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Showing videos filed under: jacmel
Marie St. Cyr: Time For a Plan For Haiti
January 12, 2011"People are talking about the resilience of the Haitian people, but 1.3 million are still in tents," says Marie St. Cyr of Haiti, one year after the earthquake that devastated the nation. She points out that less than 4000 new housing units have been built, and communication is a mess. "I go to a meeting and the meeting is being held in English, who is it being held for?" she asks.Bill Quigley, Marie St. Cyr, and Caring
January 11, 2011"We in the U.S. have more people in jail than anywhere else in the world, we spend more on our military than the whole world combined, we have more guns, yet people somehow feel insecure," notes Bill Quigley of the culture in the U.S. Questions about guns aren't the only questi0n to be asked in the wake of the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, Judge John Roll, and several others in Arizona this weekend. There are many questions to be asked, about priorities, motives, and more.Ciné Institute: Stories of Heroes
February 3, 2010We continue to bring you stories from the Haiti earthquake recovery from the students at the Ciné Institute in Jacmel. In this video, we hear stories of rescues during the aftermath of the quake.Bumbling Buggers, Ben Jealous, and Remembering Howard Zinn
February 2, 2010Yesterday, Laura called our attention to the strange tale of the attempt at bugging Senator Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office, noting the stories uncovered by indie reporters connecting the dots between the ACORN sting, the break-in, and funding flowing into universities from the nation's intelligence agencies--as well as right-wing organizations.Cine Institute: The Students
January 28, 2010We've been proud to feature content from the Ciné Institute over the last couple of weeks from Jacmel, Haiti--you've seen their incredible work in many clips. Here, some of the students who shot that footage tell their personal stories from the earthquake.State of the Union, Bernie Sanders and Honduras
January 27, 2010Obama's preparing for his first State of the Union speech, and we're wondering if once again he's going to try to be all things to all people. After all, on the campaign trail he dismissed talk of a spending freeze, only to adopt that language a year into his administration, and with the economic team he's still using, he's starting to remind us of the last Democratic president, Bill Clinton--who may have slashed the deficit, but did so on the back of his "welfare reform."Cine Institute: After the Quake
January 25, 2010We've been proud to feature content from the Ciné Institute over the last couple of weeks from Jacmel, Haiti. Their ongoing coverage of the disaster has been a lesson in the ways grassroots journalism succeeds when the mainstream fails. This video explains a little bit about the Institute and the work they've done since the quake.Cine Institute Haiti: Thibaud UN
January 22, 2010The Ciné Institute continues to send out video from its students and staff in Jacmel, Haiti, despite continuing aftershocks and difficulty getting aid in and out. This is one of their recent reports, taking us inside meetings with local officials and the continuing lack of proper medical care.Haiti and New Orleans, Raj Patel and We Want What's Ours
January 21, 2010The comparisons between the earthquake in Haiti and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans have come fast and furious, but often from people who've watched both disasters through the clean-cut white lens of Anderson Cooper broadcasts. Meanwhile, people in Haiti--and those in the Gulf Coast still struggling four years later--need more than blame and comparisons. They need real solutions.Force Marie Jacmel
January 19, 2010The Cine Institute provides Haitian youth with film education, work opportunities, and produces films with students and graduates. In addition, their annual "Festival Film Jakmèl" has shown hundreds of films to thousands of Haitians over the last three years. This video from Olivier Divers takes a look at the heartbreaking work Haitians are doing in the aftermath of the earthquake.
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