Five Links:
- Bordwell’s great book “Ozu and the Poetics of the Cinema” is downloadable free in a beautiful pdf file. http://j.mp/bWAdAp
- The first-ever recorded video of Ghandi, circa 1947 http://bit.ly/dwLrmx
- In Haiti, Tent Cities Are Becoming Rape Epicenters: http://bit.ly/cjN16Y
- Still homeless from Haiti earthquake, thousands fight forced evictions http://bit.ly/csAYl9
- A post-Katrina school needs help getting books. Pitch in: http://readthisbook.us/2010/06/28/help-a-post-katrina-school-re-make-its-library/
Five Links:
- Global Voices in Jamaica.
- Ed Ward, On Music from Vietnam: http://n.pr/djd6tS
- John Huston’s The Battle of San Pietro.
- Man single-handedly building Metro rail.
- Boston Bay State Banner: Haitian delegation returns; disappointed with progress: http://tinyurl.com/2wjoufe
Twitter, Two Days Of:
- I Come From There: New Plays from the Arab World at PEN World Voices Festival http://goo.gl/fb/slEBh
- Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts in our online collection. http://ow.ly/1DbDm #AskNYPL
- UCLA study: 4 million Californians have experienced intimate partner violence, of these, 1 million were raped. http://bit.ly/bK8zmO
- #Haiti: Miami Herald: In a broken land, the sorrow subsides with music in the air: http://tinyurl.com/268hv5r
- Animated map of China’s investments in foreign companies 2005-2009 http://is.gd/bQjiy
- New Zealand issues India travel warning http://ow.ly/17eLT7
- Just five minutes of exercise in a “green space” such as a park can boost mental health, say researchers. http://bit.ly/bf625s
- new evidence of “terminal decline” in honeybee populations http://bit.ly/9i9USw
- WATCH: Wendell Pierce walks us through the rich history of Congo Square and Frenchman St: http://bit.ly/9vIdi7 #Treme @nolanews #nola
- Chicago Sun-Times: Haitians needing rehab after quake find little help: http://tinyurl.com/2e9tp5c
We want links! We want links!
- Bob Dylan cancels Asia tour after China denies permits for concerts in Beijing and Shanghai, promoter says: http://bit.ly/9WtAPt
- Haiti to use quake rubble in capital’s rebuilding.
- Christopher Nolan previews his new film — think a futuristic James Bond protecting dreams.
- The blogosphere’s influence on literary style down under?
- Teaching twitter in Havana.
- Frontline: The Quake.
- Curico Province one month after the quake.
- Criminal Law Brain Teaser.
- India’s Red Hot Chili Grenade.
As people in the highlands chopped down much of Haiti’s forests over the years, that unleashed a huge amount of sediment that has washed down the rivers and into the coastal base, actually building up deltas composed of loose and weak dirt. Gulick says people have built homes there.
Dr. GULICK: In places where the houses are built near where the small rivers are coming out or built onto the deltas and there’s lots of loose soil, there’s been very much enhanced damage.
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And that leads to The Haiti Regeneration Initiative, which is designed to address exactly that.
Some Haiti Tweets:
Mar. 18th:
in #Haiti, food is key not just to survival, but also to the morale of the displaced and aid workers. Read Alex Renton: http://bit.ly/c9Rzu1
Yesterday:
#Haiti must redevelop its agricultural industry. take a look. http://bit.ly/9dWabP
via the NYT: “… what [the Hatian women] really need are shelters from sexual violence, and adequate policing. Haiti has neither, Amnesty International reports.”
The Emergency Shelter cluster has provided emergency shelter materials to over 74% of the targeted 1.3 million people. http://bit.ly/93PEXE
Today:
Whole World is mobilized 2 help Haiti & there R still bed sheet cities in Leogane! 2 & a half months later! Kafou Fey still w/o much help
- UN update from Haiti. The Post has a discouraging take. (One person tweets — “It’s quiet in PauP, hearing some hooting and crowing. I’m still seeing some blue sky. Today I’m going to chill. Yesterday was too intense”)
- Imaginarium of Mr. Arshan.
- It turns out that the specifications for waterboarding were very explicit and pretty disturbing.
- The number of millionaires in the U.S. increased last year by 16 percent.
- Policing and criminal justice powers have been transferred back to Belfast for the first time since the Troubles.
- Barclays and the Royal Bank might be interested in buying U.S. banks.
- New She&Him.
- Did you know there’s a cake for the end of the world?
- Shaw’s Employees in Somerville’s Twin City Plaza are on strike.
- Mapuche Communities in Chile Affected by Quake.
(The photo — via NYMAG — “There’s not a celebrity on the cover … there are no headlines, which are the same on every magazine every month anyway, and distract from what the magazine is supposed to be about …”)
Midnight Round-up: Haiti:
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Microfinance Project Could Be New Kiva For Haiti’s Diaspora.
- Haiti’s Race Against the Rain.
- Haiti educators see opportunity.
- Food needed for displaced people in Pestel.
- Twitter — need 40 tents in PAP for 200 new orphans. Registered Haitian Orphanage taking in 200 more. Any contacts or info?
Haiti:
Haiti/Twitter:
While the New York Times is definitely one of the go-to places, here’s another update of info culled from my twitter stream (previously: one, two, three, four, five) — because — not having any money, this is the closest I can come to “doing something”:
- CNN reports over 800 Doctors Without Borders staff unaccounted for in #Haiti. @MSF_USA @MSF_uk @MSF_canada True?
- RAMhaiti we still feel occasional tremors here but they’re not that strong..no electricity..no logistical support to speak of..
- ALERT: Leading Haitian senator: Deaths may reach 500,000 based on destruction, but no firm figures. http://bit.ly/8AiU48
- Wow, How do you begin to triage potentially 990,000 injured people in #haiti Ya I know, 1 at a time….still
- What a nightmare. RT @Newsie8200: Haiti PM: Hundreds of thousands dead http://bit.ly/7BEC1m //OMG
- RT @densaer: The Doctors Without Borders/MSF trauma center in Port Au Prince was seriously damaged by the quake http://bit.ly/7GrDAE
- RT @RedCross: Situational update video from our Director of Intl Response Operations http://bit.ly/5GaYpr
- RT @damiencave: Just came from Little Haiti; everyone buying phone cards, pressing redial,desperately trying to reach relatives. Sad.
- AUDIO: Doctors Without Borders operations manager for #Haiti describes the current situation on the ground http://bit.ly/5C8GIk
- @haiti Grand Colline, church is gone St Martin of Tours, kindergarten is gone In St. Etienne Buteau church, rectory and school are gone.
- I can confirm that many government buildings, churches and homes of the poor are destroyed..little logistical support @kokennchenn
- @MSF_USA: priority is to re-establish as soon as possible a secondary level of surgical capacity in #Haiti. http://bit.ly/5C8GIk
- MSF_canada @nonprofitorgs False! #MSF has 800+ staff in Haiti, more on the way! Reestablishing contact w staff underway - comms difficult, intermittent
- @cybhaiti: Les rues de Port-au-Prince sont jonchées de cadavres: http://bit.ly/80fzgU
- @fredodupoux: Everybody gathering on place Saint Pierre. http://tweetphoto.com/8647330
Haiti on Twitter (#3): Whoa-Edition:
All these are from @internethaiti — but they bear being reprinted:
- from Lambi Fund board member: Presidential Palace, Ministries of Finance, Justice and Parliament have all collapsed
- rumour that the Citibank building is badly damaged. Sounds very bad
- lot of houses are broken in Thomassin
- Hotel Montana in Petion-Ville partly collapsed
- After Shock every 10 Mns! can’t stay where I am! have to be in safe place! got All the msg! will do my best To Call ur family
- The City of Petit Goave was also hit by the earthquake. Notre Dame was completely destroyed, according to RadioHeritage
