#martine moise

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Sleeping with the Enemy: Martine Moise, the wife of former Haitian president Jovenel Moise, has been indicted in his July 2021 assassination.

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Fact is (in my mind), there’s no way she could have survived without being involved. Have your say. Naked!!

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Samaritan - Movie Review

Samaritan – Movie Review

TL;DR – This is a perfect film for Stallone, but it becomes hampered by many factors, including one of the weakest villains in an age.     ⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 2.5 out of 5. Post-Credit Scene – There is no post-credit sceneDisclosure – I paid for the Amazon Prime service that viewed this film. Samaritan Review – As we come crashing towards the end of the year, there is still a genre dominating the…

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A Haitian judge in charge the investigation into the 2021 assassination of the Caribbean nation's last president has charged some fifty people, including his widow and a former prime minister, according to a document leaked to local media.

According to the 122-page document from Judge Walther Wesser Voltaire, made public by AyiboPost, the president's widow Martine Moise conspired with former Prime Minister Claude Joseph to kill the president in order to replace him herself.

Moise was shot dead when armed men broke into his Port-au-Prince bedroom on the night of July 7, 2021, a raid that left the former first lady injured.

The judge's order calls for the arrest and trial of those charged.

The former first lady did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment, nor did Joseph. Moise has criticised on social media what she calls unjust arrests and political persecutions.

Joseph meanwhile told the Miami Herald the president's de-facto successor, Prime Minister Ariel Henry, was the main beneficiary and was now "weaponising the Haitian justice system" to persecute opponents in "a classic coup d'etat."

A spokesperson for Henry's office said the judge was independent and "free to issue his order in accordance with the law and his conscience."

Henry was appointed to replace Joseph, who now leads an opposition party, days before the assassination. He pledged to hold elections but has postponed these indefinitely citing a devastating earthquake and the growing power of heavily-armed criminal gangs, for which he has sought foreign aid.

The gangs are now estimated to control most of the capital, and Kenya is preparing to lead a UN-ratified international force to support Haitian police, though prior abuses by foreign missions and allegations against Henry's government have left countries wary of volunteering support.

A separate case on Moise's killing is being tried in Miami, where six of 11 defendants have pleaded guilty to a plot to send Colombian mercenaries to kidnap Moise, a plan which was at the eleventh hour changed to a plot to murder him.

The conspirators had according to US charges sought to replace Moise with Haitian-American pastor Christian Emmanuel Sanon.

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What are your thoughts on Charles vs Islam? Since we are so close I’d figure I’d ask again. I’ve gone back and forth on it and I feel we are gunna have to wait and see what actually happens because there is still a lot that remains to be seen. After listening to heavy hands and Charles being pinned down by other grapplers in the past gives me concern, though I feel as a grappler he’s improved since then. What do you think?

I had a whole thing I was going write for this fight. Took notes and everything, but life gets in the way of my MMA obsession so I’m going to dump it all here in your answer instead.

Charles’ guard is overrated, but only in the sense that EVERYONE’s guard is overrated in MMA. It just is not a winning position in this sport. If Islam gets Charles down and can keep him from instantly creating space to get up or sweep, he’s probably going to beat him up in that position. I don’t trust Oliveira’s gas tank. We’ve seen him wilt against big physical fighters before like Felder (granted, that was from Oliveira trying to push a ridiculous grappling pace on Felder but still) and dude fights like he has to be back in the locker room in like 5 minutes. Everything is a sprint with him, including his guard. So him throwing up armbars for like 3 minutes before Islam flattens him out and beats him down makes sense. And unlike against Poirier and Gaethje, the guard isn’t a rest area. If Makhachev hurts Oliveira in the clinch should they tie up or Oliveira falls down for whatever reason (KD, TD, tripped, etc), that’s not a rest position. 

BUT my question for Makhachev is how many people have engaged him on their own terms? Guys like Hooker, Green, and Moises just willingly gave him the center of the cage because, ironically enough, they didn’t want to get taken down. That’s also how they all fight a lot of the time but still, Islam is from a camp that specializes in cage wrestling. They’re entire identity is based around putting opponents up against the cage or near there and getting them down and using the limited space to not let them back up. Against Tsarukyan, Islam didn’t really need to chase a target either because Tsarukyan was actively trying to outwrestle him. Drew Dober is a bit of a boxer-puncher but he’s never been a guy with any type of serious range tools. He’s been known to be takedown-able. The only person I can recall being the aggressor against Makhachev is Davi Ramos. Ramos is a great grappler that Makhachev didn’t bother trying to takedown. That was in part cause Ramos is a limited striker who relies on big explosive movement and Makhachev was picking him off as he charged in. But how much of that was Ramos just not giving Makhachev the read he wanted to push the wrestling? Oliveira probably doesn’t fare well on the ground against Makhachev for long stretches, but if Oliveira’s confidence in his wrestling/grappling carries him to be the aggressor on the feet? If it leads to him throwing sharp strikes from range like he was doing against Poirier and Gaethje that forces Makhachev back? Maybe he doesn’t need to be.

A few weeks ago I said Khabib was a better striker than Islam. Islam has certainly become better as a striker from the days he got KTFO by Adriano Martins. He’s cleaner with his technique. He has more variety, especially with the kicks. But I said what I said because Khabib’s striking had strategic variety rather than weapon variety. It wasn’t always pretty or fluid, but Khabib’s offense was always able to engage an opponent on multiple levels. He’d be able to get an opponent to commit to a jab or paw out with his striking/feints before ducking under that lead hand to turn it to a takedown. He was able to take aggressive opponents and tie them up. He was able to use the threat of the level change to get his strikes off. He had a nice stiff jab that he was able to angle off of to take breaks slow the pace of fights down so he could gather his energy back after high paced rounds. I just haven’t seen that level of craft put into Makhachev’s game, in part cause he’s been fighting guys who are willing to give him all the positions he wants in the poor assumption that they will be safe from his wrestling there. It’s not really a knock on Islam but it’s a big question that is hanging over his head imo.

The smart money in this fight is on Makhachev. Oliveira is 100% capable of self sabotaging. I could totally see Do Bronx deciding “No, I’m the wrestler here” and then getting guillotined or being snapped down and getting his back taken. But I think I’m picking Oliveira by TKO. Sure we’ve seen Oliveira’s grappling wither under big wrestlers before but we’ve also seen Makhachev get KTFO. The man isn’t indestructible like Khabib was (Dude’s chin carried him through some stuff). If Islam was a slightly bigger or more active puncher, I’d probably pick him outright to be honest.

[romeoisalesbian]

i am keeping track of every play i've read. and i need to put it somewhere

this list is long so im putting it under a cut

The Pillowman - Martin McDonagh - really interesting read, i keep going back and forth on how I feel about it which is a sign that it's REALLY well-crafted. Pieces: Katurian (act 1, mostly), Ariel (act 3, mostly).

Hamlet - William Shakespeare - what a good play!

Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare

Titus Andronichus - William Shakespeare

Macbeth - William Shakespeare

Henry V - William Shakespeare

As You Like It - William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare

Fences - August Wilson

Agamemmnon - Aeschylus

Electra - Sophocles - modern story conventions mean this play doesn't age well. Contemporarily, the drama of the play is centered around whether Electra will do matricide/step-patricide (with the audience at least hypothetically against the matricide), but modern story structures lessen this drama and turmoil because of moral changes -- it seems arbitrary that Orestes has to do the murder, and Clytaemnestra can be a little girlbossified. Pieces: see conversation between Electra and her sister, maybe.

Medea - Euripides - you don't need me to tell you this play is good.

The Frogs - Aristophanes

Phaedra - Seneca

Fat Ham - James Ijames

Fences - August Wilson

LOVE/SICK - John Cariani

Almost, Maine - John Cariani

Late: A Cowboy Song - Sarah Ruhl - I need to read more Sarah Ruhl

Fairview - Jackie Sibblies Drury

Intimate Apparel - Lynn Nottage

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot - Stephen Adler Guirgis

12 Angry Men - Reginald Rose

The Laramie Project - Moises Kaufman & The Tectonic Theatre Project

You and Me and the Space Between - Finegan Kruckemeyer

This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing - Finegan Kruckemeyer

The Book of Will - Lauren Gunderson

MilkMilkLemonade - Joshua Conkel

You on the Moors Now - Jaclyn Backhaus

The Metamorphoses - Mary Zimmerman

Fuddy Meers - David Lindsay-Abaire

A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen

A Doll's House Part 2 - Lucas Hnath

Men on Boats - Jaclyn Backhaus

The Snow - Finegan Kruckemeyer

The Phantom Tollbooth - Susan Nanus

Digging Up Dessa - Laura Schellhardt

Actually - Anna Ziegler - i'm not sure how I feel about this play. both characetrs are strongly written. a lot of potential for monologues.

[dankusner]

The Dallas Morning News continues to bleed employees as left-wing bias is exposed

The Dallas Morning News is struggling to stay afloat.

Last year, parent company DallasNews Corp. announced that it had voluntarily bought out 6% of its workforce, which affected 40 positions at DMN.

“Today, the Company is announcing a limited voluntary staff reduction program that will be offered across all departments to eligible individuals at The News and Medium Giant.

Though the exact number of people who will take the option is unknown, it is expected that this could ultimately reduce the total workforce by about 6 percent, or 40 full-time and part-time positions,” DallasNews Corp. said in a press release.

Journalists such as Steve Brown, who had 47 years of experience, retired from DMN due to the voluntary buyout.

His reporting for DMN accounted for almost 10% of the newspaper’s digital conversions, reported The Real Deal.

Mitchell Parton, a former residential real estate reporter for DMN, left the publication at the end of last year and now covers real estate for the Dallas Business Journal.

Before that, DallasNews Corp. had losses of almost $9 million in 2022, reported The Real Deal.

Another mass layoff occurred in 2019 when DMN let go of 43 employees as a means to pivot towards a subscription-based model, according to The Wrap.

The Dallas Morning News, as a result, has been left with a majority-inexperienced staff.

As previously reported by The Dallas Express, DX CEO Chris Putnam called out DMN for its reporters’ misplaced focus and lack of knowledge.

“… [T]he only reason much of the media exists is to try and make anyone who’s not a radical like themselves look evil or ignorant.

This appears to be the objective of Dallas Morning News CEO Grant Moise and his so-called ‘journalists,’ including ‘equity’ reporter Arcelia Martin and business reporter Natalie Walters (who never actually held a job in business). They are all incompetent,” Putnam wrote.

DMN also recently admitted to left-wing bias in its reporting.

In an opinion piece titled, “Some readers think bias taints our news report. They’re right,” DMN public editor Stephen Buckley wrote:

“I do think that sometimes, when we interview sources with whom we might be sympathetic, we are not as quick to dig for other, opposing voices. We are selective about weaving in voices from all sides. In particular, conservative voices are frequently missing.”

“Executive Editor Katrice Hardy agrees that her staff is inconsistent about objectivity and fairness,” he added.

Previous DMN articles have drawn criticism, including one focused on drag queens struggling during COVID and another one about how tollway authorities are racist.

The Dallas Express contacted DMN and its publisher Moise for comment but did not receive a response by the time of publication.

UNBIASED NEWS IS UP TO WRITER AND READER

National press shake-ups point to challenges for us all

Like everything else in 21st century America, journalism has dramatically changed, and that change has not been for the better.

Substantive issues and policy ideas now get less attention while stories focused on celebrities and self-help take up more space.

Poorly vetted information and misspellings make it to publication or air without the important checks and edits once considered fundamental.

The line between commentary and opinion-free news stories grows dimmer by the day.

Even at premiere information news outlets such as The New York Times , The Washington Post and National Public Radio, such errors have become common.

Now individual voices inside those and other major newsrooms express concern about a new journalism ethic spreading through the profession.

The complaints shaking up the American press are not just about accuracy but about pervasive political bias.

A wider range of voices has been fighting to be heard around the national “campfire” of shared ideas.

It may not be clear to news consumers, but inside the craft, deep introspection is underway.

What went wrong

In an extensive column for The Economist magazine, James Bennet, at one time the editorial page editor of The New York Times, recently detailed what he sees as flaws in the practice of journalism at top-of-the-line outlets.

“The reporters’ creed,” Bennet wrote, “used to have its foundation in liberalism.”

By that he does not mean the liberalism with which most are familiar today, but classical liberalism in which the reporter acts as “a sworn witness; the readers’ role was to be judge and jury.”

In that approach to reporting, no matter what or whom reporters covered, their goal was to ask “why” and explain the reason their interviewees and sources arrived at their ideas and opinions.

In a republic, that is a journalist’s paramount mission.

Readers, listeners and viewers draw their own conclusions based on the assembled facts and opinions of the people with whom the reporter spoke.

The journalists’ personal views on the subjects they cover matter least.

That kind of dispassionate reporting develops over years as resolute journalists rise through the ranks from small news outlets to larger ones.

However, according to Bennet, even today’s best known news organizations have abandoned “their commitments to integrity and open-mindedness.”

He points to new journalists arriving at the Times and other outlets with a different mission.

Gone is the goal of exercising complete objectivity, which Bennet argues is now considered nothing more than “code for ignoring the poor and weak and cozying up to power.”

Pursuing truth, no matter where it leads, has been replaced, Bennet suspects, by journalists who see themselves as social justice crusaders.

This new breed, whom Bennet describes as “illiberal journalists,” champion group rights more than individual rights and view the exercise of free speech as a means of protecting the privilege of white men.

They believe, to Bennet’s mind, the 2016 election of Donald Trump proves their view that American citizens cannot be trusted with “potentially dangerous ideas or facts.”

During his employment at the Times, Bennet noted, “conservative arguments in the Opinion pages reliably started uproars,” among the staff.

Multiple staffers expressed their displeasure on social media and through in-house communication channels when in June 2020 the Times ran a column by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas calling for deployment of troops to protect lives and businesses following riots that erupted after the death of George Floyd.

Even the newsroom labor union weighed in, calling it a “clear threat to the health and safety of the journalists we represent.”

It is not just The New York Times where some journalists have raised questions about conservative coverage.

Writing in April in The Free Press, Uri Berliner, a 25-year senior editor at National Public Radio, said, “NPR has always had a liberal bent,” and until recently was “nerdy, but not knee-jerk, activist, or scolding.”

Now, Berliner contends, NPR has dumped its mission of providing diverse viewpoints and elevated “race and identity as ‘paramount in nearly every aspect of the workplace.’”

He has since resigned.

The Washington Post, too, is abuzz about abrupt changes in leadership and what they might mean for the paper’s coverage.

The newsroom there is revolting against new publisher Will Lewis despite the fact that change is clearly needed:

The Post lost $77 million and half its readership in 2023, according to reporting from Wall Street Journal deputy editorial features editor Matthew Hennessey.

Recently, in examining stories in The Dallas Morning News , the new Public Editor Stephen Buckley pointed to similar concerns, noting while the paper is “selective about weaving in voices from all sides,” he has noticed that “conservative voices are frequently missing.”

Culture of mistrust

Amid the disruption, news outlets must get better about showing their work — how and why they make decisions in their “gatekeeping” function.

But that’s only a part of the solution.

In the “culture of mistrust” that pervades America in 2024, it is not enough, Buckley wrote, to say that “we tried” to contact diverse voices, but they did not respond.

Readers, viewers and listeners have every right to compare journalists’ actual practices to their stated intentions.

Any distance between the two is the degree to which their stories should be called into question.

Put simply: No matter what a news provider promises in its masthead or branding slogan — whether to be a “voice for the voiceless” or “defend traditional values” or provide “both sides of every important question” — that must be the standard by which it is judged.

Market response

But journalists aren’t the only group requiring some soul-searching.

In a free market system of news delivery, the press responds to signals from the market.

And for the last few decades the market has been rewarding bad practices.

Fox News has been the most-watched television news channel for 22 years, attracting nearly half of the total cable news viewing audience, according to Nielsen Media Research.

In such a market, it’s pretty clear that what many critics of the Times , Post and NPR really want is an echo of their own opinions.

Information fabricators already abound.

With rising reliance on the internet as an information source, the rapid spread of falsehoods, especially in an election year such as this one, daily becomes a greater danger.

Last year, Pew Research Center revealed that half of U.S. adults rely on social media for news at least sometimes.

Fixing America’s journalistic landscape will require more than tacking right or left. In improving the flow of accurate information through society, there is a role for all of us.

The crusading journalist Ida B. Wells used to say, “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”

Going forward, in selecting, reporting and consuming stories, accepting only what is true must be everyone’s goal, even if it includes considering real facts with which we disagree.

For journalists, that requires making the dissemination of accurate, vetted information more important than publishing or airing it first.

And it means publishing news and opinions that are accurate and well-reasoned even if it means losing subscribers.

For news consumers it means expanding our sources of information to include perspectives that might not align with our own.

The end goal should not be to agree with or support causes, but to understand how leaders of those causes arrived at their conclusions.

That task is not an easy one.

We must all be wary of those who would distract us from it.

That requires diligence and vigilance — the obligation of every citizen in a republic.

[lemiroirinfo]

Garry Conille compte réduire à 13 le nombre de ministères| Reprise des vols commerciaux vers Haïti| Plus de 176000 haïtiens sont arrivés aux États-Unis via le programme Humanitaire Parole| Un juge américain réclame plus de 6 millions de dollars américains pour Martine et Joverlein Moise| Démantèlement d’un réseau de trafic de migrants du Canada vers les États-Unis.

Le premier ministre Garry Conille a prévu de réduire le nombre de ministères à 13 au lieu de 18 actuellement. Les discussions vont bon train entre les acteurs pour présenter le prochain cabinet ministériel. Des bandits armés sèment toujours la panique et la terreur dans plusieurs zones métropolitaines de Port-au-Prince et le premier ministre Garry Conille a visité avec le chef de la police et…

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Revirement dans l'affaire de corruption au CNE : Martine Moise, ancienne Première Dame, exemptée des poursuites

Un tournant inattendu a marqué l’affaire de corruption au Centre National d’Équipements (CNE) en Haïti, alors que Martine Moise, l’ex-Première Dame et la dernière en date, a été retirée de la liste des personnalités poursuivies. Le juge Al Dunel Dimanche a ordonné le dégel de ses comptes bancaires, créant ainsi une surprise majeure dans cette affaire qui suscite un vif intérêt médiatique. Ce…

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Imputación de la viuda de Jovenel Moïse abre nuevo capitulo en caso de magnicidio en Haití

Martine Moïse, viuda del presidente haitiano asesinado Jovenel Moïse, llora junto al féretro durante el funeral el viernes 23 de julio de 2021 en la finca familiar en Cabo Haitiano, Haití. (AP Foto/Matías Delacroix) | Foto: AP   La imputación por asesinato a Martine Moise, viuda del presidente haitiano Jovenel Moise, abre un nuevo capítulo…Imputación de la viuda de Jovenel Moïse abre nuevo…

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La newsletter sull’Africa a cura di Francesca Sibani

I congolesi si preparano a un voto incerto

Sulle elezioni presidenziali, legislative e amministrative previste il 20 dicembre nella Repubblica Democratica del Congo regna ancora l’incertezza. Secondo Colette Braeckman, reporter di lunga data del quotidiano belga Le Soir, i problemi logistici, politici e militari si moltiplicano, e la corte costituzionale si deve pronunciare il 15 dicembre su un eventuale rinvio. Ma Denis Kadima, il presidente della commissione elettorale indipendente, non ha ancora gettato la spugna, scrive Braeckman, nonostante le difficoltà nel consegnare il materiale elettorale in alcune regioni rese inaccessibili dalle forti piogge di questa stagione.

Inoltre le continue violenze nell’est del paese – dove sono attivi più di 120 gruppi armati – rendono impossibile il corretto svolgimento del voto. In due territori della provincia del Nord Kivu, quelli di Rutshuru e di Masisi, gli elettori che si sono registrati per votare sono pochissimi, e addirittura nel primo non ci sono candidati. In tutto il paese sono attesi alle urne 44 milioni di votanti, mentre i candidati ai vari incarichi, nazionali e locali, sono più di centomila.

Nonostante i rischi, la campagna elettorale ha visto i principali candidati visitare le città dell’est del paese, tra cui Goma, dove il presidente in carica Félix Tshisekedi ha lanciato un duro attacco al presidente ruandese Paul Kagame, chiamandolo l’“Hitler africano” per rimproverargli il sostegno fornito alla milizia ribelle M23, una delle più attive e pericolose. Questi attacchi verbali del presidente sono forse legati al rapido deterioramento della situazione militare nel Nord Kivu, commenta Braeckman: i ribelli dell’M23 hanno preso il controllo di Mushaki, a pochi chilometri da Goma, e si stanno avvicinando alla miniera di Rubaya. Le forze armate congolesi non riescono a fermarli, e nel frattempo alcuni dei contingenti internazionali presenti in questo territorio hanno cominciato a rientrare nei loro paesi.

Sostenitori del candidato alle presidenziali Denis Mukwege, Bukavu, Repubblica Democratica del Congo, 25 novembre 2023. (Alexis Huguet, Afp) Ma chi sono i favoriti alla presidenza? Molti osservatori sono convinti che Tshisekedi, nonostante il bilancio non proprio entusiasmante del suo primo mandato, potrebbe facilmente assicurarsene un secondo. Per vincere gli basta il 40 per cento dei voti, può contare su molti alleati nella commissione elettorale e l’opposizione non è riuscita a presentare un candidato unitario. Contro di lui, si sono schierati Martin Fayulu – l’imprenditore che, secondo i suoi sostenitori, ha vinto le contestate elezioni del 2018 –; Moise Katumbi, ricco uomo d’affari ed ex governatore della regione mineraria del Katanga, che può contare su importanti mezzi economici e su un’ampia base elettorale, ma è al centro di una campagna diffamatoria che mette in dubbio la sua nazionalità congolese; e Denis Mukwege, noto medico e attivista per i diritti delle donne, premio Nobel per la pace nel 2018, molto stimato all’estero ma senza un reale sostegno in patria.

C’è chi fa notare che Tshisekedi ha comunque superato le aspettative. Dopo la sua elezione controversa nel 2018, molti lo consideravano una figura debole, la cui unica forza era l’eredità politica lasciatagli dal padre Étienne, storico oppositore congolese. Sembrava destinato a diventare il burattino del suo predecessore, Joseph Kabila, ma in realtà è riuscito a eliminare i suoi avversari politici, anche molto più esperti di lui. Allo stesso tempo, fa notare Phillip van Niekerk sul Daily Maverick, Tshisekedi è riuscito a tenere testa anche alla Cina, mettendo in discussione un importante accordo per la fornitura di minerali in cambio di infrastrutture che aveva stipulato Kabila quindici anni prima. Intanto l’Rdc è diventata uno snodo centrale del più importante progetto infrastrutturale degli Stati Uniti in Africa, il corridoio di Lobito, una linea ferroviaria che dovrebbe servire a trasportare minerali preziosi dalla Rdc allo Zambia, poi in Angola e da lì nel resto del mondo.

Proprio questi minerali, scrive Simon Allison su The Continent, sono uno degli elementi che rendono la Rdc un paese chiave per la lotta contro la crisi climatica. Nel sottosuolo del paese si trovano i più importanti giacimenti al mondo di cobalto, un minerale cruciale per la transizione alle energie verdi. L’Rdc ha anche la seconda foresta fluviale più grande del pianeta, e riuscire a preservarla sarebbe un grande aiuto per la nostra atmosfera. Il resto del mondo dovrebbe quindi augurarsi che il 20 dicembre i congolesi eleggano un leader capace di affrontare delle sfide che determineranno non solo il futuro del paese, ma quello dell’intero pianeta.

[onebirdprojects]

Reflections and updates on the 10-year anniversary of the Riviere Froide Kid Camera Project

With a joyful and proud heart, I share with you the tremendous accomplishments of the youth in a small community outside of Port au Prince, Haiti. For five years my non-profit organization, One Bird, traveled to Haiti to conduct workshops in video and photography for over 100 youth participants in Riviere Froide. Our mission at One Bird is to create sustainable infrastructure, where technical skills and enthusiasm for the medium is passed on and can be accessed whether our instructors are present or not. This collaborative programming relied on the support of University of New Orleans Professor Emeritus, Yvelyne Germain McCarthy, One Bird co-founders and directors, UNO Assistant Professor Ariya Martin and Ryse Center Media, Arts and Culture Director, Tara Malik in addition to our Haitian cohorts at MEJAM- Evens Mevoit, Bruno Germain and Moise Mozart Germain.

We shared in 2016, which marked the five-year anniversary of The Rivière Froide Kid Camera Project, that summer One Bird worked with longtime partner organization, MEJHAM, to develop a student mentorship program. 13 students were selected based on their commitment to attending our workshops every summer, their desire to share their knowledge of photography, and their interest in teaching other students. Each morning, these mentors attended a two-hour class where, in addition to working on their own projects, they learned teaching techniques and prepared lessons on photographic composition and personal storytelling. After a short break each day, they arrived promptly, ready to work with an afternoon class of 47 new and returning students, partnering with each other to lead different activities. Some of the activities included taking cameras out in the schoolyard and in their surrounding community, leading photo critiques, and creative writing. One Bird mentors demonstrated their knowledge, patience, compassion, and tireless energy when working with their peers and younger students. We were extremely impressed by their professionalism, talent and initiative.

This summer will be 10 years since One Bird landed in Haiti and the Riviere Froide Kid Camera Project was born. With the foundational support of the Haitian Association (AHDH) in New Orleans we were once again able to assist our youth instructors so that photography classes could continue as well as being able to provide nutritious lunches and fresh water daily to the participants.

We are grateful to have had the pleasure and honor of witnessing the dedicated and devoted group of youth instructors. 

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