Sokari Ekine

The denial of the existence of racism in Brazil is so strong that Black feminist scholar, Sônia Beatriz dos Santos, recalls being considered ‘crazy’ or not ‘taken seriously’ because of her insistence that racism exists in Brazil.

INTRODUCTION

On August 12, the Haitian government through magistrate Lamarre Belizaire issued a summons to President Aristide requesting his appearance at court. According to Aristide’s lawyer, Mario Joseph, the summons was never received and therefore Aristide did not attend the court.

‘As a child in Haiti laying in my bed, I heard the Tams Tams of the Vodou drums beating all nights. These beats were telling the stories of my African ancestors, of their struggles, and their survival, their self determination and resistance to domination to keep their dignity.

Long before 9/11 and the subsequent incarceration of hundreds of so called ‘terror suspects’ in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, thousands of Haitian refugees fleeing the military junta

Following the death in police custody of camp resident, Civil Meris on April 15, 2013, Jean-Louis Elijah [Elie"> Joseph and Esther Pierre of Camp Acra and Adoquin in Delmas 33, along with the camps lawyer, Patrice Florvilus of

To write this piece I searched the internet for definitions of ‘access’ and came up with a range of gobbledygook that really says nothing. So I came up with my own simple definition in relation to healthcare for poor and low income women.

We are born, we eat, we shit. And so it continues till at the end we pass on. We talk about birth, about maternal health, choices we have or don't have on birthing methods, on reproductive rights.

It is impossible to talk about health care in Haiti without mentioning the 2010 earthquake and the subsequent cholera epidemic which so far has affected 630,000 people and taken the lives of 7,500.

The three year anniversary of the 12 January 2010 earthquake in Haiti was marked yet again by a flood gate of new reports, opinions, fact and figures.