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…
“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…
Interview: Before Duvalier There Was Hope
Below, an edited September 2010 interview with Dr. Matthew J. Smith, historian at Jamaica’s University of the West Indies, Mona and author of Red & Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957 –…
Another kidnapping. And a response from Djalòki Dessables, Haitian organizer.
I got a call yesterday afternoon from a newspaper. They asked me to track down a Haitian family and interview them – the only information they had was the general area where they live and…
Interview: UN Deputy Envoy to Haiti Dr. Paul Farmer
I spoke to Dr. Farmer at the Inter-American Development Bank’s Haiti investor conference at Hotel Caribe last Thursday evening following speeches by UN Special Envoy to Haiti Bill Clinton and Haitian President Rene Preval. As…
Judge authorizes DHS to begin building border wall on indigenous land in South Texas
My short story on this for FSRN is here. Image from the Associated Press. I spoke earlier today by phone to Dr. Eloisa Tamez, who owns a tract of property on the Texas-Mexico border and…
SXSW 2008: Talking with Blue Scholars
It’s too bad I didn’t discover Blue Scholars earlier, say, in 2004 when I felt disillusioned and fed up with school during my freshmen year at the University of Washington. “Fuck class, get your education…
Election podcast: Green Party VP candidate Rosa Clemente!
I really should get back to studying for an exam, but I wanted to get this interview I did last night with Rosa Clemente, longtime hip-hop journalist and organizer and 2008 Green Party Vice-Presidential candidate,…
Podcast: Bad journalism hurts Haiti
Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Journalists routinely include this statistic in their reports on Haiti, which in recent months have focused on hurricane-triggered flooding and protests over skyrocketing food prices (seen…
