I'm working over some of the material I wrote and have never published - it's one of my summer projects. There are quite a few projects that need a bit of work to push them over the edge. One of them has me revisiting my Haiti files. I have a pretty passive research method - stuff comes to me. The Canada Haiti Action Network (CHAN) for example, is an active community of people, among them very skilled researchers, constantly posting stuff on Haiti politics for years. Looking back at their archives is a pretty amazing exercise.
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Is there some standard for evidence that we've discarded?
Submitted by Justin Podur on Sat, 07/24/2010 - 22:19Relief, Occupations and the Haiti Crisis by Dan Freeman-Maloy
Submitted by Justin Podur on Fri, 02/12/2010 - 04:26Relief, Occupations and the Haiti Crisis (an event in Toronto)
Submitted by Justin Podur on Fri, 01/29/2010 - 02:37I'll be speaking with Dan Freeman-Maloy on Haiti in Toronto on Tuesday Feb 2.
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Relief, Occupations and the Haiti Crisis:
Canada/US policy and the regional response
with Justin Podur and Dan Freeman-Maloy
Tuesday, February 2
Centre for Social Justice
489 College St (W of Bathurst), Suite 303
7 - 9pm
Limited Compassion for Haiti
Submitted by Justin Podur on Mon, 01/25/2010 - 03:57Everyone agrees that the Haiti earthquake is a serious situation. Serious enough for the US to send thousands of Marines, to take over the airport, to suspend Haiti's sovereignty and take over the operation. Serious enough to unify the bitter partisan divide and put Bush, Clinton, and Obama together to raise funds. Serious enough for benefit concerts and the invention of new forms of philanthropy, where people can donate through their cell phones. But the Haiti earthquake is apparently not all that serious:
Haiti Earthquake Context
Submitted by Justin Podur on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 10:07I recorded this video last night (using my new flip HD and PiTiVi editing suite).
Part 1
Part 2
If you are thinking of donating to Haiti relief efforts
Submitted by Badri Raina on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 14:56If you are thinking of donating to Haiti relief efforts I would recommend either of these two organizations:
The Haiti Emergency Relief Fund
or
Fr. Jean Juste
Submitted by Justin Podur on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 12:11As hard as I tried, I never managed to meet Fr. Jean Juste. I was in Haiti when he was a political prisoner of the coup government/UN regime. At that time, he was also a presidential candidate - the movement put him up while he was in jail. It was a good move, a tactic movements use with imprisoned leaders, to raise visibility and provide some protection.
Bursting the Dam of Containment: A Review of Peter Hallward's 'Damming the Flood'
Submitted by Justin Podur on Sat, 06/14/2008 - 02:05A review of Peter Hallward's “Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment”. Verso 2007.
Justin Podur
June 13/08
Haiti has never had a period without interference in its sovereignty. Indeed Haiti's history could be seen as one long, heroic struggle against such interference: first to overthrow the slavers and colonizers of France (and the rest of Europe), and then to fight for sovereignty against the US, which viewed Haiti as part of its domain, to dispose of according to its own whims.
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