Greenspiration News: Haiti, Prorogue
Bischoff Angela
greenspi at web.ca
Wed Jan 20 11:27:31 EST 2010
Greenspiraton News
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Help Haiti - Drop the Debt - Sign the Petition
Cancel Haiti's existing debt and ensure new aid is provided in the
form of grants.
Sign the petition: http://one.org/international/actnow/haiti/index.html?rc=haitipaste
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Statement by the Canadian Peace Alliance
Humanitarian relief urgently needed in Haiti, not militarization of aid
http://www.acp-cpa.ca/en/HaitiEarthquake.html
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Where Was the World When Haiti Really Needed It?
Why did it take a natural tragedy for this? Haiti's sorry history of
American occupation, brutal dictatorial and military rule, the flood
of refugees trying to escape the nation's destitution, the perennial
food crisis's, the wave of devastating hurricanes that tore through
the country in one month in 2008, the US, Canada and France's meddling
in the nation's internal politics, and the grinding poverty is well
known.
Haiti's corrupt, repressive military rulers and government officials
get standard blame for the country's chronic poverty and bankruptcy.
There's much truth to that. But Haiti is also a relentless victim of
crushing and never ending debt servitude to the IMF and foreign banks,
vicious labor exploitation, and the blind eye US aid policies that
stunt Haiti's farm and manufacturing growth.
The nation's debt burden would sink virtually any developing nation.
Haiti is compelled to shell out nearly $1 million a week to pay off
its debt to the World Bank and the IMF; debt incurred by the Papa and
Baby Doc Duvalier regimes and their successor military governments in
the early 1990s propped up by the US. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Where-Was-the-World-When-H-by-earl-ofari-hutchin-100114-591.html
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Our role in Haiti's plight
Much of the devastation wreaked by this latest and most calamitous
disaster to befall Haiti is best understood as another thoroughly
manmade outcome of a long and ugly historical sequence.
http://www.rabble.ca/news/2010/01/our-role-haitis-plight
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The Right Testicle Of Hell: History Of A Haitian Holocaust
There's no such thing as a 'natural' disaster. 200,000 Haitians have
been slaughtered by slum housing and IMF "austerity" plans.
http://www.countercurrents.org/palast170110.htm
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Cuba is Missing... From US Reports on the International Response to
Haiti’s Earthquake
In fact, left unmentioned is the reality that Cuba already had over
400 doctors posted to Haiti to help with the day-to-day health needs
of this poorest nation in the Americas, and that those doctors were
the first to respond to the disaster, setting up a hospital right next
to the main hospital in Port-au-Prince which collapsed in the
earthquake.
Far from “doing nothing” about the disaster as the right-wing
propagandists at Fox-TV were claiming, Cuba has been one of the most
effective and critical responders to the crisis, because it had set up
a medical infrastructure before the quake, which was able to mobilize
quickly and start treating the victims. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/15-6
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Haitian Earthquake: Made in the USA
Why the Blood Is on Our Hands
In Haiti this week, don't blame tectonic plates. Ninety-nine percent
of the death toll is attributable to poverty.
So the question is relevant. How'd Haiti become so poor?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/14-13
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Naomi Klein Issues Haiti Disaster Capitalism Alert: Stop Them Before
They Shock Again
Journalist and author Naomi Klein spoke in New York last night and
addressed the crisis in Haiti: “We have to be absolutely clear that
this tragedy—which is part natural, part unnatural—must, under no
circumstances, be used to, one, further indebt Haiti and, two, to push
through unpopular corporatist policies in the interest of our
corporations. This is not conspiracy theory. They have done it again
and again.”http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/14/naomi_klein_issues_haiti_disaster_capitalism
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Food Not Troops for Haiti! End the Military Occupation!
Sign the petition:
http://iacenter.org/haitipetition/
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What You Can Do to Help Haiti
http://canadahaitiaction.ca/
http://www.yesmagazine.org/blogs/sarah-van-gelder/how-to-help-haiti
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/01/help-and-hear-haiti
http://www.care2.com/causes/human-rights/blog/how-to-help-haiti/
Fast for Haiti to Raise $$ for Aid: http://culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=592&Itemid=1
http://www.standwithhaiti.org/haiti
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NO to prorogation!
YES to democracy!
Pissed off about the prorogation of Canadian Parliament? Help send a
clear message to Prime Minister Harper: take to the streets on Sat.
Jan. 23.
Sat. Jan. 23 Nationwide rallies - 50 cities across Canada take to the
streets!
Details at: http://noprorogue.ca/
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First Prorogue, then Eviscerate
Harper's agenda has a simple goal: destroy the Canadian social safety
net.
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2010/01/11/DobinProrogue/
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‘Petro-pirates’ robbing Alberta’s resources
Flushing justice down the pipeline with Wiebo Ludwig’s arrest
Why is a bomber targeting EnCana's oil facilities and why is the RCMP
targeting Wiebo Ludwig? Because Alberta is not a democratic province.
It is a province controlled by international corporations that see
profit and extraction of natural resources as their prime object.
http://www.ffwdweekly.com/article/news-views/viewpoint/petro-pirates-robbing-albertas-resources-5079/
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Mawkish, maybe. But Avatar is a profound, insightful, important film
- By George Monbiot
Cameron's blockbuster offers a chilling metaphor for European butchery
of the Americas. No wonder the US right hates it
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/jan/11/mawkish-maybe-avatar-profound-important
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Investors urge governments to act on climate change
Investors say hands are tied until governments act
Investors representing $13 trillion in assets are calling on
governments around the world to act more decisively to adopt policies
to address climate change, saying they are vowing to respond with a
windfall of private investments to finance renewable and efficient
energy.
"We are ready and willing to up the ante to finance the transition to
a low carbon global economy, but you need to have the courage to act,"
Mindy Lubber, the president of investor-environmentalist coalition
Ceres, said at the Investor Summit on Climate Risk.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1423262220100114?type=marketsNews
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Pick-your-own vegetables to replace flowers in high street
Climate change and food shortage issues prompt Lancashire town to
consider growing edible crops in public
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/12/pick-your-own-vegetables-street
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Past Decade the Hottest on Record
The first decade of the twenty-first century was the hottest since
recordkeeping began in 1880. The year 2005 was the hottest on record,
while 2007 and 2009 tied for second hottest. In fact, 9 of the 10
warmest years on record occurred in the past decade.
http://www.earthpolicy.org/index.php?/indicators/C51/global_temperature_2010
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Landmark Ruling: animals fed on GM components ARE different
In a landmark ruling, the NZ Commerce Commission has accepted evidence
from Prof Jack Heinemann, from an exhaustive review of the literature
and on the basis of his own extensive professional experience, that
animals fed on GM components ARE different from those which are reared
using non-GM feed. This is a direct challenge to EFSA and FSA, who
have maintained consistently that there are no differences between GM-
fed and non-GM-fed animals, and that there is therefore no need for
labelling or segregation of feed supplies to meet consumer demand for
GM-free products.
http://www.gmfreecymru.org/documents/landmark.html
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MSC/ES – Multiple Chemical Sensitivities /Environmental Sensitivities
People with any other disability are allowed appropriate health care
and related aids, tax breaks, subsidies, insurance benefits,
accommodations, and accessible housing. People with chemical injury,
with MCS/ES, are denied access and even obstructed at every turn.
Linda Sepp lives in Toronto, disabled and housebound from severe
Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, Environmental Sensitivities,
Fibromyalgia, and Electro HyperSensitivity. Read her blog here:http://lindasepp.wordpress.com/
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Naomi Klein: How Corporate Branding Took Over the White House
Ten years after the publication of "No Logo", Klein looks at how Obama
created a brand that won him the Presidency. Will his failure to live
up to his lofty brand cost him?
http://www.alternet.org/story/145218/naomi_klein%3A_how_corporate_branding_took_over_the_white_house?page=1
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HOME
For those who have not yet seen this movie, "Home" is a visually
stunning, educational and brutally honest depiction about the impact
of our lifestyles on our planet. I’ve circulated the link before, but
it deserves a second announcement.
It’s 93 minutes, and you can watch it online here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
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