Wednesday, February 10, 2010
(One day from "A Chronology of Haitian Protest and Resistance since the Earthquake")
A resource produced by Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade

(1) Protest by Women in the "heart of downtown"

Start of seasonal rains sparks urgent need for tents in Haiti

Radio Jamaica, 10 February 2010
(The BBC Caribbean Service)
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The pressure on [Haiti's Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive] and his struggling government was demonstrated by a protest by women in the heart of the Port-au-Prince on Wednesday.

According to an interpreter, the women were saying they needed tents now (as) children sleeping without shelter are at risk of dying when the rains gets underway.

Aid agencies acknowledge that there are difficulties erecting enough tents at the most crowded camps to cater for all those living in the flimsy dwellings.

(2) Protest at the Airport

Hundreds of Haitians protest slow delivery of aid

Press TV, February 11, 2010
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Haitian protests the lack of direct assistance to the affected communities devastated by the earthquake. 

Haitians protest the lack of direct aid to the people of the Caribbean nation. An earthquake struck the country on Jan. 12, yet most people have not received the assistance they need.

Hundreds of Haitians have gathered outside the country's international airport, to show their outrage at the slow delivery of aid supplies for earthquake victims.

The demonstration took place on Wednesday, just hours after the first heavy rains since the January 12 quake.

The frustrated and weary protesters insisted aid groups are not doing enough to get supplies to the survivors.

Haitian police and American forces dispersed the crowd but many protesters parked their cars and trucks to block the entrance to the airport.

According to the government, the magnitude-7.0 earthquake killed 230,000 people and destroyed 250,000 homes.

SG/MMN

Rain pours new misery on quake-struck Haiti

Jim Loney and Joseph Guyler Delva

PORT-AU-PRINCE

Reuters,  February 11, 2010

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International aid groups say they are learning from mistakes made in earlier food handouts when stronger men could push aside women and the elderly to grab the goods first.

Now the coupons are given only to women, and community leaders decide who will have priority. But some are taking advantage of cracks in the system.

A protest erupted on Wednesday after people complained some groups were selling the coupons for 50 gourdes each ($1.24).

"Only (the leaders') friends get the cards and we don't have any money to buy the rice at the market," said Peter Princius, an old man living in a sparse camp on the outskirts of the Cite Soleil slum,

Wednesday, February 10, 2010
(One day from "A Chronology of Haitian Protest and Resistance since the Earthquake")
A resource produced by Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade