haiti | haiti
Mar.10.2010
Demonstrating their ability to make meaningful practical contributions to the world community, some thirty artists donated works to the Artists for Haiti fundraising exhibit, which opened March 7, 2010, and will run until March 21 at the Indigo Sky Gallery, located at 915 Waters Avenue in...
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Mar.08.2010
If you've been following my blog entries about the relief organization Coeur d'Amour in Haiti, you know my friend Gina Vela was on a trip there these last two weeks to deliver emergency supplies from fundraisers she organized in the Orange County area. She just returned and sent these pictures last...
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Feb.23.2010
About a month ago, right after the earthquake in Haiti, I quoted a passage by Edwidge Danticat about the momentary attention Haiti gets in times of crisis, and how that attention wanes over time. As that attention starts to wander, I'd like to tell you about a dear friend of mine, Gina Vela, a...
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Feb.10.2010
Well Haiti is now further on the backburner. Some good meaning folks went over there and tried to take some Haitian children (orhpans?); never minding that at least one of the children said she had parents. They were bringing them to a better life.
Sarah Palin, while in an interview, had written...
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Feb.10.2010
"It had become an universal and almost uncontroverted position in the several States, that the purposes of society do not require a surrender of all our rights to our ordinary governors; that there are certain portions of right not necessary to enable them to carry on an effective government...
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Feb.03.2010
Yesterday, at the National Western Stock Show in Denver, I watched artist Susan Bell paint two bison bulls. The sun was shining and the bulls seemed content to settle into the sawdust bedding and pose for her. She'd been painting animals for 3 days, sitting on a small stool, dipping her brush...
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Feb.03.2010
Paul Shirley is a victim. The former NBA journeyman and freelance writer just can’t understand the outpouring of dismay and revulsion at his recent comments on Haitian relief efforts. Shirley blogged that any donations he might give would be akin to tossing a few coins at the homeless. And he is...
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Jan.28.2010
GRAHAM GREENE’S “THE COMEDIANS”
“Set in Haiti, where terror rides and death comes frequently and swiftly in the night, it is a story of love and adventure, hope and disillusion.”
In 1791, a self-educated slave in the French Caribbean colony of Saint Dominique led a successful revolution against...
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Jan.28.2010
VWA: Poems For Haiti is a project run by Caper Literary Journal, a small independent press. It is a project that focuses literary energy toward the tragedy in Haiti. A sad nightmare that is unfolding right now, and while many people do not have the means to donate their finances, we can donate our...
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Jan.26.2010
With a backlash, we’re responding to that which rides a surge of undeserved popularity. An obscenely lauded sports team we’re certain got lucky at the eleventh hour. An actor collecting one too many awards, his shoulders practiced in a false shrug of humility. The resulting backlash is our...
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