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I wrote about one of the best places in the world for the one of the best magazines in the world. equator.org/articles/hotel-o…
cc: Haiti peeps, New Wave music fans, Graham Greene acolytes, anyone who's danced till dawn @HotelOloffson @RAMhaiti @Equatormag
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Monday listening!
Inspired by her piece about the storied Hotel Oloffson – and its legendary “house band”, RAM – @bhatiap has curated an Equator playlist of Haitian music
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"As the fog of crisis settled on the capital, the Oloffson sometimes seemed like a beacon, pointing towards the future, its very existence promising to make good on the popular post-quake motto Ayiti pap peri, 'Haiti will not perish'."
@bhatiap recounts the storied history of the Hotel Oloffson
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After the Dance, new from @bhatiap Pooja Bhatia
When the Hotel Oloffson burned to the ground, a dream of another Haiti died equator.org/articles/hotel-o…
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“High, elegantly arched frames gaped where doors once hung; the swimming pool was murky, perhaps with soot. Apart from a few singed palm trees by the entrance, the grounds looked eerily lush and green”. @bhatiap
Great piece. Do read.
equator.org/articles/hotel-o…
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Privilege to have worked a bit on this by @bhatiap in @Equatormag. Part profile of Richard & Lunise Morse & RAM, part history of Haiti, all told through the Hotel Oloffson. Aside from its many other merits, truly outstanding model of the hybrid essay
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"The system is a mash-up of bureaucratic absurdity and colonial-era othering, as if Kafka and Fanon had conjured it from a mutual nightmare." Reactivated (fn) to share this, online today in @thebafflermag, about the "migrant crisis".
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"and gloss over the role U.S. policies have played—through arms shipments, support of repressive leaders, economic big-footing—in ruining their countries."
Hope you will read it! Thanks everyone who spoke to me for the piece (including sources at @ifsiusa, @HaitianBridge, @MigrationPolicy and @immcouncil), and to the clinical students @unitedforrights who helped w research.
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The United States offers some migrants some protections, but these are temporary. Pooja Bhatia describes the experience of Haitians in Boston, who navigate complex bureaucracies with no guarantee of something stable at the end of their struggle.
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President Biden deserves enormous credit for bringing the nation back from Covid, reinvigorating our economy, moving us forward to address climate change, among many other accomplishments.
He’s been an excellent president. And today, he’s shown that’s he’s a true statesman.
GET IN LOSERS, WE'RE SAVING WHAT'S LEFT OF OUR DEMOCRACY secure.actblue.com/donate/le…
"At least 36,654 ppl have been killed and 83,309 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s attacks stands at 1,139, with dozens still held captive in Gaza."
Incl 33 displaced killed at a UN school as they slept.
via @AJEnglish
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Convicted Felon Trump will not get security clearance for many jobs in the U.S. and barred from these countries:
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Yes, asylum seekers are in the country legally. The current law in the U.S. allows any noncitizen, whether or not they have a valid visa, to enter the country and claim asylum. This holds true regardless of one’s legal immigration status.
Get the facts: documentedny.com/2024/04/12/…
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In his statement today defending his executive order, Biden said, “I say to you be patient and the good will of the American people is wearing thin right now.” That’s true, in part, because Biden failed for so long to push back against GOP demonizing of asylum seekers.
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I’m truly at a loss for words. So many people wrote off India’s election as another landslide win for the fascist Hindu Nationalist BJP party and PM Modi, only for rural Indians (the most underestimated) to show out in DROVES and vote against BJP. I am beaming with pride and hope
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One of the biggest stories this election is that the constituency the city of Ayodhya is a part of, where Prime Minister Modi inaugurated a temple, and which was expected to dominate this election, has been lost by Mr. Modi's BJP by a significant margin. #India
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NEW | I recently chatted with @mirrorindy’s @HelloImDarian on ways to bring Haitian culture to the children in Indiana & instill a sense of unity & pride of their country of origin, #Haiti 🇭🇹. Please read the story below.👇🏿
©@JennaRWatson @PlaPromisePrep
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