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Wyclef Jean: Haiti’s Sarah Palin

August 7, 10
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Published today by the New York Daily News (definitely not my choice of headline over there). The photo below happens to be the first one that comes up in a Google image search for Jean.

My grandmother sent me a short but sweet e-mail this morning, asking if I’m doing okay here in Haiti, where I work as a freelance journalist. She said the country has popped up in the news again because Wyclef Jean, a Haitian-born musician, is running for president.

“He has no political affiliations, only celebrities, so people are wondering about him,” she wrote to me.

She’s been duped by shallow media coverage portraying Jean as a fresh face on Haiti’s political scene. Jean likened himself to Barack Obama, a new hope for the earthquake-hit country, in front of a throng of enthusiastic supporters here on Thursday.

Look closely at his record. Jean more closely resembles Sarah Palin -incoherent, incompetent and in it for himself. (more…)

Audio: Plane full of medicine turned away while health workers strain to treat patients in Port-Au-Prince

January 20, 10
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Here’s my story for yesterday’s Free Speech Radio News newscast. Some horrific sights at both Cannape-Vert Hospital and the Doctors Without Borders Clinic in Cite Soleil.

MP3. Video probably coming later. It’s really an inefficient medium, from what I see here. Journalists go out, shoot footage, then come back mid-day to begin an hours-long editing process, when they could be out reporting. By tradition they go to the trouble of hiding cuts in interviews with b-roll, instead of doing simple, honest jump-cuts to which the YouTube generation is totally accustomed. There’s no innovation…

Update: Big thanks to the Quixotess in Seattle for transcribing! Global media collaboration FTW. Text below the jump. (more…)

Immigrant detainee leading hunger strike beaten and transferred after meeting with Amnesty Intl.

June 4, 09
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Image from Houston Indymedia

Update: The Southwest Workers Union is calling for a phone blast directed at Amnesty International and the Haitian Consulate in Haiti to stop Rama Carty’s deportation (info). Also, here (MP3) are excerpts of my interview with Sarnata Reynolds, Refugee Program Director at Amnesty.

From my story in today’s Free Speech Radio News headlines (listen here):

An update to a story FSRN has been following about a hunger strike at a Texas Immigration detention center… Human rights groups say they are concerned about an immigrant detainee who was suddenly moved to Louisiana for deportation yesterday. His tranfer comes after he spoke with representatives of Amnesty International at the Texas detention center where he was leading the hunger strike. FSRN’s Ansel Herz reports. (more…)

“Chubbing” jams up the Texas legislature

June 1, 09
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My first second-ever feature story for Free Speech Radio News looks back at the 81st Texas legislative session, which ends today. What’s “chubbing?” You can Google it if you want, or you can listen here.

On the night of November 2, 2004, I was standing outside a polling station with Mark Strama, handing flyers to citizens rushing in to vote before the election ended. (more…)

Podcast: Haitian spiritual and political leader Father Gerard Jean-Juste dies

May 29, 09
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gerryImage from Haitianalysis.com. Father Jean-Juste is in the center in blue.

I have a short story on Father Jean-Juste’s passing in yesterday’s Free Speech Radio News headlines.

Listen to a longer version of that piece below. Includes comments from Brian Concannon Jr., Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, and Ira Kurzban, a Miami-based attorney – both friends of Father Jean-Juste who worked closely with him on several legal cases – as well as audio from an older interview with Father Jean-Juste himself.

Rest In Power, Father Jean-Juste. MP3 here. Transcript and full-length interviews below. (more…)

New web design: Flip Flopping Joy!

May 13, 09
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I finished assembling a new WordPress theme for brownfemipower’s Flip Flopping Joy! last night. Now it’s live at her site!

I feel fortunate to have been given the chance to design her blog. bfp is a creative, prolific, and eclectic radical woman of color blogger based near Detroit. She’s a key organizer with the Allied Media Conference, which I had a blast attending last year. I’ve learned a lot from her writing, on everything from what “feminism” stands for, to community health, to media justice, to coalition work, to radical movement-making in general…

I tried to create a clean, earthy, and uplifting design that reflected some of the themes of her blog. The header image was made by Tumis for Incite!’s 2004 Sisterfire tour. If you haven’t been reading her, why not start now?

Podcast: Support democracy, not corporations, in Haiti

May 1, 09
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Image from Haitiaction.net.

I have a piece about Haiti in today’s Daily Texan. Check it out.

The Texan editors messed with my piece a little and I wanted to add a few things, so I’ve produced a podcast to accompany the piece. It runs just under 7 minutes. Enjoy the music!

Download the MP3 here. Transcript with links to sources below. (more…)

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