You can see and hear her here.
Detention Centers in this Country are a prelude of what you can see in the great movie: The Children of Men.
Democracy Now! presents the problem, you can see it in the link above.
I do not like borders. If we are going to face the End of the World, we should get together, not building walls. Those walls will box us in in terrible apocalyptic scenes. If we don't get together we are going to die, as Jared Diamond has documented in his book Collapse, literally eating our own brothers and sisters. The future of greed is cannibalism.
From the NYT today:
"SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Dawn brought horrible scenes to light in Haiti’s capital on Wednesday: piles of disintegrated concrete, with limbs sticking out and muffled cries emanating from deep inside; wounded people staggering through the streets; and bodies littering the landscape. Huge swaths of Port-au-Prince lay in ruins, and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble of government buildings, foreign aid headquarters and shantytowns that collapsed a day earlier in a powerful earthquake."
"“This is a time when we are reminded of the common humanity that we all share,” Mr. Obama said, speaking in the White House diplomatic reception room with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.at his side."
From Kristoff, NYT editorialist, we have this:
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Today, We’re All Haitians
By NICHOLAS KRISTOFAfter 9/11, the French newspaper Le Monde declared: We Are All Americans. And after yesterday’s earthquake: Today, we are all Haitians. No country seems to have had worse luck with misrule, environmental mismanagement, natural disasters and poor governance than Haiti. And now the earthquake.
Poverty always hugely magnifies natural disasters. I saw this first in the terrible 1991 cyclone in Bangladesh that killed more than 100,000 people. The poorest people lived in marginal areas, such as flood plains, and in flimsy huts that were immediately washed away. So they were killed. Those who were better off lived on firmer land in sturdier homes, and after the disaster they were able to afford clean water and medical care for their children. Frequently what kills people in these disasters isn’t just nature but its interconnection with poverty, and in Haiti it’s imperative to arrange not only the earthquake response — digging people out of rubble — but also a public health response by controlling disease and assuring access to clean water for survivors.
Poverty always hugely magnifies natural disasters. I saw this first in the terrible 1991 cyclone in Bangladesh that killed more than 100,000 people. The poorest people lived in marginal areas, such as flood plains, and in flimsy huts that were immediately washed away. So they were killed. Those who were better off lived on firmer land in sturdier homes, and after the disaster they were able to afford clean water and medical care for their children. Frequently what kills people in these disasters isn’t just nature but its interconnection with poverty, and in Haiti it’s imperative to arrange not only the earthquake response — digging people out of rubble — but also a public health response by controlling disease and assuring access to clean water for survivors.
I don’t know Haiti well, but I was struck during a visit last year how the country was already suffering from the hurricane aftermath and the global economic crisis (largely because of a drop in remittances). This earthquake is one more disaster piled on so many other misfortunes; my heart goes out to Haitians everywhere. I’m sure some of you readers know Haiti far better: What are your thoughts on the crisis, on what must be done, and on how people can help?"
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