As America blows billions by using its military as a one-size-fits-all solution for emergencies around the world, USAID is understaffed,...
Why Is the United States Letting Its Military take over its Foreign Aid?
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Owning Our Future- Haitian Perspective films accepted into Jamaican film festival
Owning Our Future films 'Ghetto Green, Ghetto Clean,' 'Threading the Needle' & 'Brave The World' accepted into this year's GATFFEST Film...
Almost 1,000 civilians killed in Afghanistan conflict during the first 4 months of this year
UN News Center, 8 June 2015 – The conflict in Afghanistan is resulting in thousands of people being killed or wounded, forcing families to leave...
Media, Development: Stories from the soils: an audio series
Stories from the soils: an audio series produced by AMARC, in collaboration with FAO 2015 has been declared the International Year of Soils (IYS) by...
Haitian Film Screening & Discussion, June 19, Cambridge, MA
Fri Jun 19, 2015, 7pm, Free Mobius, 55 Norfolk Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 CSFilm founder and director Michael Sheridan will present a screening...
Thank you! A letter from Haitian filmmaker Steeve Colin
Dear Mr. Michael, I hope this letter finds you well. This is Steeve Colin, and I wanted to take the time to express my deep thanks for the training...
Haiti, Development: Bill and Hillary – The King and Queen of Haiti
By JONATHAN M. KATZ, May 5, 2015, Politico Sunday, January 30, 2011. Two hundred thousand people occupied Egypt’s Tahrir Square, defying a military...
Media, Development: Bringing drones down to earth
irinnews.org By Caterina Pino and Obinna Anyadike KATHMANDU, 12 May 2015 (IRIN) - Disaster coverage now seems incomplete without amazing drone...
Media, Haiti: Media’s Multiple Roles in Democracy and Development
USAID, by Mark Koenig on Friday, May 1st 2015 A reporter in Yerevan, Armenia scuffles with a police officer while covering a protest against the...
Media: Open Letter to The Media, re: Nepal Earthquake
From AidSpeak Aid workers, you know how this goes. In approximately one year, the media is going too be all up in our grill. Why? Because after a...
Development: Don’t rush to Nepal to help. Learn from haiti and read this first
Guardian Newspaper, Monday 27 April 2015 , by Claire Bennett You may want to help victims of the earthquake, but they don’t need unskilled...
Haiti: How Not to Report on an Earthquake
NYT Magazine, April 28, 2015, By JONATHAN M. KATZ, author of “The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a...