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July 28, 2008

Green People Are Real HipMcKinney/Clemente ‘08

Aggregated from: The Haitian Blogger

Bombastic Republicans and complicit Democrats beware, Cynthia McKinney is infusing new life into the Green Party with her historic candidacy. Rosa Clemente is her Vice Presidential pick. Clemente is a community organizer, activist and journalist. The Greens have vowed to break the hold that the two ...

July 17, 2008

Caribbean-Americans pushing for their own box on the 2010 census

Aggregated from: kiskeácity

Excerpts from an article on CaribbeanWorldNews.com:The campaign to get Caribbean nationals accurately counted by the U.S. Census in 2010 will kick off officially in New York on June 20, 2008.“Being visible in America begins and ends with the U.S. Census,” proclaimed CaribID2010 chair Felicia Per...

June 13, 2008

Global: Kucinich Calls for Bush Impeachment

On Monday, June 10, Representative (D-OH) and former presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich spoke to the House of Representatives, listing 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush. His speech went on for nearly five hours. The case which Kucinich presented included crimes such as "manufacturing a false ...

35 Ways to Leave Your President: Kucinich Lists Bush's Crimes

Aggregated from: The Haitian Blogger

"The house is not in order" said the gentleman from Ohio and former Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich yesterday before for a dramatic five hours he read 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush for "High Crimes and Misdemeanors.Kucinich also named some of President Bush's acc...

June 12, 2008

Barackmeter to November Elections

Aggregated from: The Haitian Blogger

Taking the reigns of the Democratic party. Barack Obama has impressed many with his implementation of the "no lobbyist" money rule for the DNC. He has also been praised for aligning with Howard Dean's vision of a 50 states strategy for winning the November election. Finally, many see his backing of ...

June 11, 2008

If We Need A “Stimulus Package” –The US Gov't just Isn't Doing It Right

Aggregated from: The Haitian Blogger

The U.S. government, robbing the poor to give to the rich. That's what they do.While the primaries have captured the headlines, everyone is losing sight of the way this government is gaming the taxpayers everyday. This so-called "economic stimulus" package for instance is a bribe to keep the peasant...

May 12, 2008

A New Calypso Tribute to Barack

Aggregated from: kiskeácity

As seen on my friend Lolo's blog IES OUI KANE, there appears to be yet another calypso anthem to Barack. This new one is by Mac Lean Emmanuel and Stanley Humphreys from the group King Short Shirt and it's not so subtly titled Barack We Love You: Recall Barack the Magnificent by the Mighty Sparr...

Food riots and a wedding

Aggregated from: kiskeácity

Former Village Voice writer Gary Dauphin is probably one of the people whose writings about Haiti and Haitianness (not to mention Haitian-Americanness) move me the most. What I tend to like about his musings is his candor and nuance. He's just done it again in a piece for the Root weaving the recent...

April 25, 2008

Fox News, Why Do You Hate America?

Aggregated from: The Haitian Blogger

VIDEO: Fox News ambushes Chicago's Father Pfleger,a Catholic priest and friend of Jeremiah Wrightand Louis Farrakhan and gets an earful.The Fox News' corporate mission, nay religion, is first to get ratings, second to advocate vociferously for the right-wing Republican cabal of George W. Bush and th...

March 31, 2008

Top 10 Reasons We Don't Talk about the Iraqi Dead

Aggregated from: The Haitian Blogger

10. Because, what's our oil doing on their land?9. Same reason we don't talk about our dead and wounded soldiers; it's so depressing.8. Iraqi's must start pulling their own dead weight.7. We want to hear the good news about Iraq.6. What's that got to do with the price of gas in Kansas?5. Muslim on M...