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African community mobilizes for Haiti listen

01/15/10 Arielle Stevenson
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This morning African community leaders spoke at the Uhuru house in St. Petersburg about how to mobilize aide for Haiti locally. Aisha Fields, Director for the all African peoples development and empowerment project spoke this morning about the need for the African community in Tampa to marshal humanitarian efforts for Haiti.

The conference was called to really call on the African community here in the Tampa Bay area to come together, to recognize our sameness with the Africans who live he...

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Relief efforts underway after Haitian quake. listen

01/14/10 Joshua Lee Holton
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Tags: Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, earthquake, relief

Yesterday members of Tampa’s Haitian community coordinated relief efforts for Tuesday’s deadly earthquake in Haiti. Although contact is not yet established with the quake victims, local groups are planning their next steps.

In recent years, Haiti has endured four hurricanes, a political coup de’tat, and a [severe corrosion of basic inf...

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Interfaith dialogue and concert to take place this weekend

01/14/10 Robert Lorei
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Tags: Haiti, interfaith dialogue, religious tension, Pat Robertson

Rev. Abhi Janamanchi and Dr. Roy Kaplan appeared on this segment of WMNF's Radioactivity to talk about this weekend's Interfaith Dialogue and concert at the UU Church in Clearwater. According to their press release the event is designed to raise funds that are urgently needed to aid relief operations in Haiti and to commemorate the birth anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Unitarian Universalists of Clearwater (Octagon Arts Center) will host a multicultural, interfaith music conc...

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Local Haitian community responds to earthquake disaster

01/13/10 Robert Lorei
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Tags: Haiti, earthquake, presidential palace, phone companies, relief

Yesterday there was a devastating earthquake in Haiti. Communications between the US and the Caribbean nation have been disrupted. But we know the outline of the story- so far- reports indicate thousands of people have been killed. Many more have been injured or are still trapped in the rubble. The quake hit some of the country's most populous areas.

We're joined now by two Haitian activists who are planning a meeting today at 4 pm in Tampa to develop a community response to the crisis. Th...

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Haiti Reels in the Wake of 7.0 Quake listen

01/13/10 Kate Bradshaw
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Tags: Haiti, Haiti Earthquake, Barack Obama, American Red Cross, Flashpoints, Brian Concannon, Port-Au-Prince, Farah Juste, Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Authorities in Haiti fear the death toll of yesterday’s massive earthquake to be in the thousands, though they have yet to offer an official number. The magnitude 7.0 quake that struck 10 miles west of the Haitian capitol of Port-Au-Prince leveled hospitals, schools, a prison, and many other buildings.

President Barack Obama said today that his administration plans a relief effort that will be “swift, coordinated and aggressive.”

US officials have since said they’ll likely send 2,000 m...

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Local Haitian groups plan earthquake relief efforts listen

01/13/10 Joshua Lee Holton
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Tags: earthquake, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti

Late this afternoon local Hatian solidarity groups met at Good Samaritan World Outreach Ministries to plan their relief efforts for Haiti’s earthquake victims. Local groups like Prince Charles Scholars, and Heart to Heart Caribbean Ministry united around the effort to establish contact and relief for friends and family that are still in Haiti.

There will be another meeting with local Haitian groups Thursday to discuss relief efforts in Haiti at 12:00 PM noon. The meeting will be at Good S...

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Harvard trained doctor works with HIV/AIDS patients in Haiti listen

03/10/09 Mitch E. Perry
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Tags: Health care, AIDS, HIV, Haiti

Dr. David Walton is a Harvard trained physician who has worked with the group Partners in Health since 1997. He divides his time between Boston and Haiti, where he’s an expert on the treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.

Walton is speaking right now on the USF-St. Pete campus, but was at WMNF’s studios earlier today.

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Haitan residents organize for Democracy In Haiti

11/12/08 Robert Lorei
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Tags: Haiti, UAW, NAFTA

Good afternoon,

Welcome to WMNF's Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today: we’ll hear how the jobs at a local auto plant are being shipped to Mexico. And we’ll also hear about an event this weekend organized by members of Tampa’s Haitian community to celebrate Haiti’s independence.

But first a listener comment about yesterday’s interview with Eugene Hairston, the Vietnam veteran who suffered from PTSD, who was homeless and who also had substance abuse problems. We heard the stor...

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