odwalla mago lime-aid, a tasty way to help haitians. the press release.
Category: haiti
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Liberté ou la Mort
A Duke grad student, Julia Gaffield, found a copy of Haiti’s Declaration of Independence, in the British National Archives. She found an eight page pamphlet printed by “l’Impremerie du Gouvernement.” The pamphlet might have been sent worldwide, at least around the Caribbean and Europe.
Press release from Duke. Get a pdf of the document from the British National Archives. via TheWorld.
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On Haiti
NPR’s PlanetMoney + PBS’s Frontline have teamed up on some post-quake Haiti reporting.
On the economy inside a tent city.
On tap-taps.The embedded videos may not work; wacth them on Frontline.
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Best ways help haitians.
I highly recommend professionally-run organizations like Food for the Poor, Lambi Fund of Haiti and Doctors without Borders(Medecins sans Frontieres). Celebrity-run are well-meaning but are amateur, to say the least.
Here are some stories about Yele; Gawker, NPR. Yele is not one of the better way to help.
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Haiti seats on major regional faults
Haiti’s First Major Quake In Two Centuries
The second fault system on Hispaniola runs mainly on the eastern end of the island, in the Dominican Republic. That Septentrional fault system hasn’t experienced a major quake for more than 800 years, but it holds the potential for producing another devastating quake — quite possibly larger than the one that struck Haiti on Tuesday.
