Haiti Action Network News

for October 18, 2010

Hello Haiti Solidarity BC mail list; You can read these and other news stories on the website of the Canada Haiti Action Network:

* Toronto Star special series on Haiti. Canada's largest circulation daily newspaper publishes a very informative series of articles on the present and future of Haiti: http://www.canadahaitiaction.ca/content/toronto-star-special-series-haiti

* Montreal-born journalist and human rights activists Isabea Doucet pens another outstanding account of life and expectations in Haiti's internally displaced persons camps. In this article, she examines the third meeting of the Haiti Interim Reconstruction Commission, held two weeks ago. Donor Money Still By-Passing Haiti's Homeless and Jobless.

*  Beverly Bell interviews Haitian agronomist Aldrin Calixte in,   An Alterantive Environmental Future for Haiti.

* Letter of concern to Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lawrence Cannon, concerning the November 28, 2010 election in Haiti. http://www.canadahaitiaction.ca/content/letter-minister-foreign-affairs-canada

Please view the "events" page of the Canada Haiti Action Network for upcoming information and solidarity events for Haiti on Pender Island BC (Oct 23 and 24), and in Toronto (Oct 29 and 30) and Vancouver (Nov 9).