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Renée Feltz From the
March 12, 2010 issue | Posted in
International After the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti, Dr. Melissa Barber received a call asking her to help treat people left injured and living in squalid conditions. “There was no question,” said Barber, 30, who was born and raised in the Bronx and worked in quality assessment at St. Barnabas Hospital in the heart of the borough.
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Andalusia Knoll From the
March 12, 2010 issue | Posted in
International People across Latin America and the United States are increasingly turning to community media as a tool of resistance.
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Nicholas Powers From the
February 19, 2010 issue | Posted in
International,
Nicholas Powers 4:53:09 PM Tuesday January 12th was the last moment of Old Haiti. The nearly 200,000 people who were going to die in the next few minutes did not know it and the survivors did not know they’d carry the burden of saying goodbye.
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Arun Gupta From the
February 19, 2010 issue | Posted in
Arun Gupta,
International Official denials aside, the United States has embarked on a new military occupation of Haiti thinly cloaked as disaster relief.
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Mark Engler From the
February 19, 2010 issue | Posted in
International Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist, godfather of microcredit and founder of the now-famous Grameen Bank, enchants many different types of people with his imaginings of a better future.
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By
John Tarleton From the
February 19, 2010 issue | Posted in
International,
John Tarleton Four months after U.N. climate talks dominated by the world’s leading polluters broke down, the indigenous-led government of Bolivia will host a people’s conference on climate change.
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By
Isabel MacDonald From the
January 29, 2010 issue | Posted in
International In the wake of the earthquake that has killed almost 200,000 people in Haiti, the foreign ministers of several countries calling themselves the “Friends of Haiti” met on Jan. 25 in Montreal to discuss plans for “building a new Haiti.”
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Arun Gupta From the
January 29, 2010 issue | Posted in
Arun Gupta,
International Since 1950, Port-au-Prince’s population has exploded from 144,000 to about 2.5 million. While the wealthy capital-area suburb of Petionville was largely spared, with few homes destroyed, poor people packed in shoddy housing, bore the brunt of the death and destruction. The underdevelopment of Haiti is the underlying cause.
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Jaisal Noor From the
January 29, 2010 issue | Posted in
International,
Jaisal Noor Despite suffering a fractured vertebrae and a chest contusion, Leigh Carter feels lucky. “I always imagined an earthquake would start as a tremor,” she says of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that ravaged Haiti Jan. 12. But “we were at 7.0 very suddenly, being thrown violently around the office with everything moving, falling and crashing around us.”
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