New Orleans Here’s an interesting twist on the Haitian disaster where 3 million people may now be homeless and essentially living as refugees in their own homes and country: support squatters’ rights. A least that’s the argument made as one of the rebuilding contributions on the op-ed page of the New York Times today by …
Category: International
Disasters for the Haitian Poor
New Orleans The Haitian non-relief story is heartbreaking: unknown, unnamed victims in mass graves and $100 per day picking up dead bodies in the street. What can we make of the future from this catastrophe just off our shores? A Smith College professor named Kevin Rozario with a book about disasters in his resume actually …
Help for Haiti
New Orleans At a candidates forum last night in New Orleans with the memory of Katrina still in our hearts and in the mouth of every questioner from Local 100 or A Community Voice (formerly Louisiana ACORN), it was appropriate that the forum started with a prayer and made the call for help for Haiti. …