January 20, 2010
Haiti Earthquake, #8
200,000 dead, 1.5 million homeless
... and more aftershocks hit Haiti this morning

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WATCH NEWS REPORTS

0.43 second, TheRealNews report (January 18): “Haiti: bodies outside the General Hospital”: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4727
Democracy Now report (January 20) with Dr. Evan Lyon of Partners in Health on provision of medical attention: http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/20/devastated_port_au_prince_hospital_struggles
3.09 minute, AlJazeera report (January 18): “Disputes emerge over Haiti aid control: Most Haitians have seen little aid. What they have seen is guns”: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4729&updaterx=2010-01-18+05%3A26%3A13
9.57 minutes, TheRealNews report (January 18): “Haiti: Guns or food? Presence of US troops provides both hope of relief, and fear of continuing legacy of US domination”: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4723&updaterx=2010-01-19+23%3A14%3A32
Democracy Now report (January 20) with Kim Ives, “How western domination has undermined Haiti’s ability to recover from natural devastation”: http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/20/journalist_kim_ives_on_how_decades

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FUND NEEDED - WHAT RIGHTS ACTION DOES WITH “DISASTER” RELIEF FUNDS
With disaster relief funds, RA funds and supports existing community-based and non government organizations

that provide on-going basic needs (food, water, shelter, medical, emotional) to the disaster victims,
that have a vision of and participate in struggle for community-controlled development and re-building that critically addresses and transforms the underlying causes of poverty, exploitation and vulnerability

RA does not have staff in Haiti, and will directly send funds community-based organizations and/or the organizations listed below.
HAITI-FOCUSED GROUPS WE RECOMMEND
Please contact and/or donate to these groups directly:
PARTNERS IN HEALTH (Zanmi Lasante)
With the Cuban medical mission, PIH has taken over unused medical buildings in Port au Prince and are expanding medical services, in cooperation with UN agencies. Partners in Health is one of the largest health care delivery services in Haiti and its infrastructure was largely undamaged by the quake. It is staffed and managed by Haitians and has a full training program for Haitians to become doctors and other health professionals. Deliveries of equipment and personnel to its teams is seriously hampered by the situation at the Port au Prince airport. For more information and to donate to PIH: http://www.pih.org/home.html.
WORKING TOGETHER FOR HAITI: Konbit Pou Ayiti/ KONPAY
Working Together for Haiti strengthens existing organizations, builds national networks, creates relationships between individuals and organizations in the U.S. and Haiti, and supports collaboration and the sharing of technology and expertise. KONPAY focuses on Haitian solutions to environmental, social and economic problems and provides training and funding to grassroots and community-based projects: http://www.konpay.org/; melinda@konpay.org.
The ARISTIDE FOUNDATION has established a medical facility at its headquarters in Tabarre and adjoining former medical school of Haiti (the one taken over by U.S. Marines in 2004 and then used by UN troops until just recently). There are thousands of people gathering there seeking treatment. Services are being provided by Haitian doctors, students and Cuban doctors. Aid convoys from Dominican Republic are being organized. Contributions may be done through the “Haiti Emergency Relief fund”: http://www.haitiaction.net/About/HERF/HERF.html.
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY IN HAITI
The IJDH works with the people of Haiti in their non-violent struggle for the return and consolidation of constitutional democracy, justice and human rights, by distributing objective and accurate information on human rights conditions in Haiti, pursuing legal cases, and cooperating with human rights and solidarity groups in Haiti and abroad: http://www.ijdh.org/brianhaiti@aol.com; brianhaiti@aol.com.
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TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS FOR RIGHTS ACTION’S "HAITI RELIEF" WORK
Make check payable to "Rights Action" and mail to:
UNITED STATES: Box 50887, Washington DC, 20091-0887
CANADA: 552 - 351 Queen St. E, Toronto ON, M5A-1T8
Credit card donations: http://rightsaction.org/contributions.htm
Stock donations: Contact Grahame Russell, info@rightsaction.org
Rights Action (with tax-deductible status in Canada and USA) funds and works with community development, environmental justice, human rights and disaster relief organizations in Guatemala and Honduras, and also in El Salvador, Haiti, Oaxaca and Chiapas. Rights Action educates about and is involved in activism related to the underlying local, national and global causes of poverty and exploitation, environmental destruction, human rights violations and disasters. (www.rightsaction.org / info@rightsaction.org)
For more information: Grahame Russell, co-director, info@rightsaction.org, 860-352-2448

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