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	<title>Black Looks &#187; Haiti</title>
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		<title>&#8220;They would not help me before the quake. Why would I bother to ask them now?</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/rea_dol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women making a difference]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Réa Dol]]></category>
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Haitian community activist Rea Dol talks about  SOPUDEP the school she started in 2000, the struggles to keep it going and surviving the earthquake&#8230; without the help of the &#8220;Republic of NGO&#8217;s&#8221;.  This is what happened to Rea and thousands of other Haitians who acted to help themselves.  They knew that from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International Women of Colour Day: Celebrating Réa Dol</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[port-au-prince]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Aristide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Réa Dol]]></category>
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On International Women of Colour Day I celebrate all the women of colour who consistently work towards social justice across the world.   In particular I would like to honour the work of Haitian community activist and founder of SOPUDEP School, Réa Dol and ALL the Haitian women and girls who have self-organised in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Negrillon: young voices from Haiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Negrillon]]></category>

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Music from Camp Guatemala, Haiti

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		<title>Walter Riley report back on the 1000s left out of humanitarian aid</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/walter-riley-report-back-from-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aristide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean-Bertrand Aristide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pierre Laboissiere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walter Riley]]></category>

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Human Rights lawyer, Walter Riley speaks of about his experience of the earthquake and Haitian activist Pierre Labossiere explains that the emergency relief system put in place by President Aristide was destroyed after the 2004 US/France back coup and the trained volunteers jailed or kicked out of Haiti.

Haiti from New America Media on Vimeo.

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		<title>&#8220;A Word for Haiti&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/a_word_for_haiti_/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Diaspora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blacklondoners Appeal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>

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Blacklondoners Appeal, a London based group are calling on all writers for contribution of short stories, poems and lyrics to a collection of works to be published in May 2010. The book, A Word for Haiti, will be part of BlackLondoners year long appeal to raise funds for Haiti.
BlackLondoners Appeal is about grassroots organizations and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dont feed the Haitians &#8211; they already get one meal a day</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/dont_feed_the_haitians_-_they_already_get_one_meal_a_day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/dont_feed_the_haitians_-_they_already_get_one_meal_a_day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jim Crow laws]]></category>

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A month after the Haitian earthquake and still thousands are without water, food, medical care and shelter.  The white washing by the media around the distribution of humanitarian aid continues the latest was a visit by Brangelina Jolie with an insipid interview and some whitewashed photo shots in tented hospitals &#8211; No she has not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Haitian activist Rea Dol</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/interview_with_haitian_activist_rea_dol/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/interview_with_haitian_activist_rea_dol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Diaspora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti Earthquake]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rea Dol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SOPUDEP]]></category>

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Rea Dol is grassroots community organiser and founder of SOPUDEP school in Port-au-Prince.   Shortly after the earthquake they had to abandon the school which was being used as a shelter due to the stench of dead bodies and sturtural damage which made the building unsafe.  
For the school to continue it will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s always music, always hope</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/01/theres_always_music_always_hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti Earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haitian revolution]]></category>

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Governor General Michaëlle Jean, Canada
Via, Women and Beyond

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		<title>Haiti: &#8220;This is criminal&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/01/haiti_this_is_criminal_/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Diaspora]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pierre Labossiere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wyclef Jean]]></category>

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Interview with Pierre Labossiere of Haiti Action speaking on Haiti two weeks after the earthquake. 

Pierre raises a number of very important points in relation to the relief itself, the many NGOs, organisations, groups and individuals that have descended on Haiti &#8211; aptly described as &#8220;social vampires&#8221;.  He also speaks on the role of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No donation without agitation</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/01/no_donation_without_agitation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Unidos por Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[univision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Army]]></category>

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The process of delivering humanitarian aid and the behaviour of aid agencies are often as harmful as they are helpful as the last two weeks in Haiti has clearly shown.   The militarisation of the whole process;  the disorganised and incompetent delivery of food, water and medical supplies;  the  instant response [...]]]></description>
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