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…
Haiti Moves to Tighten Laws on Sexual Violence
Published the day before International Women’s Day last week by Inter-Press Service: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Mar 7 2013 (IPS) – Haiti is poised to enact major reforms to its penal code to make it easier for victims…
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…
The Uses of Paul Farmer: The Doctor and the Haitian Machine
Published by Counterpunch: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King Jr. PORT-AU-PRINCE – Dr. Paul Farmer stood alone in a…
Three Years Later: Three Answers to Haiti’s Predicament
I wrote a guest post for the Center for Economic and Policy Research’s excellent Haiti Relief and Reconstruction Watch: 1. How would you describe the situation in Haiti today? “Peyi a vin kraze.” As Haiti…
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…
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…
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…
