Jan 12, 2017
…Haitians did not powerlessly watch Matthew wash through their land, waiting for foreign aid to appear. They have banded together – families, neighbours, cooperatives, work societies, community, solidarity and diaspora groups – to begin the clean-up, and get the...
Jan 12, 2017
Mainstream news coverage of the catastrophic earthquake of January 12, 2010, reproduced longstanding narratives of Haiti and stereotypes of Haitians. Cognizant that this Haiti, as it exists in the public sphere, is a rhetorically and graphically incarcerated one, the...
Jan 5, 2017
Join us for the DCI Symposium at MIT on January 21, 2017. The Diaspora Challenge Initiative aims at leveraging ideas about successful development concepts amongst members of the Diaspora looking for opportunities to contribute to Haiti’s development. We will have...
Sep 10, 2016
washingtonpost.com, Opinion by Joel Dreyfuss, Aug. 23, 2016 Joel Dreyfuss is a Washington Post Global Opinions contributing columnist. Haiti won a rare victory on the international stage last week. After five years of evading accountability, the United Nations finally...
Jun 22, 2016
Wednesday, June 29th, 6:00 – 8:30 PM Irish International Immigrant Center 100 Franklin Street, Lower Level, Boston, MA 02110 (entrance at 201 Devonshire St) Join Community Supported Film (CSFilm) and the Irish International Immigrant Center (IIIC) for a...