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Beverly Bell first went to Haiti as a teenager. Since then she has dedicated most of her life to working for democracy, women’s rights, and economic justice in that country. She founded or co-founded six organizations and networks dedicated exclusively to supporting the Haitian people, including the Lambi Fund of Haiti. She worked for both presidents Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Rene Preval and wrote Walking on Fire: Haitian Women’s Stories of Survival and Resistance (Cornell University Press, 2001). Today she is associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and runs the economic justice group Other Worlds.
Beverly Bell's Blogs
What Haitians Want From Americans (And What They Don't)
We asked Haitians in civil society organizations, on the streets, in buses, “What do you want from the U.S.? What help can Americans give Haiti?” ...
Post-Disaster Reconstruction: Putting Haitian Citizens Into the Equation
Haitian civil society has been completely bypassed in decision-making regarding the post-earthquake reconstruction process. They have thus created their own process. The Haiti government's Post-Disaster ...
Haitian Women Mourn the Dead, Recommit to the Living: International Women's Day (Part I)
All over Haiti on March 8, International Women’s Day, women’s groups will meet to honor their dead and raise up their living. As for how ...
Non-Random Acts of Kindness
My 85-year-old mother left a message on my phone right after the earthquake. “I’ve found 44 baskets around the house and wonder if you can ...
The Clock Is Set at Zero
Chavannes Jean-Baptiste is the Executive Director of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP by its Creole acronym) and the spokesperson for the National Peasant Movement ...
A Future for Agriculture, a Future for Haiti
We plant but we can’t produce or market. We plant but we have no food to eat. We want agriculture to improve so our country ...
"Post-Disaster Needs Assessment" Whose Needs? Whose Assessment?
The Haitian government has been largely silent since the January 12 earthquake. Publicly, that is. Who knows what officials are saying behind closed doors to ...
The Grasses of Ginen
The downtown, around Grand Rue in the old part of the city, looks like a modern-day variant of Pompei. Nothing but ruins. Here the tall ...
Haiti: Country Hospitality
“Yon sèl dwèt pa manje kalalou,” says Christroi Petit-homme, a member of a peasant farmer organization. You can’t eat gumbo with one finger. Peasant groups ...
Raising Up Another Haiti
As Haiti moves forward from the current point of devastation of its population, capitol city, and economy, what could a different nation look like?Who knows ...
Collapsed House, No Number
“Collapsed house, no number” is an old expression that Haitians uses to indicate that their flimsy homes of sticks-and-mud or shoddy cement blocks have finally ...
Survival Stories
Everyone in Haiti knows many amazing stories about those who survived the earthquake, and at least an equal number of horror stories about those who ...
Magalie Marcelin
“A loss for the whole nation.” That is how one of Magalie Marcelin’s friends described the death of this women’s rights leader in Haiti’s earthquake ...
Community and Popular Radio in Haiti Today
Sony Esteus is squeezed into an elementary school chair, the kind with the curved piece of wood in front, in a courtyard. Around him are ...
Putting 'Humanitarian' Back in 'Humanitarian Aid'
One of the first things that Haitians now living in the streets want to talk about is their disgust over the international food aid program. ...
Beyond Disaster Aid to Solidarity
People have all kinds of things to say about where Haiti should go from here, and how it should get there. It’s an old story, ...
Fighting Like Hell
The pioneering labor organizer Mother Jones said, “Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living.” That pretty much sums up the priorities ...
From New Orleans to Port-au-Prince
(New Orleans, Feb. 7, 5:00 p.m.) A bald man I just passed on the street sports temporary fleur-de-lis tattoos all over his pate. The streets ...
7.0 on the Horror Scale
Following is the log of Beverly Bell during the first ten days after the earthquake in Haiti. January 12, 2010 4:12 p.m. 7.0 EARTHQUAKE ROCKS ...
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