Why We Should Worry About Haiti’s Rebuilding Process: A Historical Lesson
Posted on 04. Feb, 2010 by Michael Neil in Op-Ed, [Inter]national
With the news that over one million Haitians remain homeless and that efforts are shifting away from the construction of permanent housing in favor of do-it-yourself wooden and, occasionally, steel structures, concern over the future of Haiti’s rebuilding process abounds. Even the International Organization for Migration sees few permanent structures emerging in less than five [...]
Howard Zinn: The People’s Historian
Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by admin in [Inter]national
Zinn told me last May, “The idea of ‘A People’s History’ is to go beyond what people have learned in school … history through the eyes of the presidents and the generals in the battles fought in the Civil War, [to] the voices of ordinary people, of rebels, of dissidents, of women, of black people, of Asian-Americans, of immigrants, of socialists and anarchists and troublemakers of all kinds.”
