As Haiti disappears from our TV screens and our attention returns to domestic issues, the people of Haiti are now in even greater peril as the rains begin threatening a public health disaster. But the people of Haiti are not just standing in the rain waiting to be rescued. They are organizing, both in the U.S. and in Haiti, where over 50 grassroots groups met in Port Au Prince to demand input into the future of Haitian reconstruction, and the issues of women and children are front and center. Lisa Dettmer, of the KPFA Women's Magazine talks to well known Haitian American author Edwidge Danticat about how the Haitian American community is responding to the Earth quake in Haiti, and with Beverly Bell, editor of "Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance," about the grass roots movements organizing in Haiti and creating a new paradigm for Haiti's future.
Theme
Haiti
Author
Beverly Bell (AUDIO)
Date
April 1, 2010