Comments on: The politics of disaster relief http://www.enoughenough.org/2010/01/the-politics-of-disaster-relief/ The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:03:25 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: tyrone http://www.enoughenough.org/2010/01/the-politics-of-disaster-relief/comment-page-1/#comment-774 tyrone Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:46:18 +0000 http://www.enoughenough.org/?p=359#comment-774 Hi Elissa, thanks for the link! There are also other organizations listed at the end of this this post: http://www.enoughenough.org/2010/01/haiti-resources/#more-327 and here, in this statement from INCITE!: http://inciteblog.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/haiti-responding-to-the-situation/ Hi Elissa, thanks for the link!

There are also other organizations listed at the end of this this post:

http://www.enoughenough.org/2010/01/haiti-resources/#more-327

and here, in this statement from INCITE!:

http://inciteblog.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/haiti-responding-to-the-situation/

]]> By: Elissa http://www.enoughenough.org/2010/01/the-politics-of-disaster-relief/comment-page-1/#comment-772 Elissa Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:57:41 +0000 http://www.enoughenough.org/?p=359#comment-772 Both this post and Tim Wise's article make some good points, but neither offers any suggestions for alternative organizations to donate to, and ways to donate to those organizations. Lack of information about independent Haitian organizations is a huge barrier to donating in the ways suggested. The statement at the end of your post quotes a staff member at Zanmi Lasante, Partners in Health's initial project in Haiti--not quite an independent Haitian organization, but definitely grounded in the community there. That's where I sent my donation: http://www.pih.org/where/Haiti/Haiti.html Both this post and Tim Wise’s article make some good points, but neither offers any suggestions for alternative organizations to donate to, and ways to donate to those organizations. Lack of information about independent Haitian organizations is a huge barrier to donating in the ways suggested. The statement at the end of your post quotes a staff member at Zanmi Lasante, Partners in Health’s initial project in Haiti–not quite an independent Haitian organization, but definitely grounded in the community there. That’s where I sent my donation: http://www.pih.org/where/Haiti/Haiti.html

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