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Recycled Trash to Fuel Haiti

Before the earthquake in Janu-ary, Haiti was no stranger to natural disasters. In recent years, thousands of people have been killed by floods and landslides. To understand why the toll is so high, one need look no further than the country’s bald moun-tains. Haiti has lost about 97 percent of its forests. And the main culprit is the nation’s most popular cooking fuel: charcoal.

NEW -YORK – Pledging to help the world’s children “inher-it a better tomorrow,” Anthony Lake, veteran United States dip-lomat, national security adviser to former President Bill Clin-ton and long-time humanitar-ian advocate, has taken over the helm of the United Nations Chil-dren’s Fund (UNICEF).

New UNICEF Head Takes Office

SANTO DOMINGO, Domin-ican Republic (AP) - An increas-ing number of small businesses are helping the Dominican gov-ernment play a larger economic role in rebuilding Haiti.

Small DR Companies Seek Role in

Rebuilding Haiti

page 17WASHINGTON - President Obama has

signed into law a bill calling for the United States to take the lead in forgiving debt owed to international lenders by earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

The bill, signed April 26, urges major mul-tinational institutions to cancel all debt owed to them by Haiti and recommends that all aid to the country for the next five years be pro-vided in the form of grants rather than loans.

“The President’s signature on this bill is further indication of the United States’ sup-port for the people of Haiti,” Congresswom-an Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), who sponsored the House version of the bill, said in a state-ment. “I authored this legislation because Haiti’s immense debt burden would have severely impeded the country’s recovery efforts.”

The bill was approved in the House on April 14 and passed the Senate earlier in April.

Under the measure, the Treasury Depart-ment is required to instruct U.S. executives at the International Monetary Fund, the

World Bank and other institutions to use the force and influential power of the United States to cancel Haiti’s debt.

The bill calls for Haiti to receive aid in the form of grants until Feb. 1, 2015. Fol-lowing that date, multilateral development institutions may resume aid in the form of new loans.

The Treasury said at the beginning of March that Haiti owed $828 million to several inter-national institutions, according to the Associ-ated Press. Since then, one of those institutions,

the Inter-American Development Bank, said it would forgive give the $447 million Haiti owed it, and convert remaining undistributed loans into grants.

Other organizations, including the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, have also begun to make moves to relieve Haitian debt, the AP reported.

The story was first published in the Afro-American Newspapers.

President Obama Signs Debt Relief Bill for Haiti

Photo by Esteban Felix/APStudents protest demanding the restitution of the land where their school was, before being destroyed by the Jan. 12 earthquake, to rebuilt it in Grand Goave, Monday, May 3, 2010. At the site where the school was, there currently are tents used by the Haitian government to attend earthquake victims.

SPORTSArgentina

Faces Haiti in Friendly

Game

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The Inter-American Devel-opment Bank’s (IDB) Multilat-eral Investment Fund (MIF) has approved a US$2.6 million grant for the Latin American NGO Un Techo Para Mi País ((UTPMP), Spanish for A Roof For My Country, for a project that will build temporary housing to some 2,000 families left homeless by the January 12 earthquake.

NGO Builds Temporary Housing

in Haiti

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“The President’s signature on this bill is further

indication of the United States’ support for the

people of Haiti,” Congresswoman Maxine

Waters (D-Calif.).

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP)—Argentina’s locally based players will get their last chance to impress coach Diego Maradona before he names his prelimi-nary World Cup squad when they face Haiti in a friendly on Wednesday.

Maradona will announce his prelimi-nary squad on May 11.

Martin Palermo of Boca Juniors is likely to start up front, with Juan Mercier in midfield and Andrian Gabbarini or Diego Pozo in goal. Gabbarini and Pozo are fighting for the third goalkeeper place, with Sergio Romero and Mariano Andujar assured of the first two spots. They both play in Europe.

Also in the mix is 36-year-old Ariel Ortega of River Plate, who played in three straight World Cups from 1994. He was a teammate of Maradona’s on the 1994 World Cup team.

“Nobody has taken away that World Cup dream,” Ortega said.

Haiti has not qualified for the World Cup and is still trying to recover from a devastating earthquake on Jan. 12.

“The vast majority (of the players) lost family members and loved ones, and many of them that lived in Port-au-Prince lost everything,” Haiti coach Jairo Rios, a Colombian, told the newspaper Ole.

Argentina plays another friendly at home against Canada on May 24 before flying to South Africa. The two-time champions open on June 12 against Nigeria. Greece and South Korea are also in Group B.

Providence, RI- In support of those affected by the tragedy in Haiti a few months ago, the Brown women’s basket-ball team hosted its “Hoops for Haiti” event on February 17 and raised nearly $11,000 which was donated to UNICEF.

“I’m proud of them for taking the ini-tiative and also for reaching out to their circle of friends, Brown staff and faculty, and also the community to help support the cause,” said Assistant Coach Kristen Buckley.

Head Coach Jean Marie Burr and Brown’s three team captains; Court-ney Lee, Christina Johnson and Natalie Bonds, came up with the idea together when trying to come up with ways to help the people in Haiti. Buckley was instrumental in putting the event together for the Bears, and she helped the squad recruit sponsors, promoted the event with flyers and set the team goal at $3,000. Brown University as a whole was also very supportive in the team’s effort to raise money. From helping with promo-tions to volunteering to assist with the event, the university banned together dur-ing this time and helped various groups in any way that they could.

“We want to thank everyone who spon-sored our players and staff for this event,” said Burr. “Your support is appreciated and we hope that our efforts make a difference to help Haiti recover. We only wish we could do more.”

Each women’s basketball team member shot 300 free throws apiece and received donations per made free-throw. Some sup-porters donated $1 per made shot, $.75, $.50, $.25, $.10 or any amount or donation

of their choice.“We thought that raising $3,000 would

be really challenging,” said senior captain Courtney Lee. “But so many people in the athletic department, our professors, classmates and parents supported us that we were able to surpass our goal. We were

surprised by how many people were will-ing to donate”

The team hopes to make giving a tradi-tion, and would like to be able to raise money for different causes year after year and keep the giving spirit alive within the Brown women’s basketball team.

Women’s Basketball Hoops for Haiti a Success

Congresswoman Maxine Waters

Team co-captain Christina Johnson

May 5- May 11, 2010The haiTian Times2

OuestPort-au-Prince

Une nouvelle réplique de magnitude 4.4, selon l’institut américain de géophysique (USGS), a secoué lundi après-midi Port-au-Prince et ses environs provoquant des scènes de panique et une psychose col-lective très perceptible. La secousse a été enregistrée à 14h21 heure locale (19h21 GMT). Dans le centre de la capitale où les bâtiments ont tremblé, les gens ont vite gagné les rues et des administrations ont du libérer précipitamment leurs employés.La réplique, qui a réveillé dans la popula-tion les souvenirs cauchemardesques du violent tremblement de terre du 12 jan-vier, a aussi forcé de nombreux sinistrés à regagner les places publiques comme le Champ de Mars qu’ils avaient désertées ces derniers jours.On ignorait si des dégâts ont été enregistrés. Selon des informations non confirmées par l’USGS, une précé-dente réplique avait affecté dimanche soir la commune de Carrefour, dans la banlieue sud-ouest de Port-au-Prince.Le séisme de 7.3 sur l’échelle de Richter avait, le 12 janvier, dévasté une bonne partie d’Haïti causant entre 250.000 et 300.000 morts, 300.000 blessés et 1,2 million de sinistrés.

****Le Conseil Electoral Provisoire annonce

qu'il a obligé le Conseiller, Jean Enel Désir

à donner sa démission. Le représentant de l'Eglise Catholique au sein du CEP est accusé d'avoir confisqué et encaissé à plusieurs reprises le chèque de certains de ses col-laborateurs. Dans une note de presse rendue publique ce lundi 3 mai, l'institution élec-

torale annonce que suite à des informations recueillies, tous les conseillers à l'exception de l'accusé ont adopté et signé une résolution demandant à monsieur Désir, de remettre sa démission à l'autorité de nomination. L'organisme électoral a fait remarquer que cette décision à pour but de préserver la bonne réputation dont jouit actuelle-ment l'institution et aussi de bloquer toute action de corruption au sein du CEP. Le CEP a indiqué également que les autori-tés compétentes ont été informées en vue d'engager une action légale à l'encontre du conseiller Désir. Depuis son installation, c'est la seconde fois que ce CEP contraint un de ses membres à démissionner. Le cas précédant concernait le vice président Rodol Pierre, suite à ses révélations sur le résultat des élections législatives de 2009.

****Le gouvernement œuvre afin de favoris-

er une reprise des activités scolaires dans les lycées servant de centre d'hébergement. Au cours d cette semaine les élèves des Lycées Croix des Bouquets, Louis Joseph Janvier, Henry Christophe et Toussaint Louverture pourraient regagner leurs salles de classe. Des tentes et des hangars ont été installés sur la cour de ces lycées afin d'accueillir les élèves.Pendant ce temps les responsables du ministère de l'intérieur s'évertuent à trouver d'autres espaces pour regrouper les sans abris. Le chef de l'Etat haïtien René Préval s'est impliqué

dans le dossier afin d'encourager la relo-calisation et l'intensification des activités académiques. Au cours d'une séance de travail vendredi avec les directeurs des 4 lycées, le président Préval a insisté sur la nécessité de poursuivre le dia-logue en vue de résoudre le problème. Le président haïtien a mis l'accent sur la nécessité de reloger les sans abris dans de bonnes conditions pour favoriser l'accueil des élèves dans de bonnes conditions. Les participants à la rencontre ont analysé la possibilité d'ériger des clôtures afin de délimiter les espaces réservés aux élèves. Plusieurs institutions et ONG sont impli-quées dans le programme dont le FAES qui fournira les meubles et l'Unicef les tentes. Le CNE est chargé de nettoyer les sites et d'aménager les espaces.Le processus de relocalisation a débuté cette semaine au lycée Henry Christophe avec le déplacement de 64 familles. Les auto-rités haïtiennes ont promis d'encourager les ONG à accompagner les sans abris dans leur nouveau centre d'hébergement. De nombreux sinistrés avaient fait part de leurs inquiétudes sur la réticence des ONG à maintenir l'appui humanitaire dans les nouveaux centres d'hébergement.

****Les responsables de la Banque Inter

américaine de Développement annoncent une subvention de 30 millions de dollars a Haïti en vue de favoriser la relocalisation des sans abris. Le programme permettra de reloger quelque 5000 familles dans de nouveaux sites équipés de logements pro-visoires et de services sanitaires de base. Dans le cadre de ce programme un nou-veau camp, conforme aux orientations du Plan d'intervention dans le secteur du logement, sera construit dans la zone de ” Les Orangers. Les maisons de 18 mètres carrées seront conçues pour résister à des conditions climatiques extrêmes. Les habi-tants auront accès aux routes, à l'éclairage

public et à des services communautaires d'alimentation en eau et d'assainissement. Ces constructions transitionnelles seront construites sur des lopins de terre séparés pour prévoir de l'espace en vue d'un agran-dissement éventuel explique un communi-qué de la BID. Plusieurs ONG concernées dans l'effort humanitaire depuis le 12 jan-vier seront impliquées dans le programme. Par ailleurs, le don de la BID soutiendra le programme « Reconstruire dans des condi-tions plus sûres » du Plan d'intervention dans le secteur du logement, en renforçant les capacités d'aménagement foncier du Ministère du plan et en reconstruisant le siège et le laboratoire du Ministère des travaux publics.

****La mairesse de Pétion-ville, Claire Lydie

Parent, annonce la construction d’une gare routière et d’un parking sous-terrain dans l’espace naguère occupé le cimetière municipal de la commune depuis envi-ron une cinquantaine d’années. Le projet remonte à mon premier mandat, car nous avons vu qu’un cimetière n’avait pas sa place au centre de la ville. Il fallait absolu-ment déplacer la nécropole et la remplacer par quelque chose qui convient mieux à l’espace, et répond à des besoins actuels de la commune, soutient la mairesse. Mme Parent appelle tous les secteurs de la commune à donner leur participation, en vue de la concrétisation d’un tel projet. Ce cimetière a été construit sur le gou-vernement de François Duvalier. Il a été inauguré le 2 octobre 1964 par Leclerc Lalanne alors président du Conseil com-munal de Pétion-ville. Depuis, le cimetière fut le seul lieu public où les Pétion-villois pouvaient inhumer leurs proches. Depuis tantôt trois ans les parents ont été appelés a récupérer ce qui restait de leurs proches, et n’étaient plus autorisés à faire des inhuma-tions au cimetière public de Pétion-ville, mais au cimetière de frère.

La naissance de l’intellectuel haïtien - compris dans son acception la plus élé-mentaire dans la société haïtienne – (voir 2ème partie de cette série dans Haitian Times, 28 avril 2010 – 4 mai 2010) coïn-cide avec la naissance du nouvel état haï-tien en janvier 1804. L’un avait besoin de l’autre. Le pouvoir en Haïti, dans sa préoc-cupation d’un retour des forces de l’armée française, avait aussi besoin de voix déten-trices du savoir pour se faire connaître et s’imposer dans les joutes internatio-nales. C’est dans de tels contextes qu’il faut placer l’envoi par le général en chef Jean-Jacques Dessalines d’une lettre à laquelle était attachée une copie de la déclaration d’Indépendance d’Haïti à Sir George Nugent, le lieutenant-gouverneur

de la Jamaïque qui était alors une colo-nie anglaise. Rappelons qu’à l’époque l’Angleterre, ennemie jurée de la France, était en assez bons termes avec Haïti. Cette lettre a été envoyée le 20 janvier 1804.

Les intellectuels haïtiens d’alors ont trouvé dans ce contexte une bonne occa-sion de se rapprocher du pouvoir et même d’en faire partie. Selon l’historien Claude Moïse (2003 : 72), Juste Chanlatte, par exemple, qui fit de très bonnes études en France, au collège Louis-le-Grand à Paris, a été avec Boisrond Tonnerre l’un des rédacteurs et signataires de la Constitu-tion impériale du 20 mai 1805. Ce même Juste Chanlatte rédigea plusieurs autres lois dont celle du 28 mai 1805 sur les enfants naturels.

Presque toute l’histoire d’Haïti est mar-quée par cette fonction particulière de l’intellectuel en Haïti allié du pouvoir dès le début de la formation de la nation haï-tienne et le demeurant pendant longtemps sauf durant les années 1930, comme nous l’avons mentionné dans la deuxième partie de cette série.

C’est ici que nous nous trouvons face à une problématique difficile : est-ce que l’intellectuel, quelque que soit la société dans laquelle il évolue, est tenu de rester loin de la sphère politique, se contentant d’être cet homme de savoir qui intervient de temps en temps pour émettre des consi-dérations universelles, atemporelles et mor-alistes ? C’est « l’intellectuel spectateur » que défend Raymond Aron et qui, selon lui, devrait se tenir à l’écart des agitations politiques. Ou, est-ce que l’intellectuel, se doit d’intervenir dans le mouvement social de l’humanité dont il fait partie ? Dans un texte célèbre (Pour un savoir engagé, le Monde diplomatique, février 2002), Pierre Bourdieu répond de la manière la plus claire à cette question : « Il y a dans la tête de la plupart des gens cultivés, surtout en science sociale, une dichotomie qui me parait tout à fait funeste : la dichotomie entre scholarship et commitment – entre ceux qui se consacrent au travail scien-tifique, qui est fait selon des méthodes savantes à l’intention d’autres savants, et ceux qui s’engagent et portent au dehors leur savoir. L’opposition est artificielle et,

en fait, il faut être un savant autonome qui travaille selon les règles du scholarship pour pouvoir produire un savoir engagé, c’est-à-dire un scholarship with commit-ment. Il faut, pour être un vrai savant engagé, légitimement engagé, engager un savoir. Et ce savoir, ne s’acquiert que dans le travail savant, soumis aux règles de la communauté savante. »

L’intellectuel haïtien devrait être, à mon sens, celui à qui s’appliquerait la célèbre définition de Jean-Paul Sartre : celui qui se mêle de ce qui ne le regarde pas. Dans une société haïtienne déchirée par les luttes de classe, meurtrie par l’exclusion sociale, rongée par un « analphabétisme programmé » (Léon-François Hoffmann, 1995), un système de santé faiblard et terriblement inefficace, et des infrastruc-tures fortement déficientes, l’intellectuel haïtien devrait être un rebelle permanent. Il devrait être de toutes les batailles, con-stamment engagé. Pour ne l’avoir pas fait durant la majeure partie de son histoire, il a subi les courroux de la masse des

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All 126 members of China's eighth peacekeeping force to Haiti returned home Tuesday morning after a ten-month peacekeeping mission in the Caribbean country.

The team arrived at Beijing Capital International Airport at 11:08 a.m.on a United Nations chartered flight.

They were welcomed with a brief ceremony at the airport in which vice public security minister Meng Hongwei said the force had ”made a significant contribution to Haiti's social stability and reconstruction” since the Jan. 12 quake.

The devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake flattened Haiti and left eight Chinese police officers dead.

China dispatched its first peace-keeping team of 125 members to Haiti in 2004 after a coup in the country.

A factory in Haiti provides a tree-saving alternative to charcoal by producing bri-quettes made from trash.

Before the earthquake in January, Haiti was no stranger to natural disasters. In recent years, thousands of people have been killed by floods and landslides. To understand why the toll is so high, one need look no further than the country’s bald mountains. Haiti has lost about 97 percent of its forests. And the main culprit is the nation’s most popular cooking fuel: charcoal.

Most Haitians use charcoal from trees to cook every meal. And the demand for charcoal is destroying the nation’s forests. But one factory in Haiti is working to spare at least some of the trees by providing a cheap and easy alternative, by producing briquettes made from trash.

The factory sits atop a hill in a Port-au-Prince slum, next to a razor-wire-fringed U.N. peacekeeping base. This Saturday morning, the factory is bustling. Wheelbar-rows enter the front gate full of trash; at the other end of the floor, they are filled with neat stacks of what look like paper hockey pucks. In between is a low-tech recycling process that turns the neighborhood’s trash into cooking fuel.

”We clean the neighborhood every day,” says Samuel Toussaint, a plant manager. ”We pick up trash, we sort the trash, and then our main activity is making bri-quettes.”

Women sit on plastic buckets shredding wet paper and cardboard with their fingers. A man uses what looks like a giant mortar and pestle to mash the mixture. Others smoosh the paste into metal cylinders to mold it into briquettes, which will be sold as replacements for charcoal.

Ginette Sejour, a mother of seven, is happy to have a job at the factory shred-ding paper. She also feels good about the work. ”The briquettes protect our envi-ronment, because when people use these briquettes, fewer trees are cut down, fewer people die.”

The factory started selling briquettes late last year. It’s run by a community group, and is funded in part by the U.N. Backers hope it eventually can be self-sustaining, but it won’t be just by selling the bri-quettes, because in order to compete with charcoal, the price is kept artificially low.

Plant manager Samuel Toussaint says the profit will come from the rest of the trash his workers collect. ”Our objective is to sell metal, plastic and glass to a com-pany that will recycle them.”

Toussaint is also leading an operation to turn organic waste into compost and sell that to farmers.

All of this is providing a big public ben-efit beyond reducing the demand for char-coal. The neighborhood’s once trash-filled streets and canals are much cleaner, and hundreds of jobs have been created. And its success has brought the project some influential backers.

Former President Bill Clinton, now the UN’s special envoy to Haiti, held up a sample briquette from Toussaint's fac-tory when he spoke to a crowd of Haitian-Americans in Miami last year.

”This could be done in every neighbor-hood of Port-au-Prince,” he said. ”It could be done in every city in Haiti. And if it were successful, it would sweep the poor urban areas of the world. This could be done everywhere. Labor intensive, envi-ronmentally responsible.”

Plans are in the works to bring the program to other parts of Port-au-Prince, and there’s talk of replicating it across the country. But old habits die hard, and there’s no guarantee the new fuel will catch on. Factory employees say their bri-quettes are used the same way as charcoal, heat more quickly, and give food the same taste. But you only have to look outside the factory to know that many people won’t soon change their ways.

Right by the factory’s front gate, there’s a man selling charcoal. 26-year-old Jemel Alcindor has been selling here for years. He says his business is as steady as ever. Not even the earthquake made a dent in it.

And even if the new briquettes do catch on, they will only have a limited impact on the country’s charcoal problem. That’s according to Eric Overvest, of the UN

Development Program.”The briquettes are not a solution for

replacing charcoal…. There will not be enough paper and carton to replace char-coal. So it will always be a very small percentage of the total market.”

Which is one reason there are lots of other efforts underway in Haiti to wean the country off charcoal. But whatever its wider impact, plant manager Samuel Tous-saint says the briquette factory has already changed his community.

”We wouldn’t have been able to stand here before without fear. Thanks to the work of this project, the community has transformed. Some of the people who were terrorizing the community, they saw there was no place for them here. Other gang members were integrated into our program.”

Toussaint says because of the project, locals now feel good about where they live. And the men and women toiling here see themselves as part of a movement -one that could give a glimpse of a better Haiti -- from cleaner streets to healthier forests.

The story was first published in PRI.

Recycled Trash to Fuel Haiti

Three members of the New York Air National Guard’s 107th Airlift Wing flying relief supplies into Haiti met President Bill Clinton. The former President, now the UN’s special envoy to Haiti, endorsed Toussaint's work when he spoke to a crowd of Haitian-Americans in Miami last year.

Chinese Peacekeeping Forces Home from Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - People ran

screaming from buildings as a mild tremor rattled a Haitian capital still traumatized by the deadly Jan. 12 earthquake.

There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries from the latest tremor.

Preliminary data from the US Geologi-cal Survey show the magnitude-4.4 earth-quake struck in the Caribbean Sea about 40 kms west of Port-au-Prince.

Even minor tremors cause panic in the Haitian capital nearly four months after a catastrophic 7.0 earthquake that the gov-ernment says killed at 230,000 people.

Meanwhile, an electrical fire forced the evacuation Sunday night of 100 earth-quake survivors from a smoke-filled tent hospital.

Project Medishare chief Barth Green says lightning from a rainstorm struck the ground beside the airport-side hospital's 5,000-square-foot tents.

Chief medical officer Vince Boyd says

New Tremors Rattle Haitian Capital

Chinese peacekeeping forces return to Haiti

May 5- May 11, 2010The haiTian Times4

WASHINGTON (AP) – Immigration reform has become the first of President Barack Obama's major priorities dropped from the agenda of an election-year Con-gress facing voter disillusionment. Sound-ing the death knell was Obama himself.

The president noted that lawmakers may lack the ”appetite” to take on immigration while many of them are up for re-election and while another big legislative issue — climate change — is already on their plate.

”I don't want us to do something just for the sake of politics that doesn't solve the problem,” Obama told reporters Wednes-day night aboard Air Force One.

Immigration reform was an issue Obama promised Latino groups that he would take up in his first year in office. But sev-eral hard realities — a tanked economy, a crowded agenda, election-year politics and lack of political will — led to so much foot-dragging in Congress that, ultimately, Obama decided to set the issue aside.

With that move, the president calcu-lated that an immigration bill would not prove as costly to his party two years from now, when he seeks re-election, than it would today, even though some immigra-tion reformers warned that a delay could so discourage Democratic-leaning Latino voters that they would stay home from the polls in November.

Some Democrats thought pushing a bill through now might help their party, or at least their own re-election prospects.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, whose campaign is struggling in heav-ily Hispanic Nevada, unveiled an outline — not legislation — on Thursday for an immigration bill at a packed news confer-ence. Asked when it might advance, he declined to set an ”arbitrary deadline.”

If immigration goes nowhere this year, Democrats can blame Republican resis-

tance, though in reality many Democrats didn't want to deal with an immigration bill this year either.

The Democrats' draft proposal, obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday, called for, among other things, meeting border security benchmarks before anyone in the country illegally can become a legal permanent U.S. resident.

Obama praised the outline and said the next step is ironing out a bill. He said his administration will ”play an active role” trying to get bipartisan supporters.

Republican Sens. Jon Kyl of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who had been working with Democrats on immigration reform, criticized the pro-posal as ”nothing more than an attempt to score political points.”

By Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered little hope that the issue was still alive on Capitol Hill.

”If there is going to be any movement in this regard, it will require presidential leadership, as well as an appetite, is that the word? ... as well as a willingness to move forward in the Congress,” she said.

House Republican leader John Boehner was more blunt. ”There is not a chance that immigration is going to move through the Congress,” he said Tuesday.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez, the Democrats' leading advocate for immigration reform, has said he voted for health care reform on the understanding that Obama and con-gressional Democrats would move a major immigration bill.

Even though he would like to see Lati-nos turn out to vote for Democrats in 2010, Gutierrez said ”many will probably decide to stay home.” However, he added, a strict, new immigration law in Arizona may change that dynamic. The law requires law enforcement officers to question anyone

they suspect is in the country illegally.”On one hand you are not going to vote

because you don't believe people you voted for are doing a good enough job,” Gutierrez said. ”Then you say, 'I got to vote, because the enemy is so mean and vindictive, I got to get out there.'”

The Hispanic vote is growing, largely because of Latinos' increasing population. The 9.7 million Latinos who cast ballots in 2008 made up about 7.4 percent of the electorate, according to a 2009 Pew Research Center study.

Hispanic voters helped flip the bat-tleground states of Colorado, Florida, Nevada and New Mexico from Republi-can to Democratic in the 2008 presidential election.

But even though Latinos' numbers have been increasing, in some parts of the coun-try their portions of voting populations are not large enough to affect election outcomes.

Democrats hold a 254-177 majority in the House, with four vacancies. But 48 are in districts where Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain did better than Obama in the 2008 elections.

Matt Angle, a Democratic political strat-egist focused on Texas, said it would be worse for Democrats to propose a bill that has no hope of passing or getting Republi-can support. Doing so would allow Repub-licans to cherry-pick parts of the bill to use against Democratic candidates, he said.

The Senate also has a number of com-petitive races, some in states with signifi-cant numbers of Hispanic voters, such as in Nevada, Reid's home state. Latinos are about 12-15 percent of likely voters there.

”For Democrats it is critical they can deliver if they want to continue nurturing the support they want from this commu-nity,” said Clarissa Martinez De Castro, National Council of La Raza immigration and national campaigns director.

Obama Takes Immigration Reform off Agenda

House Democrats are quietly preparing to move an immigra-tion bill this year.

While Democrats in the lower chamber are not deviating from their strategy of waiting for the Senate to act first, they are not just twiddling their thumbs.

Democrats at the subcommit-tee and full committee level have been staking their claim in the debate, arguing they will be able to hit the ground running if the Senate clears a bill.

According to Rep. Henry Cuel-lar (D-Texas), his colleagues are getting ready in the event that their Senate colleagues pass an immigration bill.

Cuellar, chairman of the Homeland Security subcommit-tee on border security, recently approached the full Homeland Security Committee chairman, Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), about having a seat at the table.

“I was talking to my chair-man, saying, ‘Hey, you’re the big chairman. I’m the little chairman; I want to be there with you.’ He said, ‘You’re definitely going to be in the room,’ ” Cuellar told The Hill last week.

Cuellar also had a lengthy con-

versation on the floor of the House last Thursday with Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), chair-woman of the Judiciary sub-committee with jurisdiction on immigration reform.

Over the past several weeks, Lofgren has been talking with members on the contentious issue, according to a Demo-cratic aide.

Arizona’s enactment of a stringent border-security bill last month has generated some momentum on Capitol Hill for comprehensive immigration reform.

But the Senate is still a long way from passing a bill.

Political analysts contend that immigration reform is too controversial to pass this year, noting the election is less than six months away.

Still, advocates for national reform, such as Rep. Luis Guti-errez (D-Ill.), the author (along with Rep. Solomon Ortiz, D-Tex-as) of a comprehensive immigra-tion bill awaiting action in Lof-gren’s subcommittee, are more optimistic than they have been in years.

Gutierrez, who was arrested

on Saturday for participating in a “sit-in” in front of the White House to protest the Arizona law, has been meeting with a number of his colleagues to discuss his measure as well as the politics of immigration reform, Gutierrez spokesman Doug Rivlin said.

Cuellar, a co-sponsor of the Gutierrez bill, said time is short: “I personally want to see it, but are you going to put another

tough issue [to Congress]? Because remember, this is

a window, and I think we’re getting very close to the win-dow. Once you get into June … ”

His voice trailing off, Cuel-lar shook his head at the pros-pect of moving such a mea-sure within the next several weeks.

According to aides close to high-ranking Democratic lawmakers, the House would pass its own version of immi-gration reform if the Senate passes a bill.

A source familiar with Lof-gren’s thinking could not say whether the Gutierrez bill would be used as the vehicle to move such a measure or

whether Lofgren would introduce a new bill.

Gutierrez’s bill has 96 co-spon-sors, all Democrats. He has called his measure “a marker,” stressing that he is open to compromise.

Lofgren’s subcommittee held hearings on immigration reform during the last Congress and would likely move directly to marking up a House bill to save time.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) wants to move an immigration bill this year, but the chances of such a bill pass-ing before Memorial Day are unlikely. The Senate will first look to pass financial regulatory reform and energy bills.

President Barack Obama last week conceded that immigration reform probably wasn’t going to pass this year, noting he needs GOP backing to get it to his desk.

Obama initially promised to pass an immigration bill in 2009, but that issue, like many oth-ers, took a backseat to healthcare reform last year.

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) agrees that immigration is unlikely to pass in the 111th Congress, saying Dem-ocrats’ efforts to reach a biparti-san consensus in an election year are “nothing more than a cynical ploy to try to engage voters, some segment of the voters, to show up in this November’s election.”

Gutierrez last month told The Hill that he will advise Latino vot-ers to stay home on Election Day if the Democratic Party does not make a concerted effort to pass immigration reform this year.

House Dems Preparing for Immigration Reform Battle

President Barack Obama talks with U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admi-ral Thad Allen, who is serving as the National Incident Commander, and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, aboard Marine One as they fly along the coastline from Venice to New Orleans, La., May 2, 2010.

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NEW -YORK – Pledging to help the world’s children “inherit a better tomor-row,” Anthony Lake, veteran United States diplomat, national security adviser to for-mer President Bill Clinton and long-time humanitarian advocate, has taken over the helm of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

Mr. Lake, 70, assumed the post of UNI-CEF’s sixth Executive Director on 1 May in succession to Ann Veneman, a for-mer US Secretary of Agriculture, bringing more than 45 years of public and interna-tional service to the position.

“I look forward to working with our exceptional staff and our many partners

to advance children’s rights around the world,” Mr. Lake said on his first day in office.

“Peace and security are the founda-tion of a world fit for children. Wars not only kill children – they breed disease and destroy economic hope. And in the end, real peace is not found in a piece of diplomatic paper. It is found in the secure and healthy lives of girls and boys. If we improve their lives today, we help them inherit a better tomorrow.”

When he announced Mr. Lake’s appoint-ment in March, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised his “long and distinguished career” with the US Government, but

UNICEF’s new head has long-standing ties with the Organiza-tion. He served for nine years on the Board of the US Fund for UNICEF, including as Chairman from 2004 to 2007, when the US Fund saw a significant increase in funding and undertook a tran-sition in personnel and mission.

He is also a strong supporter of the UN Millennium Develop-ment Goals (MDGs), the targets adopted at the UN Millennium Summit of 2000 that seek to slash a host of social ills by 2015, including extreme hunger and poverty, maternal and infant mortality and lack of access to education and health care.

“At their heart, the Millen-nium Development goals are about giving the world's most vulnerable children a bet-ter chance to reach their full potential – whether it’s improv-ing maternal and child health, increasing gender parity in edu-cation, or eradicating hunger,” he said.

“We’ve got a lot of urgent work ahead, leading up to, and

beyond, the 2015 MDG targets we’ve set for ourselves. And I believe we can do it – with political commitment, sound strate-gies, adequate investment and the engage-ment of a global community.”

Mr. Lake has broad experience of international development and children’s rights through ongoing work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) spanning four decades. During that time he has led International Voluntary Ser-vices, acted as an international advisor to the International Committee of the Red Cross, and been a board member of Save the Children and the Overseas Develop-ment Council.

His commitment to peace and security are hallmarks of his career. After leaving

government in 1997, he served as the US President's Special Envoy to Haiti as well as Ethiopia and Eritrea. His efforts, for which he received the 2000 White House Samuel Nelson Drew Award, contributed to the Algiers Agreement that ended the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea. He also played a leading role in shaping policies that led to peace in Bosnia and Herze-govina and in Northern Ireland.

A graduate of Harvard College and Princeton University with a PhD from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Mr. Lake served as Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University in Washington DC immediately prior to his appointment at UNICEF.

NEW-YORK-Haiti announced today that it was partially resuming international mail services for the first time since the January earthquake ravaged much of the country’s national institutions, including the post office, with support from the United Nations postal union.

The Universal Postal Union (UPU), one of the UN’s specialized agencies, said it had informed the United States and France that they can now release mail destined for Haiti.

“The resumption of postal exchanges with the international community is essen-tial because millions of Haitians living abroad have been longing to send aid to their compatriots, who were affected by the catastrophe,” said Edouard Dayan, UPU’s Director General.

Full resumption of mail exchanges between Haiti and other UPU Member States is expected soon, according to UPU. The agency is building a 600-square metre structure in the SONAPI industrial park, near the airport in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. The structure will operate as an international mail exchange office.

All mail services to Haiti were halt-ed after the 12 January earthquake that

reduced much of Port-au-Prince and sev-eral other cities to and towns to rubble, killed hundreds of thousands of people and left more than 1.3 million others homeless.

“This resumption of service, albeit par-tial, shows that a sector that many people gave up for dead after the January disaster is alive and kicking,” said Margarette Emile, Director General of Haiti Postal Corporation. “I also thank all UPU mem-ber countries for the solidarity they have shown with the Haitian Post. Without your support, we would be cut off from the rest of the world,” she added.

Many post offices around the world made donations in cash or in kind for Haiti and teams of international postal experts have twice visited Haiti to assess the earthquake’s impact on postal operations and help the Haiti Postal Corporation to reorganize itself.

Thanks to the donations and funds from its own budget, the UPU prepared a major project worth around $600,000 for the Hai-tian Post Office.

Since the disaster, basic local postal ser-vices have been provided from the home of the Haiti Postal Corporation Director General.

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economic Liberalism: A Revised Version of Mercantilism

Despite the 2008-09 global economic melt-down, the architects and proponents of eco-nomic liberalism still

believe in the sanctity of the system which, they maintain, has brought prosperity to countries adhering to its core principles, i.e. free trade, free flow of capital, limited government interference and last, but not the least, freedom of expression. Assuming that the concept works as advertized, why is it that China whose economic and politi-cal system is the exact opposite of what have been prescribed by the architects of economic liberalism prospering while other developing countries are reeling. More to the point, why hasn’t the system worked in Haiti and Africa?

While most economists are quick to point out the contrast between mercantilism, the economic system that existed from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, and eco-nomic liberalism; the two systems, at first glance, remain identical to the core as both rest on the premise of protecting the pros-perity of the economically advanced coun-tries. For example, mercantilism relies on protecting an economy with subsidies for local industries and high tariffs on import-ed goods, which automatically increase exports to and restrict imports from the other side. By the same token, economic liberalism prevents the other side from subsidizing its industries and imposing high tariffs that would enable it to export more goods while restricting or controlling the volume of its imports. As they say: there is nothing new under the sun.

Simply put, economic liberalism is a revised version of mercantilism, which like the old system, is backed by force and coercion that guarantee its acceptance by the least developed countries (LDC). This helps explain why China, a giant and pow-erful country, could not be folded into the system while poor African nations and Haiti are forced into it through coercive mea-sures, including military intervention. With the IMF (International Monetary Fund), World Bank and WTO (World Trade Orga-nization), acting as enforcers, any poor country that resists their directives finds itself unable to finance its development projects or accused of hampering world trade through protectionism.

The rigidity of the enforcers is such that funding for basic development projects like water purification and sanitation in the underdeveloped world is sometimes with-held until the targeted country accepts to “restructuring its economy”, code word for opening its internal market to unrestricted and subsidized imports. Facing high unem-ployment, political instability (induced or conventional) and other social pressures associated with the lack of economic devel-opment, the beleaguered country inevi-tably capitulates and accepts the onerous demands formulated by the IMF, World Bank and WTO.

Two particular situations involving Japan and Haiti explain the paradox or one-sided

approach to the implementation of eco-nomic liberalism in favor of economically advanced countries. Up to the mid-1980s, Japan, one of the world’s leading exporters of manufactured goods, not only subsidized its rice growers but also protected them from foreign competitors on the ground of national security. Starting in the mid-1980s, Haiti, a primarily agricultural country, was forced to end subsidies to its farmers and lower its tariffs on imported agricultural products as a condition to receiving devel-opment loans from the World Bank and other international financial institutions. Consequently 380.000 Haitian farmers lost their jobs and migrated to Port-au-Prince with their families, creating the overcrowd-ing conditions that led to the catastrophe of January 12, 2010.

Making matters worse, state-owned enterprises such as the country’s flour mill, sugar refinery and the only producer of cement were privatized and then closed to facilitate imports. The lost of jobs not-withstanding, Haiti is now a net importer of these commodities it once produced for internal consumption. Apparently the sys-tem is not working in Haiti, but incredibly it is being advertized as the only remedy to the country’s chronic poverty, economic doldrums and political instability. Aptly, the rush to integrate the country into the global economy without the prerequisites, i.e. an industrial base, a vibrant middle class and good political and economic governance, was the reason behind the February 29, 2004 invasion not political instability as the Security Council resolutions pretend.

While dictatorships are proficient at quelling dissent and imposing their will, democracy, a political system easily sub-verted by outsiders as well as insidious insiders, generally remains the Trojan horse of economic liberalism, in economically unstructured and corrupt countries. The reason: democracy provides a legitimate cover for the implementation of the system, which usually involves economic disloca-tion and other social ills, as is currently the case with Haiti and many undeveloped countries in Africa.

Most importantly, in injecting social and political freedom as an integral part of eco-nomic liberalism, the architects of the sys-tem are simply trying to make it palatable to the freedom-starved and economically destitute Third World, although China’s robust economic growth and authoritarian political system naturally take the sail out of that notion. Beijing’s success however cannot be replicated in Haiti and African countries partly because of induced politi-cal instability, hence the dilemma.

So what are Haiti and Africa to do? Touted as America’s little Africa, Haiti is on her knees, with her arms bound, calling to her ancestors for deliverance since the January 12th quake that puts her on the receiving end yet again. Not surprisingly, the architects of economic liberalism find a plethora of loopholes from which to impose economic measures that under-mine Haiti’s sovereignty under the veils of Democracy, Manifest Destiny and Empire. Unless there is a geopolitical realignment, these countries cannot do anything at this juncture, except engaging in passive resistance.

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Haiti Needs A New MindsetSince the catastrophic 35-second earth-

quake of last January, Haiti has received more visitors than during the heydays of its tourism industry. Among many thou-sands of doctors, nurses and other profes-sional volunteers, who have flocked to the country to provide genuine help, there are also some opportunists looking for a quick scheme to reap part of the billions of dollars promised to reconstruct this dilapi-dated country.

A recent video focused on the collapse of the National Palace, the Palace of Jus-tice, the Legislative Palace, the Palace of the Ministries, all powerful symbols of grandeur and prestige.

The 250,000 buildings destroyed, includ-ing 25,000 businesses, the collapsing of many churches and the destruction of 80% of the schools are mentioned as regrettable losses, as well as 500, 000 people who have migrated to other parts of the country, leaving behind 300,000 injured people and 4,000 amputees.

The point of this video escapes many people who see it as a way to stoke some kind of nationalistic fervor that is perhaps misplaced.

Many of the high-level government offi-cials are deluding themselves if they think that international benefactors will rebuild the country. They may have pledged bil-lion of dollars and even if they do honor these commitments, they will do in their best interests naturally and not for Haiti’s. The reality is that for each dollar allocated to Haiti, 40 cents at least will go to foreign specialists, consultants, technicians, heavy equipments and specialized operators. Fac-tory and other forms of investments will expect the highest hilt of result for the lowest possible expenses. Other countries have been able to protect their work force better. Haiti should learn from them.

Listening to President Rene Preval, the First Lady, the Prime Minister and three ministers, we have not learned anything about the Haitian government’s vision for a new Haiti. Preval overstated the resil-iency and courage of the Haitian people, mentioning the need to rethink Haiti, to decentralize, to rebuilt Port-au-Prince, and to invest in education, health and agricul-ture. He did not, even after five months,

refer to a master plan, nor to the observa-tions and suggestions of geologists and seismographers, whose opinions may force to build a new capital without palaces on more stable grounds.

The First Lady’s call for foreigners to help reconstruct the Haitian education system is consistent with the belief that a genuine national system will not be proper enough. Regardless of its weaknesses, the so- called Joseph Bernard’s reform remains a solid basis for a modern and practical education system in today’s Haiti. We must establish an instructional system that build knowledge acquisition on the basis of instruction favoring mathematics, natural sciences, geography, cooperation, creativity and productivity.

The minister of Health mentioned the injured and the handicapped, but he said nothing about the private hospitals that had withstood the earthquake shock and are now have to reduce services or even close because of bankruptcy after providing free care to the thousands of people in physical distress. The Haitian government should have placed these health facilities on the primary list of those in needs of immediate financial assistance. Thousands of patients still need their medical services.

The representatives of the international community who are in charge of coordi-nating and supervising the assistance to Haiti, come from rich countries. Their vision is necessarily at the dimension of today development of their country. While Haiti was a poor country before January 12, it is now a country in deeper distress. In the process, there will be a lot of mistakes, a lot of waste, a lot of misap-propriations. But Haitians should study the lessons of other countries, like Jamaica and Costa-Rica to learn how they deal with big donors and how those countries progressed. Jamaica, whose instruction is based on British Education system, has the highest literacy rates in the Caribbean after Cuba. While constitutionally, there is no army in Costa Rica and a Costa Rican never loose his or her nationality, it also has a high literacy rate and a flourishing tourism industry. Haiti needs to follow these countries in its new opportunity to redress two centuries of mismanagement.

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By Peter Beinart

NEW YORK – The right’s anx-iety about African-Americans has been replaced by anxiety about immigrants. Peter Beinart writes on how Arizona’s new law has ignited the civil-rights struggle for a new century.

Why are large chunks of the American right so freaked out by illegal immigrants? Because they are no longer so freaked out by African-Americans.

And in this regard, the politics of 2010 are more like 1910 than 1970.

Over the last century, Ameri-can politics has tended to see-saw between panics about immi-grants and panics about blacks. A hundred years ago, immigra-tion was the more volatile issue. Anti-black racism was brutal and profound, of course, but African-Americans were a familiar group that constituted a stable share of the population. They were also disenfranchised, and therefore less politically threatening. Immi-grants from Southern and Eastern Europe, by contrast, were pour-ing onto America’s shores. And they were becoming politically active: joining labor unions, tak-ing over city governments, influ-encing presidential elections.

Today’s closest equivalents to George Wallace and Strom Thur-mond are J.D. Hayworth and Tom Tancredo.

Among many native-born whites, the result was hysteria.

Finally, after four decades of this massive Catholic and Jew-ish immigration, the GOP—the dominant party in the native-born north—pushed through laws closing America’s door. Many Republicans also grew obsessed with prohibition, an issue that had everything to do with the hostility of teetotaling old-stock Protes-tants to alcohol-drinking immi-grant Catholics. The Democrats, for their part, grew so divided between nativists and newcom-ers that in 1924 they took more than 100 ballots to select a presi-dential nominee. In 1928, the party nominated a Catholic, New York Governor Al Smith, who got crushed.

But gradually, the pendulum swung. With mass immigration halted, the nativist panic of the early 20th Century eased. What replaced it, after World War II, was panic about African-Amer-icans, who began mobilizing as never before against their politi-cal disenfranchisement. Start-ing in 1948, when Harry Tru-man began tentatively courting the black vote, leading Strom Thurmond and other segregation-ist Democrats to walk out of the Democratic convention, atti-tudes toward African-Americans began to define the two parties. From Alabama Governor George Wallace’s primary challenge to Lyndon Johnson in 1964 to Lee Atwater’s Willie Horton ad in 1988, anti-black racism was harnessed in every presidential

campaign. Immigra-tion, by contrast, was mostly ignored.

Then, in the 1990s, the pendulum swung back. Crime plum-meted, thus relegating one racially saturated issue to the political margins. Bill Clin-ton signed welfare reform, eliminating another. And a series of Republicans, most notably George W. Bush, decided not to politically challenge affirmative action, sidelining a third. Meanwhile, just as black-white anxiet-ies were easing, the 1965 immigration law, which opened America’s doors to immigrants from the third world, and the growing economic interdependence of the U.S. and Mexi-co, which led to waves of legal and illegal immigrants cross-ing America’s southern border, began to spur a growing fear about immigration. The hinge years were 1994, when California passed Proposition 187, banning illegal immigrants from public services, and 1996, when the very welfare reform law that helped ease white anti-black resentment included language barring even legal, non-citizen immigrants

from receiving food stamps.More than a decade later, it is

now clear that native-immigrant relations drive American politics more than white-black relations. Of course, African-Americans still encounter significant racism, but today’s fear-mongers don’t try to win elections with imag-es of black men raping white women; they do it with images of Mexicans hopping the bor-der, stealing jobs and committing crimes. Today’s closest equiva-

lents to George Wallace and Strom Thurmond are J.D. Hayworth and Tom Tancredo.

Just look at the attacks on Barack Obama. During the campaign, the race-baiting right attacked him as both a closet black militant (via Jeremiah Wright) and a closet Muslim (via his middle name). But 18 months later, bare-ly anyone mentions Wright anymore. What has stuck is the charge that Obama was born overseas. This month, the geniuses in the Ari-zona House passed a law requiring presiden-tial candidates to show their birth certificates

to get on the state ballot (the bill was set aside by the state Senate—for now, anyway).

I dearly hope the fed-eral government passes a sen-sible immigration law soon, but let’s not kid ourselves. The poli-tics of immigration are going to be wrenching for a long time because on the ground, immi-gration is producing wrenching cultural and economic change. The ethnic composition of the United States is changing pro-foundly, and the influx of cheap

see FeAR on page 23

Last week, I wrote a piece suggesting that the Haitian government find

a way to institute a tax system on the Hai-tian diaspora. As much as I am aware that this would not be an easy feat, nor would it be very popular in the Haitian diaspora, nonetheless I strongly believe at this point in time, it is a suggestion worth pursuing.

When we take a close look at the Haitian landscape, especially as far as businesses are concerned, we can see an array of businesses being run or heavily invested by Haitian diaspora, unfortunately for the most part those businesses are not consid-ered to be important factor in the formal economy of the country.

But the Haitian government needs to move seriously toward giving the diaspora its right to Haitian citizenship and partici-pate in the decision making process, oth-erwise it would be impossible to tax them.

Still, we have come to the point, where a simple vision is not the only remedy for moving the country forward. We must find a way to not only state what we want, but how we will get them and the timeframe for the implementation. We can no lon-

ger afford open-ended commitment. Every plan put forth must have a deadline and a clear strategy on who will be responsible for it.

I took a look at the Haitian government’s plan for the country’s future, although it is a nice read and seem to be touching on almost every point that has been inhibiting progress in the country; it is nonetheless another ineffective strategic plan put for-ward by people who are out-of-touch with the common folks. The plan as it is, failed on many fronts, and none bigger than clear timelines on when anything should be accomplished.

Haiti has been a country in a per-petual state of rebuilding. Ever since I can remember, people have always been preaching about how things will get better. We have had many instances where one could have actually believed those hypes, such as with the election in 1990, 1995, 2006 and lately after the Earthquake with the eyes of the world strongly focused on our country.

Time after time, the only result experi-enced by the vast majority of Haitians is a big disappointment. Now, a short three months after the biggest natural disaster to ever hit our country, that sinking feeling of despair and disappointment is creep-ing up ever slowly in the psyche of the population.

Many people are forcing themselves to accept the current conditions, which are

by far surpassed subhuman conditions, it must be said that most people affected by the earthquake are now living in a state of complete disgrace and with no end in sight.

The more we tend to rely only on outside help, the more it seems that the Haitian people are being subjugated or conditioned to accept regression as normal. People, who had a roof over their head before January 12, now have no idea when they will be able to sleep inside of what a call a house. Those who could get a meal a day, now have to settle for a meal every other day as the new normal. The conditions are so dire that any perception of help is con-sidered a miracle. We are entering a state of social disintegration, where the ambi-tions of a better tomorrow can only be seen as a grandiose folly.

In the midst of all these hopelessness, I can still sense hope. As we sit in the obscu-rity of the abyss, I can still see the ray of light and a way to reach higher ground. I know that I am not alone, and it is that awareness that is propelling to continue to sound the alarm on behalf of all those who still find the courage to hope and have ambitions of a country dignified and suit-able for human life.

The suggestion for a tax system on those who can afford a contribution to the state is not a preposition for charity, but rather it is convocation to answer the cry of a dying nation by its children. A friend of

mine even suggested that maybe Haitians would not embrace this idea because after all, those who have left might not even value their Haitian citizenship to agree to a 1% tax. This is a hard idea to accept, but it is possible that my friend might be right.

The impression that the Haitian dias-pora gives to foreigners is that we do not consider Haiti as our primary home; most of the time we are quick and proud to call ourselves diaspora. We seldom talk about any concrete action that we will take to bet-ter the lives of our compatriots back home. Many of our friends only hear us talk about Haiti, if we are going for some festivity, or if something horrible happened like the event of January 12th. Many foreigners are able to deduct that the Haitian diaspora is not very serious about contributing to the welfare of the collectivity. This is a percep-tion that we can change. We must love our home more than a stranger and we need to stop loving our neighbor’s home more than we love our own.

A tax is not a burden that the state put on society, but rather it is a fair way to make sure that those who have will play a role in helping those who do not have. Haiti is a country that can move forward, but Haitians who have attained certain social, educational and economical status must be engaged in the struggle. And that takes courage, pride, and above all the pure love for the native land.

Contact Ilio at Ilio@zanmi.com.

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Ilio'sOdysseyBy Ilio Durandis

In 1963, George Wallace defiantly blocked a door at the University of Alabama to protest the admission of two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood.

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ALBANY, N.Y. - New York state's gov-ernor said Monday said he will create a panel to help selected immigrants with criminal convictions avoid deportation under ”harsh” federal laws.

Gov. David Paterson said New York would be the first U.S. state to create a ”pardon panel” aimed specifically at investigating requests of legal immigrants facing deportation because of a past con-victions. Paterson said he would pardon immigrants who meet criteria such as rehabilitation and a lack of danger to society.

The Democrat is seeking to combat what he calls harsh and rigid federal measures that result in deporting of immigrants who have shown considerable rehabilitation.

New York's measure comes as the coun-try is embroiled in conflict over an Ari-zona law that critics say would encourage racial profiling. Arizona's measure makes it a crime under state law to be in the country illegally. It directs local police to question people about immigration status and demand to see their documents if there is reason to suspect they are in the U.S. illegally.

Paterson said he will seek to use a gov-ernor's pardon as a tool to blunt what he

called the rigid federal rules for deporta-tion even of immigrants who have suc-cessfully engaged in a new life in America.

”To be sure, there are some individu-als whose crimes are egregious or who pose a threat to public safety,” Paterson said, according to prepared remarks. ”And they are justly removed from the United States. But there are others for whom the situation is far less clear. For them, our national immigration laws leave no room to consider mitigating circumstances. But in New York, we believe in rehabilita-tion. And we believe in renewal. And we believe in second chances.”

In March, Paterson pardoned Quing Wu, an executive and Chinese immigrant who as a teenager was convicted of a mugging.

”After completing his sentence, finding a job, becoming engaged and living as a productive member of society, he applied to become a United States citizen,” Pat-erson said. ”Because of his convictions, Mr. Wu was detained for months and set for deportation to China, a country he left when he was 5 years old and to which he has no connection. To correct this injus-tice, I pardoned Quing Wu. He had paid his debt.”

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New York govenor to Create Panel to Help Immigrants

GIBARA, Cuba, (IPS/GIN) - Five girls and five boys are taking time to remember the hurricane that devastated their home town of Gibara in eastern Cuba two years ago, mingling their memories with their dreams, and filming images to make a video message for children in Haiti.

”What I like best is learning through playing,” said one of the primary school children selected to take part in an audiovi-sual production workshop in Gibara.

Without putting pressure on the children to move beyond their normal pace, the workshop asked them to think about and make a ”gift for the children of Haiti,” where on Jan. 12 an earthquake demol-ished the capital city and claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people. The material produced by the workshop, which is part of the Eighth Humberto Solás International Low-Budget Film Festival, will be sent to Haitian communities affected by the earthquake, with the support of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) office in Cuba.

”When you are a victim, it's difficult to think about other victims. So it's important for other victims to tell you how they lived through and overcame a similar experi-ence. One child victim of a catastrophe

tells his or her story to another who is suffering now,” UNICEF representative in Cuba José Juan Ortiz told IPS.

Psycho-emotional rehabilitation is hardly ever funded by international relief in disaster situations, Ortiz said. How-ever, such simple activities as drawing and painting, or more complex ones like creat-ing a film, have proved highly valuable in this work.

At times of war or natural disaster, ”efforts are focused on giving children water, sanitation, food and shelter, with-out realizing that unaddressed trauma has consequences that can last a lifetime. It's an urgent priority to work on this area,” he said.

Cuban psychologists Yuliet Cruz and Silvia Padrón initiated this project, aimed at avoiding ”secondary victimization”, a result not of the original trauma, but of the subsequent response of institutions and individuals to the victims, for example when the adults in charge focus on con-crete goals rather than the experiences and processes the children are living through.

”Children are the spectators of the future, but also of the present. We wanted to give them the chance to be the filmmak-

Children Reach Out by Video to Peers in Post-Quake Haiti

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Nostalji Channmas la antre sou mwen, sa fè 4 semenn. Nan on premye tan, m te eseye geri bos ko m sou kat (4) pyès Siksto ki konsantre sou Channmas osnon ki pale de Channmas. Men reya li te nouvèl m ap tande sou radyo ann Ayiti fè m konprann pa gen konparezon ant Channmas Siks to a, Channmas m te konnen an, ak Channmas jounen jodi a, Channmas apre 12 janvye a.

Semenn pase a, m te pale de 2 atik m jwenn nan fouye nan sit entènèt jounal ‘Le Nouvelliste’: yon atik Gari Viktò (m bay tit kreyòl “Kwonik on foli ki kuit nan san nou”) ak yon atik Mari Bri nèt Britis ak Wo bè sonn Alfons (m tradui tit la: “Fò yo viv malgre tout bagay”.) Nan fen kwonik lan, m te fè yon konsta sou baz dènye atik la: « Tout bagay ap mache sou Channmas. Tout moun adapte yo. Tout moun konfòme yo. 12 janvye pase, men fò n kontinye viv—malgre tout pwo blèm, malgre tout bagay! » « Mezanmi, eta Channmas la se youn, men sa k pi grav la se manta li te san dous nou genyen k ap kraze nou an, on mantalite ki pèmèt pwovizwa tounen pèmanan—san sa pa deranje pyès moun! »

Semenn sa a, m vini ak de atik ankò ; youn se ‘Des abris provisoires qui devien-nent perma nents’ (Abri pwovizwa ki vi

tounen abri pèmanan), ki parèt anba plim Nelyo Jozèf, nan dat 11 fevriye 2010 ; lòt la, ki rele ‘L’argent n’a pas d’odeur (Lajan pa gen movèz odè), parèt anba plim Klod Bèna Seran.

M te on ti jan sezi, lè m tonbe sou atik Nelyo Jozèf la: lide ‘pwovizwa pèmanan’ ki nan konklizyon dènye kwonik mwen an te gentan la mwens pase on mwa, kidonk tousuit, apre tranblemanntè a. Atik la kòmanse ak on kout kamera sou bòs Wilkenns Chal, on bòs debouyè : msye do touni, sou yon echafodaj, devan kyòs Oksid Janti, ap voye kout mato. Bòs la ap goumen ak on fèy tòl wouye, wondon-mon, ki refize soumèt anba kout mato li. Tankou anpil lòt moun ki al pran refij sou Channmas la—pi gwo sant refij ki gen nan peyi a—, bòs Wilkenns ap degaje l kou Mèt Janjak pou l ranplase twal ki kouvri ti tant li an, ki pa pwoteje l kont anyen di tou, ak materyo solid ki pou anpeche lapli mouye l, fredi manje gawo l. Bòs la di li pa ka rete ap gade sou pawòl van mouche Leta ki anonse on pakèt tant gen pou antre anvan sezon lapli a pwente. Li mete lajan deyò—pa gen anyen gratis ti cheri!—, plis pase lavalè 25 mil goud pou l achte tòl, planch, bwa, klou, eksetera… Se pa blag! Epi pou on moun ta panse se ta kesyon ti abri pwovizwa k ap pale la a.

Channmas chaje moun k ap degaje yo menm jan ak bòs Wilkenns pou yo pa kite lapli fè de pwen sou yo. Moun sot toupatou vin echwe Channmas—paske se yon kalfou plizyè chemen kote tout wout

debouche. Malgre tout kalite movèz odè, fatra, dlo konwonpi, pil okabine adwat agoch, marengwen, mal mele ak femèl, pèp la la sou Channmas la. M gen enpre-syon lè yo la yo santi yo anba je, gouvèn-man an ak ONG pa ka di yo pa wè yo, yo pa konn kote yo ye. Gen on lòt sitwayen ki deklare depi nan demen apre tran-blemanntè a se sou Channmas la li refije l, li fè twa semenn ap dòmi ak prela syèl la sou tèt li, nan lespwa gouvènman an t ap vin fè on jès avèk li. Men, nad marinad! Malere sa a sispann reve konnye a: l ap suiv egzanp bòs Wilkenns lan.

Men kòmantè dirèk jounalis la: “Nan yo moman kote gouvènman an ap anvizaje pou l retire moun sou Channmas, abri pwovizwa, piti piti, ap transfòme, tounen kay solid. Lè nou mande moun yo si yo pare pou yo kite zòn lan pou y al rete Kwadèboukè, yo chak wè bagay la jan pa yo: genyen ki di pa gen pwoblèm pou y ale, men gen lòt ki deklare tout biznis yo se sou Channmas la li ye.”

Chalmas, ala kote gen koze, papa! “Tande ak wè se de!” Se sa plizyè sitwayen ki sot Ayiti di mwen. Gen youn ki menm ban m on prigad: “Ou ap plede repete pawòl ‘Chalmas! Ala kote gen koze!’, men menm si ou te vwayaje fè letou dimonn, menm si ou te gen pi gwo imajinasyon ki te ka genyen sou latè, m pa kwè ou ka imajine sa k ap pase Channmas jounen jodi a.” Sitwayen an gen rezon: m jwenn prèv la nan atik Klod Bèna Seran an, “L’argent n’a pas d’odeur”.

M renmen jan msye kòmanse atik la: “On ti lapli fen, frèt, ap tonbe sou Chan-nmas la, site tant, kote konbyen mil moun sanzazil ap brase. Men ki kote tout moun sa yo pral degaje konsyans yo? Sa gen plizyè semenn depi tranblemanntè a, tout mas pèp sa a, se atè a l ap fè bezwen l : li degaje konsyans li nan tout kwen sou plas Ewo Lendepandans yo ak nan kèk twalèt pòtatif bizismann enstale nan plizyè zòn sou Channmas la—10 goud on moun te peye pou ou te sèvi ak twalèt sa yo.” Fè bezwen atè nan tan lapli se pa ni on bon ni on bèl bagay. ‘Sa je pa wè, kè pa tounen’ pa toujou vre… Alewè pou sa je wè!

Je Mèveni Jèn, youn nan dam yo anplwaye pou netwaye twalèt yo. “Moun sa yo bay moun degoutans! Yo malpwòp konsa! Yo mechan! Yo lage bagay la toupa-tou, sou kouvèti bòl la, atè. Se espre yo fè!” Lajan pa gen movèz odè, se konsa pawòl la pati. Men se bouche Mèveni bouche nen l pou l bwè dlo santi—pou l retire wòch, boutèy plastik, dra moun yo lage nan twalèt yo. 250 senkant pyas sa a fèt nan di, nan bougonnen, nan gade, nan manyen sa ou pa ta vle manyen…

Chalmas! Ala kote gen koze! Chalmas! Ala kote ou wè! Gen on sitwayen ki deklare: « Pandan yo tout ansanm Chan-nmas la, se moman pou nou aprann pèp la kèk prensip ijèn. » Bèl pawòl! Ki lè n ap kòmanse?

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NEW-YORK-New York’s bud-get is more than a month late, and Governor David Paterson has submitted his fifth emergency spending measure to keep the government running while press-ing lawmakers to find ways to close a $9.2 billion deficit.

To prod legislators, who are set to vote on the emergency measure today, Paterson, 55, has suggested steps that lawmakers have so far ignored. He proposed they remain in session five days a week instead of three, that they vote on his $135.2 billion budget plan, and that they approve one-day-a-week unpaid furloughs for about 100,000 state workers.

“I wouldn’t rule out the pos-sibility of calling a special ses-sion and forcing the legislature to stay,” Paterson said April 29 on radio station WCBS in New York City, a day after the state Senate and Assembly left the capitol in Albany without acting on his proposals. Lawmakers did find time to praise the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, which they honor annually.

The Legislature didn’t consider Paterson’s budget plan last week even after he added $620 million in spending cuts and new rev-enue needed to close a gap that emerged after his $135.2 billion budget proposal in mid-February.

The budget is for the fiscal year that began April 1.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat of Manhat-tan, told reporters that needed documents arrived too late for members to evaluate before they adjourned on April 28. He said the Senate and Assembly have agreed on about $6 billion in spending cuts and revenue increases.

not identifying Cuts Democratic leaders aren’t

making public a description of the agreed-upon items, said Dan Weiller, a spokesman for Sil-ver. Doing so “would jeopardize the negotiation,” Carl Kruger, a Democrat of Brooklyn and the Senate Finance Committee’s chairman, said on April 26.

“It’s one thing when you’re not reaching agreement, it’s anoth-er thing when I don’t get the impression you’re making very much of an effort at all,” said Paterson, a Democrat.

The governor’s latest emergen-cy-funding measures would keep the state in business through May 9. Paterson said he might step up pressure to approve furloughs by including the plan in future weekly spending bills. The 20 percent reduction in paid work-days may save $30 million a week, and wasn’t included in the

spending bills he submitted April 30 for today’s vote.

Paterson has already delayed a 4 percent pay raise for 130,000 state workers that was set to take effect April 1.

If furloughs are blocked, “we will have to lay people off whereas what I thought was the proper way, if you’re in financial distress, was for everybody to take an equal sacrifice rather than a few having to lose their jobs,” Paterson said on New York City radio station WOR.

Furlough Plan expect-ed

Lawmakers expect the furloughs to be part of the next weekly spending bill, said Travis Proulx, a spokesman for Senate Democratic Leader John Sampson of Brooklyn. By state law, only the governor can sub-mit spending bills and lawmakers can’t amend them, Proulx said.

If forced to choose between shutting down the government or voting for a bill that includes furloughs, Assemblyman John McEneny, a Democrat of Albany, home to many state workers, said he would vote for the bill. “The risks of a government shutdown

are just too great,” he said. State unions have promised a court fight to block furloughs, and McEneny said he believes they would win.

Paterson said furloughs, if passed, would be legal and wouldn’t violate union contracts.

“There is no contact, because there’s no budget,” Paterson said on WOR. Lawmakers are “afraid” and “don’t want to make these cuts,” he said in the broadcast.

If legislators pass the mea-sure, “they know they’re going to be unpopular.”

Paterson’s Proposed Cuts

Paterson’s proposed $5.5 billion in spending cuts takes $1.1 billion from school aid, $1 billion from Medicaid, the health care program for the poor, and $250 million from payroll costs.

With the budget in limbo, there’s no plan for closing a $1 billion cash gap pro-jected for the first week of June, said Matt Anderson, a spokesman for the Division of Budget.

The state could delay payments or borrow, Robert Megna, the state’s budget director, said last month. “Investors would probably be much more willing to

buy” a new debt issue if a spend-ing plan was in place, he said.

The budget office hasn’t pub-lished a schedule for selling the $5.9 billion of state-backed bonds called for in its capital plan. New York has about $54.8 billion of outstanding debt, the second most of any state after California.

The story was first published in Bloomberg news

New York state’s Paterson Pushes for Action on Past-Due Budget

Governor David Paterson

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UNITED NATIONS, (IPS/GIN) - Last year, at least 77 journalists were killed sim-ply for doing their jobs. So far this year, the number is 17 - and rising - with three of them killed last Saturday.

”I condemn these murders and insist that the perpetrators are brought to justice,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at a panel discussion here Thursday.

Freedom of expression is a human right, enshrined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

”Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression. This right includes freedom to hold opinions without interfer-ence and to seek, receive and impart infor-mation and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers,” he said.

Still, governments all over the world are trying to undermine it. Harassment, high taxes, censorship and the risk of getting imprisoned or even murdered are a part of many journalists' workday.

And the violence against journalists is increasing, according to an UNESCO report.

In November 2009, 30 journalists were killed in a single day in an ambush in Phil-ippines, and last weekend three reporters were killed in two separate incidents in Nigeria.

The proportion of murders cleared and that lead to convictions is also very low.

On Thursday, the Department of Pub-lic Information, in conjunction with civil society groups, held a panel discussion about ”Freedom of Information: The right to Know”. This year's focus was Southeast

Asia. Clothilde Le Coz, director of

Reporters Without Borders (RWB) in Washington, said Southeast Asia fares very poorly in terms of free-dom of the press.

”All these countries are ranked on the last third of our index that we publish annually. And we ranked 175 countries and they are all in the last third of it,” she said.

She pointed out that there are currently 40 reporters and bloggers who are jailed in the region.

Mary Patricia Nunan, a jour-nalist with experience covering Asia, pointed out some differences between the working conditions for local and foreign press.

”There is a pretty stunning double standard that exists between jour-nalists like myself from the Western press working in Southeast Asia, and the local press. Quite simply, it takes a lot more courage to work as a local journalist in these places than it does for a foreigner,” she said.

”As a foreign correspondent or a freelancer, you always get a reassur-ance that you have a passport, probably a credit card, a news organization that sup-ports you, so if there ever is a situation of harassment or threat, you can simply leave the country,” she noted. The reason local journalists are more vulnerable to threats is obvious to Nunan. ”It is simply because all politics are local, so if there is a corrupt

politician or criminal, they are more likely to feel threatened by the local press.”

”When local press is targeted it tends to be much more indirect retribution for something that has been reported, but when Western journalists are arrested, harassed or kidnapped, it is more often the result of opportunism, as they accidentally fall into the laps of people that wish them harm,” she added.

Censorship is another problem fac-ing journalists in Southeast Asia, par-ticularly in Thailand. About 2,500 websites have been blocked by the government, and in the last year, 10 bloggers have been sued.

”From the safety of New York, I have written a few sentences to say, 'The Thai King has been on the throne for more than 60 years and has been an extraordinarily powerful presence. He is now 82 years old and he has spent his lifetime dedicated to doing good work for the development of the Thai nation, which is starting to understand the enormity of his impact and what will emerge when during legacy of such a magnificent figure.”

”If I said something like that in Thailand, even though it sounds nice enough, I could go to jail for the simple suggestion that the king is not immortal,” she said.

Vietnam is another country that supports censorship, as is China. Google just left the country because of trouble over Internet filters and alleged hacking.

”Everything that is reported in China is totally biased,” Le Coz said.

Asked what the U.N. can do about it, she told IPS: ”Instead of condemning the Chinese government, they should make a specific report of how human rights are respected in every region of the country. In particular, how the 1738 resolution that guarantees reporters safety is respected would be welcomed.”

u.N. CHIeF DeCRIes KILLINg OF JOuRNALIsTs

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NGO Builds Temporary Housing in Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti —

The Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) Multilateral Invest-ment Fund (MIF) has approved a US$2.6 million grant for the Latin American NGO Un Techo

Para Mi País ((UTPMP), Spanish for A Roof For My Country, for a project that will build temporary housing to some 2,000 families left homeless by the January 12 earthquake.

The youth-led UTPMP spe-cialises in providing shelter and training to poor people.

Since its establishment in 1997 in Chile, the NGO has spread to 16 countries in this region and

built more than 45,000 houses by enlisting volunteers to work with its beneficiaries.

The MIF-backed project, which will have a total cost of US$6.1 million, will focus in

areas of south-western Haiti close to the epicentre of the earthquake.

With support from private donors and a Korean fund admin-istered by the IDB, UTPMP has started to build wooden houses near the city of Grand Goave.

UTPMP has also succeeded in mobilising hundreds of young Haitian volunteers to build new houses with the beneficiary fami-lies.

After an initial phase centred on putting roofs over people’s heads, the project will work on the “social empowerment” of poor people to improve their income prospects.

To that end, UTPMP will part-ner with Haitian civil society organisations and government agencies to provide its beneficia-ries access to social services and job training opportunities.

This is the second MIF grant for Un Techo Para Mi País, which in 2005 obtained US$3.5 million to transfer its methodology and experiences to other Latin Ameri-can countries.

The MIF, an autonomous fund administered by the IDB, is also supporting a project backed by the US NGO Habitat for Human-ity International to build housing in the city of Cabaret, north of Port-au-Prince.

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PrescriptionBy Dr. Gerald W. Deas

Children who live with relatives instead of their parents are at increased risk for physical and mental health problems, new research shows.

About 2.8 million children in the United States live with relatives, called kinship care, and about 800,000 are in foster care. Like those in foster care, the study found, children in kinship care experience a num-ber of health issues.

”Children who live in kinship care with a relative have more special health-care needs, mental health problems such as [attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder] and depression and dental problems com-pared with children who live with their parents,” Dr. Sara B. Eleoff, of the Uni-versity of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, in Rochester, N.Y., said in a news release from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

She and her colleagues analyzed data from more than 91,000 children included in a 2007 national survey, comparing those in kinship care with children who lived with at least one birth parent.

Compared with children who lived with a parent, children in kinship care were more likely to be black, older than 9 years, have public health insurance and live in households with incomes at or near the poverty level. Many kinship caregivers reported having poor overall health or mental health, the researchers noted.

Kids Raised by Rela-tives Face Increased Health Risks

The only time we know we have a gut is when it either growls or cramps up, caus-ing pain. Oh, there’s another time: when you look down and can’t see your knees. That’s really not an enlarged gut, but a col-lection of fat in the wall of the abdomen. The abdomen is filled with many organs such as the liver, spleen, pancreas and stomach. However, the gut occupies most of the space in the abdomen.

From the time the partially digested food leaves the stomach, it begins its long jour-ney through the gut until whatever is left is eliminated with a bowel movement. After leaving the 23 feet of small intestines, the mess enters the large gut.

The mess that enters the large gut is a semi-liquid, and the process of compact-ing it by the absorption of water begins. In other words, the large gut is known as the great compactor.

The lining of the large gut is very sensi-tive to toxins as well as to certain food items such as lactose, which is the sugar found in milk. For example, if you are lactose-sensitive, the large gut will begin to growl and cramp, and all I can say is don’t be in a place where there is no toilet or you will be embarrassed.

Another sugar found in beans also can insult the gut and make you run in different directions. In fact, we had an old saying in the hood, “Beans, beans, when you eat a lot, the more you eat, the more you fart.” (My mom wasn’t particularly fond of that expression.) Another bean rhyme stated, “Beans, beans, the musical fruit, the more you eat, the more you toot.”

Beans however, are full of rich fiber and are excellent for a healthy gut. Fiber, both insoluble and soluble, works magic in the gut by keeping the walls protected from toxic substances and, thus, preventing irri-tation and the formation of cancer cells.

The large gut works 24/7. If you could put your ear to your abdomen, you would

hear mild, gushing sounds. On the other hand, if you are experiencing abdominal pain and there are no sounds of gut func-tion, medical attention is warranted. The gut may be paralyzed if there is tear and it leaks into the abdominal cavity.

Now, getting down to the nitty-gritty. If certain areas of the wall of the gut become weak, small sacs known as diverticulas may develop. These sacs can become infected by bacteria, resulting in diver-ticulitis. This condition causes the gut to cramp, resulting in loose stools and oftentimes bleeding. Red blood in the stool is usually the result of bleeding in the large bowel. Black blood in the stool usually originates from the stomach due to the reaction of hydrochloric acid and the blood. Black stools in medical jargon are known as tarry stools—in other words, as black as tar. Blood in the stool is not

always visible, but it can be detected by a simple chemical test. Blood in the stool should always be evaluated with diagnostic tests to arrive at its origin.

Toxins from the breakdown of food products can also irritate the lining of the large gut. This irritation can lead to polyps that can develop abnormal cancer cells. A diagnostic procedure known as colonoscopy can detect the early formation of polyps, which can then be removed.

If the polyps are not removed, sizable, cancerous growths can occur, leading to obstruction of the large bowel. The cancer cells may also shed into the blood stream and depos-it in distant organs such as the liver. Not all folks develop polyps in the large gut. The development of polyps may be due to lack of sufficient fiber in the diet, leading to poor bowel movements. Among people in Afri-ca, diverticulosis and cancer are less common than in our country because their diet is rich in fiber.

Early detection of cancer in the large gut can save your life. People

with a personal history of polyps, colon cancer, or inflammatory bowel disease or a family history of colon cancer or polyps have a higher risk for colon cancer. The American Cancer Society recommends the following types of colon cancer screen-ing for men and women who are age 50 or older; however, if you are someone who has a high risk, you may need to be screened before age 50 and have some of the tests done more often:

Yearly fecal occult blood tests (FOBT)Flexible sigmoidoscopy every five yearsDouble contract barium enema every

five yearsColonoscopy every ten yearsFor further information on colon can-

cer, call the American Cancer Society at 1-800-ACS-2345 or go to cancer.org on the web.

For more health tips and access to an online community of physicians and other healthcare professionals visit: DrDeas.com

WASHINGTON – As controversial as mammograms are for women in their 40s, some get them even younger — and new research casts doubt on their usefulness.

When to start routine mammograms, at 40 or 50, is debated. But health guide-lines don't recommend them before age 40 unless women are at particularly high risk, such as those who carry the BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast cancer-causing genes.

Still, about 29 percent of women in their 30s report having had a mammogram.

So researchers tracked the records of more than 117,000 women who had their first mammogram before 40, and the results support today's guidelines for average-risk women.

If 10,000 35- to 39-year-olds had a rou-tine screening mammogram, 1,266 would be called back for further testing to find 16 with cancer, reported Dr. Bonnie Yankas-kas of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. That's less accurate than in older women, and she said those consider-ing a young exam should know the draw-backs: Earlier radiation exposure and extra testing's anxiety and cost.

The vast majority of these women had no family history of breast cancer, but researchers found no better detec-tion rates in those who did. But the study couldn't track BRCA carriers, an impor-tant gap.

Mammograms Before 40: Few Cancers, Many Callbacks

The haiTian Times 15May 5- May 11, 2010 HeALTH

Sticking to a strict diet of mom's milk during the first 4 months of life may reduce a child's risk of develop-ing asthma by their eighth birthday, according to a new study.

”Breast milk is the optimal food for infants during the first months of life,” lead researcher Dr. Inger Kull of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, told Reuters Health in an email. ”But whether or not breast-feeding reduces the risk of asthma has been debated.”

Through her milk, a mother transfers ”good” bacte-ria, antibodies and proteins that can help thwart infec-tion. But the evidence for how breastfeeding might influence the later development of asthma remains confusing, with various studies suggesting protective, neutral and even detrimental effects.

Kull and her colleagues decided to look into the rela-tionship a little differently than previous studies. They followed nearly 4,000 Swedish children over 8 years, noting which received short- or long-term, as well as exclusive or partial, breastfeeding.

The team found that about 12 percent of children who were exclusively breastfed for at least the first 4 months of life developed asthma by age 8, compared with 18 percent of those breastfed for a shorter amount of time.

This translated into a 37 percent lower risk of asthma for those breastfed for 4 months or longer, after adjusting for other risk factors such as maternal smok-ing and birth weight.

The difference appeared to be driven mostly by allergy-related cases of asthma.

The extended and exclusive diet of breast milk also resulted in better lung function at age 8, the researchers report in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunol-

ogy.Of course, not all mothers have the desire or ability

to solely breastfeed for their child's first months. For these women, Kull suggests that even partial breast-feeding can somewhat reduce the risk of asthma.

But what about all the other conflicting research? Dr. Malcolm Sears of McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, led one of these studies. His team found that New Zealand children breastfed for more than 4 weeks actually developed more asthma later in childhood.

Sears says one possible explanation for his result is the ”hygiene hypothesis” -- the theory that the increas-ingly germ-free surroundings of modern life are actu-ally contributing to an increase in allergies and asthma.

”If you're absolutely protecting children from every-thing, and breastfeeding protects them to a certain extent, this may allow the immune system to switch to becoming allergic rather than fighting infections,” Sears told Reuters Health.

He also suggested the possibility that while breast-feeding might initially increase the risk of asthma, if a mother keeps at it for a long time, the risk can be reduced again - even to the point where breastfeeding becomes protective. Interestingly, his study used an earlier cut-off between short- and long-term breast-feeding than the Swedish study.

Still, given the inconsistent findings, Sears cautions against using asthma protection as the motivating fac-tor for breastfeeding. ”There are 101 good reasons to breastfeed,” said Sears. ”Whether or not it protects you against asthma, you should choose to breastfeed for all the other good reasons.”

The story was first published in Reuters.

Does Breastfeeding Protect against Asthma?

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday granted approval to Provenge, a therapeutic vaccine aimed at preventing the spread of prostate cancer in men with an advanced form of the disease.

The new approval is limited to ”the treatment of asymptomatic or minimal-ly symptomatic prostate cancer that has spread to other parts of the body and is resistant to standard hormone treatment,” the FDA said.

”The availability of Provenge provides a new treatment option for men with advanced prostate cancer, who currently have limited effective therapies available,” Dr. Karen Midthun, acting director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said in an agency news release.

Experts say the drug's approval could be a milestone against the disease and cancer in general.

Provenge appears to extend survival in men with advanced prostate cancer, and it does so without the serious side effects associated with chemotherapy, radiation and hormone therapy.

”It is certainly exciting to see a drug that has made it this far,” Dr. J. Leonard Lich-tenfeld, deputy chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, said earlier this week.

The vaccine is not aimed at prevent-ing prostate cancer in men who have not developed the disease, and it is far from a cure for those who have it, Lichtenfeld stressed. ”Provenge represents a mod-est advance in survival for patients with advanced prostate cancer, but the drug doesn't delay the progression of the dis-ease,” he said.

Still, it might prove possible to use

Provenge in the earlier stages of prostate cancer, where it might be even more effective, Lichtenfeld said. ”The hope is if a vaccine is effective in late-stage disease that it is going to be even more effec-tive in the earlier treatment of that same disease,” he said.

But that benefit would have to be shown in clinical trials, Lichtenfeld said. ”It will rep-resent a new treatment option. It will have a modest impact on prostate cancer survival, but it's small changes in treatments over time that add up to a major improvement. So I wouldn't be discouraged by what is a small increment in survival.”

Provenge is a therapeutic (not preventative) vaccine that is made from the patient's own white blood cells. Once removed from the patient, the cells are treated with the drug and placed back into the patient. These treated cells then cause an immune response, which in turn kills cancer cells, while leaving nor-mal cells unharmed.

According to the FDA, Provenge is given intravenously in a three-dose sched-ule delivered in two-week intervals.

The vaccine was developed by Seattle-based Dendreon Corp., which conducted initial studies among men with advanced prostate cancer who had already failed standard hormone treatment. Among these men, Provenge extended life by an average of 4.5 months, although some patients saw their lives extended by two to three years. The only side effects were mild flu-like symptoms, according to the study results.

The FDA noted that in one study, men taking Provenge had a slightly higher risk for cerebrovascular events, such as stroke, with 3.5 percent of those taking Provenge suffering such events versus 2.6 percent of those who did not take the drug.

In 2007, an FDA advisory panel recom-mended that the agency approve Provenge, but at the time the FDA said more data was needed before it would approve the drug.

Dr. Mark Soloway, professor and chair of urology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, said that ”we certainly need the opportunity for our patients to have alternatives.”

The big question, according to Soloway, is when do you use Provenge? Whether it should be used before chemotherapy or hormone therapy isn't clear, he said.

”There are problems with Provenge,” Soloway said. ”One is that it's very cum-

bersome, because patients have to provide their white cells, and I think that's on a regular basis. And two, it's likely to be very expensive.” Costs are expected to total $75,000 for the full regimen, experts say.

Soloway agreed that Provenge might also be use-ful in earlier-stage prostate cancer, but studies are need-ed to prove that.

However, ”once it's approved, it's on the market, and with proper informed consent you can use it for localized [early stage] pros-tate cancer. Whether insur-ance companies will pay for it is also not known,” Solo-

way said.Other new drugs to treat prostate cancer,

such as Abiraterone, which prevents the production of the male hormone testoster-one, are on the horizon and will compete with Provenge for new treatment regi-mens, he added.

According to American Cancer Society estimates, more than 192,000 new cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed in the United States each year, and 27,360 men die from the disease.

Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer diagnosed in American men, after skin cancer. More than 2 million American men who have had prostate can-cer at some point are still alive today. The death rate is going down, and the disease is being found earlier, according to the cancer society.

Prostate Cancer Vaccine gains FDA Approval

Dr. J. Leonard Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society

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COMMuNITYCALeNDARNew YorkManhattan

The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by American Express®, the Founding Sponsor of the Fes-tival, today announced it will feature Raoul Peck film at the festival. The 34 titles to be featured include 24 World Narrative and Documentary Competition films, as well as outof- competition feature film selections in the Showcase and Special Events sections. Peck’s Moloch Tropical, making its New York premiere during the Festival (April 21-May 2), is a feature narrative inspired by the challeng-ing politics and recurring unrest in the region. The award-winning filmmaker from Port-au-Prince, Haiti incorpo-rates bits of satire as he plays with the ideas of power and conflict. The film features a number of prominent French and Haitian talent including Jimmy Jean Louis (Heroes) and award-winning French actor Zinedine Soualem, along with Haitian singer Emmeline Michel. The 2010 TFF will take place from April 21 to May 2 in lower Manhattan. The 2010 film selection encompasses feature films from 38 different countries, including 45 World Premieres, 7 International Premieres, 14 North American Premieres, 6 U.S. Premieres and 12 New York Premieres, among which are 7 titles which are part of the fourth annual Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival. 96 directors will be presenting feature works at the Festival, with 38 of these filmmakers presenting their feature directorial debuts and 18 present-ing their second feature film. Twenty of the 96 directors are returning TFF filmmakers. The 2010 film slate was chosen from a total of 5,055 submissions, a record number for the Festival.

Brooklyn-New yrk City Police Department, New Immigrant

Outreach unit and the 77th precinct in partnership with the Hebron French speaking Seventh-day Adventist Church presents a Multicural Information Resource Day on Wednesday May 12,2010 from 8 to 10pm at the Hebron French-speaking Seventh-day Adventist Church at 1256 Dean street. Come obtain free information on how to get

a gren card, temporary protected status, health coverage, affrdable housing, job opportunities. For more infrmation call 718-778-6454 05v646-373-8436

-Prospect Park presents its events listings for the month of May Saturday May 1 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.;. Audubon Center

Welcome the returning birds with NYC Audubon’s trip to one of the city’s best birding hot spots. Prospect Park is recognized by National Audubon as an Important Bird Area (IBA). Register at nycaudubon.org or call (212) 691- 7483. Limited to 20 people. 10% discount for Prospect Park Alliance and NYC Audubon members. PPA members must call to get member discount code.

K ARBOR DAY WEEKEND Saturday May 1 & Sun-day May 2, 1 – 4 p.m.;. Audubon Center. Free admission. How many types of trees are there in Prospect Park? Join us to learn about one of the most important aspects of our landscape. Come put down roots and enjoy crafts, hands-on activities and exhibits.

K POTATO PLANTING DAYS Saturday May 1 & Sunday May 2, 1 – 4 p.m.; Lefferts Historic House. Free admission. Help spread manure, till soil and plant pota-toes. (In the fall, you can come back and reap what you sowed.) Once the planting is done, wash up, and churn some fresh butter to enjoy on freshly baked cornbread, made on-site over an open fire.

MORNING BIRD WALK: MARVELOUS MIGRANTS Sunday, May 2, 8 a.m. Audubon Center. Free admission. See some of the dazzling birds that visit the Park before flying to northern breeding grounds. Led by the Brooklyn Bird Club.

K INTERNATIONAL MIGRATORY BIRD DAY Sat-urday, May 8 ,1 – 4 p.m.;. Audubon Center. Free admis-sion. How many birds use Prospect Park as their summer home? Come to the Audubon Center and celebrate bird migration. Learn how birds travel the world between sum-mer and winter. Find out what you can do to help migra-tory birds. Crafts and Activities.

K FLEECE FEST Saturday May 8 & Sunday May 9

1 – 4 p.m.; Lefferts Historic House. Visit Fleece Fest at

Prospect Park Zoo to see fleece shorn from live sheep at

1:30 pm and 2:30 pm, then come next door to Lefferts and

try your hand at the steps for making it into cloth: wash-

ing, carding, spinning and weaving. On this day only, a

hand stamp lets you visit the Zoo, come to Lefferts, and

then return to the Zoo. Lefferts events free; for Zoo regu-

lar admission prices apply

K SOW & SEW FLAX WEEKEND Saturday May 15

& Sunday May 16, 1 – 4 p.m.; Lefferts Historic House.

Free admission This weekend help us prepare the soil and

sow flax seeds in the south plot. See how a spinning wheel

turns flax into thread and how that thread is then woven

into cloth. Finally, using needle and thread, sew your own

linen pouch!

QueensQueens Library is going to host a series of programs

TPS Assistance for Haitian New Yorkers on Wednesdays,

March 24, April 21, May 26, and June 23, 5:30-8:30 pm,

at the Central Library. This program is intended to help

Haitian Americans apply for the Temporary Protected Sta-

tus, a special benefit provided by the Department of State

to people affected by adverse conditions in their home-

land. For more information contact Gennady Yusim, Cop-

ing Skills Librarian at 718-990-0883 or email gyusim@

queenslibrary.org.

New JerseyNewark

Haitians in New Jersey are organizing a UNITY

MARCH FOR HAITI on Saturday May 8th. 2010 at 11:00

a.m. in Newark, New Jersey. Come and join the flow of

brotherhood and solidarity for the struggling people of

Haiti. The meeting place is at the Newark City Hall.

The haiTian Times 17May 5- May 11, 2010 BusINessSANTO DOMINGO, Dominican

Republic (AP) - An increasing number of small businesses are helping the Domini-can government play a larger economic role in rebuilding Haiti.

In the last three months, more than 100 Dominican companies have sold $5.5 million in products, including bread and latrines, to nonprofit organizations and United Nations agencies providing help in the aftermath of Haiti's devastating Jan. 12 earthquake.

”The Dominican Republic has a built-in capacity to provide a quick and competi-tive response,” said Eddy Martinez, direc-tor of the government's Center for Export and Investment, which certifies companies to do business in Haiti and helped orga-nize an exhibition for their products in the Dominican Republic.

International leaders have pledged more than $3.8 billion over 18 months to help Haiti rebuild from the quake, which killed an estimated 230,000 people and left 1.3 million homeless.

Dominican exports to Haiti fell nearly 20 percent in January and February com-pared to the same period last year. The two countries share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.

A government study on how the earth-quake affected commerce with Haiti

warned that the Dominican economy would continue to suffer if other countries

become the main suppliers during the rebuilding.

The Foreign Ministry taught local busi-ness owners in March how to seek con-tracts with the U.N. and will offer another session next week.

Many of the companies are doing busi-ness in Haiti for the first time.

”I immediately began searching the Internet for ideas to create my own design,” said carpenter Erasmo Morel, whose wood-furnishing factory on the outskirts of Santo Domingo expects to ship 10 homes to Haiti worth a total of $35,000.

Grace Baptist Church will use them to house 60 orphans near the Haitian town of Ganthier, just east of Port-au-Prince. The children's orphanage in the capital was destroyed.

Miguel Nadal, a spokesman for Gerardi-no Real Estate Company, said that com-pany also is selling prefabricated homes worth $3,500 each. He has already made a presentation to U.N. and nonprofit offi-cials, but has not received any offers.

The Dominican Republic earned a total of $647 million in 2009 from goods exported to Haiti, including food, cement and zinc.

small DR Companies seek Role in Rebuilding HaitiDominican Republic taps small companies to help rebuild Haiti, boost economy

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - An awards programme which seeks to identify, reward and cul-tivate entrepreneurs whose busi-ness initiatives can give Haiti new economic foundations, was launched today by Digicel, in association with the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).

”Recognising entrepreneurial spirit through acclaiming suc-cesses is a key driver in building an enterprise economy,” said Mr. Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digi-cel Group.

”That's why we have created The Digicel Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Programme, with a fitting theme Ignite the Spirit of Enterprise, and the vision it embraces is nothing less than a thoroughly regenerated, newly modernised, enterprise-driven Haiti,” he added.

Nominations are now invited from across six categories: Tour-ism and Culture, The Environ-ment, Food and Agriculture, Industry, Services and Emerg-ing Entrepreneurs. A nominee must be the founder/owner of the business and have a full, active interest in the company. Entrepreneurs can be nominated by anyone, including themselves.

A judging panel of eight, chaired by Denis O'Brien, will evaluate nominations according to strict criteria, including the

company's strategic direc-tion, record of innovation, financial performance, and importantly, community impact.

A shortlist of nominees will be selected in each of four regions across Haiti and finals will take place in each. A total of 24 will emerge as national final-ists to become part of a celebration journey and will take centre stage in the National Final in Decem-ber. One national winner will be announced in each category, and from these, one will be crowned the 2010 Digicel Entrepreneur of the Year.

”There could be no more fitting or dramatic setting for the final of the Digicel Entrepreneur of the Year awards in December than the iconic Marché de Fer or Iron Market in Port-au-Prince which was built in 1889 as a symbol of Haiti's traditional trading prowess. Its phoenix-like renewal will represent a promise to the people of Haiti that good things can come out of appalling adversity - fostered by a powerful coalition of local spirit and inter-national goodwill,” said O'Brien.

Through the programme, the

aim is that entrepreneurs work together for the first time in a manner that allows them to benefit from shared learning experiences, to focus on scalability, and to look outside Haiti to the international marketplace for future growth.

The 24 finalists will be given the opportunity to engage in a three-day Executive Education Programme at Florida Interna-

tional University in Miami. This CEO Retreat will deliver train-ing in leadership, innovation and strategy.

The Digicel Entrepreneur of the Year is sponsored by AIC Insur-ance, Sogebank, Coles Group and The Soros Foundation. It is supported by The Chamber of Commerce and Industry Haiti, The Centre for Free Enterprise

and Democracy, Le Nouvelliste and Le Matin.

Nominations for the Digicel Entrepreneur of the Year Pro-gramme must be submitted using the official nomination form or via www.digicelhaitientrepre-neur.com by Friday, 11th June 2010.

The story was first published in Marketwire.com

Digicel and Clinton global Initiative Ignite the spirit of enterprise in Haiti Through New Awards Programme

Eddy Martinez, director of the Dominican Republic government's Center for Export and Investment.

Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Digicel Group

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Actress Lynn Redgrave has died at age 67 Lynn Redgrave, an introspective and

independent player in her family's acting dynasty who became a 1960s sensation as the unconventional title character of ”Georgy Girl” and later dramatized her troubled past in such one-woman stage performances as ”Shakespeare for My Father” and ”Nightingale,” has died. She was 67. Her publicist Rick Miramontez, speaking on behalf of her children, said Redgrave died peacefully Sunday night at her home in Kent, Conn. Children Ben, Pema and Annabel were with her, as were close friends. ”Our beloved mother Lynn Rachel passed away peacefully after a seven year journey with breast cancer,” Redgrave's children said in a statement Monday. ”She lived, loved and worked harder than ever before. The endless mem-ories she created as a mother, grandmother, writer, actor and friend will sustain us for the rest of our lives. Our entire family asks for privacy through this difficult time.” Redgrave was diagnosed with breast can-cer in December 2002, had a mastectomy in January 2003 and underwent chemo-therapy. Her death comes a year after her niece Natasha Richardson died from head injuries sustained in a skiing accident and just a month after the death of her older brother, Corin Redgrave.

NYC neighbors pulling for 'Big Mike' to win 'Idol'”American Idol” viewers shared a big day with Michael Lynche when his wife

gave birth during Hollywood week and he talked her through her contractions by cell phone.”Hi baby girl,” he heard his wife say when the baby was born across the continent in New York City.Lynche made the cut that week and every week since, though he had a close call on April 7. The 26-year-old soul singer received the fewest viewer votes but was saved by the judges.”We have decided we're going to see you next week,” Simon Cowell said after the ”Idol” judges used their once-a-season override. Four weeks later, ”Big Mike” is among the final five.He made Kara DioGuardi cry with his heartfelt ren-dition of ”This Woman's Work” by Maxwell, but Cowell thought his version of Shania Twain's ”It Only Hurts When I'm Breathing” was ”wet.” The burly ”singing teddy bear”

has performed with and without a guitar and once hoisted Ryan Seacrest like a sack of potatoes. Lynche grew up in St. Petersburg, Fla., but now lives in New York, where he works as a personal trainer at an Equinox Fitness Club. He played college football for the University of Central Florida, leaving after two seasons to care for his cancer-stricken mother. She died in 2004. Lynche performed with his family as the Lynche Mob and more recently has sung with a wedding band called East Coast. Both St. Petersburg and Astoria, Queens, the ethnically diverse neighborhood where Lynche lives with his wife, Christa Angelelli, are rooting for him to go all the way on ”Idol.”

Jordin sparks to hit the ”Heights” on BroadwayJordin Sparks, the 21-year-old singer who came to national fame as the 2007 ”Ameri-

can Idol” champion, will make her Broadway debut in ”In the Heights,” the show's producer's announced Tuesday. Sparks has signed for a 12-week run in the musical beginning August 19. ”In the Heights,” which took home both the Tony and Grammy Awards for best musical in 2008, is now in its third year on Broadway. In November, 2008, Universal Pictures acquired the rights to produce a feature film based on the show, which revolves around a group of characters in the Dominican-American Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. Filming begins this summer. ”It's always been one of my dreams to perform on Broadway,” Sparks said in a statement. ”This is a brand new experience for me. I look so forward to spending time in New York City and joining this talented cast and my favorite new musical.”Sparks' last album, ”Battlefield,” was released in July and entered the Billboard 200 at No. 11.

Kiefer sutherland and costars say goodbye to '24'Eight seasons in, ”24” was 86'd. But cast and crew were still counting their blessings

at the drama series' finale party. By the time the last episode airs on May 24, there will have been nearly 200 hours of ”24.” To date, there have been 18 Emmy wins. ”I think over the course of the eight years, we've had 16 marriages and 30-something children have been born,” said star Kiefer Sutherland, who portrays federal agent Jack Bauer on the series. ”We were like a family. So, it's very hard to say goodbye.” Dozens of the show's cast and crew members joined Sutherland to celebrate in Hollywood Friday night. Among them was longtime show regular Mary Lynn Rajskub, who plays Bauer's go-to colleague, Chloe O'Brian. She recalled her final day on the set. ”When they said, 'Cut!', I don't know what I was thinking,” Rajskub said. ”And then they said, 'This is Mary Lynn's series wrap.' And I just looked around. The crew was surrounding me. And I just kind of burst into tears.”

Sad as the end may be, Sutherland said the time is right.

Black eyed Peas break digital sales recordLOS ANGELES (Billboard) – The Black Eyed Peas continue to steamroll their way

into the record books. This week the group's ”I Gotta Feeling” surpassed Flo Rida's ”Low” as the best-selling digital song of all time, according to Nielsen SoundScan. ”Feeling,” which spent 14 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart last year, has now sold 5.56 million digital downloads, ahead of ”Low's” 5.54 million. The latter had been the biggest-selling song since March 2008, when it trumped Soulja Boy Tell'em's 2007 hit ”Crank That.” The Peas own two out of the top five best-selling digital songs in history. The group's other ubiquitous 2009 hit, ”Boom Boom Pow,” is in fourth place with 5.3 million. Behind Flo Rida is Lady Gaga's ”Just Dance” (No. 3 with 5.36 million) and rounding out the top five is Gaga again with ”Poker Face” (5.13 million). SoundScan began tracking digital song sales in July of 2003, a little more than two months after Apple launched its popular iTunes Store.

The haiTian Times 19May 5- May 11, 2010 ART&CuLTuRePORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The col-

lective cry for release came in the predawn hours Friday in the lush courtyard of a famed hotel, not far from a sprawling downtown tent city, and against a desper-ate beat of rara horns, and drum-fused lyrics.

”Anmwe!” lead singer Lunise Morse, called out. ”Look at how goo doop goo doop destroyed my little country.”

As she sang, the crowd of several hun-dred Haitians and ex-pats living in this quake-ravaged country responded in a furious dance, their feet pounding the con-crete, arms outstretched and eyes to the heavens as they pleaded with God for help.

Music and dance — on hiatus since the cataclysmic Jan. 12 earthquake (referred to as goo doop goo doop in Creole) left hun-dreds of thousands dead and sucked the joy out of this rhythm nation — is slowly making a comeback as the country and its people steadily return to life.

”Haitians are people who always sing and dance, a people who has that in their blood,” said Jean-Rene Delsoin, 43, a dancer and choreographer, and among the several hundred partygoers at the Hotel Oloffson in downtown Port-au-Prince. ”We are tired of people always saying 'Haiti is a poor child.' We need to rise.”

The concert by the band RAM, which took the stage shortly after midnight Fri-day, was the first major dance party in Haiti's crumbled capital since the 7.0-mag-nitude earthquake, and signaled a return to the vibrant nightlife that has characterized this nation through good times, and gloom. An electrifying mix of traditional Haitian Vodou ritual and folkloric rhythms with rock-and-roll chords, RAM's performance culminated a day that began with a rag-tag procession of some of Haiti's biggest konpa, and Kreyol hip-hop stars.

About a dozen well-known artists, squeezed into the back of a police pick-up, made their way through rubble-strewn

streets from the hilly suburb of Petionville to the Champs de Mars public plaza-turned-sqatter camp. The ”March of Soli-darity,” as it was dubbed, attracted hun-dreds of fans who braved the sweltering heat to follow the caravan on foot.

”After the month of mourning the presi-dent gave us, we've started to reclaim our lives,” said Valery Pierre, a konpa music fan, looking forward to celebrating his 23rd birthday Sunday with his favorite band, Tropicana. ”But we need music to start to live again, otherwise we'll always think we are mourning.”

As a towering truck played konpa's meringue-influenced beats, fans offered a superstar's welcome. Autograph seek-ers shoved Haitian currency and scraps of paper into artists' hands. Giddy school girls, still in their uniforms, screamed art-ists' names, Roberto! T Jo! Shabba! Old men snapped pictures.

”I am so happy they have come out in solidarity with the people,” said Katia Theogen, 17, unable to contain her excite-ment after collecting the autograph of Joseph 'T Jo' Zenny of the band Kreyol La. ”We have no other choice but to be ready.”

Stefan Malebranche, executive director of Haiti's ministry of culture, which orga-nized the ”impromptu-like” street parade, said as schools reopen and even President Rene Preval returns to the grounds of a battered palace, it's only natural that Hai-tian musicians also be part of the country's recovery.

”They are ready for that,” he said, point-ing to the hundreds of fans — many of them homeless quake victims — crowded into the ministry's courtyard to hear the musicians speak. ”All sectors of Haitian life, work, schools, shops have restarted. This sector has to now restart.”

But restarting hasn't been easy or with-out a bit of politicking in a country that not only lost much of its present, but a lot of its past in the death of cultural icons and

institutions.In the aftermath of the quake, Haitian

musicians from Port-au-Prince to Miami to New York lowered their volume, joining their countrymen as the nation mourned. Gigs were canceled and studio recordings were put on hold.

”The impact has been very negative for the people in the music business,” said Eddy Renaud, who has done the lighting, sound and staging for many of the big shows for the past two decades. ”Musicians like everybody else have been affected by the earthquake. They have lost their houses, members of their families, and some of them are in camps. Things have not been easy.”

Even as he welcomed the slow re-emer-gence of the party scene, Renaud said it will be some time before the musicians — who live by weekend gigs, and not record sales — will be able to truly live again.

For instance, to help give the start of the nightlife a boost, promoters behind a Friday night show featuring two of Haiti's most popular konpa bands — Kreyol La

and Djakout Mizik — lowered prices to $7.50 per person rather than the usual $20 and up for a battle of the bands.

”We want to help the people come out,” Zenny said.

Still, if there was nervousness about how a quake-ravaged crowd would react to the return of the party scene, it was wiped out Thursday as a carnival-like atmosphere enveloped this capital.

”There is still so much work to be done and so much sadness,” said Roberto Mar-tino, lead singer of the band T-Vice, who flew from Miami for the day to attend the march. ”The way they were chant-ing — you saw they want the nightlife to start over and for the country to get back to living.”

Perhaps artists' feelings could best be summed up by Haitian hip-hop star Izolan. Looking out onto the crowd, the star of one of Haiti's fastest-rising bands, Barikad Crew, said:

”We lost a lot, but Haiti is not dead.”The story was first published in Star-

sandStripes

Music and Dance slowly Make Comeback in Haiti, Thrilling Weary Citizens

NEW YORK – Fueled by international collectors and Wall Street investors reap-ing soaring profits, the beaten-down art market appears poised for a remarkable comeback after an 18-month stumble.

Rare buying opportunities to buy works by such modern masters as Jasper Johns and Mark Rothko will spur stiff competi-tion and hefty spending by deep-pocketed collectors at the critical spring sales hosted by auction powerhouses Sotheby's and Christie's, art experts predict.

”You're going to see records set,” said Baird Ryan, managing director of the pri-vate financial and consulting services firm Art Capital Group.

”I think we're going to be surprised by buyers' excitement,” he said. ”The inter-national money exists, and there has been a secular recovery in the U.S., particularly in capital markets. Wall Street has had a really good year.”

Top hedge fund managers -- who played

no small role in the sustained art market boom that ended precipitously with the 2008 financial crisis -- recorded their best year ever in 2009. The annual ranking by AR: Absolute Return + Alpha showed the top 25 managers earned more than $25 billion.

”Our collectors are really rich again,” said one auction house official.

Attracting intense interest are works that seldom come to market by artists Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol, along with Rothko and Johns.

Earlier this year one of the most power-ful hedge managers, SAC Capital Advi-sors founder Steve Cohen, bought a Johns' signature Flag painting from a New York dealer for about $110 million.

Christie's is offering a smaller version from the late writer Michael Crichton's collection, conservatively estimated at $10 million to $15 million, given the Flag series' rarity.

The global art market took a solid hit

in 2009 as the financial crisis extended its grip to the rarefied arena, seen as a lagging indicator. Reported revenue was half the $9.3 billion posted in 2007, according to market monitor Artprice.

Auction houses responded by slashing operations and paring down sales by half as they labored to wrest consignments from sellers reluctant to go to market when prices were plummeting.

Much of the action, such as Cohen's ”Flag” purchase, moved to the private market.

Suzanne Gyorgy, head of Citi Private Bank's Art Advisory Service, which works with collectors, said some were reluctant to be seen as flaunting wealth at a public auction during dire economic times.

Still, the bottom did not fall out of the market. November's leaner sales largely met or exceeded expectations, even if totals were a fraction of what they had been.

Assessing the damage to their own port-folios in the downturn, the super-rich -- those capable of spending millions on a single canvas -- largely passed on recent seasons.

Sellers were spooked by falling prices, but they are coming back, Gyorgy said. ”We've had clients who have been sitting it out but are now ready to sell.”

Then in February two determined bid-ders drove the price for a Giacometti sculpture to $104.3 million in London, setting a record for any work at auction.

With the rare, virtually unseen master works up for grabs, pent-up demand has collectors anxious to get in on the action.

Philip Hoffman, chief executive of the art-investment house Fine Art Group Fund, said he expected top lots such as the Picasso to ”go through the roof.”

”Collectors,” Gyorgy said, ”are also now more inclined to see art as a hedge against inflation.

Flush Collectors Ready to spend again on Rare Art

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Get ready for unexpected events to occur, Sagit-tarius! You love to concoct idealis-tic plans for your life, but this week you'll discover that your plans can be upended without any notice. On Wednesday you'll need to cope with a new set of circumstances in your life. You may find it hard to concentrate when the capricious Moon conjuncts erratic Uranus in your sector of the mind and imagi-nation on Sunday. Listen closely when you engage in conversations this weekend.

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alistic soul, Aquarius. You usu-ally see the good in others. This week you might become more practical as you interact with the world around you. On Monday you'll realize that human nature isn't always pretty. Your creative juices will be flowing when the Moon conjuncts poetic Neptune in Aquarius on Friday. You could cre-ate a masterpiece of art, music, or dance. You'll find it hard to locate the right balance in your life on Sunday.

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GeminiYour Zodiac sym-

bol is the Ram, and you bump heads with anyone who wants you to follow orders. On Tuesday you'll find yourself engaged in a struggle with a very domineering person. A cherished wish finally comes true on Friday when the Moon conjuncts Neptune in your zone of hopes, wishes, and dreams. You'll exercise your per-sonal power on Sunday. Get ready to embark on a new venture when the Moon enters enthusiastic Aries. You'll certainly have high energy!

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AriesYou're glib and

good with words, thanks to Mer-cury, your ruler. This week you'll be tongue-tied and find it difficult to express yourself due to Mercury's retrograde motion. On Wednesday your frustration at your inability to communicate will be evident. Wait to have in-depth conversations with your companions. On Friday Venus in Gemini sextiles Mars and you'll add some pizzazz to your appear-ance. You may change your hair color. Family will need you on Sun-day and you'll spend time at home.

Libra, on Monday you'll deal with issues in your residence when the Moon in your home sector is quincunx Venus, your ruler. Make sure you have a list of repair services handy. A friend could prove difficult on Fri-day. Your companion will be oper-ating at a different activity level than you and you'll need to hurry to keep up with this frenetic friend. On Sunday your urge to take care of yourself will kick in and you'll start eating healthfully.

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Libra

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You will need to find your happy place this week, Cancer. You are ruled by the capri-cious Moon, and on Monday you could feel isolated from your asso-ciates and find it hard to relate to others when the Moon is quincunx Venus. You'll embark on a journey of self-knowledge on Friday. Your sense of well-being will be restored this weekend. Your intuition will be on target, so follow your hunch-es when the Moon conjuncts Jupi-ter in insightful Pisces on Sunday.

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expert before you make a deci-sion in an important matter in your life this week, Pisces. On Mon-day you'll confront an issue that is beyond your insight and intu-ition. Consider asking for advice from someone in the know. You'll enjoy a family reunion on Friday. A relative will drop in to see you and bring along other members of your extended clan. On Sunday the Moon in Pisces conjuncts daring Uranus and you'll explore your sense of adventure.

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Pisces O c t . 2 1 - N o v 2 0

ScorpioYou often take peo-

ple at face value, thanks to your pragmatic personality. This week you'll spot the hidden agendas of the people you deal with when Mercury retrograde in Taurus trines perceptive Pluto on Monday. You'll find it easy to read between the lines of the people around you. On Thursday your stubborn side will come out in full force. You won't back down in a situation you have to deal with. You may decide to spend time alone on Saturday.

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TaurusYou'll find it dif-

ficult to harness your personal power early this week, Capricorn. On Monday the Moon in ponder-ous Capricorn is quincunx Mars and you'll discover that you're driving with your foot on the brake. You might consider getting in touch with a former associate on Friday. You have unfinished busi-ness with this past companion, and you're ready to get to the bottom of what went wrong in the friendship. On Sunday your thoughts will turn to your spiritual needs.

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CapricornYour consciousness

will change this week, Scorpio. You'll reflect on the best way to live your life when Mercury ret-rograde trines Pluto, your ruler, on Monday. You'll realize you're on a journey in life and the destina-tion doesn't matter, at least not right now. You might tangle with a formidable opponent on Thursday. You'll discover that your foe is just as determined as you are to win at all costs. You'll be ready for rest and relaxation on Sunday.

Your mind is always busy, Virgo. This week your urge to increase your knowledge will be overwhelming. Mercury, your ruler and now retrograde, trines profound Pluto on Monday and you'll be ready to fill in the gaps in your education. You might decide to break out of your rut this weekend. On Sunday you'll be ready to meet new people. You might consider volunteering for an organization with a lot of members to enable you to mix and mingle with others.

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LeoLeo, you're usually

caught up in the moment, but on Monday you'll be feeling nostal-gic. You'll pour over childhood photo albums as you recapture the memories of your early youth. On Wednesday you'll be lost in space when the Moon in visionary Aquarius opposes Mars in Leo. Keep your eyes open when you're taking a walk in order to avoid an accident. You'll be ready to dis-cover who you really are and what makes you tick on Sunday.

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Leave Your Hair Alone! (Part 2)Glad to have you back for part two of

giving your hair a break. In part one we talked about things people commonly do the cause their hair to break, ranging from the every single day blow dry to the home perm from the box. We'll continue on that same vein. If you look at a head of dam-aged hair, you can often tell what the cause is if you pay close enough attention. Is the hair broken only on the sides? Does it break right at the shoulders? Does it just never quite get long enough for a ponytail?

not so Tight Lots of people love the slicked back

ponytail look. Other people love getting a fresh set of neat braids. Some people tie a hair band around their crowns to help get that slicked back, neat hairline look. It's a good look. I do it sometimes. But you can't do it everyday! Your hair can only take so much stress. Notice that most peo-ple who wear their hair like this have thin hairlines. This is because your hair will break and get so weak from all the pulling that it will start to appear very thin. The same thing happens when you get a fresh set of braids that are too tight. When your hairline is so tight it looks like you have stitches, that's a major problem. You don't have to get your braids so tight. Try something new if only for the sake of your hairline.

no Rubbers Rubber bands to exact. You know that

girl who never puts her hair in pony tail? There's a reason her hair is long. Put-ting rubber bands in your hear is terrible because the rubber bands tear your hair. If you've used rubber bands you've actually seen and probably heard your hair tearing as you take the bands out. Also try to stay away from hair bands that have the metal bonds in them. They are just as bad as far as ripping your hair out as rubber bands are. There are a lot of great new products out there that you can use instead of rub-ber bands.

Choose no Fuss styles Styling your hair every day is probably

the biggest cause of hair breakage. If you're pressing your hair everyday with a hot comb or flat iron or brushing your hair with abrasive brush everyday, you're bound to cause damage to your tress-es. I'm not saying that you should stop styling your hair, but try to lean towards low daily maintenance styles. The less you do to your hair, the better. Remem-ber the boys with long hair I talked about in Part 1? Why do you think their hair grew longer and healthier than mine? All they did was wear cornrows or wear their hair out in an Afro. No fussing with their hair. Braids that aren't too tight work very well as a low maintenance style. If you have natural hair, don't be afraid to just wear the Afro out. Any other style that lasts for a few days or even up to a week without any combing, brushing or fussing

is also great. If you have long hair, updos are great. Keep reading; you'll see why.

show Off Your neck ......by keeping your hair off your shoul-

ders. A lot of people have a hard time growing their hair passed their shoul-der and they think it's just the way things are. But the reason could be your shirt. Most people know that you're sup-posed to cover your hair when you sleep to protect it from rubbing against your pillow and breaking. But the same thing happens when your hair rubs against your cloth-ing all day long. You should protect your hair from your clothing by wearing your hair up. You can also wear a silk or satin scarf around your shoulders to protect your hair. This is a great idea especially during colder months when you're more inclined to wear wool coats, which are very damag-ing to hair. You can also just wear silk or satin shirts. Just be mindful of what your hair is rubbing against at all times.

Again, I'm not advocating that we all start wearing only Afros and corn-rows. I'm just saying that you should really start thinking about everything you do to your hair. Does it help? Or does it hurt. Do you want to have broken hair forever? Or do you want your hair long and strong? To sum this all up, give your hair a break to keep it from breaking. Your hair will thank you.

Until next time, cheers to a better you!

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ers of today, exercising their right to participation and self-expression,” said Padrón at the Children's Encounter held Wednesday Apr. 21 in Gibara.

For the first time, the Gibara Festival specifical-ly welcomed children and adolescents by including this initiative, as well as screening films from the International Children and Youth Film Festival (FICI) held in Spain last year, and holding a special visual arts exhibition.

The Low-Budget Film Festival was conceived of to foment appreciation of films made on a shoestring, but nonetheless of high artistic quality, which por-tray a wealth of alternative viewpoints and are seldom shown by major distribu-tors. This year over 1,000 movies were entered, and 300 were chosen for the competition proper.

The festival's traditional inaugural parade was held Monday Apr. 19 through the central streets of Gibara, a fishing port also known as the White Vil-lage of Crabs. The event closed Saturday Apr. 24 after a marathon of paral-lel screenings, workshops, visual arts activities and concerts.

The participation of children and adolescents at the festival, which was founded by late Cuban filmmaker Humberto Solás (1941-2008), ”has come to stay,” in the shape of the filmmaking workshop and film exhibit, according to the festival's director, Ser-gio Benvenuto.

UNICEF's Ortiz said the novelty of including children is ”a qualitative leap forward” for the fes-

tival, which since its ori-gin in 2004 ”has achieved the very difficult feat of encouraging society, the consumers of artistic prod-ucts, to make this festival their own.”

He said UNICEF will collaborate with the Low-Budget Film Festival's creative workshops and children's and adolescents' film screenings, and will provide materials from similar projects the U.N. agency supports in other countries.

The festival presented an opportunity to present what Ortiz called a ”friendly” text version of the Con-vention on the Rights of the Child, approved by the U.N. General Assembly in 1989 and ratified by 193 countries, with the excep-tions of Somalia and the United States.

The booklet, illustrated by Juan Padrón, the cre-ator of an animated car-toon character popular in Cuba, also sparked a new idea of his for a project that UNICEF is support-ing: a series of one-minute animated shorts on each of the rights outlined by the Convention.

As for the children's audiovisual workshop in Gibara, the UNICEF representative said that this activity, rather than a one-off piece of work, is intended to blaze a trail. ”The material made here will be sent to Haitian children, who will then make their own video about their experiences for children in Cuba,” he said.

”And as this festival is a good place for dreaming, let's dream that this may be the beginning of a collabo-ration between Gibara and something that, some time, can take shape in Haiti,” he concluded.

défavorisés de la société qui n’ont vu en lui qu’un opportuniste bouffon, à la solde du pouvoir et des classes dominantes. C’est ce type d’intellectuel dont Frankétienne a dressé le portrait dans son fameux Pèlen tèt.

L’intellectuel haïtien doit-il être un universita-ire ? En Occident, cette question a été remise sur le tapis, il y a plus d’une vingtaine d’années avec la parution aux États-unis du livre de l’historien améri-cain Russell Jacoby « The Last Intellectuals, Ameri-can Culture in the Age of Academe » (New York, Basic Books, 1987). Pour Jacoby, le titulariat exerce une attraction tellement forte qu’il est en train de « bouffer » l’intellectuel traditionnel, c’est-à-dire l’écrivain, l’homme de savoir qui écrivait sans jar-gon, dans une prose à la portée de tout le monde. Jacoby se demande dans ce livre où étaient pas-sés les Daniel Bell, Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal, ou John Kenneth Galbraith. Nous sommes passés aujourd’hui au règne impi-toyable du « publish ou perish » (publier ou périr). Les professeurs doivent satisfaire aux exigences de leurs départements et publier article après article ou livre après livre s’ils veulent gagner une promo-tion. En France, la même problématique se pose. Depuis au moins le début des années 1980, on parle de la mort de l’intellectuel français traditionnel enga-gé, à la manière de Sartre ou du Zola de l’affaire Dreyfus dans le militan-tisme des crises sociales. Ce qui prédomine, c’est l’universitaire expert qui voyage à longueur de soi-rée sur les plateaux de télévision et qui brille de mille feux.

Qu’en est-il de l’intellectuel haïtien ? Commençons par recon-naître que l’universitaire haïtien vivant et exerçant en Haïti n’a jamais reçu les honneurs qui lui sont dus

dans le corps social haï-tien. Peut-être cela tient-il au fait que nous n’avons pas de véritable système universitaire en Haïti avec des pôles de recherche et d’enseignement supérieur, des postes d’enseignement clairement définis et clairement accessibles, un système de financement fort et surtout une large autonomie pédagogique. L’intellectuel haïtien tra-ditionnel (journaliste, chroniqueur ou éditoriali-ste, politicien qui se mani-feste surtout au moment des élections, écrivain à la plume douteuse, parfois brillante qui la met au ser-vice d’un homme politique ou d’un commerçant puis-sant…) a rarement été un universitaire mais depuis quelque temps, on assiste à l’émergence de quelques brillants universitaires (Laennec Hurbon, Georges Anglade (malheureuse-ment décédé au cours du tremblement de terre du 12 janvier 2010), Hérold Tousaint, Fritz Deshom-mes, Lyonel Trouillot, Yannick Lahens, Evelyn Trouillot…) qui ont fait incursion dans l’espace public pour débattre de questions relatives à la lib-erté de l’individu haïtien ou de l’exclusion sociale, par exemple. Jusqu’où cela nous mènera-t-il ? Vraisemblablement, la réforme de l’université haïtienne n’est pas pour demain. C’est dommage pour l’avenir d’une forma-tion universitaire avancée en Haïti surtout que nous avons des potentialités véritablement exception-nelles au pays mais d’un autre côté, la réflexion critique organisée, le goût du savoir et de la disci-pline intellectuelle pour-ront fleurir chez les jeunes qui se destinent au travail intellectuel et qui sont pour la plupart mal ori-entés dans les institutions scolaires qui ont proliféré sauvagement au cours de ces vingt dernières années. L’universitaire haïtien qui se fait « intellectuel pub-lic » en se jetant dans l’espace public ne peut qu’apporter quelque chose de bon. Contactez Hugues St.Fort à Hugo274@aol.com

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“Arizona,” declared Jesse Jackson this week, “has become the Selma” of our age. Twenty years after 1965, when civil rights marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, America was still grap-pling with the political aftershocks. I suspect that on the 20th anniversary of Arizona’s immigration law, we will still be grappling with its aftershocks as well.

Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, Twitter and Facebook.

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