Q&A with Hamda Yusuf for the Seattle Globalist
Meet Hamda Yusuf: She’s 19, she’s a local slam poetry champion, and she wants to be the US ambassador to Somalia. At the Youth Speaks! Poetry Grand Slam last month, most of the poems performed…
Audio: Haitians describe harsh lives, failures of resettlement
Here’s a feature story that ran in yesterday’s Free Speech Radio News newscast: Script: Saturday marked the third anniversary of Haiti’s earthquake. UN Special Envoy to Haiti Bill Clinton flew in for a brief, somber…
“If I don’t have a different type of worker in 12 years, I have failed. Haiti has failed.”
It’s about time I publish this interview I conducted last year with Georges Sassine, President of The Association of Industries of Haiti and Executive Director of CTMO-HOPE. Under the US law of the same…
2012: The rise of the Globalist
I’ve had the privilege of being involved in the launch of the Seattle Globalist, a “hyperglobal” blog that covers everything international-related in Seattle (and there is a lot to cover). I designed the website and…
A WikiLeaks Haiti retrospective
I made the initial contacts, over a period of months in 2011, that led to a partnership between WikiLeaks, The Nation magazine, and Haiti Liberte to analyze and publish the cache of secret diplomatic cables…
Video: Seattle’s hidden history of Filipino struggle
On Saturday, the Filipino activist group AnakBayan Seattle will celebrate its tenth anniversary as the first overseas chapter of the democratic youth organization, which is based in the Philippines. But the history of Filipinos fighting…
Bill Clinton Admits the UN Introduced Cholera to Haiti
From my blog entry for the Pulitzer Center in March: In early March, Bill Clinton showed he is learning the lessons of Haiti’s man-made disasters. Far from natural byproducts of the nation itself, the widespread…
New Allegations of Sexual Exploitation Against UN Peacekeepers in Haiti
With the news this morning of new sexual exploitation allegations involving minors against UN peacekeeping personnel in Haiti, I wanted to flag this follow-up ABC News piece to the story we broke last September, published…
Rose Mina deserves better (updated)
It’s a cold Christmas night in Seattle and I’m up at 3 in the morning. I miss the warmth of Haiti. Readers, I have a request. Does anyone remember Rose Mina Joseph? I wrote about…
In which I am pepper sprayed in the face by police at #OccupySeattle
Just a few comments: I don’t think it’s all that productive to curse at the cops. I tried to be an observer – I wasn’t saying anything or holding a sign, and I complied with…
