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January 12, 2020 marks 10th Anniversary of the Earthquake in Haiti my family survived—A decade later, a new Haitian Revolution is underway.

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Ten years ago my family and I survived one of the most devastating natural disaster in recorded history—yet so many tens of thousands of Haitian people did not. Jesse and his wife Sarah joining in the first aid effort in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti It has been a long journey for me …

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Black Haitian Lives Matter: Haiti on the Fifth Anniversary of the Earthquake

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Five years ago today, my wife, my one-year-old son and I survived the earthquake in Haiti. I will forever be grateful that my wife came back to the hotel early from her work that day and when the earthquake struck, we were all together.  While we were lucky—part of lobby of the hotel collapsed but …

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On the Fourth Anniversary of the Haitian Earthquake my Family Survived: end the U.N. occupation, end U.S. exploitation, and end corporate education reform on Haiti!

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Four years ago today, my wife, my one-year-old son and I survived the earthquake in Haiti. While we were lucky—the lobby of the hotel collapsed but not our room—many thousands of Haitians perished from the natural disaster, which was compounded by the U.S. and U.N.’s neglectful and exploitative response to the quake. On this fourth …

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