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Learning from Haiti: Seven Ways to Respond to Crises

This article was written for a progressive magazine which asked for an updated version of my earlier essay on the Haitian crisis. http://bit.ly/7pJ0iF I decided that rather than updating it I would reorganize it to reflect some deeper dynamics I s…

Haiti – There’s so much more to the story…

The story about the Haiti earthquake is pretty clear: A horrible thing has happened to a lot of people. They need help, and the world is moving to help them. True enough, as far as it goes. But there is more to it than that, almost overwhelmingly …