[wvns] U.S. MUSLIMS FLY $1 MILLION IN RELIEF TO HAITI
Haiti Earthquake Emergency
January 13, 2010
http://www.islamicreliefusa.org/emergencies/haiti-earthquake
Haitians are in desperate need for support after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked their island nation on Tuesday.
An estimated 3 million people were affected by the quake, which was the worst in the region in 200 years.
"More than 100,000 are dead," the Haitian Consul General to the United Nations, Felix Augustin, estimated on Wednesday.
Islamic Relief USA has launched a $1 million appeal to help the victims. Please donate today to help them survive and rebuild their lives.
In addition, Islamic Relief USA is working with partners to ship urgently-needed aid to relieve the suffering.
An untold number of people are still trapped under rubble, as every part of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capitol, was either damaged or destroyed. Homes, schools, hospitals, even the National Palace where the president resides, were all destroyed.
Injured children that lost contact with their parents are taking refuge in collapsed buildings and under debris, as aftershocks continue to rattle the small island.
Victims are in desperate need for food, water, shelter and medicine, especially since Haiti's infrastructure is already very modest and has now been brought to its knees by the quake.
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, and is also one of the most densely populated and least developed. Nearly 80 percent of Haiti's 9 million people live in poverty.
Please help the victims and donate to Islamic Relief's Emergency fund today.
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U.S. MUSLIM CHARITY TO FLY $1 MILLION IN RELIEF SUPPLIES TO HAITI
Islamic Relief USA works with Mormon church to aid Haitian quake victims
(Alexandria, VA, January 13, 2010) -- Islamic Relief USA, America's largest Muslim relief organization, announced today that it will immediately fly a $1 million shipment of aid to those impacted by yesterday's earthquake in Haiti. That relief aid will be sent in coordination with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Those wishing to donate to Islamic Relief USA's "Haiti Emergency" appeal may visit www.IslamicReliefUSA.org or call (888) 479-4968. Checks payable to "Islamic Relief USA" may be mailed to: Islamic Relief USA, P.O. Box 5640, Buena Park, CA, 90622.
In October 2009, Islamic Relief USA responded to two Pacific Rim earthquakes by coordinating a massive aid shipment to Samoa and deploying emergency teams in Indonesia.
Islamic Relief partners worldwide also responded to other major disasters such as the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia and the Pakistan earthquake in 2005. More than $100 million in relief aid was collected to assist the victims in those disaster areas. Islamic Relief also responded to Hurricane Katrina, delivering aid to more than 60,000 people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
[NOTE: Media professionals interested in speaking to aid workers who have experience in disaster zones or to learn more about ongoing response efforts may contact Islamic Relief USA VP of Fund Development Anwar Khan at 818-216-9723.]
Islamic Relief USA, based in Alexandria, Va., is a non-profit 501(c)(3) humanitarian agency with offices also in California, Illinois, New Jersey, and Texas. As an international relief and development organization, Islamic Relief strives to alleviate the poverty and suffering of the world's poorest people. Since its establishment, Islamic Relief has expanded greatly with permanent locations in more than 35 countries worldwide.
For the sixth consecutive year, Islamic Relief USA has been awarded four stars by Charity Navigator, the largest charity evaluator in the country. This prestigious award puts Islamic Relief among the top 2.25 percent of charities in the nation.
Media Contacts: Anwar Khan, 818-216-9723 (mobile), E-mail: anwar@IslamicReliefUSA.org; Mostafa Mahboob, 310-351-0952 (mobile), E-mail: mostafa@IslamicReliefUSA.org
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Latin American Aid Flows to Haiti after Devastating Earthquake
by ACN
Jan 14, 2010
Aid from Latin American countries is rapidly flowing to Haiti after the strong earthquake -of 7 degrees on the Richter Scale- that hit that nation on Tuesday, devastating the capital, Port-au-Prince, and other areas of the impoverished nation in a matter of seconds, the Telesur television network reports on Wednesday.
Telesur pointed out that Mexico announced the sending of teams of rescuers with dogs trained in the search for persons, while Brazil sent 14 tons of food items, like powder mild, canned sardines, cold meat and sugar.
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela informed about the initial sending of 50 people, between doctors and rescuers, as well as medicines and food.
Bolivian Defense Minister Walker San Miguel announced in La Paz that Bolivia sent a contingent of voluntary workers to the Haitian nation, while the authorities assess the way they can send more help to one of the poorest countries in the world, as well as the amount of items to be sent.
Chile also sent an aircraft with medical aid and food for the devastated nation, according to the report.
News from Telesur indicate that the Dominican government sent eight ambulances and 30 doctors to Haiti, and that they're now collecting medicines, food, blankets, mattresses and other articles to sent there.
The Cuban Medical Brigade offering its voluntary services in Port-au-Prince established a field hospital next to the one that collapsed due to the Tuesday earthquake.
Information offered by the national television newscast highlight that over 1,000 patients had been taken care of by the Cuban medical personnel until Wednesday, which has also carried out several operations.
The Cuban television newscast also announced that a Cuban medical brigade especially trained for disaster situations arrived in Haiti on Wednesday to help the people of that country.
The group of rescuers carries medicaments, provisioning, food, and bags of blood serum and plasma.
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Stand with the people of Haiti!
What the U.S. government isn't telling you
We at the ANSWER Coalition extend our heartfelt solidarity to all of our Haitian sisters and brothers, as well as to all those who have friends and family there, as Haiti copes with the destruction and grief of the massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck yesterday.
All of us are joining in the outpouring of solidarity from people all over the hemisphere and world who are sending humanitarian aid and assistance to the people of Haiti.
At such a moment, it is also important to put this catastrophe into a political and social context. Without this context, it is impossible to understand both the monumental problems facing Haiti and, most importantly, the solutions that can allow Haiti to survive and thrive. Hillary Clinton said today, "It is biblical, the tragedy that continues to daunt Haiti and the Haitian people." This hypocritical statement that blames Haiti's suffering exclusively on an "act of God" masks the role of U.S. and French imperialism in the region.
In this statement, we have included some background information about Haiti that helps establish the real context:
Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive stated today that as many as 100,000 Haitians may be dead. International media is reporting bodies being piled along streets surrounded by the rubble from thousands of collapsed buildings. Estimates of the economic damage are in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Haiti's large shantytown population was particularly hard hit by the tragedy.
As CNN, ABC and every other major corporate media outlet will be quick to point out, Haiti is the poorest country in the entire Western hemisphere. But not a single word is uttered as to why Haiti is poor. Poverty, unlike earthquakes, is no natural disaster.
The answer lies in more than two centuries of U.S. hostility to the island nation, whose hard-won independence from the French was only the beginning of its struggle for liberation.
In 1804, what had begun as a slave uprising more than a decade earlier culminated in freedom from the grips of French colonialism, making Haiti the first Latin American colony to win its independence and the world's first Black republic. Prior to the victory of the Haitian people, George Washington and then-Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson had supported France out of fear that Haiti would inspire uprisings among the U.S. slave population. The U.S. slave-owning aristocracy was horrified at Haiti's newly earned freedom.
U.S. interference became an integral part of Haitian history, culminating in a direct military occupation from 1915 to 1934. Through economic and military intervention, Haiti was subjugated as U.S. capital developed a railroad and acquired plantations. In a gesture of colonial arrogance, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was the assistant secretary of the Navy at the time, drafted a constitution for Haiti which, among other things, allowed foreigners to own land. U.S. officials would later find an accommodation with the dictator François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, and then his son Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, as Haiti suffered under their brutal repressive policies.
In the 1980s and 1990s, U.S. policy toward Haiti sought the reorganization of the Haitian economy to better serve the interests of foreign capital. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was instrumental in shifting Haitian agriculture away from grain production, paving the way for dependence on food imports. Ruined Haitian farmers flocked to the cities in search of a livelihood, resulting in the swelling of the precarious shantytowns found in Port-au-Prince and other urban centers.
Who has benefited from these policies? U.S. food producers profited from increased exports to Haitian markets. Foreign corporations that had set up shop in Haitian cities benefitted from the super-exploitation of cheap labor flowing from the countryside. But for the people of Haiti, there was only greater misery and destitution.
Washington orchestrated the overthrow of the democratically elected Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide—not once, but twice, in 1991 and 2004. Haiti has been under a U.S.-backed U.N. occupation for nearly six years. Aristide did not earn the animosity of U.S. leaders for his moderate reforms; he earned it when he garnered support among Haiti's poor, which crystallized into a mass popular movement. Two hundred years on, U.S. officials are still horrified by the prospect of a truly independent Haiti.
The unstable, makeshift dwellings imposed upon Haitians by Washington's neoliberal policies have now, for many, been turned into graves. Those same policies are to blame for the lack of hospitals, ambulances, fire trucks, rescue equipment, food and medicine. The blow dealt by such a natural disaster to an economy made so fragile from decades of plundering will greatly magnify the suffering of the Haitian people.
Natural disasters are inevitable, but resource allocation and planning can play a decisive role in mitigating their impact and dealing with the aftermath. Haiti and neighboring Cuba, who are no strangers to violent tropical storms, were both hit hard in 2008 by a series of hurricanes—which, unlike earthquakes, are predictable. While more than 800 lives were lost in Haiti, less than 10 people died in Cuba. Unlike Haiti, Cuba had a coordinated evacuation plan and post-hurricane rescue efforts that were centrally planned by the Cuban government. This was only possible because Cuban society is not organized according to the needs of foreign capital, but rather according to the needs of the Cuban people.
In a televised speech earlier today, President Obama has announced that USAID and the Departments of State and Defense will be working to support the rescue and relief efforts in Haiti in the coming days. Ironically, these are the same government entities responsible for the implementation of the economic and military policies that reduced Haiti to ruins even before the earthquake hit.
The ANSWER Coalition has called for a mass national march and rally in Washington, D.C., on March 20 to oppose the wars and occupations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. We will also demand an end the foreign occupation of Haiti and reparations to Haiti for the vast wealth that has been looted from the country by foreign imperialist countries.
Help build the March 20 March on Washington!
http://answer.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=m20_homepage
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God, Satan, and the Birth of Haiti
LA VOZ DE AZTLAN
Los Angeles, Alta California
January 13, 2010
http:/www.aztlan.net
[PHOTO] The religious deacon of the Republican Party, Pat Robinson, has again demonstrated how sick these people are. On the Christian Broadcasting Network's "700 Club" the phony reverend said that the devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti yesterday was a punishment from God because Haiti made a "pact with the devil" back on August 14, 1791.
The purported pact was by the Haitian revolutionaries with Satan for help to rid themselves of the French slavemasters. This has been an old canard by White racists who have never accepted an independent Black nation so close to Florida. Haiti has suffered the wrath of these types of racists since its independence on January 1st, 1804.
Below is a video of Pat Robinson making the outrageous, racist and ignorant statement:
[VIDEO]
http://www.aztlan.net/god_satan_and_the_birth_of_haiti.htm
Pat Robinson, who represents the views of most "religious" Republicans has also advocated for the assassination of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. He is truly an evil person and it is his ilk that is going to bring the wrath of God upon the United States.
There are many reasons why racist White people have certain attitudes against Haiti. They are all historical. Below is an excellent three part essay by Dr. Jean R. Gelin that explains why bigots such as Pat Robinson say what they say against the nation of Haiti.
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God, Satan, and the Birth of Haiti
by Jean R. Gelin, Ph.D.
Part 1
http://www.blackandchristian.com/articles/academy/gelin-10-05.shtml
Part 2
http://www.blackandchristian.com/articles/academy/gelin-11-05.shtml
Part 3
http://www.blackandchristian.com/articles/academy/gelin-12-05.shtml
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Red Cross: Up to 50,000 Killed in Haiti Quake
January 14, 2010
The Haitian Red Cross has said that between 45,000 and 50,000 people were killed by Tuesday's earthquake, with a further 3 million hurt or homeless.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24395.htm
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Help Haiti
The Unforgiven Country Cries Out
By Chris Floyd
Hope must not be blind; you have to acknowledge the grim realities in order to know just what you're up against. So let's take a long, hard look.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24393.htm
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Our Role in Haiti's Plight
By Peter Hallward
If we are serious about assisting this devastated land we must stop trying to control and exploit it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24392.htm
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Haitian Earthquake:
Why the Blood Is on Our Hands
By Ted Rall
As grim accounts of the earthquake in Haiti came in, the accounts in U.S.-controlled state media all carried the same descriptive sentence: "Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere..." Gee, I wonder how that happened?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24391.htm
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