47 local and international NGOs and civil society groups held a meeting last week to comment on the upcoming donor conference in New York. Afterwards 26 groups signed a statement that decried the absense of local input in the reconstruction plans that are being put forward. The statement is available... » read this article

Editor's Note: As time passes in the wake of Haiti's historic earthquake, news of the devastation fades from the pages and television screens of the corporate media and from the minds of their viewers. Exceptions include occasional reports that depict U.S. aid organisations bringing solutions to the capitalist-induced, deeply rooted... » read this article

University students have always been known for their activism, but I just met a group at Columbia University's School of Public Administration (SIPA) who are using technology to take it to a new level. They are volunteers who have been holed up in the basement of the school's library, despite... » read this article

Los Angeles filmmaker and environmental educator Dave Chameides traveled to Haiti two weeks after the earthquake as part of a camera crew for a documentary being made about the humanitarian organization Partners in Health. He talked to Cindy Kaffen about what he saw. WHY DID you go to Haiti? THE... » read this article

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... » read this article

I am sleeping on a 2 inch foam pad, spread on the floor of my office. The others are sleeping outside  on the terrace. No one wants to sleep inside since the 12 January quake that took over 300,000 lives. It will now take many more. I am fully clothed,... » read this article

Perched near the top of a steep hill, the fractured pink walls of Villa Manrese overlook the rest of the capital city. Both ends of the three-story compound have collapsed, spilling into mounds of rubble. The first floor was pulverised into a layer of dust. There are still bodies inside.... » read this article

“The earth had never trembled here, in this soft point of land that leans forward toward the sea: the city is built on spongy soil, that of the coral plain; the region had never known volcanoes nor vents, nor columns of smoke, nor geysers, nor solfataras....” Jose Marti, from the... » read this article

"We plant but we can’t produce or market. We plant but we have no food to eat. We want agriculture to improve so our country can live and so we peasants can live, too." - Rilo Petit-homme, peasant organizer from St. Marc, Haiti What would it take to transform Haiti’s... » read this article

Sony Esteus is squeezed into an elementary school chair, the kind with the curved piece of wood in front, in a courtyard. Around him are chickens, a fly-swarmed pile of compost, a truck and a tent. Sony runs his laptop off of an extension cord running out a window. The... » read this article

In a February 17 article “Venezuela’s Renegade Aid” published in the Huffington Post, freelance journalist Patrick Adams implies that there is something untoward and problematic about the Venezuelan aid effort in earthquake ravaged Haiti. Venezuela’s main crime appears to be its non-participation in the UN coordinated “cluster system” which Adams... » read this article

Dear Readers, A 15 year old young woman asked me to feature the concert introduced below, We are the World 25 for Haiti, on Axis of Logic. She has a consciousness for the people of Haiti shared by millions of people around the world. Recently, she also made another suggestion for Axis... » read this article

The United Nations reported there are 1.2 million people living in "spontaneous settlements" or homeless camps around Port-au-Prince. Three people living in the camps spoke with this author this week, before the hard rains hit. Jean Dora, 71 My name is Jean Dora. I was born in 1939. I live... » read this article

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti.— More than 95,000 patients have been treated here to date here by the Cuban medical brigade since the January 12 earthquake, and 4,500 operations have been performed. However, as brigade coordinator Carlos Alberto García says, in looking toward the country’s future, the most important part begins today with... » read this article

February 14, 2010 “There are no orphans in Haiti!” “Come again?” my friend Jordan murmurs after a long silence on the other end of the line. He is thinking I lost my senses. I realize how I sound. Someone else might imagine that I am ignorant of the extreme poverty... » read this article

Emmanuel Santos reports on aid and support for the Haitian people, organized at the grassroots in the country that shares the island with Haiti. THE SOLIDARITY effort with the Haitian people organized by ordinary Dominicans has been ignored in an international mainstream media that insists in presenting the U.S. and... » read this article

As Haitians began the grim task of burying their loved ones after the January earthquake, the U.S. military used the pretext of providing “humanitarian aid” to invade and occupy a defenceless Haiti. It is clear Western “humanitarianism” has nothing to do with humanitarian aid, but much to do with U.S.... » read this article

As the extent of the destruction in Haiti becomes clear, so do the priorities on the ground. The majority of Haitians affected by the earthquake are now homeless, and the need for shelter is urgent. There are many ways to help for those who cannot afford to donate money, and... » read this article

On the one-month anniversary of the devastating earthquake of Jan. 12, Haitians continue to perish from a variety of causes, including death by red tape: they fall between the cracks of a still poorly-coordinated aid effort. The physicians working in Haiti call these "the stupid deaths" – by which they... » read this article

The government of Haiti is indefinitely postponing the legislative elections scheduled for February 28 because the infrastructure of the country has been so thoroughly wrecked by the January 12 earthquake that it is impossible to carry out the mechanics of the poll. As occasional survivors are still being found, the... » read this article