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Monsanto's Seeds Donation Sparks

Debate Over Haitian Agricultural

Policy

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HINCHE – A seed donation, last May, by giant multination-al Monsanto to impoverished, earthquake-stricken Haiti stirred thousands of farmers to protest. It also sparked debate over the country’s aid policies and agri-cultural future.

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CUBA- Haitian President René Préval concluded a fruitful working visit to Cuba that per-mitted him to review the prog-ress of cooperation projects that Cuba is developing in that sister Caribbean nation

Haitian President Hails Cuban

Support

New York – Secretary-Gener-al Ban Ki-moon has commended States in the Caribbean region for their commitment to sup-porting Haiti following the dev-astating earthquake in January and urged them to continue their engagement there.

Ban Lauds Caribbean Region's

Commitment to Haiti Recovery

page 9PORT-AU-PRINCE - The 10 men in police

uniforms carried weapons. They entered the courtyard where Oxeana Ismael has been living since January. Ismael was rescued from the rubble of her own home before moving to this small and tidy camp, refuge to 178 people displaced by the earthquake that devastated much of Port-au-Prince, kill-ing over 200,000 and leaving 2 million with no place to go.

“They asked me if I live here, and told me badly that I have to take down my tent and go,” said Ismael, 55, who shares a makeshift shelter with 5 relatives, including two chil-dren and her mentally disabled brother.

Ralph Stevens Stephen, a middle-aged man who introduced himself as the godson of the landowner, accompanied the squad, who showed no police identification and drove private cars without license plates, camp residents said. Stephen told them that if they didn’t leave the place in 15 days, the men would come back with tear gas.

“From the tone he used I think he’s really

going to do it,” said Ismael. A nearby camp was recently evacuated, and only four fami-lies remain on the premises, after 55 more dispersed in other camps and on the street because of verbal threats.

Forced evictions from unofficial camps that in the months after the earthquake have been set up on private properties in Port-au-Prince have been on the rise, in viola-tion of international principles on the rights of the internally displaced and despite an April moratorium by the Haitian government prohibiting all evictions, unless alternative relocation is provided that meets minimum

living standards. Some 188,383 houses were damaged or

destroyed in the earthquake, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, but only 50 per-cent of houses so far inspected and deemed safe have been reoccupied, largely because people lost their incomes and ability to pay rent. There are over 1,241 unofficial camps in Port-au-Prince.

Almost six months after the earthquake, the government’s failure to ensure timely and satisfactory relocation options has met with landowners’ desire to profit from their properties, now highly valued commodities, putting thousands at risk of becoming home-less for a second time. While most leave as a result of threats – often by privately hired armed groups with no official mandate but sometime by government authorities them-selves – episodes of violent eviction were also reported.

Earthquake Victims Booted From Camps

Cover Photo by Alice Soperi Oxeana Ismael and her 5 relatives, including two children and her mentally disabled brother have been ordered to leave the camp.

By Alice SperiSpecial to the Haitian Times

pages 12, 13 ,18 & 19see CAMPS on page 3

Stephen told them that if they didn’t leave the place in 15 days, the men would come back with tear gas.

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La plupart des masses unilingues haï-tiennes (paysans, groupes urbains habi-tant des quartiers hautement défavorisés, chômeurs permanents…) tendent à vénérer la langue française qu’elles considèrent comme leur planche de salut, l’outil qui leur permettra d’élever leur statut social. Même si l’émigration constitue depuis quelque temps l’obsession d’une majori-té d’Haïtiens en vue d’échapper à leur condition socio-économique déplorable, pendant longtemps dans la société haïti-enne traditionnelle, l’une des plus grandes joies des parents haïtiens unilingues a été d’entendre leur progéniture parler français. C’était pour eux la récompense de durs sacrifices consentis afin de donner à leurs enfants une « bonne éducation ». Dans leur raisonnement, « parler français », c’est-à-dire l’habileté à énoncer des sons français, à manipuler des phrases et des mots fran-çais (même dans les cas où ces énoncés ne voulaient rien dire) constituerait la preuve certaine que leurs enfants auraient changé de milieu social et auraient acquis un statut social supérieur. Tout cela, grâce à la langue française. Cette représentation de la langue française dans la conscience

linguistique des locuteurs haïtiens est bien sûr tout ce qu’il y a de plus faux mais comment faire comprendre cela à ces par-ents haïtiens ? Si une langue peut être un facteur de mobilité sociale, quelle est la langue de mobilité sociale en Haïti ?

Le concept de mobilité sociale est largement utilisé en sociologie. Selon l’encyclopédie en ligne Wikipédia, « la mobilité sociale est soit le changement ou l’ensemble des changements, de statut social d’une « population » au cours du temps, soit la différence ou l’ensemble des différences entre le statut social des membres d’une « population » et celui de leurs parents (ou, plus généralement, leurs ascendants) ou de leurs enfants (ou ses descendants). » Sous-jacente à la mobilité sociale est l’existence d’une segmenta-tion sociale qui peut être une « stratifica-tion sociale …ou même une classification sociale.» A ce niveau, l’analyse peut être très pointue ou elle peut se limiter à de « simples dichotomies « pauvres – non-pauvres », des groupes définis par leur niveau d’éducation formelle, des classes sociales au sens marxiste ou toute autre segmentation ou classification sociale. » Il existe plusieurs types de mobilité sociale : la mobilité intragénérationnelle définie comme le changement de position sociale au cours de la vie active de l’individu ; la mobilité intergénérationnelle définie comme « le degré de différence entre le statut social des parents et celui de

leurs enfants ». Dans ce cas, il s’agit de comparer la position occupée par un indi-vidu et celle de sa famille d’origine. Les sociologues utilisent alors le concept de « mobilité ascendante » pour décrire une progression dans l’espace social réalisée par la génération suivante (par exemple, un fils d’ouvrier devient cadre). Le concept contraire est celui de « mobilité descen-dante » pour désigner une régression dans la hiérarchie sociale qui atteint la généra-tion suivante (par exemple, un fils de cadre supérieur devient ouvrier d’usine).

La forte hiérarchisation de la socié-té haïtienne, la limitation de l’emploi et des secteurs classiques d’activité, le bas niveau des revenus individuels, la forte présence de l’État qui a toujours été le plus gros employeur du pays, tout cela réduit considérablement l’aptitude à analyser le concept de « mobilité sociale » appliqué à la société haïtienne. On s’en tiendra par-ticulièrement à la mobilité sociale ascen-dante formulée dans le sens commun par l’expression « ascenseur social ».

Dans pratiquement toutes les sociétés, et la société haïtienne ne constitue pas une exception à cette règle, c’est l’école qui sert d’ascenseur social. Les masses uni-lingues haïtiennes n’ont pas tout à fait tort quand elles s’appuient presque exclusive-ment sur l’école pour provoquer une pro-gression dans l’espace social dans le par-cours de leurs progénitures. Elles se sont

rendues compte que le niveau d’éducation joue un rôle prépondérant dans la mobilité sociale ascendante des citoyens haïtiens. Là où elles ont fait fausse route cepen-dant, c’est dans leur persistance à croire que le changement de position sociale provient de l’habileté à parler la langue française et que cette dernière est un but en soi. Dans ce contexte, elles rejettent le créole qu’elles considèrent comme moins qu’une langue, inapte à utiliser dans les situations formelles. Il faut dire tout de suite que c’est le système socioculturel haïtien qui les a orientées à penser ainsi. Tout le monde en Haïti sait que le rêve des parents haïtiens (presque toutes classes sociales confondues) est d’avoir leur pro-géniture devenir « médecin », « avocat » ou « ingénieur ». Ce que l’on ne leur a pas dit, c’est que les connaissances qui ont permis que leurs progénitures deviennent médecin, avocat ou ingénieur peuvent être acquises par le biais de n’importe quelle langue, et pas nécessairement par le fran-çais. Autrement dit, le lien entre mobilité sociale ascendante et compétence linguis-tique française demeure un lien ténu, et pas forcément nécessaire.

L’anglais se répand de plus en plus en Haïti grâce à la pénétration de la culture américaine dans toutes les couches de la société haïtienne. En se basant sur cette constatation, est-on fondé à dire que Haïti sera une société anglophone dans un

Quelle est la langue de mobilité sociale en Haïti ?Du côtéde chezHugues

par Hugues St. Fort

see Hugues on page 23

Haiti's Camps of DespairPort-au-Prince- A raucous crowd surges

from between two rows of tightly packed tents in Camp Dadadou, and from the middle of it, a young woman stumbles, struggling to regain her balance and escape the chanting mob.

Haitians of all ages jeer and push, some laughing, as the mass of sweating bodies moves along the perimeter of the camp. Unable to escape her captors, the young woman falls to the ground, and, after either being hit on the head with a wooden bat or slamming her skull against the concrete, her eyes roll back in her head and she falls unconscious, her thin, soaked body con-vulsing until it forms just a stiff board.

A few declare her dead. Several cheer the rumour, announcing that justice is served.

Most head back to their tents, the day's excitement over in what has become a miserable, boring existence. Only one -an 11-year-old orphaned boy who looks as if he might cry -asks whether she will survive.

After six months of living first under bedsheets and towels, and now inside torn, sweltering and soaked tents suitable at best for weekend camping, the stress in Haiti's crowded and unsanitary camps is beginning to grow. Normally patient Haitians, already traumatized by the massive loss of life in January's unprecedented earthquake, are starting to lose it.

”I have to leave Haiti,” says Genevieve Joubert, a nurse living with about 10,500 others on the former soccer pitch now known as camp Dadadou. ”But there's nowhere to go.”

Joubert has delivered 126 babies in her camp alone, and is trying to find care for 24 orphans whose parents could very well be living in another camp, unaware that their

children are still alive.Around Port-au-Prince, which, six

months after the Jan. 12 quake, still looks like a war zone, and in nearby Jacmel and Legane, about 1,300 camps erected by hun-dreds of thousands of Haitians in the hours after their lives were shattered, are becom-ing permanent slums.

Late afternoon torrential rains soak belongings and leave lake-size puddles in which mosquitoes breed, then spread malar-ia. Deep, raspy coughs can be heard every-where. Scabies and other infections trans-form children's soft skin into irritating red bumpy rashes. Bellies are swelling and hair turning orange from malnutrition. Vomiting and diarrhea are as common as flies.

While injuries from the quake have healed into scars, there are countless acci-dents from the chaotic living conditions -toddlers falling into vats of boiling rice or beans, people breaking limbs on chunks of concrete and wire, entire families poisoned by carbon monoxide as they cook in their tents.

Around the city, the stench of rotting bod-ies has been replaced by the stench of rot-ting piles of garbage. Many of the destroyed buildings, as well as those on the verge of collapse, are spray-painted with frustration: ”Down with Preval,” one reads. ”No more used U.S. shit.” Demonstrations are becom-ing more common as elections, slated for November, draw closer.

”Victims left their tents and tarps to find themselves in new tents in isolated areas where basic services are hard, if not impossible, to get.” National Human Rights Defence Network

The goodwill that was palpable in the first weeks following the quake, with strangers

helping strangers, has been replaced by arguments over handouts from the myriad NGOs here, and crime is on the rise.

In the first three months after the quake, police arrested 2,250 people, a quarter of them for violent sexual crimes, according to one human-rights NGO. There have been three deaths from stoning, 133 from bullets and five police officers have been killed. This week, the National Human Rights Defence Network reported that crimes like rape, murders, armed robberies, car theft and kidnappings continue to increase. In June alone, there were at least 27 murders, the Haitian NGO said.

”There was a sense of solidarity after the quake, but now people are going back to looking out for themselves,” said Alfred Gibbs, of the Haitian NGO. ”Food is no longer being distributed to many, so those who don't have work or money are going back to crime.”

The World Cup brought a welcome diver-sion, with Brazilian and Argentine flags propped on tents and rubble. Otherwise, people spend their days playing dominoes, washing clothing, cooking and drying things out. Worse, their living space is unlikely to change much before next summer, and even then, it still won't be permanent housing.

Imogen Wall, from the UN's office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said it's impossible to say how long the tent camps will be in place.

”In Aceh after the tsunami, it took over two years, but in Haiti, the challenges are, if anything, even more complex.

”The best estimates at present suggest that it will take years just to clear the rubble from the city, let alone start large-scale reconstruction.”

Approximately 19 million cubic metres of debris, or enough to fill the Rogers Centre in Toronto nearly 12 times, must be removed. According to the Canadian Red Cross, it took two years to clear the debris from the World Trade Centre, and that was with modern equipment. In Haiti, most of it is being cleared with small shovels and wheelbarrows.

”It's going to be much harder (than in Aceh),” said Jean-Philipe Tizi, who was the Canadian Red Cross's director of opera-tions after the tsunami and is its director of programs in Haiti. ”There is a lack of local resources, it's an urban setting and it's much less developed.”

While the level of aid is uneven, most of the camps seem to have the basics: electric-ity (albeit spotty), water, chemical toilets, medical clinics and schools, thanks to non-governmental organizations like Oxfam, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Partners in Health and UNICEF. As well, UNICEF has registered 1,667 kids who were separated from their parents. Of those, 225 have been reunited thanks to a hotline.

The main, and seemingly insurmount-able, challenge, remains adequate shelter.

Instead of waiting for what most believe will never come, many Haitians, with char-acteristic resourcefulness and out of sheer need, are making the best of the intoler-able situation. Some have begun building more solid shelters, using wooden poles and tarps, while others are rebuilding in the fashion that contributed to this disaster in the first place -bricks and mortar, which tend to perform badly in earthquakes.

This story first appeared in thegazette.canwest.com

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“Nobody is really watching,” said Deepa Pachang, a volunteer with International Action Ties, one of the few organizations that have been monitoring illegal evictions. “Sometimes authorities show up at a camp and all the people are already gone.”

While not formally responsible for camps protection, the Inter-national Organization for Migra-tion has played mediator between landowners and camp residents, whenever it has come across potential evictions.

“If we are aware of one we try to reach a compromise with the owners,” said IOM’s representa-tive Leonard Doyle, citing one successful case.

Doyle said he is currently aware of about 30 camps that have been forcibly evicted or are at risk of imminent eviction, though he said details are unclear and IOM does not know how many people will be affected.

“We haven’t heard of violence but we did hear of armed groups entering camps,” he said on July 5th. “I can’t say how that’s related

to evictions, but I can make an educated guess.”

In Ismael’s camp, in the breezy Delmas 60 neighborhood, 10 fam-ilies already left due to intimi-dation, but most residents don’t know where to go.

“They told us to go back to our homes, but we have no homes,” said Jireau Museau, 43, a member of the camp committee, who lost his house and grocery store in the earthquake. “If we had another place to go we would have left already.”

Museau wrote a letter denounc-ing the aggression to the local police station and the IOM, but received no answer.

Edelyne Seant, a 20 year-old student, said the armed men insulted and threatened people with their weapons.

“It’s like it’s our fault that we are homeless,” she said. Residents use toilets in a nearby settlement because the homeowners around this camp didn’t want the smell to reach their houses and prevented NGOs from building latrines on the property.

“This is private land, these peo-ple have to take off,” said Ste-phen, the owner’s godson, adding he has been telling residents to leave since April. Stephen argued

angrily that most residents could go back to their homes but choose to stay in the camp hoping to get something from the government.

“The government doesn’t owe anything to these people,” he said, insisting that they go back to where they lived before January. The camp committee said only 14 of the camps’ 44 families owned were homeowners before the earthquake and that their houses were damaged or destroyed.

Stephen knows the government prohibits evictions but told resi-dents he has an official document allowing him to evict them.

Franz Koloeur, a spokesperson for the Haitian National Police, said that evictions of illegal camps need to be authorized by a court.

“People can’t expel other peo-ple themselves,” Koloeur said. “If an owner uses weapons or threats they will have problems with the police themselves.”

When the armed men came to the camp, last month, they pointed their weapons at those present and offhandedly asked for their names, residents said. Last week, International Action Ties obtained a report by Haiti’s Ministry of Justice and Public Security, list-ing a number of camp residents who “declared they were ready to

leave the property by June 22,” the document reads.

“They pointed a gun at me and asked me in bad words, what’s your name, and told me to leave,” said Jean Lucner, 38, one of the men whose name was on the list. “We couldn’t protest because they were armed. What should I do if they come back?”

Stephen denied that the armed men extorted people’s names with threats but said he will do what-ever it takes to get the camp resi-dents to leave.

“I have been too patient with them, now I give them five days,”

he said on Sunday in a phone interview, before repeating, sev-eral times, “It’s going to be bad for them.”

The document Stephen pro-duced was intended to portray the eviction as voluntary.

“It was explained to me as a voluntary forfeiture of their right to remain on the property,” said Mark Snyder, an International Action Ties staffer who has been lobbying with Stephen not to use violence. “But they had people come here and threaten them with guns, to me that sounds like a forced eviction.”

Campscontinued from page cover

By Alice Speri Special to the Haitian Times

HINCHE – A seed donation, last May, by giant multinational Monsanto to impov-erished, earthquake-stricken Haiti stirred thousands of farmers to protest. It also sparked debate over the country’s aid poli-cies and agricultural future.

At the centre of the controversy is a $ 4 million worth donation of hybrid seeds to Haiti’s Ministry of Agriculture, distributed to 10,000 farmers through the USAID-sponsored WINNER initiative. Critics say the donation damages local farmers – some 70 percent of the population – by making unaware peasants dependent on products they will not be able to afford in the future.

“This is a gift of death,” leader of Haiti’s peasant movement Jean-Baptiste Chavannes told the crowd rallying in the central plateau town of Hinche, last June. “It is against our environment and against the rights of future generations.”

The argument over Monsanto’s offer highlights the opposing beliefs of those involved in Haiti’s rural development and in the fight to feed the country’s hungry – almost 3 million, according to the Interna-tional Fund for Agricultural Development.

“Food security doesn’t mean that you have to produce it all, it means that when you go to the market you have the money to afford it,” said USAID’s Christopher Abrams.

Abrams explained that while WINNER – which already dispensed $16.9 of its $126 million budget – respects traditional farming, its priority is to increase produc-tivity and “double” profits.

“The goal is not self-sufficiency, we

want to help increase the income offarmers and non-farmers so they will be

able to buy food,” Abrams said.The seeds were donated to the govern-

ment but are being sold to farmers through “boutiques” selected in cooperation with USAID.

“Providing an outright donation of seed would undercut Haiti’s agricultural and economic infrastructure,” Monsanto explained in an official statement.

Speaking for the National Peasant Movement of Papaye Congress (MPNKP), a network of peasant associations with over 300,000 members, Chavannes – who declined offers by former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to serve as Haiti’s Minis-ter of Agriculture and by current President Rene Preval to serve as its Prime Minister – said development will not come through food security but food sovereignty.

“Programs like WINNER make peasants leave traditional farming for conventional and industrial farming, but that’s not what we want,” Chavannes said. “Peoples have a right to choose their agricultural policy, what to farm and how to farm it, or they will always be dependent.”

Haiti’s Ministry of Agriculture ques-tioned Monsanto about its intention to donate genetically modified seeds, which it wouldn’t accept because the country lacks legislation regulating GMOs.

Louis-Marie Laventure, a supervisor of agricultural education with the Minis-try, said the decision was debated among authorities.

“It was a political question,” said Laven-ture. “Every Haitian that eats American cornflakes is already eating GMOs so it wasn’t about nutrition.”

Laventure said the Ministry accepted the offer because it prioritizes food secu-rity, but said the government also wants to give local production an opportunity to grow and repeatedly asked aid agen-cies not to import food already produced in Haiti. Haiti imports 48 percent of its consumption, according to the World Food Program.

“Local production can respond to most needs,” Laventure said. “You can import what’s needed to complete the demand.”

While agreeing that Haiti’s food pro-ductivity is too low to feed its population – with a 77 percent poverty rate bound to increase after January’s devastating earth-

quake – some fear relying on donations will increase Haitians’ growing depen-dency.

“Haiti had a food security policy for the last twenty years and look where it got them,” said David Millet, a French agrono-mist who volunteered in Haiti’s rural areas for two years.

“Aid agencies come with no connec-tion to the fields, with their assumptions of what’s needed and without asking the locals,” Millet accused.

Haiti’s problem is not so much a scarcity of seeds, he observed, as a lack of access,

Monsanto's seeds Donation sparks Debate Over Haitian Agricultural Policy

In June, thousands of farmers marched in Hinche to protest against the involvement of multinational company Monsanto in Haiti’s rural areas.

see MONsANTO on page 9

Mark Snyder, right, is an International Action Ties staffer who has been lobbying with Stephen not to use violence.

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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Ser-vices is proposing increases in fees to off-set a $200 million budget shortfall in 2010.

William Wright, agency spokesman, said fee hikes are necessary to balance the $2.3 billion budget.

The Washington-based agency has offices around the world and employs 10,000 people.

Wright said there is no fee today for would-be immigrants who have $500,000 to $1 million to invest in the U.S. The gov-ernment wants to establish a $6,230 fee for such applicants.

He said the government encourages people to obtain lawful permanent U.S. residence and citizenship.

”The purpose of the agency is to encour-age people to become citizens,” he said. ”That's what we are here for.”

There are businesses centers based in Harrisburg and Philadelphia that provide economic projects for immigrants with at least $500,000 to invest.

The Philadelphia Industrial Develop-ment Corporation runs a program for immigrants to invest in such projects as the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The Pennsylva-nia Regional Center, based in Harrisburg, has 120 investors participating in real

estate, restaurant and film projects. Proj-ects include a film company in Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The center is looking for investors to improve the Valley Forge Convention Center.

Fee increases also are proposed for other types of applications for permanent residency and the right to work in the U.S.

Wright said permanent residents cannot vote, obtain a U.S. passport or get a federal job. He said it typically takes about five years for permanent residents to become citizens.

”If you live by the law of the land, then you can stay here,” he said. Wright said.

Wright said there is no limit on when permanent residents can seek citizenship.

”Whether they live here, five years, 20 years or 50 years, they can decide they want to be a citizen,” he said.

There is a test that involves English and civics.

”It's important that people study,” he said. ”We want them to learn about what makes up Congress and the Supreme Court. That's part of assimilating into the country.”

The story was first published in read-ingeagle.com

The new Arizona immigration law has stirred up a storm of controversy, and peace officers know they are under a national microscope.

They knew the whole country would be watching, and looking for officers to overstep and lapse into racial profiling. But even at the signing ceremony, the governor was emphatic …that just can’t happen.

“Words in a law book are of no use unless our officers are properly trained in its provisions,” said Governor Jan Brewer at the ceremony.

But for Governor Brewer’s words to be more than empty rhetoric, police officers would have to know where the lines are and what the law allows, and more impor-tantly, doesn’t.

So, a video has been prepared for the police to explain their new duties…and

new limits. For starters, they have discretion. As

Sheriff J.B. Smith has pointed out, if you wanted to do nothing else, you could spend all your duty time on illegal aliens.

So officers can take into account their case load, the number of officers available on the street, or whether the suspect is needed for crucial information on a crime.

“Because you are here illegally doesn’t mean you give up your rights as a human being to be safe in all of your activities,” says Tuscon Police Chief Robert Villase-nor in the video. “I think this could affect our relationship with segments of our com-munity that we rely on and which I believe are showing the fruits of that work in the drop in crime. When people aren’t com-fortable talking to the police, then we lose valuable information.”

And though the law states race and color are not to be used as suspicious factors, the way a person is dressed, com-mand of the language, and even an over-loaded car are listed as enough to trigger a stop.

But, Arizona police are cautioned, tread lightly.

“The scrutiny you will be placed under in the next few months,” says attorney Beverly Ginn in the tape, “will be unlike anything you’ve ever seen.

There are a couple of mistakes that some critics of the training materials have found, but it does appear that overall the state is very aware that every action how-ever obscure, will be reported…and used by those who support the law and those who oppose it.

The story was first published in ket-knbc.com.

Immigration laws discourage people with an entrepreneurial spirit, according to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who seeks to ease US immigration poli-cies.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the country is ”giving shortshrift to immigration” and that economic problems will worsen until America sends out a more welcoming message.

The mayor of the largest U.S. city says America is ”pushing people that other countries want away from our shores.”

He said on ABC television that an over-

ly restrictive immigration policy discour-ages people who can create work with an entrepreneurial spirit.

Bloomberg said, ”If I were the president working with Congress, I would give a green card to anybody from around this world who wants to come here, create a business. They keep the green card as long as they employed, let's say, 10 or more workers.”

He said a path to citizenship should be found for the roughly 11 million people here illegally.

The story was first published in AP.

Immigration fees may be going upAgency expects $200 million shortfall

Arizona Prepares for New Immigration Law

Immigration Laws should Be less Restrictive, NYC Mayor says

Tucson Police Chief Robert Villasenor

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg

President Barack Obama greets members of the audience following his remarks at an event with military personnel at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla., June 15, 2010. This was the President's fourth trip to the Gulf Coast to assess the ongoing response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Naval greetings to The President

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Haitians!GEt tHE FaCts about Temporary Protected

StatusFaCt: applications must be postmarked by July 20.

FaCt: Worried you will be deported if your tPs application is denied? the United states is not deporting people to Haiti at this time.

FaCt: applying for a fee waiver will not hurt your ability to obtain tPs.

FaCt: Haitian tPs may be extended beyond July 22, 2011, as it has been extended for other countries.

avoid pitfalls and scams! Call the n.Y. state immigration Hotline at 800-566-7636 (out-of-state 212-419-3737) to find free or low-cost authorized legal assistance with tPs.

aLL CaLLs aRE COnFiDEntiaLa collaborative effort of Church World service,

CaMBa Legal services, Catholic Charities and the new York immigration Coalition.

support provided by the Fund for new Citizens at the

new York Community trust, on the web at www.nycommunitytrust.org.

CUBA- Haitian President René Préval concluded a fruitful working visit to Cuba that permitted him to review the progress of cooperation projects that Cuba is develop-ing in that sister Caribbean nation.

Esteban Lazo, member of the Politi-cal Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba and vice president of the Council of State, and Deputy Foreign Minister Rogelio Sierra turned out to bid farewell to Préval at José Martí International Airport.

The Haitian president undertook an intense program which included a long working meeting with Lazo - with the par-ticipation of ministers and deputy ministers from the two sides – to discuss the progress of bilateral cooperation in spheres such as agriculture, sugar production, fishing, pub-lic healthcare and education, among others.

Cuba's cooperation began in 1998, after Hurricane George hit Haiti. The cyclone killed more than 220,000 people, wounded more than 300,000 and left nearly 500,000 victims.

Preval told Prensa Latina that his fellow

countrymen think Cuban physicians are extremely important and they come after God. That criterion, he said, shows that the Cuban medical personnel is part of a col-laboration that has spread to education, agri-culture, construction, fishing, aeronautics and the sugar industry. Preval also lauded Venezuela's financial support to develop several three-party programs, especially in the fields of public health, where a dozen Integral Diagnostic Centers will be built.

The Haitian President pointed out that after the earthquake, Haiti received many promises of aid from the United Nations.

However, he has never forgotten Cuba's cooperation. Our efforts are aimed at strengthening ties between Havana and Port-au-Prince, which undoubtedly benefit Haitians more than Cubans, he stressed.

Prior to leaving, President Préval expressed his satisfaction at the attention received, the level reached in the bilateral programs and asked Lazo to pass on his rec-ognition and greetings to the Cuban people, Fidel and Raúl.

Esteban LazoDep. Foreign Minister Rogelio Sierra

New York– A global effort led by the United Nations International Telecom-munications Union (ITU) is endeavoring to accelerate the reconstruction of Haiti’s information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, which was destroyed in the devastating January earthquake.

“Let’s do everything we can to ensure that Haiti gets state-of-the-art 21st century infra-structure, instead of simply replacing outdat-ed 20th century equipment,” said Hamadoun Touré, the agency’s Secretary-General. He was speaking last week at a high-level meet-ing in Barbados attended by representatives of ITU Member States, UN agencies, the World Bank, the Caribbean Development Bank, civil society and the private sector.

More than 200,000 people were killed in the 12 January earthquake, which left 1.3 million more homeless and destroyed countless buildings, including Government facilities, hospitals and schools.

“Let’s build in resilient features which will help to reduce network vulnerability

in the future,” Mr. Touré said. “Let’s make sure that Haiti gets broadband infrastruc-ture, giving the country communications networks which are worthy of such an indomitable nation.”

The Barbados meeting wrapped up with participants pledging their support for a trust fund for Haiti to be set up within ITU.

Within 24 hours of the quake on 12 Janu-ary, ITU had deployed 40 satellite terminals to the capital, Port-au-Prince, for use by Government and humanitarian agencies to coordinate logistics and search and res-cue operations. Flown to the Dominican Republic for free by FedEx, the equipment was rushed on UN transport from Santo Domingo to Port-au-Prince.

The ITU has also dispatched dozens of units with broadband capabilities, as well as engineers, to Haiti. The agency and its partners set up a mobile station providing wireless communications for humanitarian workers in the wake of the catastrophic earthquake.

uN leading efforts for rebuilding of Haiti’s telecom system

Minister of State for Overseas Devel-opment Peter Power is in Haiti to see how Irish aid is being used six months after the devastating earthquake.

Ireland has pledged €13m over three years to help rebuild the country after the quake, which claimed an estimated 250,000 lives.

At least €4m of that money has already

been spent on rebuilding projects with the help of groups such as Concern, Trócaire, Goal and World Vision. Mr Power will inspect a number of projects in the capi-tal, Port-au-Prince, and see how Irish aid has helped the survivors.

Much of the funding has already gone a long way to providing sanitation, shelter and humanitarian supplies.

Power visiting aid projects in Haiti

Haitian President Hails Cuban support

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History is Never Kind to Those Actively seeking to Make It

On July 2, the Black Stars of Ghana, the last African team left stand-ing in the World Cup,

was defeated on penalty kicks by Uru-guay 4-2 in one the most bizarre finish in the competition, a lost that reverberated around the world much more than Brazil’s defeat by Holland, since Ghana stood as the standard-bearer for the whole Conti-nent of Africa and members of its Dias-pora. A definite goal by Ghana in the last minute of supplementary time was deflect-ed by a hand play of Diego Suarez, a Uru-guayan forward, whose antics following Asamoah Gyan’s failure to convert the resulting penalty kick brought disrepute to the beautiful game of football. In so doing, Suarez single-handedly dashes the hope of one billion-plus souls throughout our planet, and one can only hope some-thing positive comes out of it. FIFA, the governing body of football, should take a determined stand against handballs by players, because such egregious behavior destroys the integrity of the game, which epito-mizes the oneness of the human race.

Growing up playing football as a hobby in neighborhood competitions taught me one important lesson: not to be passion-ate about the game given that it brings forth abnormal behavior from ordinarily normal humans. In 1969, Honduras and El Salvador almost went to war over a football game. Following Brazil’s defeat by the Netherlands last Friday, a young Haitian, distraught over the loss, commit-ted suicide. In the 2002 World Cup, Ahn Jung-Hwan, a South Korean player, had his contract rescinded by an Italian club for his late goal in the knock out round that dashed Italy’s hope of advancing to the quarterfinals. In Bangladesh, a nation with no football tradition, irate fans rioted when a power outage interrupted the June 12 coverage of Argentina-Nigeria bout. And these are samples of notorious cases, as millions of untold stories in which pas-sion get the better of ordinary humans are the norm rather than the exception when it comes to football.

My conscious effort upon reaching adulthood not to be fanatical about foot-ball leads me to disassociate myself from the game, which I seldom watch except of course the World Cup. But being of Afri-can descent, I nonetheless felt an affinity with the Black Stars since they were on the verge of making history by becoming the first African team ever to reach the semifinals in a competition traditionally dominated by Europeans and South Amer-ican teams. I literally felt sick last Friday and decided that unless FIFA changes

the rules I would forgo watching football altogether. I used to think that whenever a team lost a game, it was the result of the other side playing better but this par-ticular World Cup negates my amateurish opinion. Moreover, the Ghana-Uruguay bout which ended in the most ignomini-ous circumstance for the Black Stars put this perspective to rest since they were definitely the better side. To make mat-ters worse, history is never kind to losers and the game will be mostly remembered for the missed penalty kick by Asamoah Gyan rather than the egregious action of Uruguay’s Diego Suarez who, alongside Argentine’s Diego Maradona and France’s Thierry Henri, has tarnished the reputation of football.

Although football is simple, enforcing its rules is prone to mistakes by referees that are sometimes inept or overwhelmed by a particular game. Sometimes a ref-eree’s call is so outrageous, (the Koman Coulibaly’s annulment of a U.S goal against Slovenia is one example), one gets the feeling that FIFA is in on the fix. FIFA

should explore the possibility of hav-ing a stand-by ref-eree to take over a game in the event that the one officiat-ing proves incapable of handling it. Being booted for incompe-tence during a game might be an incen-tive for the referees to get it right.

The countless errors made by ref-erees during this

World Cup notwithstanding, this unhappy ending for Ghana makes the case for the introduction of instant replay since a final result cannot be invalidated regardless of its unfairness and apologies to wronged teams, as was done by FIFA to England and Mexico, cannot assuage the pain asso-ciated with losing an important game. Despite its universal popularity, football may survive as the preeminent sport unless fundamental changes are made in the way its rules are enforced. In the Ghana-Uruguay quarterfinal bout, a goal not a penalty kick should have been awarded to the former since only a goalie is allowed to use his hands to block a goal-bound ball from entering the net. The idea of Diego Suarez, using himself as a sacrificial lamb (he knew he will be red-carded for the action) to starve off a likely defeat by his team was repugnant and unfair to Ghana. Diego Suarez may be regarded as a hero by his countrymen but to billions of foot-ball fans, the man is a villain, a trickster and at best a criminal.

Like most sports, football requires phys-ical, technical and psychological abilities. In their quarterfinal against Uruguay on July 2, the Black Stars of Ghana were physically and technically superb but psy-chologically unprepared for the burden imposed on them by history: to become the first African team ever to reach the World Cup semifinals. The Black Stars need not be ostracized; the pressure on them was indeed too great because history is never kind to those actively seeking to make it.

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Out of Many Proposals a Word of Reason

While Haiti approaches the six-month anniversary of the earthquake, a lot has to be pondered. In a 54-page comprehensive address on Haiti and the Regional and International Communities since January 12, 2010 delivered in part at the Interna-tional Conference on Haiti Today, Yester-day and Tomorrow, Reginald Dumas, from Tobago commented on proposals submitted by some NGOs, the group of 47 Haitian and international bodies that met in mid-March, 2010. The Conference was at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London , June 21 and 22, 2010.

What came out of that meeting is that Haiti has been badly misrepresented by NGOs whose interests in seeing the coun-try developed remain dubious.

Dumas recognized that “excellent pro-posals for the country’s development” were made. He noted that “in essence, the Haitian participants in that meeting suggested a number of different paradigms for development, among them a break with excessive centralization of power and with current land ownership policies.” Impor-tantly, they pleaded for “the participation of traditionally excluded social forces such as women and farmers, and emphasis on agriculture and agro-industry which would first satisfy Haitian needs – in other words, a de-emphasis on agriculture for export.” This focus on the domestic agriculture sector “is also the recommendation of the Lambi Fund, a not-for-profit organization which works for, among other things, sus-tainable development,” Dumas observed.

Furthermore, he reported the remarks of Robert Maguire, Associate Professor of International Affairs at Trinity Washington University in Washington DC, who, in his testimony on February 4 this year before a Subcommittee of the US Senate For-eign Relations Committee, suggested “the formation of a civic service corps which could help mobilize unemployed youth, the strengthening of public institutions … and the freeing-up of what he called ‘dead capi-tal’.” This is a suggestion we made once.

With regards to the “dead capital”, Dumas recalled that in 1986, Kari Polanyi-Levitt, now Professor Emeritus of Eco-nomics at McGill University in Montreal,

undertook a consultancy to evaluate the quality of Haiti’s national income esti-mates. What they found was that “the value of agricultural production was 50 per cent higher than indicated by national accounts’ estimates, and that total Gross National Product…had been underestimat-ed by some 20 per cent at that time.”

One question that came to mind after that observation was whether “donor agencies might not have an institutional vested interest in the poverty of very poor countries, including Haiti…because this enhances the role of (such) agencies in the domestic politics in aid-giving countries and their leverage in shaping the economic life of aid-receiving countries.” Is this a valid concern? Or should not one con-sidered the possibility that “exposure of domestic food production to competition from subsidized imports would destroy the most valuable asset of the country, which is the culture of independence, initiative, dignity and cooperation of its working people.? Decades of experience of eco-nomic development have proved that it is not poverty but dependence which has destroyed the capacity of societies to pro-vide an improving standard of living for the masses of the population.”(Dumas’s emphasis.)

In his conclusion, Dumas said, “Whatev-er our emotional attachment to the country, we must always bear in mind that emotion is not a particularly useful negotiating tool for sustained success. Neither is an obses-sion with the grievances of the past. What we must do - if, as we always say, we want a better world - is elevate action over the rhetoric and hand-wringing to which we often seem addicted. We must work con-scientiously and clear-headedly together to the extent possible, in the spirit of the words of the United Nations Charter that commit the peoples of the United Nations to “employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples.”

Haitians who have ears and brains should listen carefully and think appropriately to finally plan and implement a sustainable social and economic development for all on the land.

Diego Suarez may be regarded as a hero by his countrymen but to billions of football fans, the man is a villain, a trickster and at

best a criminal.

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When President Barack Obama needs strength, he invokes a Republican, Abra-ham Lincoln. At his inauguration, Obama took the oath on the same Bible that Lincoln used and embraced the Lincoln legacy throughout the event. The sixteenth president's life and wisdom contains a rich cache of advice for any chief executive in search of guidance, regardless of party. And on the subject of immigration reform the current president would do well to emulate his predecessor's compassion and spine.

Immigration? Lincoln? Yes, like Presi-dent Obama, Lincoln lived in an era when immigration was a controversial matter. Between 1840 and 1860 approximately 4.5 million newcomers arrived, most of them from Ireland, the German states, and Scandinavian countries. Many more crossed back and forth across the border with Mexico, newly drawn in 1848. States, not the federal government were charged with counting, interrogating, and medical-ly inspecting immigrants. Port procedures at state depots such as New York's Castle Garden were haphazard at best. Millions of Catholics arrived striking fear in the hearts of American Protestants. Nativistic anti-Catholicism cropped up in a pulp literature featuring anti-papist stereotypes and undergirded the politics of the Know Nothing Party of the 1850s. While never serious contenders for national political power, there were Know Nothing gover-nors, mayors, and congressmen who built their careers on opposing immigration.

When the Republican Party was formed in 1854, some Know Nothings drifted into the new party and wanted Republicans to adopt an anti-immigrant stand. Lincoln refused. In an 1855 letter to his Springfield friend Joshua Speed, Lincoln wrote, ”I am not a Know Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can anyone who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people?. . .When the Know-Nothings get control, it [our Declaration of Independence] will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes and foreigners, and catholics[sic].' When it comes to this I should prefer emi-grating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty - Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypoc-risy. . . .” In 1860, Lincoln ran on a plat-form that came out against ”any change in our naturalization laws, or any state

legislation by which the rights of citizens hitherto accorded to immigrants from for-eign lands shall be abridged or impaired; and in favor of giving a full and efficient protection to the rights of all classes of citizens, whether native or naturalized, both at home and abroad.”

As we approach the 150th anniver-sary of Lincoln's presidency and the Civil War, America once again lives under the cloud of war and economic uncertainty. Workers in search of employment pour across our borders. Islamic immigrants strike fear in the hearts of some Christians. Though the federal government is charged with creating and enforcing immigration policy,

private vigilante groups and now some states are trying to usurp that authority. As did Lincoln, President Obama must clear-

ly articulate his position on immi-gration reform, substituting clear fresh vision for the blurry confu-sion of a conten-tious, befuddled Congress.

D e m o c r a t s and Republicans agree that unau-thorized immi-grants now in the U.S. must not

receive amnesty without paying a price. Some advocate fines, others suggest harsh-er measures. During the Civil War, Lincoln called on all Americans, including recently arrived immigrants, to serve their country. Perhaps a broader conception of national

service is the answer in much the same way that many people convicted of non-violent crimes pay their debt to society in hours of community service. The tasks and time commitment for foreign-born engineers who have over-stayed their visas and those for manual laborers already working two jobs to support their families might differ, of course. Those immigrants who help a community clean up after a natural disaster or repair the swings in a playground pay a debt even as they are incorporated into communities they serve. All children need safe swings - natives and newcomers.

Whatever action Mr. Obama takes on immigration, it must honor Lincoln's mem-ory, reflect his fairness and decency, and embody his courage in time of crisis. Trad-ing platitudes with the Arizona governor who signed a repressive legislation that feeds on anti-immigrant sentiment won't do.

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Immigration: Is Obama the New Lincoln?

As we approach the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's

presidency and the Civil War, America once again lives

under the cloud of war and economic uncertainty.

A lot has changed since 2007, when John McCain was the #1 immigration compromiser in the U.S. Senate, lead-ing the way with a large, bipartisan bill that would have given illegal immigrants an opportunity to become U.S. citizens while beefing up border security. That effort looked promising but ultimately failed, and McCain criticized how the term ”amnesty” was used as a bludgeon against it: ”Anything short of rounding up 12 mil-lion people and deporting them is called amnesty by the opponents of this legisla-tion,” he said during a visit to Carlsbad, California in May 2007. ”I'll point out that (illegal immigrants) will have to pay back taxes, they'll have to pay a fine, they'll

have to go back to their country of origin, and it's at least 15 years before they are in anyway eligible for citizenship.”

Now, McCain finds himself in a dif-ferent political situation, and so does the immi-gration issue. McCain lost the 2008 election, during which he was sharply criti-cized as an immi-gration liberal by his GOP primary rivals, and he's facing a primary challenge from Tea-Party-style candidate J.D. Hayworth. As a nation issue, immigration has heated

up after Arizona passed its new law and as a drug war has raged in Mexico.

McCain has changed with the times. The Hill's Mike O'Brien notices catches

this snippet of a radio interview in his home state:

No amnesty. Many of them need to be sent back,” McCain said during an

interview on KQTH-FM in Tucson, Ariz.Once the border is secured, McCain

said, ”a temporary legal worker program has to be part” of immigration reform. But

he made it clear that program would be for those who want to enter the country as part of that future program, and not those who came to the United States illegally.

A temporary guest-worker program is a far cry from a pathway to citizenship; it's a mechanism to let more immigrants come here to work legally, particularly as migrant labor, but it's on the conservative end of the let-them-in spectrum.

If the Senate is to forge any kind of agreement on immigration, it will need every vote it can get. Given McCain's present situation, it doesn't seem likely that he'll sign onto anything resembling what Democrats would want to pass--at least not before November.

McCain's Immigration shift: 'Many' should Be sent Back

Once the border is secured, McCain said, ”a temporary

legal worker program has to be part” of immigration reform.

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New York – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has commended States in the Carib-bean region for their commitment to sup-porting Haiti following the devastating earthquake in January and urged them to continue their engagement there, saying the country will need consistent assis-tance from the international community to recover.

“Your engagement is central to ensuring sustained and long-term attention to Haiti's needs,” Mr. Ban said when he addressed the 31st meeting of heads of Government of the Caribbean Community(CARICOM)in Montego Bay, Jamaica, late July 4th.

“Recovery will take many years, and will require consistent effort by all Haiti's partners,” Mr. Ban said, adding that he was honored to be the first Secretary-General of the United Nations to address a CARI-COM summit. Haiti, he said, will continue to be a priority of the UN, adding that elec-tions in November will be fundamental for ensuring the country's democratic future.

Mr. Ban welcomed the General Assem-

bly's decision sponsored by CARICOM to convene a high-level meeting next year on the prevention and control of non-com-municable diseases, saying he also looked forward to the organization's participation in the high-level meeting on the Millenni-um Development Goals(MDGs)– the eight social development and poverty reduction targets which States have pledged to make efforts to achieve by 2015. The meeting will be held in the UN Headquarters in New York in September.

“Governments must agree in September on a concrete action plan that provides a clear road map to meet our collective tar-gets and promise by 2015,” Mr. Ban said.

Expressing concern over organized transnational crime and the proliferation of small arms and light weapons, Mr. Ban said that CARICOM and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime(UNODC)have devel-oped a joint action plan to combat the problem.

“We must address security issues and social causes simultaneously. In this

regard, I welcome the fact that the recently launched Caribbean Basin Security Initia-tive goes beyond traditional law enforce-ment approach, and I applaud CARICOM States on all your efforts to combat illicit trade in small arms and light weapons.

“It is important to consider the problem of drug control and the prevention of crime and terrorism in a regional context – and through the prism of development, human rights, the rule of law and security reform,” Mr. Ban said.

The Secretary-General commended CARICOM Member States for their lead-ership in the Copenhagen climate talks, saying the Caribbean community had con-veyed an important message to the world – the threat of climate change is urgent and growing.

“You have been pioneers in calling attention to the specific vulnerability of Small Island States to climate change. Adaptation strategies to this very real threat will require sizeable and sustained investment,” Mr. Ban said.

The Copenhagen conference called on the international community to mobilize $30 billion a year between now and 2012 and $100 billion a year up to 2020 for mitigation and adaptation actions in devel-oping countries.

Mr. Ban said the UN will continue to support the efforts of nations in the Carib-bean region to improve the lives of their people.

“Just as you are helping to advance our agenda, I would like to reiterate the com-mitment of the United Nations to your

goals and aspirations. You can count on me to promote security, development and human rights. I take strength from the immortal wisdom of a great son of Jamai-ca. I will 'get up.' I will 'stand up.' And I won't 'give up the fight,” Mr. Ban said.

CARICOM Member States are Anti-gua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barba-dos, Belize, Dominica Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.

Associate members are Anguilla, Ber-muda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands and Turks and Caicos Islands.

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education on agricultural techniques like tree grafting, and infrastructure, including irrigation systems and small-scale water management projects.

At the Technical School for Develop-ment in Hinche, a public institution funded in 1985 with a World Bank loan, Director Serge Durosier agreed.

“What lacks here is a technical culture,” he said, as a Cuban mechanic taught Hai-tian students to build simple agricultural tools. “The formation of farmers should be an integral part of education.”

The question of farmers’ preparation to the benefits and risks of treated seeds like those donated by Monsanto has been another source of contention.

USAID educates all farmers in the 200 local associations it partners with to an appropriate use of the seeds, said Abrams.

“Farmers are fully aware of the positive benefits and the possible negative bene-fits,” he said. This includes the knowledge that they will need to buy seeds for future planting seasons.

“We give them all the information, they know they won’t be able to use the off-spring but that they will benefit from a

yield four times as big,” Abrams added. Treated seeds have a 97 percent germina-tion chance, versus the 20 percent chance of local seeds, he said.

“The economic choice is clear,” Abrams concluded. “We treat farmers like business persons because that’s what they are.”

Chavannes, who is a founding member of international peasant movement La Via Campesina, rejected the notion.

“There are things that shouldn’t be con-sidered merchandise and food is one of them,” he said. “The objective of agri-culture is sustainable life, not maximum profit.”

Chavannes denied all farmers coming in contact with Monsanto’s seeds are con-scious of the risks.

Last month, the donated seeds were available for sale in Port-au-Prince and in the town of Mirebalais, in Haiti’s central department, though USAID said it oper-ates in other areas. Monsanto’s seeds sold for 25 cents per kilogram, at least four times less than local seeds.

Chavannes himself bought some, which he symbolically burned at the rally in Hinche.

“You walk into the store, you are told they are good seeds and you just buy them,” he said. “Farmers are not informed of any risk.”

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“Se on bagay ki tris wi, mezanmi, pou yon ekip gran jakèt kanpe ap fè literati toujou sou do pèp sa a ki soti anba dekonm depi le 12 janvye, e ki jis jounen jodi a ap viv anba tant toujou! Si 12 janvye pa chanje moun sa yo, pa gen anyen k ap chanje yo. Se on bann pawòl anpil sou tout ba gay! Kote maladi sa a soti mezanmi? Politik? Zewo! Netwaye lari? Zewo! Tra-vay? Zewo! Edi ka syon? Zewo! Pale anpil? Dis sou dis! ...”

Pawòl sa yo touche m jis nan zo, malgre m konnen se pa avè m sitwayen an t ap pale. Se on si twa yen militan, ki te achte on mikwo radyo lajan kontan. Pwoblèm lan se pa pale a (piske sitwa yen an li menm tou oblije pale pou l di sa k pa fè l plezi), non, pwoblèm lan se de ki sa n ap pale, ki sa n ap di, pou ki rezon n ap di l.

Nan seri “Pawòl apre 12 janvye” yo, nou rive, depi semenn pase, sou “pawòl chanje non lang lan”, on pawòl ki te la depi byen lontan, men sanble koze “refondasyon” an mande pou y al cha che l anba dekonm. Rezon ki fè koze sa a plis atire atansyon m, se paske li parèt on kote m pa t ap tann li (on pawòl malen!), nan yon atik Woje

Saven sou nesesite pou n reflechi sou pwoblèm tradiksyon dokiman ofisyèl ak tout papye Leta an kreyòl—si gen bon jan volonte pou Leta obeyi pawòl konstitisyon an di nan atik 40 lan (Leta dwe sèvi ak radyo, ak jounal, ak televizyon pou li gaye bon enfòma syon, an kreyòl ak an franse, sou tou sa ki an rapò ak vi peyi a. Anwetan sa ki ta yon danje pou peyi a, Leta dwe bay enfòmasyon sou lwa, sou dekrè ak sou regleman li mete deyò. Menm jan tou, pou antant, kontra, ak papye li siyen ak lòt peyi.)

Youn nan agiman Saven, se yon lide li devlope lè l ap di li dakò ak atik Jan Previyon (Jean Pré vil lon) an, “What’s in a Name?” (1993): “Après quelque deux cents ans, il convient de reconnaî tre l’identité linguistique de chaque peuple, grand ou petit. Les langues dites romanes sont depuis longtemps désignées par les noms des peuples qui les par lent: catalan, espagnol, français, italien, por tugais, occi-tan, roumain. De même, les langues dites “créoles” doivent être reconnues comme des langues distinctes ayant chacune ses particularités historiques, tradition nel les, folkloriques et re ligieuses qui se reflètent dans l’articulation, le vocabulaire et la syntaxe définis par le peuple qui la parle.” [Apre on peryòd 200 zan, fò yo rekonnèt idantite lengwistik tout pèp, ti pèp kou gwo pèp. Lang yo rele lang womàn yo, depi lontan, se non pèp ki pale yo a yo ba yo: katalan, es pa yòl, franse, italyen, pòtigè, oksitan, woumen. Menm jan tou,

lang yo rele “kreyòl” yo, se pou yo rekon-nèt yo chak kòm on lang ki pote, nan sistèm li, vokabilè l ak sentaks li, istwa, tradisyon, fòlklò, relijyon pèp ki pale l la.]

On lòt agiman Saven parèt sou fòm on remak: Se pa pèp Sendomeng lan ki te chwazi non lang lan: se kolon fransè yo ki te rele l konsa, e se konsa tou yo te rele ni moun, ni zannimo, ni grenn bwa ki te leve nan koloni an… Se konsa Saven reponn Iv Dejan ki te di: “Anvan yon moun chè che esplike pou ki sa li ta vle chanje non lang pèp ayisyen pale a, li ta bon pou li kalkile yon ti kek syon: ki dwa yon moun pou li chanje non yon lang ki la nan yon peyi de pi plis pase 200 ane? / Moun ki pale kreyòl ann Ayiti, depi sou tan lakoloni, rele lang yo pale a kreyòl. Yo pa rele l ayi syen. Ki dwa kèk entelektyèl pou yo chanje non lang tout yon pèp?” (nan ‘Èske se pou nou chanje non kreyòl la?’) Men Dejan di plis pase sa.

Nan yon atik ki rele “Le créole ou l’haïtien. Changer le nom de la rose?” (atik sa a parèt sou sit Haïti-Nation dimanch 7 fevriye 2010), Dejan pati kont lojik “non on lang = non pèp ki pale lang lan”—on lide Frimann (Freeman) te eseye defann nan prefas on diksyonnè li pibliye ak Lagè (La guerre) an 1996. Si n ta tcheke sou tout kontinan yo, se ann Ewòp nou gen plis chans jwenn lojik sa a—sitou ak lang wo màn yo jan lis Saven an montre a. Men menm ann Ewòp, Dejan pre si ze: Ilandè ak Ekosè yo pale angle avèk/osnon gayelik: yo pa pale ilandè osnon ekosè;

Bèlj yo pale franse, flaman osnon al man: yo pa pale bèlj; Suis yo pale alman, franse, italyen ak reto-wo man: yo pa pale suis … Ann Amerik di Nò, Amerik Santral, Amerik di Sid, lojik non lang = non pèp la pa mache. Sou lòt kontinan yo, lojik la pa egziste nonplis. Pètèt nou ta dwe reflechi plis sou reyalite sa a ak Dejan: Gen sèlman 189 eta ki manm Nasyonzini alòske yo fè estimasyon nan zòn ant 5 mil ak 6 mil lang ki egziste sou latè…

Kidonk, lojik sa a, se nan tèt kèk grenn moun li ye. Siman li dwe gen on lòt bagay dèyè l. Fri mann pale de “diyite”. Konbyen Ayisyen Frimann konnen ki jennen paske yo rele lang natif-na tal yo kreyòl la? Kilès yo ye? Pètèt se paske Frimann li menm li wè, osnon li rive konvenk kèk moun, mo “kreyòl” la se on mo ki vag, ki pa vle di anyen, ki san sans… “Kreyòl pale, kreyòl kon prann!” Tout Ayisyen di sa. Kreyòl se on referans klè nan tèt tout Ayisyen. Yo konnen lè moun ap pale an daki ladan l; yo konnen lè moun ap pale l tankou Blan; yo konnen lè on Blan pale l kou rat; yo konnen lè on moun pran pòz pa konn pale kreyòl; yo konnen tou lè on moun pa konn pale kreyòl…

Nan zafè lang, gen koze ki enpòtan pou n pale, sitou apre 12 janvye. Pawòl chanje non lang lan, l ap toujou la … pou tout moun ki vle bat bouch yo nan koze kreyòl, men ki pa ka antre on pous nan reyalite lang lan!

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WASHINGTON – Just about everyone likes Charlie Rangel.

Republicans pump his hand, Democrats put their arms around his shoulders and women of all political persuasions give him pecks on the cheek.

Spend some time with the 80-year-old congressman from New York City who's been striding the Capitol's halls for four decades on behalf of residents of Har-lem, and there's little evidence he's become someone to avoid because of an ethics cloud that's more likely than not going to darken in days to come.

Colleagues in both par-ties still gravitate to the gravelly voiced, outgo-ing, backslapping Rangel four months after fellow Democrats persuaded — and Republicans hound-ed — him to relinquish one of the most powerful jobs in Washington, chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee.

”Amiga,” he shouts in the Capitol sub-way to Cuban-born, Florida Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, using the Span-ish word for female friend.

”Amigo,” she belts out in return.”Hey Ritchie,” Rangel booms as he pass-

es Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., who's seen by many as a Ways and Means chairman in the future.

Behind the scenes, it's a different story. A few Democrats have returned money that Rangel raised for them. His influence

is sapped.His wife, Alma, warns him not to be

naive about the glad-handling.”You know,” she tells him, ”they're put-

ting you on.”How did it come to this?Rangel follows in a tradition of Ways and

Means chairmen such as Reps. Dan Rosten-kowski, D-Ill., and Wilbur Mills, D-Ark., who waited decades to become congres-sional titans, then lost that perch through

ethical lapses.”Some members are

old school,” said Stanley Brand, a former House counsel and a defense lawyer for many politi-cians in trouble. ”As they rise in seniority ... they think less about (rules) changes that occur under their nose.”

Rangel lost his post because his conduct gave Republicans an ethics issue that's ripe for exploitation, just as Democrats in 2006 and 2008 success-fully seized on GOP ethical lapses.

Nervous about losing House seats this year, Democrats persuaded Rangel to step down after the House ethics committee concluded in February in a relatively minor case that Rangel violated the chamber's rules on gifts. The committee said Rangel should have known that corporate money paid for two trips to Caribbean conferences. Rangel insists he didn't know. There was no punishment.

More ominous is an investigation into activities far more likely to touch the nerve

of voters: Rangel's failure to pay taxes on income from a Dominican Republic vaca-tion villa; his rent-subsidized apartments in New York; using official stationery to raise money for a college center bearing his name; and his belated disclosure of assets revealing he was far richer than people thought.

Rangel joined the Ways and Means Com-mittee in 1974 and ascended to chairman more than three decades later. He says the pain of having his integrity questioned is terrible, but he tries hard not to show it.

He dresses immaculately, his gray hair neatly combed back, the color matching his mustache, and his pocket handkerchief

matching his suit. He walks with a spry step.

He remains a workaholic, sometimes forgetting breakfast even though he scoops oatmeal into a cardboard cup at a House cafeteria each morning and carries it back to the office. Some busy days, he warms it in the microwave for lunch.

”There's been a force out there. People feel they have to say something support-ive,” Rangel says as he walks through the Capitol's underground subway.

”She says it's unseemly,” Rangel says of his wife's advice. ”I say, `Suppose it's not

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Rangel lost his post because his conduct

gave Republicans an ethics issue that's ripe for exploitation, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.)

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PrescriptionBy Dr. Gerald W. Deas

The psyche of the African American male is under attack. It’s as if he is still experiencing a post-traumatic syndrome dating back to slavery times.

Dr. James Washington, a professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, uses the term “soul murder” to describe the intentional breaking of a per-son’s will by depriving him of affection or respect and inciting him to despair. When soul murder is visited on those described as a “permanent underclass,” life can lose

its apparent meaning or worth. The result can be “suicide, infanticide, parricide and even deicide.” As Winifred Gallagher writes in her book, Working on God, once a person has been spiritually eviscerated, he feels that “without Providence, there is no hope.”

Here’s a poem I wrote to explain what I think is going on inside our young men today to make them want to wear their pants down low, revealing their under-wear-covered butts.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – To prevent injuries in babies, car seats should stay in the car. That's the message of a new study, published today in the journal Pediatrics, which shows that almost 9,000 infants go to the emergency room (ER) every year for car seat-related injuries that happen outside the car.

If the seat does have to come out of the car, said co-author Lindsay Wilson, parents should make sure their babies are always strapped in.

Wilson and Dr. Shital Parikh, both from the orthopedics division of Cincinnati Chil-dren's Hospital Medical Center, reviewed five years worth of data from a national U.S. surveillance system to find records of babies less than one year old that were taken to the ER for car seat injuries.

From 2003-2007, almost 2,000 babies in the sample - so about 43,500 in the entire U.S., the authors estimated - were brought to the ER for a car seat injury. Most of those injuries happened when babies fell out of their car seat or were in the seat when it fell off a table, counter or shopping cart.

Head or neck injuries were most com-mon, especially in the youngest babies, who were also more likely to go to the ER. About half of the injuries happened at home.

There were only a few car seat-related deaths recorded in the authors' sample, so they weren't able to calculate a national estimate.

Part of the reason these injuries are so

common, the authors write, is that parents may assume that babies won't be moving around because they haven't developed good coordination yet. So they commonly leave the baby in a car seat without strap-ping it in, or set the seat somewhere that puts the child at eye level.

”Often parents don't use the safety har-nesses or safety strap in the seat or in the carriage and so the kids ... wiggle and they slide right out,” Dr. Gary Smith, direc-tor of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, who was not involved in the study, told Reuters Health.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, babies less than a year old go to the ER at a higher rate than any other age group. In 2006, there were 84.5 ER visits for every 100 infants - or about 3.5 million total visits. The most common cause of injury in babies is some sort of fall.

The authors hope the study will help educate parents on safe car seat use. For a lot of parents, Wilson said, ”it's just easier to leave the kid in the car seat, set them on the countertop, and go on with what you need to do.”

But if possible, Smith said, babies should instead be moved to a crib, play pen, or carrier. ”Child safety seats were intended for use in motor vehicles to prevent injury in the event of a crash,” he said. ”That's their purpose and that's what they should be used for.”

To Protect Babies, Keep Car seats in the Car

To All Y’All

My image means a lotTo tell y’all, all I gotAbout how I feel inside

Deep down I want to be a KINGBut, y’all feel, I’m NUTH-INGAnd my gut feelings, I just can’t hide

I’m feelin' there’s no way outI’m too proud to cry, I have to shoutWith my pants hanging off my butt

If you just take a little timeAnd listen to my rhymeI’ll tell y’all what my real life is all about

Here’s another, more positive poem taken from my play Paper Bird, which tells how young people believe they have the strength of eagles when they are really just as fragile as paper birds:

Everybody Is Somebody

(Chorus)Everybody is somebodyWho wants to be somebodyAnd that’s what life is aboutThe world is filled with nobodiesWho want to be somebodyAnd here’s how they worked it out

First, you gotta walk like somebodyThen you gotta talk like somebodyYou gotta act like somebodyGoing somewhereYou’ve gotta smile like somebodyAct like a child of somebodyAnd let everybodyKnow that you care

Even a mouse became somebodyHe has frightened everybodyBecause he refused to think that he was

smallHe decided in his mind that he was one

of a kindAnd from that day, he’s been ten feet tall

(Chorus repeated)

Even a roach became somebodyHe’s been sprayed by everybodyBecause he refused to stay in the wallHe was tired of dirty placesAnd undesirable spacesAnd now he lives in the kitchen and the

hall (Chorus repeated)

Even the dog became somebodyHe’s the best friend of everybodyAnd those who love him certainly knew

whyHe’s been brave and he’s been trueHe would never turn his back on youAnd he’s never been known ever to tell

a lie

(Chorus repeated)

Even that alley cat became somebodyActs like a queen to everybodyBecause she knows that she has nine

livesShe’s not afraid of the highest placesAnd she can deal with all the racesBecause she don’t take anybody’s jive (Chorus repeated)

If our ancestors were able to survive the horrors of slavery, I am sure, if we work, study and act like somebody, we also will SURVIVE! Start by pulling up your pants so you can look like a total body rather than a broken one.

For more health tips and access to an online community of phy-sicians and other healthcare professionals visit: DrDeas.com

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WASHINGTON – The oldest among us seem to have chosen their parents well. Researchers closing in on the impact of family versus lifestyle find most people who live to 100 or older share some helpful genes.

But don't give up on diet and exercise just yet.

In an early step to understand-ing the pathways that lead to sur-viving into old age, researchers report in Thursday's online edi-tion of the journal Science that a study of centenarians found most had a number of genetic varia-tions in common.

That doesn't mean there's a quick test to determine who will live long and who won't — a healthy lifestyle and other fac-tors are also significant, noted the team led by Paola Sebastiani and Thomas T. Perls of Boston University.

Nevertheless, Perls said the research might point the way to determining who will be vulner-able to specific diseases sooner,

and there may be a possibility, down the road, to help guide therapy for them.

The team looked at the genomes of 1,055 Caucasians born between 1890 and 1910 and compared them with 1,267 peo-ple born later.

By studying genetic markers the researchers were able to pre-dict with 77 percent accuracy which gene groups came from people over 100.

”Seventy-seven percent is very high accuracy for a genetic model,” said Sebastiani. ”But 23 percent error rate also shows there is a lot that remains to be discovered.”

The centenarians could be fit-ted into 19 groups with different genetic signatures, they found. Some genes correlate with longer survival, others delayed the onset of various age-related diseases such as dementia.

”The signatures show different paths of longevity,” Sebastiani said.

In general, the centenarians remained in good health longer than average, not developing diseases associated with old age until in their 90s, according to the study.

The researchers were sur-prised, Sebastiani said, that they found little difference between the centenarians and the control group in genetic variations that pre-dispose people to certain ill-nesses.

”We found that what pre-disposes to a long life is not lack of disease associated variants, but the presence of protective variants,” she said at a briefing.

In addition, 40 percent of ”super-centenarians” aged 110 and over had three specific genet-ic variants in common.

Perls cautioned that this is a very complex genetic puzzle and ”we're quite a ways away, still, in understanding what pathways are governed by these genes.”

”I look at the complexity of this puzzle and feel very strongly that this will not lead to treat-ments that will get people to be centenarians,” he said. But it may help in developing a strategy and screenings that will help find

what treatments will be needed down the road.

While this study, begun in 1995, focused on Caucasians, the researchers said they plan to extend it to other groups, includ-ing studying Japan, which has large numbers of elderly.

”Inheritability of longevity has

been looked at, so genes do play a role,” said Dr. Kenneth S. Kend-ler of the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics at Vir-ginia Commonwealth University.

But so do other factors ”such as driving motorcycles fast and

smoking,” said Kendler, who was not part of the research team.

The 77 percent accuracy rate reported in this study is better than other groups have been able to do, Kend-ler added.

The U.S. study found that about 85 percent of people 100 and older are women and 15 percent men.

”Men tend to be more susceptible to mortality in age-related diseases,” Perls said. ”Once they get a disease they more readily die. Women, on the other hand, seem to be better able to handle these diseases, so they tend to have higher levels of disability than men, but they live longer than men.”

WASHINGTON (AP) – Cancer survi-vors, better work up a sweat.

New guidelines are urging survivors to exercise more, even — hard as it may sound — those who haven't yet finished their treatment.

There's growing evidence that physical activity improves quality of life and eases some cancer-related fatigue. More, it can help fend off a serious decline in physical function that can last long after therapy is finished.

Consider: In one year, women who needed chemotherapy for their breast cancer can see a swap-ping of muscle for fat that's equivalent to 10 years of nor-mal aging, says Dr. Wendy Demark-Wahnefried of the University of Alabama at Bir-mingham.

In other words, a 45-year-old may find herself with the fatter, weaker body type of a 55-year-old.

Scientists have long advised that being overweight and sed-entary increases the risk for vari-ous cancers. Among the nation's nearly 12 million cancer survivors, there are hints — although not yet proof — that people who are more active may lower risk of a recurrence. And like everyone who ages, the longer cancer survivors live, the higher their risk for heart disease that exercise definitely fights.

The American College of Sports Medi-cine convened a panel of cancer and exer-cise specialists to evaluate the evidence. Guidelines issued this month advise cancer survivors to aim for the same amount of exercise as recommended for the average person: about 2 1/2 hours a week.

Patients still in treatment may not feel

up to that much, the guidelines acknowl-edge, but should avoid inactivity on their good days.

”You don't have to be Lance Armstrong,” stresses Dr. Julia Rowland of the National Cancer Institute, speaking from a survivor-ship meeting this month that highlighted

exercise research. ”Walk the dog, play a little golf.”

But how much exercise is needed? And what kind? Innovative new studies are under way to start answering those ques-tions, including:

- Oregon Health and Science Univer-sity is training prostate cancer survivors to

exercise with their wives. The study will enroll 66 couples, comparing those given twice-a-week muscle-strengthening exer-cises with pairs who don't get active.

Researchers think exercising togeth-er may help both partners stick with it. They're also testing if the shared activity improves both physical functioning and eases the strain that cancer puts on the

caregiver and the marriage.”It has the potential to have not just physical benefits but emo-

tional benefits, too,” says lead researcher Dr. Kerri Winters-

Stone.-Demark-Wahnefried

led a recent study of 641 overweight breast can-cer survivors that found at-home exercises with some muscle-strength-ening, plus a better diet, could slow physical decline.

-Duke University is recruiting 160 lung

cancer patients to test if three-times-a-week aerobic

exercise, strength training or both could improve their fit-

ness after surgery. Lung cancer has long been thought beyond the

reach of exercise benefits because it's so often diagnosed at late stages. But

Duke's Dr. Lee Jones notes that thousands who are caught in time to remove the lung tumor do survive about five years, and he suspects that fitness — measured by how well their bodies use oxygen — plays a role.

People with cancer usually get less active as symptoms or treatments make them feel lousy. Plus, certain therapies can weaken muscles, bones, even the heart. Not that long ago, doctors advised taking

it easy.Not anymore: Be as active as you're

able, says Dr. Kathryn Schmitz of the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania, lead author of the new guidelines.

”Absolutely it's as simple as getting up off the couch and walking,” she says.

Exercise programs are beginning to tar-get cancer survivors, like Livestrong at the YMCA, a partnership with cycling great and cancer survivor Lance Arm-strong's foundation. The American College of Sports Medicine now certifies fitness trainers who specialize in cancer survivors.

But anyone starting more vigorous activity for the first time or who has par-ticular risks — like the painful arm swell-ing called lymphedema that some breast cancer survivors experience — may need more specialized exercise advice, Schmitz says. They should discuss physical therapy with their oncologist, she advises.

For example, Schmitz led a major study that found careful weight training can pro-tect against lymphedema, reversing years of advice to coddle the at-risk arm. But the average fitness trainer doesn't know how to safely offer that special training, she cautions.

Mary Lou Galantino of Wilmington, Del., is a physical therapist who special-izes in cancer care — and kept exercising when her own breast cancer was diagnosed at Penn in 2003. Then 42, she says she was on the treadmill within 24 hours of each chemo session, to stay fit enough to care for her two preschoolers.

”You can feel more energy” with the right exercise, says Galantino, a physical therapy professor at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. ”I was giving my body up to the surgeons and chemo, but I could take my body back through yoga and aerobic exercise.”

get moving: Cancer survivors urged to exercise

Closing in on genes that Help People Live to 100

”We found that what pre-disposes to a long life is not lack of disease associated

variants, but the presence of protective variants,”

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COMMuNITYCALeNDARNew York

-There will be music in the air this sum-mer, as Films on the Green presents five French musicals and the film adaptation of an opera in parks throughout New York this June and July. The Films on the Green series of free screenings is jointly organized by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the New York City Depart-ment of Parks and Recreation for the third year running. Screenings will take place most Fridays of June and July at sunset (around 8:30pm, seating begins at 8:15pm), and will be free of charge.This year, in part-nership with Town Square's SummerStarz 2010, Films on the Green will for the first time ever venture beyond Manhattan, with a special Brooklyn screening of Azur and Asmar, an animated movie for kids. The July 8 screening in East River State Park will be preceded by French-language activi-ties and music for kids. For more informa-tion contact Amaury Laporte at amaury.laporte@diplomatie.gouv.fr or call (212) 439 1417

QueensQueens Library is going to host a series

of programs TPS Assistance for Haitian New Yorkers on Wednesdays, March 24, April 21, May 26, and June 23, 5:30-8:30 pm, at the Central Library. This program is intended to help Haitian Americans apply for the Temporary Protected Status, a spe-cial benefit provided by the Department of State to people affected by adverse condi-tions in their homeland. For more infor-mation contact Gennady Yusim, Coping Skills Librarian at 718-990-0883 or email gyusim@queenslibrary.org.

Brooklyn The Religious Component of Haiti’s

Reconstruction will host a two day confer-ence Bérée Community Center on 1713 Ralph Ave on Saturday June 19 at (4heu-res-8 pm) and on Sunday June 20, 10am-6pm On the following Themes :

Reformed Churches and development/

Protestantisme et développement. Catholicism and development/Catholi-

cisme et développement. Is there any role for voodoo in the devel-

opment? / Vaudou et développement. Religious education, Cultural values and

Reconstruction Conference Languages: English, Haitian

Creole, French *ECONOMIE. Bilan des promesses des

Conférences et sommets *Les Défis politiques/*Haïti Sur la Scène

Internationale post-désastre*Education/*Environnement, Urbanisme

et Santé* Rôle de la Diaspora. *La Diaspora :

Quelle Contribution à Haïti ? For more information contact Jean

Refusé at tsf2004@yahoo.com and Assely Etienne at info@cgalileemontaigne.com

New Jersey

New Jersey-Haitian American Chamber of Commerce Jefferson Park Ministries and NJ For Haiti will present a temporary protected status (tps) nj immigration infor-mation conference at Union County Col-lege at Kellogg Building, 1st floor Lecture Hall at 40 W. Jersey Street, Elizabeth New Jersey

on June 17th, 2010 from 5:30 PM. Special guest U.S. Citizenship & Immi-

gration Services will provide an overview of the Haitian Temporary Protected Status (TPS) eligibility and filing requirements. Free group counseling will be provided by: JPM and Catholic Charities Services after the presentation. For more information and registration please call Jefferson Park Min-istries at: (908) 469-9508

The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) in an effort to centralize informa-tion about agencies, law firms, and law schools responding to the tragedy in Haiti and the designation of Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) has compiled this list of TPS Resources and events

TPs ResOURCesHaitian TPS Hotlines: The Legal Aid Society has a TPS Hotline

for Haitian nationals.Call: 1-888-284-2772. You can find out

about upcoming TPS clinics offered by the Legal Aid Society and obtain free compre-hensive advice and referrals from the Legal Aid Society’s Immigration Law Unit.

The New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) has a TPS hotline for Haitian nationals, where you can find out about upcoming TPS clinics offered by NYLAG. Please call 1-212-946-0351 or email Hai-tianTPS@nylag.org.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 – Free TPS Application Assistance Event - 10:00am-6:00pm

Hosted by: Bureau of Refugee and Immi-grant Assistance (BRIA)/OTDA and New York Legal Assistance Group.

This is an on-going clinic that will be held every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs-day until July 20th -- during the TPS regis-tration period.

Location: Haitian Family Earthquake Resource Center at the Bedford Armory, 1579 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225 (between Union and President Streets)

(By subway: 2, 3, 4, or 5 to Franklin Avenue)

Additional Information: A staff attorney from CUNY Citizenship Now! will be on-site. NYLAG staff attorneys will partici-pate from 1:00pm-5:00pm. The Resource Center provides a full range of services

to the Haitian community including grief counseling, child guardianship and custody services and providing reliable updates on Haiti. USCIS Information Officers will also be stationed at the Center to assist indi-viduals to check on the status of a pending application.

Contact: for inquiries about TPS clinic sessions, please call NYLAG’s TPS hot-line 212-946-0351 or email: HaitianTPS@nylag.org.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

On-going Consultations for Haitian TPS Applications every Wednesday from 3:00 to 6:00

Host: Catholic Charities Community Services for the Archdiocese of New York

Location: 1011 First Avenue, 12th Floor, NY, NY (between 55th and 56th Streets)

Contact: (212) 419-3700 (intake num-ber)

Thursday, June 17, 2010 - Free Immigra-tion Legal Assistance - 2:00pm-6:00pm

This will be an on-going legal clinic every Thursday from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Hosted by: Lutheran Social Services of New York and Haitian Earthquake Fam-ily Support Center sponsored by NYDIS, Brooklyn Community Foundation and Red Cross

Location: Haitian Family Support Cen-ter, 1783 Flatbush Ave (b/t Ave J & K) Brooklyn, NY 11210 -- (917) 284-7938 – You must call to make an appointment

Thursday, June 17, 2010 – Free TPS Application Assistance Event - 10:00am-6:00pm

Hosted by: Bureau of Refugee and Immi-grant Assistance (BRIA)/OTDA

This is an on-going clinic that will be held every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs-day until July 20th -- during the TPS regis-tration period.

Location: Haitian Family Earthquake Resource Center at the Bedford Armory, 1579 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225 (between Union and President Streets)

(By subway: 2, 3, 4, or 5 to Franklin Avenue)

Additional Information: A staff attorney from CUNY will be on-site. The Resource Center provides a full range of services to the Haitian community including grief counseling, child guardianship and custody services and providing reliable updates on Haiti. USCIS Information Officers will also be stationed at the Center to assist indi-viduals to check on the status of a pending application.

Contact: for inquiries about TPS clinic sessions, please call NYLAG’s TPS hot-line 212-946-0351 or email: HaitianTPS@nylag.org.

Friday, June 18, 2010 – Free TPS Regis-tration Event – 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

This will be an on-going TPS clinic on Fridays in April from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Hosted by: The Legal Aid SocietyLocation: Council Member Mathieu

Eugene’s Office, 123 Linden Blvd., Brook-lyn, NY.

Contact: Allison Baker at AMBaker@legal-aid.org

Saturday, June 19, 2010– TPS Applica-tion Assistance Event –11:00 a.m. - 4:00

p.m.Hosted by: HILAP and Catholic Charities

BrooklynLocation: St. Ignatius Parish, 1101 Car-

roll Street in Crown Heights Contact: Marianne Yang, Esq., at 718-

254-0700 x.167; myang@bds.org

Monday, June 21, 2010 – TPS Application Assistance Event – 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. This is an on-going clinic that will be held every Monday from April 5th through July 12th -- during the TPS registration period.

Hosted by: HILAP--Haitian Immigra-tion Legal Assistance Program--a part-nership among Brooklyn Defender Ser-vices, Brooklyn Bar Volunteer Lawyers Project, Brooklyn Bar Association, and Brooklyn Women's Bar Association. Location: 123 Linden Boulevard, between Bedford and Rogers, Brooklyn. No appoint-ments necessary. Clients may call (888) 898-0700 ext. 161 for more information.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010 – Free TPS Application Assistance Event - 10:00am-6:00pm

Hosted by: Bureau of Refugee and Immi-grant Assistance (BRIA)/OTDA

This is an on-going clinic that will be held every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs-day until July 20th -- during the TPS regis-tration period.

Location: Haitian Family Earthquake Resource Center at the Bedford Armory, 1579 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225 (between Union and President Streets)

(By subway: 2, 3, 4, or 5 to Franklin Avenue)

Additional Information: A staff attorney from CUNY Citizenship Now! will be on-site. The Resource Center provides a full range of services to the Haitian community including grief counseling, child guardian-ship and custody services and providing reliable updates on Haiti. USCIS Informa-tion Officers will also be stationed at the Center to assist individuals to check on the status of a pending application.

Contact: for inquiries about TPS clinic sessions, please call NYLAG’s TPS hot-line 212-946-0351 or email: HaitianTPS@nylag.org.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010 – Free TPS Application Assistance – 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Must be income eligible for HCC’s ser-vices. Will see people from all 5 boroughs.

Hosted by: Housing Conservation Coor-dinators, Inc. (HCC)

Call to make an appointment – will accept walk-ins if we’re not completely booked: (212) 541-5996

Location: 777 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY 10019

Contact: Shawn Blumberg, Esq., Staff Attorney, SBlumberg@hcc-nyc.org

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

On-going Consultations for Haitian TPS Applications every Wednesday from 3:00 to 6:00

Host: Catholic Charities Community Services for the Archdiocese of New York

Location: 1011 First Avenue, 12th Floor, NY, NY (between 55th and 56th Streets)

Contact: (212) 419-3700 (intake num-ber)

The haiTian Times 17 July 7 - July 13, 2010 BusINess

The National Coalition of African Amer-ican Owned Media on Thursday filed its official opposition to the Comcast-NBC Universal merger, pointing out, in its words, the “non-existent carriage of 100% African American owned channels widely distributed on its cable platform to approximately 24 million homes.”

NCAAOM president-CEO Stanley Washington said in the petition to the Fed-eral Communications Commission that the time has come for Comcast to know that “African Americans will no longer live on the Comcast plantation. Comcast must immediately do business with African American-owned media in a significant way. Until they do so, we’re continuing to boycott and actively campaign to have African American families and our sup-porters disconnect Comcast services.”

In the petition to “deny” the proposed merger, Washington further stated: “Our

community represents up to 40% of Com-cast’s subscriber base, which means that

we are paying them at least $15 billion a year. By not supporting African American ownership in a significant way, Comcast denies the African American community the same opportunity they afford oth-ers. We continue to advocate strongly for 100% African American channel owner-ship because Comcast has a history of requiring equity for distribution from inde-pendent channel owners.”

The statement, according to the Holly-wood Reporter, went on to point out that the 2009 compensation of Comcast chair-man Brian Roberts and COO Steve Burke was $35 million each, noting that “these two men paid themselves significantly more than what Comcast paid to wholly owned African American media collec-tively.” The statement also pointed out that Philadelphia itself — the home base of

Comcast — is 43% black but that none of the channels Comcast carries is owned by African Americans.

The group has retained former FCC chairman Kevin Martin as an attorney in its efforts to block the planned merger.

Comcast has agreed to pay some $30 billion to acquire the majority stake in GE-owned NBC Uni, a deal which would make the cable giant and Hollywood studio/net-work the biggest players to join together since AOL and Time Warner amalgamated 10 years ago. The deal is still under review by regulatory agencies and is not expected to close until toward the end of the year.

Without mincing words, the NCAAOM petition concludes: “The overall lack of African American ownership is a national disgrace and continues one of our nation’s most important unfinished agendas.”

Black Media group Files Opposition to Comcast-NBC uni Merger

By not supporting African American ownership in a significant way, Comcast denies the African Ameri-can community the same

opportunity they afford others.

Relief efforts continue since a magni-tude-7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti six months ago, with numerous organizations continuing to contribute to rebuild a sus-tainable country.

One Westchester County-based group has been advocating for a clean-burning kitchen stove, which can contribute to safer living — and the local economy.

The Public-Private Alliance Foundation, a nonprofit organization run by David Stillman out of his home in Hastings-on-Hudson, recently visited Haiti to promote the recovery of the country's infrastructure and the use of alcohol-fueled cooking stoves.

PPAF has been working with Project Gaia, an organization based in Gettysburg, Pa., which is trying to bring safe cooking fuels and appliances around the world.

”We have to re-establish people's liveli-hoods,” said Stillman, PPAF's executive director. ”Our first concern is emergency relief.”

PPAF, Gaia and other organizations held conferences for relief efforts and recon-struction strategies in Jacmel, Haiti, about two hours from Port-au-Prince, from June 11 to 13. That's when PPAF and Gaia presented the stove they are promoting, a compact and sleek device priced at about $50 in the United States.

It runs on ethanol, extracted from sugar cane. It has two burners and can be used inside the home. It is an alternative to char-coal stoves, which spew more pollutants and are unsafe indoors.

The stove is manufactured by a Swedish company, Domectic. PPAF and Gaia hope to have a Haitian company make and dis-tribute the stoves there.

”This is a tangible device which can help to improve the environment and lives in places like Haiti,” said Brady Luceno, Gaia's project manager. ”The stove can help free up time for people who would normally spend it trying to find wood and start fires.”

PPAF and Gaia have seen support from the Lower Hudson Valley.

”There have been donations within Westchester and the surrounding area. We have seen donations from Mahopac Middle School in Putnam County and Yorktown High School,” said Brady, 22. ”Mahopac did a campaign on learning the issues and raising awareness for Haiti. These communities are able to learn what's going on and form a lasting relationship with these places.”

Stillman, 71, a Westchester resident for 30 years, has enlisted help from another notable county figure.

”At a recent U.N. conference, I had the opportunity to shake hands with President Bill Clinton,” he said.

Stillman said he asked Clinton if his foundation, which has been assisting with

Haiti's rehabilitation, would collaborate with PPAF.

”I met with a Clinton representative to follow up on the idea,” he said.

Stillman, former general manager of the U.N. Public-Private Alliance for Rural Development, founded PPAF in 2003. He maintains the organization with the help of a small staff, which includes his wife, Jeanne, and a retired financial consultant, David Forbes-Wat-kins of Hastings.

”It's a tiny operation. I work three hours a week,” said Forbes-Watkins, retired director of finance at My Sister's Place, a White Plains shelter for abused women. ”It's one person and his wife doing a lot of support.”

They also have help from younger adults: Interns from the Education First

school in Tarrytown and various colleges assist with the group's daily endeavors. Since starting, they have had 20 interns from such countries as Germany, Japan and Brazil.

Bojana Kolancic, 20, is an intern from Grenoble, France, who lives in Port Ches-ter. ”I'm set with the task of taking French documents from the Haiti conference and translating them into English,” said Kolancic.

PPAF and Gaia are planning to ship 1,440 stoves to businesses in Haiti as a start.

”We are looking to help build a small-business industry in Haiti,” said Jeanne Stillman. ”We want to bring the public and private sectors together.”

The story was first published in LoHud.com

small Hastings Nonprofit Tries to Light Fire in Haiti's economy

Stillman inquired to Bill Clinton about assisting in his plan toward Haiti's rehabilitation.

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Photos by William Farrington

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You purchase rolls of 12 tickets for $8

($2 service charge). Each ticket is worth

$0.50. Now most full portions of an item

will cost you anywhere from 6 to 10

tickets. But for taste portions, expect to

spend anywhere between 2 and 5 tickets.

For $16, I had: Grilled corn, cheesecake,

pad thai, macaroni and cheese, dump-

lings, lemonade, watermelon, and of

course Chicago style pizza.

Chicago style Pizza

I had been looking forward to attend

the Taste for the simple reason that I

love food and all types of food at that.

However, I was on a mission. I wanted

to see what this Chicago style pizza was

all about? What makes Chicago style

pizza different than other pizza?

Well, I am sure many of you have had

Chicago style pizza, just perhaps did not

know it was called that. Chicago Style

pizza is what we New Yorkers call Deep

Dish Pizza. The style of pizza is cred-

ited to Pizzeria Uno founder Ike Sewell.

Chicago-style pizza has a buttery crust

up to three inches tall at the edge,

slightly higher than the large amounts

of cheese and chunky tomato sauce with

real chunks of tomatoes. It is a very

Fresh style of pizza.

I fell in love. Even though I no lon-

ger eat meat (at least for now), I still

enjoy the veggie lovers version. Below

is a recipe for you meat lovers who truly

want to enjoy the taste of Chicago in

your own home.

Nadege Fleurimond is the owner & business manager of Fleurimond Cater-ing, Inc., www.fgcatering.com, an off-premise catering firm serving the NY/NJ/CT/MA areas. She is also the author of a Taste of Life: A Culinary Memoir, a humorous and heart warming compilation of recipes and funny anecdotes. (http://www.nadegefleurimond.com) For questions and comments you may write her at nadege1981@gmail.com.

On Thursday, July 1st, 2010, I was welcomed by the smells of 100’s of competing food aromas at one of the biggest food festivals in the world : The Taste of Chicago. In New York, I have attended many food festivals and vari-ous expo’s, but never had I seen so much food, or eaten so much food. But after all, the Taste of Chicago is the world’s largest food festival. It is held for 10 days during the 4th of July weekend with music and concerts all throughout the days. The beauty of the Taste as it is affectionately called by Chicagoans is that, you are not bound to only purchase full portions of food. They have a beautiful ticket system.

ChiCaGO sTYLe PiZZa ReCiPe

2 lb. sweet Italian sausage 1 green or red pepper (2 x 1/4 inch strips) 1 medium onion, thin sliced 1 tbsp. olive oil 3 cloves garlic, minced 2 tbsp. thinly sliced pepperoni 1/4 lb. mushrooms, sliced 1 tsp. basil flakes or 1 tablespoon fresh, minced 1 tsp. oregano 1/4 tsp. pepper 1 tube refrigerated pizza crust 3/4 cup pizza sauce 2 tbsp. Parmesan cheese 1 pkg. (8 oz.) shredded Mozzarella olive oil

Preheat oven to hot 425°F.Remove casings from sausage and crumble into large heavy skil-

let. Brown over medium heat, stirring often until meat is no longer pink. Drain on paper towels, pouring off excess fat.

In the same pan, sauté peppers and onions in olive oil over medium heat for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add garlic, cook 1 minute. Stir in mushrooms, pepperoni, basil, oregano and black pepper. Cook 2-3 minutes. If the mixture seems too dry, add 1-2 tablespoons water.

Unroll the pizza dough and place in a well seasoned 9-10 inch cast iron skillet, stretching dough slightly to fit up sides about 1 inch. Roll pointed corners under or cut off and reroll to make a small pizza.

Spread dough with several tablespoons pizza sauce. Spread half of the vegetable mix over the sauce. Top with half of the sausage. Sprinkle with half of the tablespoon Parmesan cheese. Dot with 3 tablespoons sauce, then 1/2 the Mozzarella. Repeat layers. Drizzle top with a little olive oil

Bake in preheated oven for 15-25 minutes (depends on your oven) or until edges of crust are browned and cheese is bubbly.

The Taste of Chicago!

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Your calm will be put to the test today, Sagittarius. Try not to fall into this trap. You should try to show people that you're a thoughtful person and your past experiences have given you wisdom. You don't necessarily have to respond to aggression. However, you shouldn't forget about your own point of view. Try to assert yourself calmly and steadily.

SagittariusYou're an eccentric

person, Aquarius. Yet you also feel the need to be loved and feel the approval of those around you. It isn't always easy to think differ-ently from other people or to feel completely different. In order to be accepted, you must help them understand you. Try to express your ideas and opinions in a more realistic way. You can't live out of sync all the time.

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Aquarius M a y 2 1 - J u n e 2 0

GeminiThe day belongs

to you. The celestial movements encourage you to think about your future. Don't be afraid. With your usual self-confidence and dynamism, you're in the best position to have a head start. Your Aries nature will be in control of your actions and you can rest assured that this period in time will be a favorable one for you. What more could you ask for

M a r c h 2 0 - A p r i l 1 8

AriesGemini, the atmo-

sphere of the day gives you the impression that there could be a lot of changes waiting to unfold in your personal life. Most of them will concern your relationships. Today you could feel as if you've just changed your star sign. Take the time to open up and listen to what the stars might reveal to you. This will be time well spent.

You're a reason-able, generous person, Libra. Your altruism plays a big part in your life. This is why your friends will be amazed to see you express a lot of personal desires now. When you think about it, everything is getting clearer. You might even want to change a lot of things in your life. And letting your feelings guide you doesn't have to mean that you won't think about your friends.

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Libra

J u n e 2 1 - J u l y 2 2

You're the type of person who loves meeting a lot of people, Cancer. You feel that you must bring your friends together so that they have a forum in which to express themselves. You're good at bringing out the best in others and helping them find a solid footing in the present, despite your love of the past. Go with the flow.

CancerYour altruism and

ability to listen to others will greatly influence the day, Pisces. Someone close to you is having difficulties and doesn't know how to explain the problem. This person needs you and knows that you're the only one who can help find a way out. Make time to listen patiently and you'll find a solution together.

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Pisces O c t . 2 1 - N o v 2 0

ScorpioThere's a radical

change taking place in the Zodiac, Taurus. The changes in the econo-my and society seem to suggest that now is the time to think about how your actions impact the lives of your loved ones, community, and society at large. What steps could you take to help make this world a better place? Thinking about these issues prepares you to shape your future as you want it to be.

A p r i l 1 9 - M a y 2 0

TaurusYou tend to think

that you're the only person on this planet born under a lucky star, Capricorn. Try to trust the ones you love, because they might not appreciate having to deal with your anxiety. Don't forget that they also know how to fend for themselves. They, too, have had to adapt to this world we live in. They can stand up for themselves.

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CapricornToday, you'll need

to come up with the answer to an important question, Scorpio. What do you really want? Events might compel you to choose between your current way of living and a more stable life. But you could be worried about the unknown. It's ironic, but you will need to change your habits if you want more sta-bility. Think about it.

You are very interested in technological break-throughs and innovation, Virgo, especially if it has some benefit for individuals. Since you also concern yourself with social issues and sub-jects like psychology and spiritual therapies, you realize the impor-tance of progress in these areas for the future. You also wonder where you fit in.

A u g . 2 3 - S e p t . 2 2

Virgo

J u l y 2 3 - A u g . 2 2

LeoYou should make

more of your own decisions, Leo. Don't let others have so much control over your life. When in a relationship, for example, you tend to let your partner dominate. You seem to no longer want to be in charge of any initiatives with regard to your joint life. Try to free yourself from this situation and take charge. You'll be a better and more valuable partner.

Most people think I’m crazy and wonder how I function without drinking coffee everyday. But, if you think about it, coffee is a very recent invention in human history. Not only coffee, but flavored beverages in general. In fact, for most of our history, we were basically drink-ing just water.

When flavored bev-erages such as soda and juices first became popular they were occasional treats. I think a lot of us can remember how excited we would be to get a cup of soda after we were good that week. Nowadays soda is the new water.

When you order Chinese food you get a free can of soda. When you eat at most chain restaurants or fast food places you

get free refills on your soda or it’s a few cents extra to double the size of your soda. Soda is even cheaper than water in the supermarket. We’ve been setup to drink soft drinks like water.

Well, what’s the big deal? So what if you drink soda instead of water. Drinks don’t really have calories. It’s not like you’re eating cake for lunch instead of salad, right? It’s just a drink...like water. Drinks don’t make you fat...do they?

Well drinking soda instead of drink-ing water is like eating cake instead of salad. And drinks can and do make you fat. Men’s Health magazine recently pub-lished a list of the 20 worst drinks and I was shocked by the information. I wasn’t

shocked by what drinks made it on the list, but really shocked by how bad these drinks were.

When you read the nutrition facts on the back of a drink the information just doesn’t hit you the way this article laid it out. I used to like Sobe Green Tea. It’s light and not too sweet and it’s green tea. How bad could it be? Well it’s the same as eating four slices of Sara Lee’s cherry pie. FOUR slices of pie?!! When you hear it like that this green tea doesn’t sound so green does it?

You like soda? Orange soda is soooo good right? Well a bottle of Sunkist orange soda has the sugar equivalent of eating six Breyers Ice Cream Sandwiches. Would you eat six ice cream sandwiches without batting an eye at the calories? I’d hope not.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot: Coffee. This all started with cof-fee. I never got around to the reason I don’t drink cof-fee. There are two reasons: (1) it tastes bad and (2) I’m not interested in being addicted to anything. You thought I was going to say some-thing about the calo-ries, right?

Well coffee isn’t the worst drink when it comes to calories

and sugar...if you’re careful. But, if you’re not careful coffee can be one of the worst drinks. The Starbucks peppermint white mocha has the same amount of sugar eight scoops of Edy’s slow churned rich and creamy coffee ice cream. Eight scoops of ice cream just sounds like a delicious stomachache.

Now don’t get me wrong; I’m not saying that you should stop drinking anything but water from now on. Just think about what you’re drinking. Sometimes drinks can be deceiving since they don’t fill you up the way food does. But, most of us get about 20 percent of our calories from drinks. You can dramatically reduce your caloric intake if you just watch what you drink and not only what you eat.

Until next time, cheers to a better you.

HeALTH&BeAuTYDrinks: Trick or Treat?

By Onyi nwOsuA Better yOu

I don’t drink coffee. I don’t mean I drink only one cup a week or one a day or only when I’m tired. I really don’t drink coffee. We’re halfway through the year and I’ve only had half a cup of coffee. I split an iced coffee with a co-worker on one of our 90 plus degree days. It reminded me why I don’t drink coffee.

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eating six Breyers Ice Cream Sandwiches.

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But he admits, ”It's still painful. It's times like this when I have to reinforce the facts: I'm alive, I'm well, and 60 years ago I could have died when I was surrounded by hundreds of Chinese” in the Korean War.

Rangel came back from that war a Harlem hero with a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. He says he's constantly measuring his cur-rent troubles against the 20-degree below zero days of Nov. 29 to Dec. 1, 1950, when he was wounded, but survived while fellow soldiers died all around him.

He always falls back on the title of his autobiographical book, which comes from his wartime experience: ”And I Haven't Had A Bad Day Since.”

Long before he was chairman, Rangel took care of his Harlem constituents, many of them poor. He sponsored empowerment zones with tax credits for busi-nesses moving into economically depressed areas and developers of low income housing.

As chairman, he pushed bills with tax relief for victims of Hurricane Katrina, tax breaks for small business and stronger environmental and labor rules in trade agreements, tax rebates for consumers and an increase in the minimum wage. He was a major player in passage of Presi-dent Barack Obama's $862 billion stimulus program, one-third of it tax cuts.

But Rangel lacked the power of some of his predecessors.

He was a longtime advocate of health care reform, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., passed him over for guiding Obama's overhaul to passage. An impor-tant part of the House's climate change legislation was given to another committee, when it could have gone primarily to Ways and Means.

House leaders forced him to reverse himself and manage a bill to tax away Wall Street bonuses after he told reporters that would be a misuse of tax law.

Leadership aides said those decisions were part of the strategy to pass important legislation and didn't represent a loss of confi-dence in Rangel. Other commit-tee lawmakers, however, believe Rangel was hobbled by his ethics

problems — and these decisions reflected that view.

Says Rangel: ”There's no way I could have taken it personally. The speaker is more hands on in committee work than before.”

But, chatting outside a House elevator, he recalls how things used to be, how the legendary Rostenkowski, who ran the com-mittee from 1981 to 1994, would never have stood for a loss of power. When Rangel was given a leadership post of deputy whip, Rostenkowski asked him whether he was loyal to the committee or the leadership.

”You can't do both,” Rangel said he was warned.

In 1970 Rangel upset a Har-lem legend, Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. — a pastor, civil rights leader and a man known for his womanizing and his absence from his district.

This year, Rangel announced his re-election bid days before his birthday. One of his primary oppo-nents is a son of Powell, Adam Clayton Powell IV.

In Harlem, Rangel ruled as one of the Gang of Four — Afri-can-American politicians who achieved top political posts: David Dinkins, a one-time New York mayor; Basil Paterson, who rose

to deputy mayor and New York secretary of state; and the late Percy Sutton, Manhattan Borough president.

He marched with Martin Luther King. He was a founding mem-ber of the Congressional Black Caucus.

At a meeting of New York political leaders after the February ethics report, Dinkins spoke about his friend.

”Mayor Dinkins was very emo-tional,” recalled Lloyd Williams, president and chief executive offi-cer of the Greater Harlem Cham-ber of Commerce. ”He said if not for Charlie Rangel, there would not have been a Mayor Dinkins.”

Dinkins declined in an interview to talk about Rangel's troubles. ”He is my brother, my friend. My interest is in his welfare,” he said.

Williams momentarily seemed worried about Rangel's future.

”I fear these mistakes will become too much of his legacy,” he said.

Quickly, he switched to a more optimistic tone. ”When the venom is out of the air, Charlie will be remembered as one of the most extraordinary political leaders in the history of this country.”

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