Goodman added, "You know, Juan, what it looks like, where people are, they have formed--and it's remarkable. As Sister Mary Finnick said to us, where--in Port-au-Prince at a place called Matthew 25, it was a hospitality house that has now become a house of hospitality for over a thousand people on the soccer field next door. There are camps, refugee camps, all over. In Là ©ogà ne, some are smaller, some are larger. We would look behind cars, and people had erected with sheets and with anything that could protect them from the sun. You would look inside, and there would be many women, children, men laying on sheets on the ground--if they were lucky, they had been able to drag out mattresses--on chairs, on car seats. And they're there, wherever you go. And in the main plaza, you have more than a thousand people who are gathered. And all they ask for, they ask for food, they ask for water. They ask for search and rescue equipment, although, of course, at this point it is hard to imagine that people could survive."
Goodman praises the Haiti spirit, but if no help arrives soon she fears what will happen soon.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/19/doctor_misinformation_and_racism_have_frozen
HAITI SPIRIT
Dr. Evan Lyon of Partners in Health reported from the General Hospital in Port-Au-Prince in Haiti, where 1,000 people are in need of operations. He criticized the many delays caused by the fact that militarization has taken place over the past few days--while at the same time continuing to praise the Haitian spirit in the midst of the worst of catastrophes in an already underdeveloped and poor land.
"I think, you know, the singing ", I know, is clear to many, certainly anyone who has followed Haiti and cared about this special country. One thing that I think is really important for people to understand is that misinformation and rumors and, I think at the bottom of the issue, racism, has slowed the recovery efforts of this hospital. Security issues over the last forty-eight hours have been our--quote "security issues" over the last forty-eight hours--have been our leading concern. And there are no security issues. I've been with my Haitian colleagues. I'm staying at a friend's house in Port-au-Prince. We're working for the Ministry of Public Health for the direction of this hospital as volunteers. But I'm living and moving with friends. We've been circulating throughout the city until 2:00 and 3:00 in the morning every night, evacuating patients, moving materials. There's no UN guards. There's no US military presence. There's no Haitian police presence. And there's also no violence. There is no insecurity."
Well, there is certainly some violence in Haiti, but not as much violence as the UN and USA leadership are claiming to-date. YET, GERMAN MEDIA BIASES THE REPORTS FROM HAITI TO THE CONTRARY.
Why? Are the German media expecting America to give them something for toeing the official USA government line about security as being the major problem--not the slowness of aid to most of Haiti a full week after the Earthquake.
"But we don't need soldiers, as such, you know? There's no war here" is what Haitians are saying.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/19/us_accused_of_militarizing_relief_effort
Germans, Europeans, (Americans) and the UN need to get the focus in Haiti back on saving lives and rescue--not on saving property and security which is being hawked to us by hawks, who love to make war and do not have good records on relief (like W. Bush and Clinton in Haiti over the past two decades or the DOD in Iraq).
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