Tag: Haiti

Haiti has been gripped by protests and unrest for more than a week, as demonstrators calling for the country's president to resign over soaring inflation and allegations of corruption have set cars ablaze and clashed with police. #CNN #News

Surprise, surprise. Actor Sean Penn has offered strong praise for the candidacy of Paul Vallas for Chicago mayor, based on their humanitarian work together in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. “People are thinking politically, and not in terms of service and solution,” Penn told an interviewer for greekreporter.com. “Paul is a service and solution man.” “I have enormous respect for Paul,” said Penn in a video posted online Sunday. “What he’s got is that will of service. It’s everything that we miss in politics today.” Penn gave $5,000 to Vallas’ campaign, the Sun-Times reported in June. Vallas was working on education reform in Haiti after the devastating earthquake when he was introduced to Penn and invited to join the board of JP/HRO, a Haitian nonprofit created by the Oscar-winning actor known for his political and social activism. The organization cared for 60,000 displaced Haitians over a three-year period that followed the earthquake and a subsequent outbreak of cholera. Vallas told the Sun-Times last summer that the Sean Penn he knows is “way more Haiti than Hollywood” and a truly “heroic figure.”

New York City Council approves naming street after a Haitian leader who ordered the genocide of Haiti's white French population. Associate editor of City Journal, Seth Barron, shares insight. #Tucker FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service…

Made in the U$A: an Immigrant family inspired by their work after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, assembles mobile technology for schools and small businesses right here in America. How can they do it when larger companies say it is…