whats really going on in haiti

Sir_K · #1 (**permalink**) Mar 14, 04

http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/pu...cle_5615.shtml

very good and deep article

well worth the read

AGROculture · #2 (**permalink**) Mar 14, 04

Lets blame ALL the worlds problems on Bush!!

He's secretly behind EVERYTHING!!!!

tvmann · #3 (**permalink**) Mar 14, 04

Noam Chomsky is gonna be in Vancouver soon for a talk at Orpheum (and maybe UBC?). Maybe already happened. Apparently it is very hard to get a ticket, Svend Robinson (I heard) grabbed a large number of them and as he will be distributing the tickets to his allies it will be a case of "preaching to the converted" and others will not get to hear Chomsky.

If anyone gets a chance to hear Gwynne Dyer (war/military analyst/reporter) speak at a college etc, that is very worthwhile. He did a lot of the CBC reports in the first Gulf War.

Doctor Nick · #4 (**permalink**) Mar 14, 04

Chomsky will also be speaking in public for free at the peace rally on March 20th.

11 AM Peace Flame Park (the park in front of the brewery on the South end of the Burrard st Bridge with the eternal flame)

See you there!

A~

NeVeRLooKBacK · #5 (**permalink**) Mar 14, 04

Quote:

Originally posted by AGROculture
Lets blame ALL the worlds problems on Bush!!

He's secretly behind EVERYTHING!!!!

agreed :keebler:

Lunch Box · #6 (**permalink**) Mar 14, 04

FUCK LITERACY

Kelster · #7 (**permalink**) Mar 15, 04

'return aristide to haiti'?

weird...he wasn't that great of a leader, at all

Dead Mike · #8 (**permalink**) Mar 15, 04

rise up!

mapleleaf4ever · #9 (**permalink**) Mar 15, 04

Vote me for President of Haiti! :moon:

Sir_K · #10 (**permalink**) Mar 16, 04

Actually, Aristride wasnt that bad of a leader.

Over 80% of the population of Haiti lives in tin huts and can barely afford to survive. 3% of the population there is above what we in Canada would call the poverty line.

Everybody makes mistakes, and Aristride made some with regards to "foreign policy", but those were mostly related to trying to get the remaining 80% cool things like health care, food, and a reasonable place to live.

Canadian and American companies make great money in Haiti, paying people $10US per month sweat shops. He raised the minimum wage which the international community largely saw as a "mistake". He also made another foreign policy "mistake" which was to introduce tariffs on heavily subsidized US agriculture products so he could employ his own people making food for themselves.

As it currently stands, Haiti's two major industrys are sweat shops and cocaine trafficing.