8 posts tagged preval

Sunni-Shiite fights broke out last week in Beirut, Lebanon with rockets and machine guns claiming 38 lives since last Wednesday, the Associated Press reports. Violence escalated when the government confronted Hezbollah and decided to fire the chief of airport security for alleged ties to the militant group and deemed Hezbollah’s private telephone network illegal.

Here is a letter that you can write to President Bush that would be a postive help to Haiti. It would not cost the US anything. It would be a tremendous help to Haiti. Please consider doing so. I ask this particularly of my Quaker friends who have Peace and Social Concern Committees who undertake regular letter writing campaigns.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3DqZtDZFQ4 Prevail Must GO Demand Haitians - it’s time to end this madness Food riots turn deadly in Haiti http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6YX5IlSErM At least four people were killed and 20 wounded when demonstrations against rising food prices turned into riots in southern Haiti, officials say.

Last week, I attended a conference at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. The conference sought “to raise public awareness about serious human rights violations currently being perpetrated on women and children in Haiti.” Haitian dignitaries as well as representatives from Haitian and U.S.-based NGOs

Donated food aid rots in Haitian port after government cracks down on corruption that allowed Colombian cocaine a clear path to U.S. Haiti imports about 75 percent of its food; in 2002, UN found almost half the population was undernourished.

Haiti’s Telecom Sector - How it is used by Haitians Politicians to make money. By Archivex Haiti in People in the News, Politics on March 3rd, 2008 Haiti’s Telecom Sector is estimated to be at 400 million minutes per year or $200 million per year. This is the most lucrative sector in Haitian Business.

Deva premal & Miten are to tour Australia in February. Performances  7.30 - 10.00 pm   $40 Workshops  3pm - 6pm $75 SYDNEY          1ST  FEB Performance   3rd Feb Workshop MELBOURNE  8TH Feb   Performance  10th feb Workshop PERTH             15th Feb Performance   17th Feb  Workshop

HIP - Port au Prince, Haiti - A human rights worker whose colleague was abducted last August has been forced into hiding after receiving new threats. Wilson Mesilien has been serving as the interim head of the September 30th Foundation, a human rights organization based in Port-au-Prince.