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By 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. read more »
By 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. read more »
By 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. read more »
By 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. read more »
By 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. read more »
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. read more »
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.” read more »
By 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. read more »
By 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.” read more »
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