbush Ave, it was electric as Ms. Bichotte walked into the room crowded with her hardened support-ers, Friends, family members and newly acquired ones. She smiled broadly stop-ping every now and then to snap a picture with a supporter or two. I arrived early, as usual, on time. I sat quietly by the bar sip-ping my virgin Cosmopolitan. The parade of more senior elected officials from Con-gresswoman Yvette Clark to NY State Supreme Court Judges one after the other made flowery speeches to congratulate the newly anointed political matron. They will need her troops next time they run. She was branded as the person that will bring back the bacon the elected officials in the room assertively claim. Anecdotal, I suppose, to be the one that will bring political empowerment to our community.

But experience shows that as soon as we put our people in power that they convert to devote themselves to woefully advocate for the interests of the mighty and already more powerful factions in our community with fatter purses to the detriment of our side of the avenue. One cannot help but to ask this, however cynical, question I must admit. What Now? Well I’m hoping that this time that our new star and her handlers will remember the reason why she ran for office to begin with.

Very few understand better than I the

humble lessons and the discipline it takes to evolve in the political process. The Haitian-American community is by no means homogeneous. That explains the reason I supported Ms. Natasha Holliday in the race. I committed to her well before I knew Ms. Rodneyse was in the race. I have no regret of having done so. For two well qualified young women did a splen-did job and the stronger one claimed the prize. That I believe makes Ms. Bichotte a stronger and more formidable candidate. I’m indeed very happy and excited that a fellow Haitian-American is on her way to be a key player in the process. I found

Ms. Bichote a very graceful and mature politician. As I promised her then and henceforth she will have my full support. However, I must warn my fellow Haitian-American to be vigilant not allow her to pass us by, that support comes with keeping her eyes on the prize. I would be remiss not to mention that to my surprise our illustrious first elected Haitian-Amer-ican sparkled only by his absence. Well I left after I made my monetary pledge to “Friends of Ms. Bichotte” Campaign fund, just a little bit before the end of the event, puzzled as to why on earth he would miss such a celebration.

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Etan m chita devan òdinatè a dimanch 14 novanm 2010 pou m kontinye travay refleksyon len gwis tik m te kòmanse sou tèks m te pibliye apati de videyo m te jwenn sou ‘Le Nouvelliste’ la (“Ijyèn Kont Kolera”, 27 Oktòb ak 3 Novanm 2010), m tande sou Radyo Karayib on emisyon ki mande rete koute: “Konbit Kont Kolera”. Se on emisyon espesyal plizyè òganizasyon pote kole pou yo reyalize, òganizasyon tankou ‘Association nationale des médias haïtiens’ (ANMH), ‘As so ciation des médi-as indépendants d'Haïti’ (AMIH), ‘Rasan-bleman Medya pou Aksyon Komi note’ (Ramak), ‘Sosyete Animasyon Komini-kasyon Sosyal’ (Saks)… Objektif emisyon sa a, pifò radyo t ap bay nan tout peyi a e menm sou entènèt se te pou yo bay popila-syon an enfòmasyon sou ijyèn ak demach tretman kont ravaj kolera a.

Pami jounalis ki te gen nan emisyon, te gen Venel Remarè (Venel Remarais), Radyo Solida ri te; Makis Gasya (Marcus Garcia), Radyo Melodi; Izrayèl Jaki Kantav (Israel Jacky Cantave), Ra dyo Karayib; Wobèsonn Alfons (Roberson Alphonse), Radyo Majik 9 ak jounal Le Nouvel lis te. Plizyè sèvis Leta te patisipe nan konbit la: minis ak lòt gwo anplwaye te la. Minis Sante Piblik ak

Popilasyon an, Doktè Alèks Lasèn (Alex Larsen), te la; men tou, te gen Doktè Joslin Pyè-Lwi (Jocelyne Pierre-Louis), reskonsab Sante familyal nan ministè a. Minis Enteryè ak Kolektive Te ri toryal la, Pòl Antwàn Byenneme (Paul Antoine Bien-Aimé) te la; men tou, te gen Delege De pat mantal Nò a, Zefiren Adwen (Zéphyrin Ardouin). Te gen lòt zotobre ki t ap pale nan non òga-ni zasyon non-gouvènmantal tou, tankou Periklès Jan-Batis (Périclès Jean-Baptiste), chèf seksyon kominikasyon nan Lakwa Wouj osnon Madam Elizabèt Ogisten (Eliz-abeth Augustin) reskonsab ko minikasyon nan Inisèf (UNICEF).

Lè m ap suiv emisyon an, entansyon m se te transkri on bon kou nan koze ki te derimen nan kon bit la pou nou, pou memwa, pou listwa… paske gen anpil pawòl ki te tonbe, pawòl konsekan, pawòl temwen. Men chita transkri mande tan. Kidonk, m chwazi pito pou m fè kèk ti refleksyon sou sa m tande.

Premye bagay ki te frape m, se fason jounalis yo kominike ak piblik k ap koute emisyon an. Si objektif konbit la se pou bay enfòmasyon enpòtan sou epidemi kolera a, lang y ap sèvi pou yo bay enfòmasyon an ta dwe on faktè ki enpòtan. M remake, anpil fwa, pandan konbit la, alòske on doktè osnon on enjenyè ap pale kreyòl, osnon ap fè efò pou yo kominike an kreyòl, on jounalis gen dwa kanpe moun k ap pale a pou l mande l on presizyon osnon eklèsi on pwen, men se an jounalis la fè sa. Se reyalite fonksyònman on seri jounalis nan peyi a ki pa reflechi ditou sou pwo blèm

kominikasyon. Kesyon ‘Ak ki moun y ap pale?’ a pa sanble li janm vin nan tèt yo. Gen on maji mikwo radyo a ki genlè fè depi yo ouvè bouch yo se an franse pou yo fè sa, osnon nan on langaj melanje.

Pa egzanp, jounalis k ap resevwa / triye kesyon oditè yo nan fen emisyon an di: “Malgre nou pase kesyon yo nan pèy fen, nou wè ke yo retounen…” M pa konnen si m ta mete espresyon, pawoli, “pase on bagay nan pèy fen” nan on diksyonè, ki sa pifò Ayisyen t ap konprann ladan l. On lòt jounalis li menm deklare: “Sou 14 mil 642 moun ki atenn, genyen 14 mil 83 ki geri, ki egzeyate.” Pou ki sa atenn li di? Èske se sa sèlman ki te vin nan tèt li?

Abitid sèvi ak langaj melanje a, langaj tout voum se do a, menm aji sou jan yo jounalis sa yo suiv enfòmasyon on moun k ap pale prezante devan yo.

An nou pran egzanp Doktè Joslin Pyè-Lwi ki t ap bay enfòmasyon sou sewòm oral. Men sa l di: “…se mezi pou prepare sewòm oral mezon, wi. Sa pa vle di sa k nan ti sache a pi bon, non. Paske, se avèk menm sèl nou sèvi nan manje nou an, ki gen sodyòm, ki gen klòr ladan l lan, en ben se avèk menm pwodui sa yo, yo fè sachè sewòm oral la. Donk, li on ti jan an poud, epui, li genyen lòt engredyan ladan l, ti suk tou, pa vre, men ou pa janm pran gou suk la vre. Donk lè sa a, ou ouvè l, ou annik mete l nan dlo a. Donk se sa ou rele ‘des éléments’—alò m pa vle itilize tèm teknik lan, pa vre—se elektwolit, pa vre, sodyòm, klòr ‘que’ ou bezwen. E se sa k fè l pa rekò-

mande si ou pa fè tansyon pou ou pa manje san sèl. Pa vre, fò ou toujou mete on ti sèl nan manje a, paske kò ou bezwen l.”

Men kesyon / presizyon on jounalis Radyo Karayib: “Gen on mo ou sot di la a, ou anplwaye l de fwa nan de bagay diferan: ou pale de sèl, lè moun al nan twalèt, ou pale de sèl pou kolera, e ou pale de sèl pou sewòm oral.”

Doktè Pyè-Lwi reyaji menm moman an pou l di: “Non! Lè m ap pale de twalèt, m di poupou!”

Jounalis la kontinye: “An, oke! Alò pou moun yo pa konfonn yo…”

Doktè Pyè-Lwi kontinye: “Sèl ke nou manje a, ke n rele gwo sèl la, ke genyen sèl fen, se sèl ki genyen sodyòm, klòr, sa m t ap di yo la a, se yo menm lan kò ou bezwen, e ke ou pèdi lè ou gen dyare… Tandiske watè, yo rele l tou nan mo franse ‘sèl’, “s-e-l-l-e-s”, men lè n ap pale la a, sa nou di, nou menm, se poupou.”

Si nou suiv byen tèks pawòl Doktè Pyè-Lwi a, n ap remake li pa t janm sèvi ak mo ‘sèl’ la nan sans jounalis la di a. Se nan sans ‘engredyan yo met nan manje’ li te sèvi avèk li. Pou ki rezon jounalis la chwazi pou l kouri ak pawòl la nan sans pètèt on doktè ta ka mande on pasyan pou l al fè yon egza-men sèl?

Èske se paske lè l ap pale se plis pou on ti ponyen moun li konnen ki abitye di: “Fò que mwen al wè docteur mwen parce que m gen deux jou m pa fè sèl.”?!

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Paj Kreyòl AyisyenIjyèn Kont Kolera: Ki sa yo di? Ki jan yo di l? Nan ki lang yo di l? (2) [Jounalis, pran men ou!]

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Avèk Wozvèl Jan — Batis

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WASHINGTON – New York Rep. Charles Rangel, a longtime power in the U.S. House, violated its rules with finan-cial misconduct, brought it discredit and will be punished, fellow lawmakers sitting as jurors ruled on Tuesday.

Protesting the enduring stain on his four-decade congressional career, the 80-year-old Democrat said he was treated unfairly for ”good faith mistakes.” His statement reflected the bitterness of an eight-month career slide, starting with an unrelated eth-ics ruling that forced him from his coveted chairmanship of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.

The conduct often cited by critics was his failure to report income to the IRS from a unit he owned in a Dominican Republic resort — showing the chairman in charge of tax legislation shortchanged the IRS.

Rangel, a founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, remains a political kingpin in New York's famed Harlem neighbor-hood and is unlikely to resign. He won re-election earlier this month.

Convicted on 11 of 13 charges of rules violations, his ordeal isn't finished.

The eight-member ethics panel that con-victed him — four Democrats and four Republicans — now will write what is likely to be a stinging report to amplify its findings. Then, the full House ethics committee will conduct a hearing Thurs-day on the appropriate punishment for Rangel, the silver-haired, gravelly voiced and sartorially flashy veteran of 20 terms in Congress.

Rangel can waive his right to the hear-ing and ask the committee to go straight to deliberations on possible sanctions.

Possible sanctions include a House vote deploring his conduct, a fine and denial of certain privileges.

Rangel's downfall, in part, came in the way he solicited money for a New York college center designed as a monument to himself. There also was his decade of

misleading annual disclosures of his income and assets and his use of a subsidized New York apartment — designated for residential use — as a cam-paign office.

The panel deliberated over two days before its chairman, Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren, made a bare-bones statement announcing the findings — leaving a full explanation for the upcoming written report.

The conviction was a fresh setback for Democrats who lost control of the House to the GOP in the midterm elections, sup-port for Republican candidates' assertions of bad conduct.

At his one-day trial on Mon-day, Rangel was reduced to pleading for a postponement — arguing that his lawyers aban-doned him after he paid them some $2 million but could afford no more. The panel rejected his request, and Rangel walked out of the proceeding.

”How can anyone have confi-dence in the decision of the ethics subcom-mittee when I was deprived of due process rights, right to counsel and was not even in the room?” Rangel complained on Tues-day. ”I can only hope that the full commit-tee will treat me more fairly and take into account my entire 40 years of service to the Congress before making any decisions on sanctions.”

He called the panel's findings ”unprec-edented” because there was no rebuttal evidence. He complained that the rejection of his appeal for more time violated ”the basic constitutional right to counsel.”

Rangel, echoing a statement he made in August in a speech to the House, added, ”Any failings in my conduct were the result of good faith mistakes.” He said they were

caused by ”sloppy and careless record keep-ing but were not criminal or corrupt.”

New York Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who attended Rangel's fundrais-er in August while campaigning to clean up New York politics, said, ”It's obviously a sad situation to experience.”

”It's important that people have full faith in the integrity in public service, so it's painful to watch,” Cuomo said Tuesday at a press event near Rochester. ”But we'll see what happens at the end of the process.”

The eight-member jury panel was unani-mous on most charges against Rangel. Members split 4-4 on a charge that he vio-lated a ban on gifts because he was to have an office — and storage of his papers — at the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at City College of New York.

Two counts charging him with misuse of Congress' free mail privilege were merged into one. And the panel voted 7-1 on a final charge that he had brought discredit on the House. No breakdown was given on who voted no.

The charges said the solici-tation for the Rangel Cen-ter targeted foundations and businesses that were seeking official action from the House or had interests that might be substantially affected by Ran-gel's congressional conduct.

However, Rangel was not accused of using his influence to pass or defeat legislation.

During Monday's trial pro-ceeding, the chief counsel for the House ethics com-mittee, Blake Chisam, told the jury that Rangel could have received permission to solicit nonprofit foundations. However, he could not have used congressional stationery and staff as he was found to

have done. Rangel had previously acknowledged

some of the charges, including submis-sion of 10 years' worth of incomplete and inaccurate annual statements disclosing his assets and income.

He also admitted he initially did not report his rental income from a unit he owned at the Punta Cana resort in the Dominican Republic.

An apartment in Harlem's Lennox Ter-race complex housed the Rangel for Con-gress and National Leadership PAC politi-cal committees, although the lease terms said the unit was for living purposes only.

Chisam had told the jury that other ten-ants were evicted at an increasing rate for violating the same lease terms.

Rangel guilty: House ethics Panel Rules Misconduct

WASHINGTON – The chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus said Monday that Rep. James Clyburn, the highest ranking African-American in the House Democratic leadership, should be the vanquished party's second in command in the next Congress.

”Jim has spent a lifetime working to bridge what divides us,” Rep. Barbara

Lee, D-Calif., wrote in a letter urging the Democratic Caucus to vote for the South Carolina Democrat. ”In the 112th Con-gress, we will need Jim's dedication to thwart Republican efforts to repeal all of the progress we have made.”

Lee's letter comes after Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland released the names of 30 rank-and-file Democrats who endorsed him for the same post. Hoyer's letter, authored by Rep. Linda Sanchez of Cali-fornia, praised him as a listener with the ability to stand up to Republicans.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday she would seek the top Democratic job of minority leader, which set up a race between Clyburn, currently the No. 3 as Democratic Whip, and Hoyer, the No. 2 as House Majority leader. Whatever the out-come of that race, House Democrats could see the same leadership roster that was ousted from power in last week's midterm elections.

Not all members of the CBC were fall-ing in line behind Clyburn. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., D-Ill., released a statement on the Hoyer-Clyburn race endorsing neither one.

Black Caucus gives Clyburn Nod in Dem Race

New York Rep. Charles Rangel

Rep. James Clyburn

sporting NGO logos, might be under-mining “government legitimacy.”

In interviews in the capitol and the countryside, Haiti Grassroots Watch found a growing disregard for the government (although, to be fair, this disregard pre-dates January 12) along with a growing expectation that people’s basic needs and services can and should be met by foreign NGOs rather than the government.

“Our future lies with NGOs! We can’t count on the government. If it were for the government, we would be dead already. Nobody from the state has ever come here,” said Romel François, a CFW man-ager at the Terrain Acra camp in the capi-tol, home to 5,000 families. “We basically don’t have a government in this country.

“Whatever program that comes our way, we’ll do it,” Wilson Pierre, head of the Perèy Peasant Association said. Pierre is currently running a 600-job program for Mercy Corps.

“If its work, and we get paid, we’ll do it… I think these jobs should be perma-nent.”

These attitudes are “very concerning,” Chalmers noted.

Chalmers was referring to the report

‘Haiti: From Natural Catastrophe to Eco-nomic Security, written for the UN by British economist Paul Collier in 2009, and which lays out an economic plan the Haitian government and UN agen-cies appear to have used as the blueprint for post-January 12 Haiti. Collier’s book recommends that NGOs and the private sector provide basic health and education services since “scaling up public provi-sion is not a viable solution: the problems of the public sector are deep-seated and it is not realistic to expect that they can be addressed quickly.”

“This system of ‘humanitarian econo-my’ or ‘emergency economy’… is locking the country into a ‘humanitarian approach’ and a dependency on aid. There is a grow-ing disconnect between what people think they can do as citizens because more and more roles are being played by NGOs and international actors in all domains... It also legitimizes the presence of international actors in all the domains,” Chalmers said.

“And that might be a sought-after result, look at the Collier report.”

A more recent paper by the RAND Cor-poration, a frequent U.S. State Department contractor, makes the same recommenda-tion.

Turning to the sought-after objectives, what did Haiti Grassroots Watch find?

1st Objective- Relaunch Economy

One stated objective of CFW programs is to get people working for cash, which is then spent on necessities, and thus con-tributes to a “relaunching” of the economy.

While Haiti Grassroots Watch cannot determine what role CFW programs have played in getting the economy moving, one thing is certain: sidewalks and streets in the capital are crammed with vendors hawking mostly imported goods. While USAID appears to define this kind of eco-nomic activity – selling cast-off shoes and imported underwear – as “success” [see this report – PDF - not everyone sees it the same way.

“The main impact of CFW is on the circulation of money,” Haitian economist Gerald Chéry said. “Whenever there is a big crisis in an economy… they always look for temporary measures to create work so people can have revenues.”

However, Chéry noted, whereas giving people revenues creates demand, the ques-tion needs to be posed – demand for what?

“We need the money to circulate in Haiti, not leave Haiti to go to another country. The money needs to stay in Haiti so that it will create work. You don’t want to pay someone and the person then buys, but another country, not Haiti, benefits,” Chéry said.

And yet in Haiti today, that is exactly what is happening.

Studies by Oxfam and others indicate that CFW beneficiaries spend about one-half the CFW salaries on food and/or on goods to resell in the street, with the rest spent mostly on rent, school fees, paying off debts and other expenses.

If one-half of CFW money is spent on food and goods, the ones getting the boost in this recession-battered world economy are outside of Haitian borders.

Haiti buys more than half of its food overseas, so a great deal of CFW cash is going to Haiti’s trading partners, the largest of whom is the US. In 2008 Haiti bought almost US$1 billion in goods from its northern neighbor – US$325 million went for food.

Is the salary sufficient?Nobody interviewed – by Haiti Grass-

roots Watch or by the NGOs who have conducted studies – thinks that the 200 gourdes a day is sufficient.

“It helps out, but not that much. It’s just a minimum,” 19-year-old Lorde Jordany, a worker near Maniche in the southern part of the country said.

In the Catholic Relief Services-run pro-gram, after one month workers get a sack of wheat, a sack of beans and vegetable oil. Jordany said he’ll sell it all and should get about 3,200 gourdes, or about US$81, in return, meaning that he will have earned about 160 gourdes, less than the official

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Is Cash-For-Work Working?

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minimum salary of 200 gourdes a day. Economists, human rights advocates and

even implementing NGOs agree that 200 gourdes is not sufficient.

“We’re finding that people are not really making enough to really meet all of their needs,” noted Ingersoll.

A 2008 study conducted by the Wash-ington-based Worker Rights Consortium which took into account caloric needs, rent, schooling, energy, food and other costs of living, determined a living wage for one adult with two minor dependents to be 15,244.48 gourdes per month, or about 548.30 gourdes (about US$13.88) a day.

What happens in the countryside?One of the problems with earlier FFW

programs in Haiti was that agricultural production suffered because peasants left their plots in order to work on a crew.

In 2010, Haiti Grassroots Watch discov-ered the same phenomena, although admit-tedly in some regions October is a slow period. Nevertheless, few peasants would admit that their presence on the work crew would hurt their agricultural production. Many claimed that they would work their fields after an eight-hour work day in the Caribbean sun, or “really intensely” on Saturdays instead.

But one agronomist, Philippe Céloi, who was supervising the six-month Catholic Relief Services FFW program near Man-iche, admitted that most of his 468 workers were peasants. The workers – who spend a month on a crew – are building contours on hillsides and doing other watershed management-related tasks.

“After six months there will be ben-efits – not only the workers have gotten a salary but also the community benefits,” Céloi said.

Asked about farmers’ fields however, Céloi admitted there was a down side to the program.

“Yes there are disadvantages also. For example, these people are not doing the

planting they ought to be doing. Right now it’s bean season… And they aren’t planting potatoes or manioc or sorghum, so when this program ends, there is going to be a problem because people won’t be able to find real food to eat… Then, these people will be in a difficult situation.”

2nd Objective – Employ camp residents and displaced people in the countryside

In the capitol, the program camp resi-dents appear to the main beneficiaries of CFW programs. In the countryside how-ever, Haiti Grassroots Watch was unable to find one single displaced person or host family member working a CFW or FFW job. According to community radio jour-nalists in Maniche, Fondwa and Papaye, very few displaced people remain in their rural communities.

Therefore, many of those working out-side of the capitol are peasants, youth and older people who got the jobs via their church, a local grassroots group, or through their connections to a candidate or another local “leader,” who personally handed out work cards. In some places, local officials complained that the program gave them problems since it caused “jeal-ousy” in the communities.

3rd Objective – Political StabilityOnly one CFW document that Haiti

Grassroots Watch obtained spells out this political objective – “stability” – in black-and-white, and claims success.

The USAID Office of Transition Initia-tives (OTI), which through June 30th, had spent over $20 million on CFW programs, via two subcontractors – Chemonics and Development Alternatives Incorporated – had as its primary goals to “support the Government of Haiti, promote stability, and decrease chances of unrest.” In the same document, responding to criticism from the auditor that USAID-funded CFW programs were not removing as much

rubble as they could, Robert Jenkins, Act-ing Director of USAID-Haiti as well as the AID/OTI, said OTI’s strategic objective in Haiti was and is to support stabilization in a changing and volatile environment.

“The initial means (tactics) to this end were numbers of workers and rubble removal. The underlying assumptions in this regard were that workers (particularly young males) were less likely to resort to violence if employed; infusions of ready cash in the poorest neighborhoods would likely have a salutary effect; Rubble removal, again in the poorest neighbor-hoods, was highly symbolic because if offered hope of return to some form of normalcy,” he said.

Jenkins also noted that the programs were “clearly branded as a Government of Haiti initiative.” This means that, objec-tively, in an election year, they supporting the incumbent party and its candidate, Jude Célestin.

Not surprisingly, there have been clashes over CFW in some neighborhoods, includ-ing clashes between apparently pro-Celes-tin CFW workers and supporters of other candidates who said they have been barred from jobs. “Cash for work is cash for vote!” one group of demonstrators shouted in late October.

Cash for Work is working…So in the long run… do the CFW pro-

grams in Haiti “prevent revolution” and “save capitalism”?

Certainly there have not been the kinds of major demonstrations like the ones post-earthquake Mexico witnessed in 1985. Within two weeks of that devastat-ing catastrophe, thousands were marching in the streets to make their demands for decent housing heard.

Perhaps the “stabilization” effect is one reason the Haitian government is asking agencies and NGOs to continue and even augment their programs.

A draft “Operating Manual” from the Haitian government’s “Job Creation Pro-gram to Improve Food Security” (PCEA-SA), released in March 2010, doesn’t men-tion that outcome. Instead, it claims the CFW jobs will “relaunch the economy,” “improve food security,” “clean up the environment” and “relaunch food produc-tion.”

However, as Haiti Grassroots Watch’s investigation, the 1997 study and other work has showed, in the long run CFW programs don’t contribute to any of those objectives... but history shows they’re not a total waste of money either.

USAID Cash-for-work program workers cleaning up rubble in the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, stop to pose for a photo.

USAID Administrator, Rajiv Shah poses with a CHF cash for work team.

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PrescriptionBy Dr. Gerald W. Deas CHICAGO – Working women are equal

to men in a way they'll wish they weren't. Female workers with stressful jobs were more likely than women with less job strain to suffer a heart attack or a stroke or to have clogged arteries, a big federally funded study found.

Worrying about losing a job can raise heart risks, too, researchers found.

The results seem sure to resonate in a weak economy with plenty of stress about jobs — or lack of them. The mere fact this study was done is a sign of the times: Past studies focused on men, the traditional breadwinners, and found that higher job stress raised heart risks. This is the longest major one to look at stress in women, who now make up nearly half of the workforce.

”The reality is these women don't have the same kind of jobs as men” and often lack authority or control over their work, said Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, director of the Women and Heart Disease program at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. ”It's not just going to work, it's what happens when you get there.”

Steinbaum had no role in the study, which was led by Dr. Michelle Albert, a cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Results were reported Sunday at an American Heart Association conference in Chicago.

The research involved 17,415 partici-pants in the Women's Health Study, a long-running trial looking at heart disease

and cancer prevention. The women were healthy, 57 years old on average, and had worked full or part-time when the study began in 1999.

Most were health professionals, ”any-thing from being a nurse's aide all the way to a Ph.D.,” Albert said. They filled out surveys about their jobs, rating statements like ”My job requires working very fast,” and ”I am free from competing demands that others make.”

Researchers put them in four groups based on stress they reported and looked 10 years later to see how they fared.

Women with demanding jobs and little control over how to do them were nearly twice as likely to have suffered a heart attack as women with less demanding jobs and more control. The high-stress group had a 40 percent greater overall risk of heart problems, including heart attacks, strokes or clogged arteries needing bypass surgery or an artery-opening angioplasty procedure.

Women worried about losing their jobs had higher blood pressure, cholesterol and body weight.

Stress can harm by releasing ”fight or flight” hormones, spurring inflammation and raising blood pressure, Steinbaum said.

It did a number on Jackie Morgan, 46, a suburban Boston woman who is on her

study: Women With High Job stress Face Heart Risks

see VITAMIN D on page 23

When we consider how the pilgrims were welcomed by Native Americans and given sustenance for their survival, we should question why immigrants entering our country today are being singled out and refused a welcoming hand by those who were once immigrants themselves.

In December 1854, Chief Sealth (Seat-tle) sent the following message to Presi-dent Franklin Pierce:

How Can You Buy or Sell the Earth?The Great Chief in Washington sends

word that he wishes to buy our land. The Great Chief also sends us words of friend-ship and good will. This is kind of him, since we know he has little need of our friendship in return but, we will consider your offer.

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?

Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing, and every humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. The sap which courses through the trees carries the memories of the red man, So, when the Great Chief in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land, he asks much of us….

This we know; All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it.

Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. But we will consider your offer to go to the reservation you you have for my people. We will live apart and in peace.

One thing we know, which the white man one day will discover- our God is the same God. You may think now that you own Him as you wish to own our land; but you cannot.

He is the God of man and his compas-sion is equal for the red man and the white. This earth is precious to Him and to harm the earth is the heap contempt on its Cre-ator. The whites too shall pass; perhaps sooner than the other tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste. But in your perishing you will shine brightly, fired by the strength of the God who brought you to this land and for some spe-cial purpose gave you dominion over this land and over the red man. That destiny is a mystery to us, for we do not understand when the buffalo are all slaughtered, the wild horses are tamed, and the view of the ripe hill blotted by talking wires.

Where is the thicket? Gone. Where is the eagle? Gone. What is it to say goodbye to the swift pony and the hunt? The end of living and the beginning of survival. So we will consider your offer to buy the land.

If we agree, it will be to secure the reser-vation you have promised. There perhaps,

we may live out our brief days as we wish. When the last man has vanished from the earth, and his memory is only the shadow of a cloud moving across the prairie, these shores and forests will still hold the spirit of my people. For they love this earth as a newborn loves the mother’s heartbeat. So, if we sell our land, love it as we’ve loved it. Care for it as we’ve cared for it. Hold in your mind the memory of the land as it is when you take it. And preserve it for your children, and love it…as God loves us all. One thing we know. God is the same God. This earth is precious to Him. Even the white man cannot be exempt from the com-mon destiny. We may be brothers after all.

We shall see…

In closing, I would like to share with you some Indian tribal proverbs from the book, The Soul Would Have No Rainbow If the Eyes Had No Tears, by Guy A Zona.:

Good and evil cannot dwell together in the same heart. So a good man ought not to go into evil company—Delaware

Know that we are eager to share our gifts in the name of love—Seneca

He who is present at a wrongdoing and does not lift a hand to prevent it is as guilty as the wrongdoers—Omaha

Speak the truth in humility to all people. Only then can you be a true man—Sioux

The Great Spirit is always angry with men who shed innocent blood—Iowa

It is senseless to fight when you cannot hope to win—Apache

There is no warning for upcoming dan-ger—Cheyenne

The words of God are not like the oak leaf, which dies and falls to the earth, but like the pine tree that stays green forever—Mohawk

Those who not fear God are not strong—Seneca

Trouble no man about his religion- respect him in his views and demand that he respect yours—Shawnee

Sharing and giving are the ways of God—Sauk

I am living in poverty, but in peace—Hopi

We are friends; we must assist each other to bear our burdens—Osage

Walk lightly in the spring; mother earth is pregnant—Kiowa

Sharing and giving are the ways of God—Sauk

To our Native American brothers and sisters, new immigrants, and all others: I wish you, and your generations to come, a peaceful and hopeful Thanksgiving.

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The haiTian Times 15 November 17-23, 2010 HeALTHAs data collection improves in com-

munities affected by the cholera outbreak in Haiti, the number of reported cases is expected to rise significantly, the top United Nations relief official there said Nov 15.

Over 12,000 Haitians have so far been hospitalized and over 800 people have died from the disease, which is spread by contaminated food and water.

“We are now trying to ramp up the col-lection of data from communities, so that we can get a more real-istic figure,” said Nigel Fisher, who is acting UN Humanitarian Coordina-tor and deputy head of the UN mission in Haiti, known as MINUSTAH.

“We expect a signifi-cant increase in recorded cases. People should not be surprised by that.”

Speaking to reporters in New York via video link from the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, Mr. Fisher said current data was based on the Ministry of Health statistics derived from the number of patients hospi-talized with cholera.

Up to 200,000 cases of cholera are expected to be reported over the next 6 to 12 months, as Haiti also deals with the aftermath of January’s devastating earth-quake and flooding in the wake of a recent hurricane.

Mr. Fisher confirmed that cases of the disease continued to expand rapidly,

with cases reaching every department, or administrative division, as well as the capital.

“This has gone far beyond a health or sanitation matter. It’s an issue of environ-mental concern, it’s an issue obviously of national security where we have dem-onstrations starting already, against for example cholera treatment centres,” Mr. Fisher said.

With treatment centres facing demon-strations and a large, violent protest target-

ing MINUSTAH head-quarters at Cap Haïtien today, communications between the UN and the population have been expanded to meet a growing need.

“The communica-tions strategy is broad-ening, not just with information about how people can protect themselves through bet-

ter hygiene but also examples as to how a cholera treatment centre in your locality is actually an advantage and is not a threat to your health,” he said.

Some Haitians have grown suspicious of UN facilities in the area after a rumour began that a peacekeepers’ camp was the source of the original outbreak. Mr. Fisher responded to questions on the subject say-ing that no link had been found between the camp and the outbreak. He said the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) had analyzed the strain of cholera

but had been unable to place a definite source on the outbreak.

“The conclusion was that it would be impossible to ascertain where and how it came in,” he said.

“The reports of CDC and other tests have been negative so far. CDC has said it would be almost impossible to find a precise source.”

He added that the UN’s priority is on preventing the further spread of the dis-ease. “Our emphasis today is on trying to contain the number of deaths from what

is going to be a very severe outbreak,” he told reporters.

To help contain the outbreak, nearly half a million water tablets, soap and oral rehydration salts are being distributed, targeting areas where cholera has already been detected.

A $164 million appeal was launched on Friday to get additional doctors, medi-cines and water purification equipment to respond to the epidemic, which has spread quickly since it was first confirmed on 22 October.

Haiti’s Cholera Cases likely to Increase significantly, uN Relief Official says

“We expect a significant increase in recorded cases.

People should not be surprised by that.”

LONDON (Reuters) – Nearly 20 percent of the world's popula-tion still defecates in the open, and action to improve hygiene, sanitation and water supply could prevent more than 2 million child deaths a year, health experts said Monday.

In a series of studies on sanita-tion published as a cholera epi-demic claims hundreds of live in Haiti, public health research-ers from the United States and Europe found that this year 2.6 billion people across the world do not have access to even a basic toilet.

Unsafe sanitation and drinking water, together with poor hygiene, account for at least 7 percent of disease across the world, they said, as well as nearly 20 percent of all child deaths in the world.

Despite this, progress in improving safe water supplies and sanitation has been ”pain-fully slow” in many develop-ing countries, they said. They urged international donors, Unit-ed Nations agencies, developing country governments and health workers to act now to reduce this ”devastating disease burden.”

Poor sewerage and sanitation

can spread dangerous infections like viral hepa-titis and cholera, an acute disease transmitted in contaminated water that causes watery diarrhea and severe dehydration and can kill within hours if not treated.

More than 900 people have died of cholera in Haiti -- which is still recovering from a dev-astating earthquake in January -- in an outbreak which experts believe was worsened by flood-ing caused by Hurricane Tomas this month.

The United Nations forecasts up to 200,000 Haitians could contract the infection as the out-break extends across the country and says $163.9 million in aid is needed over the next year to fight it.

In the studies, published in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine journal, researchers said that of the 2.6 billion people who have no access to decent sanitation, two-thirds live in Asia and sub-Sahara Africa.

It also found huge regional disparities in sanitation cover-age. While 99 percent of peo-ple in industrialized countries have access to good sanitation, in developing countries only 53 percent have it. Within develop-ing countries, urban sanitation coverage is 71 percent while in rural areas it is 39 percent.

”Globally, around 2.4 million

deaths could be prevented annu-ally if everyone practiced appro-priate hygiene and had good, reliable sanitation and drinking water,” said Sandy Cairncross of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, who led one of the studies. ”These deaths are mostly of children in developing countries from diarrhoea and sub-sequent malnutrition, and from

other diseases attributable to malnutrition.”

A World Health Organi-zation (WHO) report pub-lished in May found the world was on track to achieve a globally agreed Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on access to safe drinking water, but more needed to be done to improve levels of sanita-tion.

The MDG targets call for the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation to be halved by 2015 from levels in 2000.

Paul Hunter of Britain's University of East Anglia, who led one of the PLoS studies said more research

was needed to see which inter-vention measures could improve sanitation and health.

”But ... action must not wait for the outcomes of such research,” he wrote. ”We know enough now about the importance of improved water supply, sanita-tion, and hygiene ... to consider universal access to these services to be an urgent imperative.”

Better sanitation Could save 2 million Lives A Year

Up to 200,000 cases of cholera are expected to be reported over the next 6 to 12 months

U.N. investigators seeking the cause of the cholera epidemic gathered human waste from a peace-keeping base in Mirebalais, Haiti.

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COMMuNITYCALeNDARManhattan

The City Council's Committees on Immigration and Fire & Criminal Justice will hold a joint hearing on the NYC Department of Corrections' (DOC) cooperation with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) On Wednesday Nov. 10 at 250 Broadway, 14th Floor, New York.. This collaboration involves using tens of millions of City dollars to facilitate the enforcement of federal immigration law and the deportation of New Yorkers, who often are not even convicted of serious crimes. Approximately 3,000-4,000 City residents are deported annually through this system, even though New York is wrongly considered to be among the most immigrant-friendly cities in the U.S. Advocates, legal experts, and affected immigrants will testify and call on the City Council to pass new legislation requir-ing the NYC DOC to affirmatively assist in executing ICE's civil immigration detainers only on those indi-viduals who pose a serious risk to our communities, and to opt-out of the mis-named federal ”Secure Com-munities” program.

- The U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) has announced that this year the government has changed its guidelines on who should get a flu shot to include just about everyone. Also according to the CDC, if you got one or both of the available flu shots last flu season, or you had the flu, you still need to get this seasons shot for protection against this seasons flu. If you are cur-rently sick with a moderate or severe illness like a nasty cold or worse, government health experts advise holding off on getting a flu shot until you are better. The elderly, health workers, and people who have chronic immune disorders such as HIV infection are especially encour-aged to get a flu shot. The guidelines on who should not get vaccinated have not really changed. Children under 6 months of age still should not get a flu shot nor should those who have had a previous allergic reaction to eggs or other vaccine components. Just call your care pro-vider, local board of health, or your job's human resource department. Or check out flu.gov to find flu shot clinic locations and more. But do it soon to avoid catching a nasty case of this season's flu.

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-The Men's Health Clinic at Helen B. Atkinson Health Center will offer Primary health care services for men in

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-The Sidney Hillman Foundation is now accepting nomi-nations and submissions for the 2011 Hillman Prizes, which that honor investigative journalism that fosters social and economic justice. The 2011 prizes will be given for work

produced, published, broadcast, or exhibited in 2010. Our six categories will include books (non-fiction), reporting in newspaper, magazine, and online (including blogs), film and broadcast journalism (includes television and radio), and photojournalism. Authors, editors, reporters, producers and photo editors are urged to submit nominations now. The contest is open to journalists and subjects globally, although work must be published in the United States. The postmark deadline for ALL nominations and submis-

sions is January 31, 2011. There is no submis-sion fee. A cover letter and four copies of the nominated material are all that are required. For photojournalism entries, we would most like to see tear sheets (photos as they were published), but scanned work on discs is also acceptable and/or can be supplemental. Please fill out the nomination form on our website. Online and blog entries can be submitted entirely on this form. Winners will be announced in May 2011. Each winner is awarded travel to New York City to receive a $5,000 prize and a certificate designed by New Yorker cartoonist, Edward Sorel, at our cocktail reception and awards ceremony to be held May 19, 2011. Submis-sions are judged by a distinguished panel of judges: Hendrik Hertzberg, senior editor, The New Yorker, Susan Meiselas, Magnum pho-tographer, Harold Meyerson, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times columnist and editor-at-large, The American Prospect, Katrina van-den Heuvel, editor and publisher, The Nation, Rose Marie Arce, senior producer, CNN, and Charles Kaiser, ”Full Court Press,” found on

the website of the Sidney Hillman Foundation. Please forward all nominations/submissions to:

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NID-HCA works with your lender to negotiate the best terms available for all parties involved. NID-HCA will discuss extensively with the client issues such as, how to avoid foreclosure, options to foreclosure, communicating with your lender/service, renegotiating your loan terms, managing your debt and re-establishing your credit.

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The haiTian Times 17 November 17-23, 2010 BusINess

NEW YORK (Reuters) – With-out a boost from Washington policymakers or data showing budding strength in the economy, Wall Street's rally may be running out of fuel as the S&P 500 eases off its 2010 high.

A data-heavy week could give investors hard evidence to justify a rally that lifted the S&P 500 16.8 percent from its August 31 close to the 2010 closing high hit November 5.

But the index has been unable to move above 1,228, a key resis-tance level, and its chart is brew-ing a double-top formation, a very bearish signal.

”We're susceptible to a pull-back if we don't get any clarity on fiscal policy and if any of this economic data disappoints next week,” said John Lynch, chief equity strategist at Wells Fargo Funds Management in Charlotte, North Carolina.

”I would think you're going to see some, not all, smart money pull their investment (out of stocks) the closer we get to 1,228. These guys recognize we still have above 9 percent unemploy-ment, sovereign credit risks, a consumer deleveraging and no clarity as to what businesses should do with their cash.”

Last week, the Dow Jones industrial average (.DJI) and the Standard & Poor's 500 index (.SPX) each fell 2.2 percent. The Nasdaq Composite index (.IXIC) lost 2.4 percent.

The S&P 500 brushed the 61.8 percent retracement of its slide from the historic highs in 2007 to the low in March 2009.

This was the second time the index backed away from the 1,228 area and its chart could be drawing a bearish ”double top” formation. The last retreat from that level, in April, was the start of a correction that took the S&P to its 2010 low in July.

The S&P 500 dipped on Friday below its 20-day moving average for the first time since September 1, but managed to close above it in a sign that that level, currently just above 1,194, could provide strong technical support.

LeT's TaLK aBOUT TaXes

Investors will closely watch a meeting on Thursday between U.S. President Barack Obama and congressional leaders to dis-cuss policy, including tax cuts.

Republicans will take control of the House of Representatives starting in January following their strong gains in the Novem-ber 2 elections. They have vowed to force a full extension of all tax cuts enacted during the admin-istration of former President George W. Bush. Otherwise, the tax cuts expire at the end of 2010.

Most of Obama's Democrats favor extending tax cuts only for the first $200,000 of income of individuals and $250,000 for families.

”Bush tax cuts are very important for the market,” said Michael Yoshikami, president and chief investment strategist at YCMNET Advisors in Walnut Creek, California.

”If they're not renewed, that could cost 0.75 percentage point per year in GDP (growth). I

don't think any other proposal would have that kind of signifi-cant impact. If dividend taxes were raised, that would be a still important but more minor issue,” he said.

Many Democrats argue that renewing all the tax cuts would swell the record U.S. budget defi-cit and have little, if any, impact on cutting the high unemploy-ment rate.

DaTa BaCK On The TaBLe

Following a week in which the few macroeconomic indica-tors barely influenced stocks, a slew of data ranging from manu-facturing to leading indicators to retail sales, and, perhaps most importantly, inflation, will return investors' attention to market fun-damentals.

Producer prices are expected to have risen 0.8 percent month-over-month in October. The U.S. government measure, out on Tuesday, could add to con-cerns following September's rise, which was twice what analysts expected. With little leverage to pass on costs to cash-strapped consumers, businesses may have to swallow any price increases, weakening margins and profits.

The year-on-year consumer prices index, due on Wednesday, is expected to show a dip to 0.7 percent from 0.8 percent in Sep-tember when food and energy prices are excluded.

Consumer staple companies highlighted ”concerns about ris-ing commodity costs and to what extent are businesses able to pass costs through the chain,” said

Wells Fargo's Lynch. He pointed to businesses will-

ing to absorb much of those price rises, ”which would be consistent with my perception that earnings and margins estimates for next year are too high.”

On Monday, data could show retail sales gained in October,

while a separate report on Sep-tember inventories could detail unwanted supply piling up at businesses.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke could provide a signal on the strength of the Fed's bond-buying commitment in remarks in Frankfurt on Friday.

Taxes, Inflation Data to Dominate Week

TORONTO, ONTARIO – On Novem-ber 17th an all day workshop will be held in Toronto focused on engaging Canadian businesses in Haiti recovery efforts.

TISA (Trade & Investment Services Alliance) will host a workshop to inform Canadian companies about business and investment opportunities in Haiti recon-struction efforts and provide key infor-mation and contacts so they can directly participate.

Due to the earthquake, the needs of the country are immense, as is the demand for products and services. In addition to construction needs, there are significant opportunities for Canada's private sector to participate in the country's recovery in a wide variety of sectors such as health, education and infrastructure.

Workshop speakers will address interna-tional reconstruction efforts, Haiti private sector development and the importance of industrial park construction to support the influx of business. Participants will

receive information on the projects of vari-ous main players in Haiti Reconstruction, including the United Nations, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Bank.

The event is one in a series of events organized in Canada to encourage business partnerships between the countries and promote investment.

A delegation of representatives from Haitian companies is also expected to attend the Toronto workshop and par-ticipate in the afternoon's one-on-one net-working sessions.

Attendees will represent engineering firms, construction companies and suppli-ers, international development consultants and companies working with Multilateral Development banks. Any Canadian busi-nesses with interest in recovery efforts related to health, education, agriculture and infrastructure are encouraged to attend.

The story was first published on mar-ketwire.com.

Haiti Workshop Helps Canadian Companies to Participate in Reconstruction efforts

House Republicans have vowed to force a full extension of all tax cuts enacted during the administration of former President George W. Bush.

Due to the earthquake, the needs of Haiti are immense, as is the demand for products and services.

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CARIMI Performed for President CompaoréAfter their sold out concert in Zenith, Paris where one member of the Burkinabe

government was in the attendance, CARIMI traveled to Africa to play a short set for Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaoré. This is a big thing for the group that per-formed at a presidential dinner held by the Burkinabe. Around 100 people attended the dinner, including a number of high-rank officials, diplomats, and culture representatives of culture.

Why Did Zenglen Fired Dabenz?According to different sources Zenglen

defended itself business wise about firing one of their singers, Dabenz, based on the fact that Dabenz allegedly had planned a “coup d’état” by joining the New York band Oxygen, and by telling the keyboard player Jude to join him. The band has discussed the issues raised by Jude. The sources continue to say that Darbenz attitude was the key to maintain a good rela-tionship with him, but he failed by acting up, and showing off all the time. The long-running dispute between Dabenz and the rest of the band appears came to an end last week with Zenglen apparently reluctant to let the singer stay in the band any longer. For his part, Zenglen’s band leader Brutus who knew about Dabenz secret move, made his point at a performance in Haiti. Something's got to give and someone's got to go he said. After a meeting of all Zenglen’s musi-cians, they decided to let Dabenz go.

Beethova Obas to Release a New Album Next Month”Future” is the title of Beethova Obas’ new album with the collaboration of several

Caribbean and Haitian musicians such as Dominique Berose, Zebina Jose, Sergo Decius, Fabrice Rouzier and Azor. The strings of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Wroclaw (Poland) on the CD will be noted. Beethova is thrilled to be releasing the single “Gòl La” that allows him to use something that has a meaning and compose music beats and lyrics that his fans can relate to. The album contains twelve tracks, including “Futur”, “Rara Bois Verna”, “Ti papa”, and “Yo”. Most of the songs highlight the artist in pitch-perfect vocals and a stylistically fresh sound featuring a cello line, drums, piano, guitar, string instruments and international beats. A release will be held in New York on December 12.

Harmonik Hires Christian surena as Their New KeyboardistHarmonik has announced this week the addition of

Christian Surena of SUAV as their second keyboard player. Surena comes to Harmonik with expertise in both keyboard and lead vocal. The new musician was well received and the new addition was complimented on the ease and success of his transition into a well-sustained band so quickly. Harmonik ended up with Christian Surena when musician Don Bouli decided to focus on his family matters. They could have gone with solo singer Nickenson Prudhomme who is Don Bouli’s protégé, but the band took a cue from the manager and decided to hire Surena. In the coming

weeks Harmonik will be integrating the new musician into all tracks that were set for their up-coming album, thus expanding not only their current set list, but their potential to meet the needs of fans in their live performances.

Tammy Babcock is helping Haiti When Tammy Babcock, the humanitar-

ian, learned of the conditions in Cité Soleil a neighborhood of Port- au- Prince, she worked with the community to build a water-tower, and provide first-aid to the locals, risking her own safety in an area overrun by gang violence. After her first foray into Cite Soleil, Ms. Babcock founded the humanitarian orga-nization, Help Tammy Help Haiti (HTHH), a grassroots organization that works directly with the people affected by disease, home-lessness, crime and serious health issues brought about by oppressive poverty. Tammy is a 32 years old humanitarian who took it upon herself to make this world a better place for those less fortunate. Born and raised in rural Ontario near the city of Kingston, Tammy has traveled the world over to countries like Japan, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Thai-land and most recently, several trips to Cité Soleil, Haiti.

Bibliothèque sans Frontières to Open a Library in Port-au-Prince

Libraries Without Borders set up a partnership with the State University of Haiti to open a digital library to accommodate the 15,000 students in Port-au-Prince in January 2011. In the long term, TSO will prepare the implementation of the future university library in Port-au-Prince. The State University of Haiti (UEH) suffered considerable damage. Numerous buildings were severely damaged or completely destroyed by the earthquake. Eleven of the twelve libraries of the University are on the ground. To support the resumption of classes at the beginning of January 2011 Libraries Without Borders provides a solution for rapid access to information for students, researchers and teachers in Haiti. The Digital Library UEH will allow access to electronic resources, online courses, journals and periodicals. More than 20 international publishers have agreed to open their database free of charge to 15,000 students in Port-au-Prince who will have access to the digital library.

The haiTian Times 19 November 17-23, 2010

NEW YORK- Parties to the interna-tional convention on the preservation of the world’s intangible cultural heritage gathered in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, Nov.15 for a United Nations-convened meeting to examine cultural elements that need to be inscribed on the list of protected cultural traditions.

The Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, which is administered by the UN Educational, Sci-entific and Cultural Organization (UNES-CO), was adopted in 2003 and is ratified by 132 States.

Recommended are the protection of ele-ments such as oral traditions and expres-sions, performing arts, social practices, rituals and festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the uni-verse and know-how related to traditional handicrafts.

Some 400 State delegates, representa-tives from civil society and observers are attending the 5th session of the Intergov-ernmental Committee for the Safeguarding

of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, which is being held for the first time in Sub-Saharan Africa.

“The Convention is one of the most innovative instruments that we have developed to address con-temporary challenges,” said Irina Bokova, UNESCO’s Director General, in her opening address. “I see our commitment to intangible heritage as an act of solidar-ity, respect and understand-ing of others,” she said.

During the five-day meeting, the Committee will examine four elements presented for inscription on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, and 47 elements for the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

The first contains cultural elements

whose viability is at risk despite efforts of communities and groups that practice them. In order to be inscribed on this list, States must pledge to implement special protection plans. They may benefit from financial assistance from a fund managed

by UNESCO. “International conven-

tions that guide preservation of heritage demand uniform application of adherence,” said Kenya’s Vice-President Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka. “Kenya is ready and will-ing to take on more projects that bring out and preserve our heritage. Such a pursuit would increase the visibility of our diverse cultural values and traditions and promote mutual respect and dialogue amongst Kenya’s various communities,” he added.

Ms. Bokova lamented the absence at this year's session

of inscription candidates from Africa. ”We should feel an obligation towards

the African continent and to all those who have an extremely rich intangible heritage and who are not fittingly represented in the Convention’s Lists,” she said.

Cultural Traditions for uN Protected List

Los Angeles – “The boy who lived,” Hermione, Ron, Dobby, Dumbledore and the rest of J. K. Rowling’s magical char-acters launch their final film chapter this Friday with “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1.”

But even as the Potter franchise begins its big screen fade to black, the impact of this alternately charming and cautionary wizarding world only grows. And not just in the customary fan sites spawned by many a great read.

Taking the moral lessons and emotional

themes off the pages and into the real world, lovers of the gentle Albus Dumb-ledore’s wisdom and the hard-earned social awakenings of Hermione Granger have been inspired to address human needs, providing relief planes for Haiti and art supplies for orphans.

How well do you know 'Harry Potter'? Take our quiz.

Henry Jenkins, a media scholar and cultural expert at the University of South-ern California in Los Angeles, says the phenomenon represents a new and more

potent brand of online-enabled, participa-tory culture. He cites the Boston-based Harry Potter Alliance (HPA) as the most prominent organization to translate the moral lessons of the seven-part literary series into real world remedies.

“We are working to make the real world a little more magical and lot more”

Young people are traditionally the hard-est to motivate into real-world action, Slack says. But the boys and girls who cheered for Hermione when she stood up for the rights of tiny house elves, he adds, understand the stern warning from Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore that the wizarding world will come to rue the indif-ference and neglect it has heaped upon the magical creatures, which are made to perform the lowest and dirtiest household chores, essentially as slaves.

“It’s not hard to make the leap into the real world from there,” says Slack, because the Potter generation is one that already cares about the environment and under-stands warnings about paying a future price for “the neglectful and indifferent behavior of today.”

Partners in the real worldHPA has done everything from helping to bring out the vote in 2008 to raising awareness about human rights violations in Darfur. The group partnered with existing charitable groups working in Haiti to ferry in medi-cal and food supplies after the earthquake.

The most recent undertaking takes its cue from the final Potter book, using the seven horcruxes – magical soul-containing objects that Harry and his friends must destroy to vanquish the evil Lord Volde-mort – as vehicles for the seven biggest political issues of the day. In a campaign that just launched, the group wants to put a monthly spotlight on such hot button issues as world hunger, economic and racial inequality, and literacy. The drive will culminate next summer when the second and concluding part of the Deathly

Hallows film arrives.In 2009, Mr. Jenkins embarked on a

Macarthur Foundation-funded, three-year study of online participatory culture and its implications for political organizing among youth. The HPA is one of only two groups he is studying in the initial phase, he says, because of its robust growth and ability to effect action. (The other group is Invisible Children, which combats the abduction of children for use as child sol-diers in Uganda.)

HPA builds on what Jenkins calls the “proto-activism” of fan groups that have moved TV networks to extend the life of a favorite show or character through mas-sive grassroots online activism. But, he says, what HPA is doing takes this kind of activism to a more fully realized scale.

By speaking the emotional language of this cohort, Jenkins says, Slack and his group bypass the alienation most young people feel from the “policy wonk” rheto-ric that permeates most normal politics.

From fiction to reality Tapping into beloved figures from pop fiction is nothing new, Jenkins says, adding that he himself, as a young TV viewer, was moved to a greater appreciation of real-world prob-lems through his passion for the original 1960s Star Trek series. As a young man growing up in the segregated South, he says, I appreciated seeing the multiracial cast.

Jenkins says the biggest challenge the HPA faces as it moves from its passionate base into partnering with existing orga-nizations to effect real change, “is being taken seriously when you are named for a children’s book.”

However, he says, the fact that HPA took home this year’s second annual Chase Bank Community Giving Contest on Face-book, which awarded a $250,000 prize, is a sign that the group is gaining the more adult traction that it seeks.

How Harry Potter Is Inspiring Muggles To Help From Haiti To Darfur

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November 17-23, 2010The haiTian Times20

INGREDIENTS1 (12 pound) whole turkey, neck and giblets removed2 cups green seasoning (Chief Brand)1/2 cup butter, cubed1 apple, cored and quartered1 red onion quarteredbunch of thyme (about 1/2 cup)bunch of parsley (about 1/2 cup)1 tablespoon garlic powdersalt and pepper to taste2/3 bottle champagne.

I try to make a different kind of turkey every chance i get. So with thanksgiving right around the corner, I thought I'd try this champagne concoction. This is your chance to add some zing to the typical scallion, peppers, garlic mix. The champagne creates great moisture and flavor. Feel free to use your own spice mix instead of the green seasoning mixture. The key to this recipe is the turkey bag and the champagne. So don't skip them.

DIRECTIONSPreheat oven to 350 degrees F

(175 degrees C).Rinse turkey, and pat dry. Rub

with green seasoning and garlic powder, salt and pepper. Gen-tly loosen turkey breast skin and add marinade. Let marinade for 24-48 hours in refrigerator. Take out of refrigerator, lift up turkey breast skin and insert pieces of butter between the skin and breast. Place thyme, onion, parsley, inside the tur-key's cavity. Sprinkle with a bit more garlic powder and salt,

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Errands or other short journeys in your neighbor-hood could result in a chance meeting with someone who could be of great benefit to you in the future, Sagittarius. Opportunities to advance your educational, artistic, or spiritual interests could open up as a result of this meeting. When you go out, make sure you look your best even if you're only going to the grocery store.

SagittariusToday you should

be looking and feeling great. You might attract some admiring looks from passersby on the street. Sex and romance might be on your mind, Aquarius. You're likely to want to spend the day with your special someone. You could also channel those feelings into creative activities of some kind. Informa-tion may come your way that sets your mental juices flowing. Make the most of it!

J a n . 2 0 - F e b . 1 8

Aquarius M a y 2 1 - J u n e 2 0

GeminiA desire to be cre-

ative could have you experimenting with various kinds of artistic disciplines, perhaps in connection with computers, Aries. At some point today you could be in the right place at the right time, receiving just the right help from someone who can point you in whatever direction you want to go. Ambitious plans could fill your head and keep your mind buzzing. Make a list! It might help.

M a r c h 2 0 - A p r i l 1 8

AriesToday you might

toy with the idea of publishing, exhibiting, or otherwise making public whatever creative innova-tions you've been working on, Gemini. Spiritual information could come your way from afar, perhaps through friends or a group with which you're affiliated. Inspi-ration of all kinds could pop in and out of your head, so it might be best to write down your thoughts.

Creativity and romance are the words for today, Libra. Artistic or other creative projects are likely to catch the attention of others, perhaps bring-ing valuable contacts your way. As a result, you're likely to be inspired to move ahead to new ones. You're also likely to feel especially roman-tic and sexy. If you're currently involved, expect to grow closer to your partner. If you aren't, you might meet someone special.

S e p t . 2 3 - O c t . 2 2

Libra

J u n e 2 1 - J u l y 2 2

Inspiration in various contexts could fill your mind today, Cancer. Opportunities to advance your artistic or spiri-tual interests could come your way, perhaps through advice given by a new acquaintance. You could also be in the right place at the right time to get a lucky break. You're likely to feel especially romantic and sexy. You might want to cel-ebrate your good fortune by getting together with your partner.

CancerYour mind is full of

wonderful thoughts today, Pisces. You might consider spending the day meditating, doing some volun-teer work, or turning your inspira-tion into an artistic project of some kind. Your intuition is especially high, so you might tune in more acutely than usual to the thoughts and feelings of others. Take a few minutes during the day to be alone with your thoughts. You will prob-ably benefit from it.

F e b . 2 0 - M a r c h 1 9

Pisces O c t . 2 1 - N o v 2 0

ScorpioArtistic inspiration

could come from deep within at some point today, perhaps even from a dream or vision. You're likely to have a lot of energy to pour into creativity right now, Tau-rus, and if you work hard and don't lose sight of the business side of the arts, you could move forward. Don't be surprised if you suddenly meet the right person to give you the right advice!

A p r i l 1 9 - M a y 2 0

TaurusToday you might

hear of opportunities to make extra money through creative work of some kind, Capricorn. This could be a genuine lucky break achieved by being in the right place at the right time. You will probably take advantage of it, because right now you're full of inspiration. You might have a hard time keeping track of all your ideas. Write them down!

D e c . 2 2 - J a n 1 9

CapricornA group of people

oriented toward artistic, spiri-tual, or humanitarian pursuits could meet today at your home to work on advancing their projects. Among them could be someone very special who might play a posi-tive role in your life. As a result of this gathering you could find inspiration to move ahead with personal projects. In the evening, see a romantic movie or go on a hot date!

Today you might feel inspired to help others less fortunate, Virgo. The opportunity to do some volunteer work could come your way, perhaps for a church, charity, or other humani-tarian organization. Or you could throw yourself into an artistic dis-cipline. Either way, you're likely to enjoy yourself immensely and meet some interesting people in the process. Fundraising could be involved in some way.

A u g . 2 3 - S e p t . 2 2

Virgo

J u l y 2 3 - A u g . 2 2

LeoSocial events with

artistically or spiritually inclined people could have you feeling especially inspired, Leo, and look-ing forward to the future in what-ever discipline interests you. You're also likely to be feeling especially romantic and sexy. You will want to schedule time alone with that special someone in your life. If you aren't currently involved, you could meet someone special today.

This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “reach for the stars”. But in all seriousness, this is an epidemic. Don’t you find in strange that people nowadays are so much sicker than they were in earlier times. Don’t get me wrong; I’m glad we no longer have droves of people dying of things like small pox and polio, but are things really better?

Instead of dying we’re just delaying death with these pills. People are more interested in feeling better and not actu-ally being better. Do people ever stop and think about what these pills are doing to them?

It’s a vicious cycle. You start taking a pill for one symptom. A few weeks

later that symptom is gone, but now you have two other symptoms. Now you need another pill to take care of those. Then you get another symptom...then another... then another. Next thing you know your medicine cabinet is actually full and there’s no room for toothpaste

While there are many pills that are essential to our well being and healing such as antibiotics, a lot of others only treat the symptoms and not the cause of the disease. When you get a headache instead of thinking of stopping the pain, think about what causes the pain in the first place.

I’m not saying don’t take an Advil, I’m saying take the Advil then figure out how you can prevent future headaches. If you continue to pop Tylenol or Advil while your body is telling you there’s something wrong it could be the difference between taking an antibiotic to get rid of a small infection and having surgery to remove damaged tissue or worse.

We’ve got to get out of this over-medi-cated sleep walking that we, as a society, have embraced so fully. There are so many alternatives to medication. A lot of these ailments we suffer from can be fixed with something as simple as a change in our diets.

Remember, it wasn’t that long ago that doctors were promoting cigarette smok-ing. You’ve got to take charge of your own health. Don’t become the walking dead when it comes to your well-being.

Until next time, cheers to a better you!

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There were some pieces that caught my eye, but one in par-ticular really got me thinking. From afar the piece looked like a depiction of the night sky with stars connected with lines to form some random constellations. But upon further inspection the stars weren’t just stars. They were different pills. Tyle-nol, Viagra, Avandia, Proventil, Augmentin, Lipitor, Celebrex, Tagamet, Allegra, Prozac... the stars went on and on.

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second medical leave of absence in two years from a teleconference center, where she managed 16 operators running corpo-rate conference calls.

”Dropped calls? Somebody's line not open? You're running from operator to operator to handle problems that occur during the call,” she explained. ”It's very stressful. When I tell people about it, they look at me like I have three heads. I feel like I should have Rollerblades on.”

Her heart problems started in the sum-mer of 2008, with a crush of calls related to auto company bailouts.

”I just started getting chest pains” and collapsed while out walking one night, she said. Tests found no signs of heart disease, but doctors gave her nitroglycerin pills, which can relieve chest tightness due to constricted heart arteries.

”Sure enough, when the pain came again a few other times I took the nitro and boom, the pain was gone,” Morgan said.

Doctors should ask about stress along with traditional heart risk factors like smoking and blood pressure, Albert said. ”We need to start taking that seriously.”

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the street, waiting for treatment.”The epidemic has provoked fear and

anger in Haiti. The country was already struggling to recover from a devastating earthquake in January which killed about 230,000 people in and around the capital Port-au-Prince and shattered its already poor infrastructure.

On Monday two people died during violent protests against UN peacekeepers, whom some Haitians accuse of bringing cholera into Haiti.

At least one of the men was shot dead by the UN troops.

There were further clashes between youths and peacekeepers in several towns on Nov. 16.

Haitian president Rene Preval has appealed for calm.

”Disorder and instability have never brought solutions to a country going through hard times,” Mr Preval said.

”Gunshots, throwing bottles, barricades of burning tyres will not help us eradicate cholera. On the contrary, it will prevent the sick from receiving care.”

President Preval also accused unnamed groups of exploiting the cholera epidemic to provoke popular unrest against the gov-ernment and the UN mission, Minustah, ahead of presidential elections due on 28 November.

The UN has said there is no evidence to support allegations that cholera was brought into Haiti by peacekeepers from Nepal, where the disease in endemic.

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tinuent de mener campagne, le conseil électoral provisoire (CEP) de son côté, continue avec les préparatifs en vue de la réalisation du vote.Les messages du conseil électoral invitant la population à prendre le chemin des bureaux de vote le 28 novembre prochain sont diffusés à lon-gueur de journées sur les ondes des radios et télés. Ce qui laisse comprendre que le CEP est déterminé à respecter l’échéance. Youri Latortue, le sénateur de l’Artibonite qui soutient la candidature de Mme Mani-gat, dit considérer les violentes mani-festations tenues au Cap-Haïtien et dans

le Plateau Central en début de semaine comme une manœuvre du pouvoir en place en vue de reporter les élections. Le sénateur Kelly C. Bastien, président de l’assemblée nationale et membre de la plateforme INITE, rejette cette accusation d’un revers de main. Le président de la république, M. René Préval, de son côté dit voir dans ces mouvements de protesta-tion des manigances d’un secteur intéres-sé, profitant du cholera et la frustration de la population pour semer la violence et le désordre. Dans un message pré-enregistré diffusé dans les radios mardi en fin de journée, M. Préval invite les candidats à œuvrer au profit de la paix et à poursuivre leur campagne.

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CONAKRY, Guinea – A day after results from a contentious presidential election were announced, Guinea's capital resem-bled a divided nation.

In neighborhoods dominated by sup-porters of the poll's winner, Alpha Conde, residents were dancing in the streets and hanging out of car windows, flashing a V for victory sign.

Conde, who is ethnically Malinke and who was backed in large numbers by members of his own ethnic group, toured parts of the city that supported him with a jubilant impromptu parade.

But elsewhere in the capital in areas dominated by members of the Peul eth-nic group that supported politician Cellou Dalein Diallo of the same ethnicity, the streets were deserted and littered with bul-let casings. Volleys of gunfire continued and security forces, who are mostly Malin-ke, brandished belts and leather ropes, using them to strike people. When they caught young men who had been throw-ing stones, they pounded them with night sticks and arrested them.

In the emergency room of one of the main municipal hospitals, medical records showed that at least 62 people had been brought in with injuries on Monday in the hours after the country's National Inde-pendent Electoral Commission declared Conde the winner.

Conde, a 72-year-old Sorbonne univer-sity professor who spent most of his adult life in France, won the election with 52.5 percent of the vote. Diallo got 47.5 percent of the nearly 2.9 million ballots that were counted from the Nov. 7 runoff elections.

Patients continued to stream in to Donka National Hospital on Tuesday, including 26-year-old Moussayero Bah, a Peul, whose abdomen was pierced by a bullet. A 1-year-old toddler had a perforated cheek and doc-tors were preparing to operate to remove the bullet lodged in the child's throat.

Health inspector Abou Bakr Diakhite of the Ministry of Health said the majority of the injured had been brought in with bullet wounds. Four people died in the capital, he said. Provincial authorities confirmed another death in the town of Labe, bring-ing the death count to five.

Diallo appealed to his supporters to remain calm. In the hours before results

were announced, his supporters crowded on highways, blocking traffic, burning tires and hurling rocks. They were beaten back by the helmeted security force, who chased them into the vein-like streets that peeled off the main road.

Human rights groups say the undisci-plined soldiers are using the cover of elec-tion violence to commit crimes. On Tues-day, The Associated Press witnessed the beating of two Peul youths in the deserted Kaloma neighborhood. One was dragged by a group of camouflaged-wearing sol-diers to the main road, then shoved to the ground. They kicked him repeatedly in the side while another beat him over the head with his night stick.

A second youth was dragged out soon after, and told to walk toward the police pickup. Soldiers then kicked him to the ground.

Diallo told reporters Tuesday that the security force was using the rioting as a pretext to settle scores and to rob and harm Peul families. He said his own sister-in-law and niece had been arrested outside his headquarters while sitting in his car. They were yanked out, driven to a police station and detained for most of Monday.

He also said that in Peul-majority towns like Labe and Dalaba — where he had received over 90 percent of the vote — his supporters were being seized inside their homes and arbitrarily arrested.

”It's truly revolting that on the one hand, we call for calm and restraint. And on the other there is repression,” he said. ”I call on the authorities to ask their security forces to stop this.”

For months, observers worried that Guinea's election which paradoxically is the country's first democratic vote would degenerate into violence along ethnic lines.

The week before the vote, dozens of people became ill at a pro-Conde rally. A rumor quickly spread via text message that Peul vendors had sold poisoned sachets of mineral water to the mostly Malinke crowd.

”I don't recognize my country,” said Peul intellectual Thierno Balde, a lawyer who heads Guinea's Research Institute on Democracy and Rule of Law. ”I am at home. But I feel like a foreigner.”

guinea Capital ethnically Divided after Results