Re: DSF HAITI DISASTER DONATIONS & SHIZZLE
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:27 pm
I did my good deed for haiti on sunday
Also given me a brainwave, gonna head down to my charity shop and give away some shizzle
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Just what they need right now really along with some of those candles that smell of vanilla and a few whale music cds.On a side note didn't they pull some guy out yesterday alive after 4 weeks?,fucking amazing.firky wrote:this is exactly the kind of thing you'd see the guardian do with a straight face
There's a pile of toerags out at the moment claiming to be collecting stuff for haiti, going door to door, they're just teefin' stnuc
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100301/kleinNaomi Klein wrote:Our debt to Haiti stems from four main sources: slavery, the US occupation, dictatorship and climate change. These claims are not fantastical, nor are they merely rhetorical. They rest on multiple violations of legal norms and agreements. Here, far too briefly, are highlights of the Haiti case.
Always interesting to read Klein's thoughts. Thanks for the link.alien pimp wrote:http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100301/kleinNaomi Klein wrote:Our debt to Haiti stems from four main sources: slavery, the US occupation, dictatorship and climate change. These claims are not fantastical, nor are they merely rhetorical. They rest on multiple violations of legal norms and agreements. Here, far too briefly, are highlights of the Haiti case.
Haiti's back-to-school evictionsOver the weekend two Americans, who were escorting six Haitian orphans to the US, were briefly detained when authorities at Port-au-Prince's airport were suspicious about their documents.
After several hours, an official from the US embassy arrived with paperwork that allowed them to be freed, the Associated Press reported.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/11-2Private Firms Line Up as Haiti Opens for Business
MIAMI - Haiti's road to recovery took a new twist Wednesday as a trade group representing private security contractors wrapped up a conference on reconstruction in the earthquake-battered nation.
[Haitians demonstrate against hunger in their camp in Port-au-Prince. Haiti's road to recovery took a new twist Wednesday as a trade group representing private security contractors wrapped up a conference on reconstruction in the earthquake-battered nation. (Photo:Thony Belizaire/AFP)]Haitians demonstrate against hunger in their camp in Port-au-Prince. Haiti's road to recovery took a new twist Wednesday as a trade group representing private security contractors wrapped up a conference on reconstruction in the earthquake-battered nation. (Photo:Thony Belizaire/AFP)
"You don't want to look like you're profiteering off situations like these," Derrell Griffith, project director at Sabre International, said. "But there is a need and the people need it quick."