Anonymous ID: d10099 Feb. 13, 2021, 4:45 p.m. No.12919106   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>9344 >>9580

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Paul Farmer is a highly-respected physician and a well-known champion of the the people of Haiti, where he has lived most of his adult life. He is founder of Partners-in-Health, a multi-country network of health care and a literal life-saver for the people of Haiti. Farmer is politically astute and over the years has provided ample analysis of the effects of occupation and neo-liberal policies on the people of Haiti and, especially, on their health.

 

On August 11, 2009, Dr. Paul Farmer was appointed as Bill Clinton’s Deputy UN Special Envoy to Haiti. I remember when his appointment was announced. The Haiti solidarity community gasped at the thought. A few, who were less pessimistic, thought the people’s champion could influence Clinton and clear the way for true change in Haiti. And, perhaps that is what Farmer thought when he accepted the job. Yet, deep down, he must have known, along with the rest of us, what he was getting into. He would be co-opted by the US/UN machine that has controlled Haiti for years and would be steered down a straight and very narrow path of non-political issues. Also, he would become Clinton’s sidekick. Generally, Clinton has little problem drawing a crowd, but with Farmer by his side, Clinton gets a “bump” in “trustworthiness” from the average Haitian.

 

Dr. Farmer was on Democracy Now this morning to promote his new book, “Haiti: After the Earthquake.” Amy Goodman tried mightily to get a straight answer from Farmer on a range of “touchy” subjects – UN responsibility for cholera epidemic, formaldehyde trailers sent to Haiti after the quake — but he was evasive and changed topics in a desperate and increasingly illogical manner. Farmer’s voice revealed that he knows he is less believable as time goes on and that this job has brought him to a place he thought he never would be — more of a champion for Clinton than the Haitian people.

 

https://hcvanalysis.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/cant-be-dr-paul-farmer-and-clintons-deputy-un-special-envoy-to-haiti-demnow-interview/

Anonymous ID: d10099 Feb. 13, 2021, 4:58 p.m. No.12919245   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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Jennie Weiss Block, OP

is a Dominican laywoman and a practical theologian. She has served as chief advisor to Dr. Paul Farmer since 2009, and was his chief of staff in his role as United Nations Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti under President Bill Clinton. Working closely with Dr. Farmer, Dr. Block assisted in the relief and recovery efforts in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. She oversaw the publication of two of Dr. Farmer's most recent books: Haiti After the Earthquake (in which she authored a chapter), and To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation. She is the co-editor of In the Company of the Poor: Conversations with Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez.

 

http://friendsofzb.org/board-members/

 

http://friendsofzb.org

Anonymous ID: d10099 Feb. 13, 2021, 5:08 p.m. No.12919347   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>9634

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The trailers were bought by the government to house hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast hurricane refugees in 2005, but after people got sick – and by some accounts, died – tests found the trailers contained high levels of formaldehyde, a chemical found in building materials that can cause respiratory problems and cancer. Many of the trailers have sat empty for years, and many are damaged.

Opponents of the idea say that formaldehyde-laden particle board inside the trailers poses higher risks of toxicity in hot, humid climates – such as in the American South and Haiti. The wood swells with heat and sweats with moisture, increasing emissions of toxic formaldehyde fumes.

“Just go ahead and sign their death certificate,” Paul Nelson of Coden, Ala., whose mother allegedly died because of formaldehyde fumes in her FEMA trailer, told The Associated Press.

 

https://www.courthousenews.com/formaldehyde-laden-fema-trailers-may-be-headed-to-haiti/