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PBS-TV Frontline to air 'The Quake', expose' & analysis of global response to Haiti earthquake catastrophe
Seeded on Thu Mar 25, 2010 2:55 AM EDT (PBS)
This Tuesday night, March 30th, America's top TV news documentary series, PBS-TV's "Frontline", will air an expose' and analysis of the global response to Haiti's disastrous earthquake -- by far the worst human catastrophe in the history of the Western Hemisphere.
House Democrats Pass Health Care Bill
Mon Mar 22, 2010 3:13 AM EDT
House Democrats Pass Health Care Bill Covering Most Americans; Senate Expected to Follow. --------------------- Health care reform narrowly passed in the U.S. House of Representatives, Sunday night, and is now expected to easily pass the Senate.
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Congress Clears Historic Health Care Bill; Here's the Basics
Seeded on Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:24 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
Health care reform narrowly passed in the U.S. House of Representatives, Sunday night, and is now expected to easily pass the Senate.
Ban Ki-moon Visits Haiti: Thousands Still Without Tents
Seeded on Tue Mar 16, 2010 4:57 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
AP Mar.14 - U.N Secretary General visited Haiti for a 2nd time since the quake, promising U.N. support for Haiti, but admitted the U.N.
AP Enterprise: US botched Haiti flights to Fla.
Mon Mar 15, 2010 1:03 PM EDT
As hundreds of injured survivors of the Haiti earthquake overwhelmed Florida hospitals in January, state officials pleaded with the federal government for basic information about arriving patients but got little assistance, e-mails obtained by The Associated Press show.
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1 Hour Design Challenge: Emergency Shelters
Seeded on Tue Mar 2, 2010 12:57 PM EST (Core 77 Design Magazine)
Mar.2: "1 Hour Design Challenge: Emergency Shelters" has ended. This site has over 6 pages of sometimes wild, sometimes practical, innovative ideas for emergency shelter for Haiti & elsewhere. Ignore instructions at top, & look at the many entries below.
Chile earthquake a test for aid agencies
Seeded on Sun Feb 28, 2010 8:59 PM EST (The L.A. Times)
Chile's earthquake, though nowhere nearly as fatal as Haiti's (despite greater intensity at the epicenter, 70 miles from nearest major city), is clearly a disaster -- 700 reported dead, and maybe thousands more to come -- crippling relief agencies already struggling with Haiti.
Looking for lessons in Haiti's epic tragedy
Sun Feb 28, 2010 2:24 PM EST
Tons of rice and beans tell how the world is helping Haiti. Missing tents, tarps and toilets show how it is falling short.
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Chile was ready for quake, Haiti wasn't
Sat Feb 27, 2010 5:57 PM EST
The earthquake in Chile was far stronger than the one that struck Haiti last month — yet the death toll in this Caribbean nation is magnitudes higher.
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HAITI Secure Shelters Scarce as Rainy Season Looms - 2010-02-23
Seeded on Fri Feb 26, 2010 5:46 AM EST ( IPS Inter Press Service)
Haitians are forced to settle for nothing more than plastic tarps, for shelter from rainstorms and eventual hurricanes. No land made available, and inept aid agencies, make even tents a fantasy few will get before being soaked for months.
Why did so many people die in Haiti's quake?
Seeded on Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:46 AM EST (BBC News)
Haiti's reported death toll -- over 200,000 -- appears to be the worst loss of life in history of the Western Hemisphere. Analysis, expert interview, and maps, explain why Haiti death toll so abnormally high for an earthquake this size.
4,000 Volunteers Working to Pack a Million Meals to Send to Haiti
Seeded on Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:05 AM EST (Chicago Daily Herald (suburban) )
Thousands of volunteers packed over a MILLION meals, this weekend -- in Chicago suburb, Elgin -- to help Numana and the Salvation Army feed Haiti's earthquake survivors.
Haiti PM: Gov't to take land for temporary camps
Seeded on Sun Feb 21, 2010 1:52 AM EST (The Houston Chronicle)
Relief agencies urge speedy land expropriation for refugee shelter. But Haiti's government -- ruled & corrupted by 11 rich families owning most capital-area land -- drags its feet.
Lemonade from Lemons: Sheltering Haitians With Rubble
Mon Feb 15, 2010 6:22 AM EST
Here's an idea for simple, easy idea to shelter Haitians quickly, with existing resources. Authorities say Haitians are not going to get enough tents, and maybe not even enough tarps, to house them before hurricane season blows in (late spring).
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Haiti's homeless get tarps, want tents (AP)
Seeded on Sat Feb 13, 2010 6:42 PM EST (Yahoo! News)
Exposed to weather & coming season of torrential rains, Haitians are begging for tents. Few will get them. Aid agencies, Haitian officials, have given up trying to shelter the 1,200,000 homeless in tents.
Growing Haitian Death Toll: Data Compared to Other Disasters
Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:52 PM EST
Feb.10, 2010 (data revised Feb.13): Yesterday, the Associated Press reported that Haitian authorities now put the death toll at 230,000 from the Jan.12 earthquake.
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Food Used to Raise Awareness of Human Trafficking Threat to Haitians
Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 10:16 PM EST (Salvation Army)
Salvation Army and food-supplier Numana are teaming to distribute food to Haitians with warnings included to alert Haitians about human trafficking, and how to respond.
Numana Haiti-feeding events
Seeded on Tue Feb 9, 2010 10:07 PM EST (Numana, Inc.)
Numana, Inc -- a new charity gathering food for Haiti, using volunteers to assemble it into prepackaged meals, and delivering it to Haiti through the Salvation Army. . Twitter page reporting their past, present & coming events, nationwide.
Millions Of Meals Rushed to Haiti by Tiny Small-Town Charity; Thousands of Volunteers.
Mon Feb 8, 2010 7:06 PM EST
Reacting to Haiti's earthquake, a tiny small-town charity has assembled, packaged and shipped three-million meals for desperate, starving Hatians -- and is spreading the project nationwide. This weekend, hundreds of community volunteers teamed with El Dorado, Kansas, charity Num …
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Red Cross, managing millions of blood units, sends only 750 to Haiti
Fri Feb 5, 2010 8:10 AM EST
America's treasury of blood may not truly be open to Haiti. The organization that administers half of America's blood supply -- 13,000,000 units annually -- has only provided 750 units to the bleeding quake-torn nation of Haiti, just off the American coast.
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Haiti - It's Not Over !
Fri Feb 5, 2010 8:05 AM EST
The slow, fumbling, half-hearted response to the Western Hemisphere's greatest catastrophe, from Haiti's next-door neighbor USA, is simply shocking -- and now we're mistakenly acting as if it's over.
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"The Disaster Within The Disaster: It's Time To Investigate the Aid Fiasco"
Seeded on Thu Feb 4, 2010 4:11 AM EST (Common Dreams)
This report, by seasoned investigative journalist Danny Schechter, summarizes the bizarre and shockingly impotent response of the world -- particulary American aid organizations -- to the worst human catastrophe in the history of the Western Hemisphere, the Haiti quake.
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