This is Fabienne Cherisma, a 15-year-old girl shot by police in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti for looting two plastic chairs and three framed pictures. Paul Hansen’s photo on the left recently won best International News Image at the Swedish Picture of the Year Awards. Nathan Weber’s photo on the right shows fourteen photographers crowing at the scene to get the money shot. Read more »
When Wyclef said he got mildly shot on Sunday during Haiti’s election day confusion, I didn’t bat an eye. Having never traveled there and only hearing about the country through the voodoo lens of the western media, I thought it sounded about right, hell, it is Haiti after all. Luckily, Reuters was more skeptical. The news agency spoke to an official who said the artist is full of shit. “We met with the doctor who saw him and he confirmed Wyclef was cut by glass,” said Petionville Police Chief Vanel Lacroix, police chief in Petionville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince.
Following inconsistent election results, Haiti has exploded into a fiery riot. This photo was taken just ten hours ago. (Photo: Digital Democracy)
Before he could finish it, NYC street chalk artist Hani Shihada’s latest work was washed off the sidewalk: Someone in the luxury building didn’t like Haitian children on a tobacco farm on their street. Now all that’s left are washed out outlines. Read more »
If yesterday’s post about a legal resident whose life was ruined for smoking a joint wasn’t depressing enough, here’s some more egregious immigration abuse news involving Haitians to sadden you. More than two dozen survivors rescued in Haiti and “waved onto planes by Marines” have been incarcerated in U.S. detention centers for not having visas according to the Times. |NYT|
Insect bites and rain don’t stop Haitian children from flocking to the makeshift outdoor cinemas. The screens go up at sundown and play a special role in Earthquake relief, providing a crucial distraction from the trauma around them.
It costs the Haiti Kids Kino Project around $750 per screening to treat more than 2,000 viewers a week to free, diverse children-friendly programming. Read more »
Rescue workers in Haiti pulled a body from the rubble in Port-au-Prince last night, a live body. The survivor, a male local rice vendor, was buried alive for 27 days. Amazing. |Guardian|
The distribution of food aid in Haiti is all screwed up and despite an attempt to implement a ration card strategy and avoid just dropping supplies out of a helicopter creating chaotic mobs below, the inevitable has happened: black market rice. The Christian Science Monitor reports: Read more »
In addition to hijacking ships, the Somali Pirates are also very effective at PR and have vowed to help Haiti by distributing millions of dollars to the island nation using some of their recent spoils. |AOLNews|
If you’ve ever dreamed of doing coke in a bathroom stall at 1Oak to better enhance your partying with Amy Sacco, Richie Akiva and Gabriel Byrne at a humanitarian fundraiser, tonight is your night Sparky. And all for $40 at the door! Here’s the full press release: Read more »
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