Dear Friends,
Now that the initial buzz of the Haiti earthquake is slowing, who will be there for a country whose needs have not slowed down but rather, in some ways will only be speeding up in coming months? Will we, as New Orleanians, remember our lessons of Katrina-to keep giving, embracing, loving in sustainable ways for years to come?
Here are some more ways to give:
Come to Cafe Negril and the Spotted Cat on Frenchmen St TODAY! from 12 noon on for an all day and night benefit for Doctors Without Borders working in Haiti. One cover gets you into both clubs. http://www.wwoz.org/new+orleans+community/music+venues/caf+negril http://www.neworleansonline.com/directory/location.php?locationID=1157
Easy Sunday :: Horns for Haiti New Orleans Benefit
Documentary screening + Potluck, Sunday, January 31st - Doors at 5pm, Screening at 7pm, La Maison - Upstairs, 508 Frenchmen St. / The Other Side of the Water / :: The Other Side of the Water follows a group of young immigrants who take an ancient music from the hills of Haiti and reinvent it on the streets of Brooklyn. The journey of this unlikely band offers a unique insight into the Haitian-American experience -- a rare glimpse into a world of music, spirituality, and cultural activism. Part-carnival, part-vodou ceremony, and grassroots protest, “Rara” is one of the most breathtaking and contested forms of music in the Americas. Rara originally served as a voice of the slaves in their revolt against the French, and as the voice of those struggling against ongoing dictatorships in Haiti. This documentary follows the journey of DJARARA – the only sustained rara band in America – through a hidden New York landscape of vodou temples, underground economies, violent politics, and ground-shaking music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7K49QRfxtE $10 suggested donation for screening + a plate, $3 sorrel and rum drinks, Food and artistic contributions also welcome::: DJs Tall Jamal and Finger Prince spinning the Island and West African sounds before and after :::: All money to benefit Haiti's Earthquake Disaster victims. 50% to Doctors Without Borders + 50% the event's Haitian performers with family in Haiti right now. One band member lost 10 family members. Almost everyone lost homes. "Men anpil, chay pa lou." [With many hands the load is lighter.] For more information, contact: Kevin F. Mason kevinfmason@gmail.com Facebook: http://bit.ly/9ekt9D
STILL BILL: The Bill Withers Documentary - 2 SCREENINGS - 6 & 8:30pm. Feb. 25 - DJ Soul Sister hosts N.O. premiere screenings of the new, acclaimed film about soul music ...legend Bill Withers. *Proceeds benefit V-Day Haiti Relief Fund* Location:The Big Top/3 Ring Circus Arts Center & Gallery Time:6:00PM Thursday, February 25th Contact: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?filter=lf#/melissanola?ref=mf
Twitter: @djsoulsister
Haitian Relief-Honor our common routes! The Historic New Orleans Collection will donate all proceeds from the sale of the book Common Routes: St. Domingue • Louisiana to benefit Haitian relief via Doctors Without Borders.
http://www.hnoc.org/?p=1519 http://hnoc.tamretail.net/SelectSKU.aspx?skuid=1003981
COMMON ROUTES
$35.00 Common Routes St. Domingue • Louisiana Exhibition Catalogue From European contact through the present day, St. Domingue (Haiti) and Louisiana have been bound together by shared economies, cultural enterprises, and peoples. Common Routes: St. Domingue • Louisiana, a ground-breaking exhibition at The Historic New Orleans Collection in the spring of 2006, illuminated this shared history. The exhibition catalogue features essays by noted scholars—Franklin Knight, John Garrigus, Laurent Dubois, Gilles-Antoine Langlois, Alfred Lemmon, and John Lawrence—as well as reproductions of images and artifacts featured in the exhibition. Readers will find the stories of individuals rooted in the intersection of cultures and re-routed across oceans in search of fortune or freedom. Among the protagonists are the thousands of émigrés who settled in Louisiana in the wake of the Haitian Revolution. Their civic and artistic contributions imbued New Orleans with a distinctive cultural dye that marks the city’s character to this day. 2006 • 128 pp. • Hardcover • ISBN 2-85056-966-6 10" x 11.25" x 0.5"
Scott Eustis
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/UNO-Rapid-Response-Haiti/254483253069?ref=ts
people at UNO are organizing a clothing drive. it's still being put together
Tulane Center For Public Service: Stand With Haiti
http://tulane.edu/cps/haiti-relief-efforts.cfm
On Tuesday, January 19, 2010, the Center for Public Service will launch a campaign in support of "Stand with Haiti". "Stand with Haiti" is the official donation campaign of Partners in Health (PIH), an organization working to bring modern medical care to poor communities around the world. PIH has been working in Haiti for over 20 years and is a partner of the University Technical Assistance in Support of Global AIDS project (UTAP), which aims to support global HIV/AIDS prevention programs. PIH is also one of three organizations that the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine has recommended that the Tulane community support. Beginning this week, staff members from the Center will visit university administrative and academic departments to solicit support for the campaign. We will be asking departments to allow CPS to place donation containers in high traffic areas with the goal of raising $10,000 in funds, less than $2 per member of the Tulane community. We know that many of you have already made donations to worthy organizations, but we ask that you consider supporting the efforts of the "Stand with Haiti" campaign by making a donation via the collection containers in your department or by visiting the "Stand with Haiti" Web site - www.standwithhaiti.org/haiti.
Shoe Drive And Other Benefits For Haitian Earthquake Survivors
http://www.nola.com/fashion/index.ssf/2010/01/shoe_drive_for_haitian_earthqu.html
The local Feet First boutiques are accepting donations of men’s, women’s and children’s shoes for Soles4Souls, a Nashville-based nonprofit that helps to get needed footwear to disaster victims around the world. Soles4Souls coordinated more than 1 million pairs of donated shoes to people in need in the aftermaths of hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the Asian tsunami. Though the drive is particularly seeking sturdy shoes for Haitians living in the rubble and twisted metal of the earthquake zone, no donations will be turned away. Donations may be dropped off at the Feet First stores, 4119 Magazine St. and 526 Royal St. For details, call 504.899.6800. Lots of retailers and fashion/beauty industry brands are joining the earthquake relief effort. Here are a few other ways to contribute: Courtesy of Creed/Creed Original Vetiver. Creed, the renown French perfume house, uses Haitian vetiver grass for one of its signature fragrances. To help the Caribbean island nation, the company will donate 5 percent of proceeds from sales at Creed's online boutique to ADRA, an organization working to provide medical services and water purification in the earthquake zone. Design Within Reach, the contemporary furniture chain with a store on Magazine Street, has helped to raise more than $94,000 for UNICEF by matching donations by customers and employees. For details on how to donate, visit www.dvr.com. Shepard Fairey, the graphic designer who became famous for the red, white and blue Obama Hope poster, has designed a T-shirt to support earthquake recovery efforts. The gray shirts with the heart design sell for $15 at Cafe Press. All proceeds benefit the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.
Health Care Assist: Bringing The Health Care Community Together In Times Of Need http://healthcareassistla.org/
The tragic 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti has shattered the nation and taken countless lives. As residents and aid workers begin to assess the physical and emotional toll on residents, Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals is providing a central information resource for Louisiana-based health care workers who wish to get involved. The overwhelming devastation in Haiti is all too familiar to many in Louisiana who experienced Hurricane Katrina, which is why so many individuals, corporations, nonprofits and community leaders have expressed a desire to lend a hand to the earthquake-stricken country. As news occurs, Health Care Assist Louisiana will post updates to the site. Health care workers who wish to get involved can find links to federal and nonprofit groups taking volunteers in the How Can I Help? section to the right or find out more on the Resources page.
Governor Jindal Offers LA Resources to Assist Haiti Response Efforts http://healthcareassistla.org/news.aspx
“I spoke with Senator Mary Landrieu earlier this morning, and I look forward to working with her to help coordinate federal and state response efforts to ensure we match any resources we have with their needs on the ground in Haiti. We know from our own experience after hurricanes that Haiti will need many resources over a long period of time to recover and rebuild, but right now, critical resources will be the necessities of food and water and emergency response personnel. GOSHEP has already offered FEMA thousands of MREs and bottles of water.Businesses that want to donate equipment and large-scale commodities to the Haiti response efforts can donate through: Department of State Global Partnership Initiative/USAID. Cash donations from individuals or the private sector can be made through the following websites: InterAction, AidMatrix, ALAN, CIDI Donations can also be made to the American Red Cross or Salvation Army. The State Department Operations Center has set up the following phone number for Americans seeking information about family members in Haiti: 1-888-407-4747 (due to heavy volume, some callers may receive a recording). If you’ve already text messaged a donation to charity but still want to do more for the Haitian earthquake survivors, here’s an easy way to get involved.
AHDH Relief Team Is On Site In LaVallee
Your Donations, Supplies and Volunteers Are At Work In Haiti
http://haitiahdh.org/Mission_2010_Feb.html
USA Today: New Orleans, Haiti Linked By Tragedy & History
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-01-28-Haiti-New-Orleans-connection_N.htm
Louisiana Justice Institute: Haiti Emergency Village Project / New Orleans Recovery Organizations Combine Efforts For Haiti Relief
http://louisianajusticeinstitute.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-orleans-recovery-organizations.html
The people of New Orleans continue to strive for ways to support the people of Haiti. Today a group of more than 40 individuals representing almost as many organizations held an all-day strategy meeting to marshal critical relief resources, recovery experience and reconstruction capacity to help the people of Haiti recover from what will likely become the most deadly natural disaster the Western Hemisphere has seen in more than a century. The gathering was convened by Louisiana Justice Institute's Co-Director Jacques Morial and Charles Allen III, Director of the Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development and chairman of the Holy Cross Neighborhood Association and hosted by the Make It Right Foundation at their downtown offices. Dr. Austin Allen, a landscape architecture professor who has worked on recovery and empowerment initiative in the Lower Ninth Ward and Tim Duggan of the Make It Right Foundation conceived the initiative along with Jacques Morial and Charles Allen III. The goal of this convening was to develop a plan on how to best apply the capacities, experience, understanding and resources of those assembled, to help Haiti on a range of issues, including emergency and replacement housing, water, wastewater and sewage treatment, power, telecommunications, and healthcare. “While we can’t imagine the epic scale of devastation and death, we’ve learned some painful lessons in our own struggle to recover from the floods that followed Katrina, and it’s our spiritual responsibility and moral obligation to offer the benefit of our experience, understanding and capacity to help the Haitian people in any way they find useful and appropriate,” said Jacques Morial. The assembled group included recovery and reconstruction leaders, nonprofit providers of emergency housing, architects, engineers, scholars, technical experts, human rights lawyers, arts and cultural organizations, and grassroots efforts like Common Ground Relief Collective. "People are dying and we need to take action," said Common Ground founder Malik Rahim. "We can't waste time." The assembled organizations are moving forward together on many fronts from direct emergency relief to long term rebuilding, and are in direct contact with Haitian organizations and individuals as well as Haitian government officials to make sure that their plan is guided by those most affected. New Orleans and Haiti are connected by geography, history, architecture, and family. In 1809, half of the population of New Orleans was from Haiti, and their influence is still felt in our city. Their revolution has inspired us, and shaped US history. The US would not have been able to purchase the massive amount of land that included Louisiana from France if not for the losses France faced from the efforts of Haitians to free themselves. We owe the people of Haiti a massive debt. But instead of supporting Haiti, the US has given Haiti two centuries of military oppression and economic colonialism. We hope that Haiti is not just rebuilt, but that it receives the reparations it is owed. For more information on this recovery project or to get involved, contact the organizing committee of the Haiti Emergency Village Project at 866.728.3522.
Thanks for all you're doing from NOLA to Haiti with solidarity!
~Jennifer
Now that the initial buzz of the Haiti earthquake is slowing, who will be there for a country whose needs have not slowed down but rather, in some ways will only be speeding up in coming months? Will we, as New Orleanians, remember our lessons of Katrina-to keep giving, embracing, loving in sustainable ways for years to come?
Here are some more ways to give:
Come to Cafe Negril and the Spotted Cat on Frenchmen St TODAY! from 12 noon on for an all day and night benefit for Doctors Without Borders working in Haiti. One cover gets you into both clubs. http://www.wwoz.org/new+or
Easy Sunday :: Horns for Haiti New Orleans Benefit
Documentary screening + Potluck, Sunday, January 31st - Doors at 5pm, Screening at 7pm, La Maison - Upstairs, 508 Frenchmen St. / The Other Side of the Water / :: The Other Side of the Water follows a group of young immigrants who take an ancient music from the hills of Haiti and reinvent it on the streets of Brooklyn. The journey of this unlikely band offers a unique insight into the Haitian-American experience -- a rare glimpse into a world of music, spirituality, and cultural activism. Part-carnival, part-vodou ceremony, and grassroots protest, “Rara” is one of the most breathtaking and contested forms of music in the Americas. Rara originally served as a voice of the slaves in their revolt against the French, and as the voice of those struggling against ongoing dictatorships in Haiti. This documentary follows the journey of DJARARA – the only sustained rara band in America – through a hidden New York landscape of vodou temples, underground economies, violent politics, and ground-shaking music. http://www.youtube.com/wat
STILL BILL: The Bill Withers Documentary - 2 SCREENINGS - 6 & 8:30pm. Feb. 25 - DJ Soul Sister hosts N.O. premiere screenings of the new, acclaimed film about soul music ...legend Bill Withers. *Proceeds benefit V-Day Haiti Relief Fund* Location:The Big Top/3 Ring Circus Arts Center & Gallery Time:6:00PM Thursday, February 25th Contact: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ho
Twitter: @djsoulsister
Haitian Relief-Honor our common routes! The Historic New Orleans Collection will donate all proceeds from the sale of the book Common Routes: St. Domingue • Louisiana to benefit Haitian relief via Doctors Without Borders.
http://www.hnoc.org/?p=151
COMMON ROUTES
$35.00 Common Routes St. Domingue • Louisiana Exhibition Catalogue From European contact through the present day, St. Domingue (Haiti) and Louisiana have been bound together by shared economies, cultural enterprises, and peoples. Common Routes: St. Domingue • Louisiana, a ground-breaking exhibition at The Historic New Orleans Collection in the spring of 2006, illuminated this shared history. The exhibition catalogue features essays by noted scholars—Franklin Knight, John Garrigus, Laurent Dubois, Gilles-Antoine Langlois, Alfred Lemmon, and John Lawrence—as well as reproductions of images and artifacts featured in the exhibition. Readers will find the stories of individuals rooted in the intersection of cultures and re-routed across oceans in search of fortune or freedom. Among the protagonists are the thousands of émigrés who settled in Louisiana in the wake of the Haitian Revolution. Their civic and artistic contributions imbued New Orleans with a distinctive cultural dye that marks the city’s character to this day. 2006 • 128 pp. • Hardcover • ISBN 2-85056-966-6 10" x 11.25" x 0.5"
Scott Eustis
http://www.facebook.com/ho
people at UNO are organizing a clothing drive. it's still being put together
Tulane Center For Public Service: Stand With Haiti
http://tulane.edu/cps/hait
On Tuesday, January 19, 2010, the Center for Public Service will launch a campaign in support of "Stand with Haiti". "Stand with Haiti" is the official donation campaign of Partners in Health (PIH), an organization working to bring modern medical care to poor communities around the world. PIH has been working in Haiti for over 20 years and is a partner of the University Technical Assistance in Support of Global AIDS project (UTAP), which aims to support global HIV/AIDS prevention programs. PIH is also one of three organizations that the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine has recommended that the Tulane community support. Beginning this week, staff members from the Center will visit university administrative and academic departments to solicit support for the campaign. We will be asking departments to allow CPS to place donation containers in high traffic areas with the goal of raising $10,000 in funds, less than $2 per member of the Tulane community. We know that many of you have already made donations to worthy organizations, but we ask that you consider supporting the efforts of the "Stand with Haiti" campaign by making a donation via the collection containers in your department or by visiting the "Stand with Haiti" Web site - www.standwithhaiti.org/hai
Shoe Drive And Other Benefits For Haitian Earthquake Survivors
http://www.nola.com/fashio
The local Feet First boutiques are accepting donations of men’s, women’s and children’s shoes for Soles4Souls, a Nashville-based nonprofit that helps to get needed footwear to disaster victims around the world. Soles4Souls coordinated more than 1 million pairs of donated shoes to people in need in the aftermaths of hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the Asian tsunami. Though the drive is particularly seeking sturdy shoes for Haitians living in the rubble and twisted metal of the earthquake zone, no donations will be turned away. Donations may be dropped off at the Feet First stores, 4119 Magazine St. and 526 Royal St. For details, call 504.899.6800. Lots of retailers and fashion/beauty industry brands are joining the earthquake relief effort. Here are a few other ways to contribute: Courtesy of Creed/Creed Original Vetiver. Creed, the renown French perfume house, uses Haitian vetiver grass for one of its signature fragrances. To help the Caribbean island nation, the company will donate 5 percent of proceeds from sales at Creed's online boutique to ADRA, an organization working to provide medical services and water purification in the earthquake zone. Design Within Reach, the contemporary furniture chain with a store on Magazine Street, has helped to raise more than $94,000 for UNICEF by matching donations by customers and employees. For details on how to donate, visit www.dvr.com. Shepard Fairey, the graphic designer who became famous for the red, white and blue Obama Hope poster, has designed a T-shirt to support earthquake recovery efforts. The gray shirts with the heart design sell for $15 at Cafe Press. All proceeds benefit the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.
Health Care Assist: Bringing The Health Care Community Together In Times Of Need http://healthcareassistla.
The tragic 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti has shattered the nation and taken countless lives. As residents and aid workers begin to assess the physical and emotional toll on residents, Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals is providing a central information resource for Louisiana-based health care workers who wish to get involved. The overwhelming devastation in Haiti is all too familiar to many in Louisiana who experienced Hurricane Katrina, which is why so many individuals, corporations, nonprofits and community leaders have expressed a desire to lend a hand to the earthquake-stricken country. As news occurs, Health Care Assist Louisiana will post updates to the site. Health care workers who wish to get involved can find links to federal and nonprofit groups taking volunteers in the How Can I Help? section to the right or find out more on the Resources page.
Governor Jindal Offers LA Resources to Assist Haiti Response Efforts http://healthcareassistla.
“I spoke with Senator Mary Landrieu earlier this morning, and I look forward to working with her to help coordinate federal and state response efforts to ensure we match any resources we have with their needs on the ground in Haiti. We know from our own experience after hurricanes that Haiti will need many resources over a long period of time to recover and rebuild, but right now, critical resources will be the necessities of food and water and emergency response personnel. GOSHEP has already offered FEMA thousands of MREs and bottles of water.Businesses that want to donate equipment and large-scale commodities to the Haiti response efforts can donate through: Department of State Global Partnership Initiative/USAID. Cash donations from individuals or the private sector can be made through the following websites: InterAction, AidMatrix, ALAN, CIDI Donations can also be made to the American Red Cross or Salvation Army. The State Department Operations Center has set up the following phone number for Americans seeking information about family members in Haiti: 1-888-407-4747 (due to heavy volume, some callers may receive a recording). If you’ve already text messaged a donation to charity but still want to do more for the Haitian earthquake survivors, here’s an easy way to get involved.
AHDH Relief Team Is On Site In LaVallee
Your Donations, Supplies and Volunteers Are At Work In Haiti
http://haitiahdh.org/Missi
USA Today: New Orleans, Haiti Linked By Tragedy & History
http://www.usatoday.com/ne
Louisiana Justice Institute: Haiti Emergency Village Project / New Orleans Recovery Organizations Combine Efforts For Haiti Relief
http://louisianajusticeins
The people of New Orleans continue to strive for ways to support the people of Haiti. Today a group of more than 40 individuals representing almost as many organizations held an all-day strategy meeting to marshal critical relief resources, recovery experience and reconstruction capacity to help the people of Haiti recover from what will likely become the most deadly natural disaster the Western Hemisphere has seen in more than a century. The gathering was convened by Louisiana Justice Institute's Co-Director Jacques Morial and Charles Allen III, Director of the Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development and chairman of the Holy Cross Neighborhood Association and hosted by the Make It Right Foundation at their downtown offices. Dr. Austin Allen, a landscape architecture professor who has worked on recovery and empowerment initiative in the Lower Ninth Ward and Tim Duggan of the Make It Right Foundation conceived the initiative along with Jacques Morial and Charles Allen III. The goal of this convening was to develop a plan on how to best apply the capacities, experience, understanding and resources of those assembled, to help Haiti on a range of issues, including emergency and replacement housing, water, wastewater and sewage treatment, power, telecommunications, and healthcare. “While we can’t imagine the epic scale of devastation and death, we’ve learned some painful lessons in our own struggle to recover from the floods that followed Katrina, and it’s our spiritual responsibility and moral obligation to offer the benefit of our experience, understanding and capacity to help the Haitian people in any way they find useful and appropriate,” said Jacques Morial. The assembled group included recovery and reconstruction leaders, nonprofit providers of emergency housing, architects, engineers, scholars, technical experts, human rights lawyers, arts and cultural organizations, and grassroots efforts like Common Ground Relief Collective. "People are dying and we need to take action," said Common Ground founder Malik Rahim. "We can't waste time." The assembled organizations are moving forward together on many fronts from direct emergency relief to long term rebuilding, and are in direct contact with Haitian organizations and individuals as well as Haitian government officials to make sure that their plan is guided by those most affected. New Orleans and Haiti are connected by geography, history, architecture, and family. In 1809, half of the population of New Orleans was from Haiti, and their influence is still felt in our city. Their revolution has inspired us, and shaped US history. The US would not have been able to purchase the massive amount of land that included Louisiana from France if not for the losses France faced from the efforts of Haitians to free themselves. We owe the people of Haiti a massive debt. But instead of supporting Haiti, the US has given Haiti two centuries of military oppression and economic colonialism. We hope that Haiti is not just rebuilt, but that it receives the reparations it is owed. For more information on this recovery project or to get involved, contact the organizing committee of the Haiti Emergency Village Project at 866.728.3522.
Thanks for all you're doing from NOLA to Haiti with solidarity!
~Jennifer
