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Quigley: Double Standard: BP and Bhopal
Znet Article, July, 03 2010
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When President Barak Obama went after BP and demanded a $20 billion dollar fund be set up for victims of the Gulf oil spill, the people of India were furious. They saw a US double standard. The US demonstrated it values human life within the US ...
Quigley: Three in a Million - Voices from the Haitian Camps
Znet Article, February, 19 2010
Bill Quigley
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The United Nations reported there are 1.2 million people living in “spontaneous settlements” or homeless camps around Port au Prince. Three people living in the camps spoke with this author this week, before the hard rains hit.
Quigley: U.S. Brags Haiti Response is a “Model” While More Than a Million Remain Homeless in Haiti
Znet Article, February, 15 2010
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Despite the fact that over a million people remained homeless in Haiti one month after the earthquake, the U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, Ken Merten, is quoted at a State Department briefing on February 12, saying “In terms of humanitarian aid delivery...
Quigley: Revolutionary Haitian Priest, Gerard Jean-Juste, Presente!
Znet Article, May, 30 2009
Bill Quigley
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Though Haitian priest Father Gerard Jean-Juste died May 27, 2009, at age 62, in Miami from a stroke and breathing problems, he remains present to millions. Justice-loving people world-wide mourn his death and celebrate his life. Pere Jean-Juste ...
Quigley: Report from Rafah: Doctors Stopped At Borders
Znet Article, January, 10 2009
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Dr. Nicolas Doussis-Rassias and many other volunteer doctors have been waiting in Rafah, Egypt for days. Nicolas and the other physicians came to Rafah to go through the border into Gaza to help the 3000 people wounded by Israeli bombs and heavy ...
Quigley: Five Bailout Lessons From Katrina
Znet Article, December, 24 2008
Bill Quigley
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The US has committed nearly three trillion dollars to the financial bailout so far. The Federal Reserve has made more than $2 trillion in emergency loans and another $700 billion has been pledged through Congressional action. Much more money is co...
Quigley: Swedish Peace Activists Repeatedly Break Into Weapon Factories
Znet Article, October, 19 2008
Bill Quigley
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Using hammers and bolt cutters, peace activists repeatedly broke into weapon plants and damaged weapons in Sweden. Activists from the Swedish group OFOG/Avrusta admitted damaging twenty high explosive grenade launchers as well as internal parts t...
Quigley: Shame: The U.S. War against Unarmed Working Mothers
Znet Article, September, 27 2008
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Dozens of petite young mothers gathered this week in the parking lot outside the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Mississippi. Each wore a long dress or pants to hide their electronic ankle bracelets. Lift up a pants leg and you can see th...
Quigley: Twenty Questions: Social Justice Quiz 2008 (Answers Below)
Znet Article, September, 10 2008
Bill Quigley
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Social Justice Quiz 2008...
Quigley: Gustav Impact on Louisiana and Haiti
Znet Article, September, 05 2008
Bill Quigley
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Hurricane Gustav killed 18 people in Louisiana and displaced 1.9 million. Over 800,000 homes are without electricity, nearly half the state, and some will not see power for up to a month. In Haiti, Gustav killed 77 with another 8 missing and dama...
Quigley: Living in the Car after Gustave
Znet Article, September, 02 2008
Bill Quigley
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The good news is that nearly two million people evacuated and were spared the direct hit of Gustave. Our sisters and brothers in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, who were not able to leave the point of the storm, lost over 100 lives. The people...
Quigley: New Orleans – One Day to Gustave
Znet Article, August, 31 2008
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Pink sky colored the morning as cicadas buzz in waves in the old oak trees. What is it they say about “pink sky in morning…?” In New Orleans it is one day to Gustave...
Quigley: Waiting for the Bus in New Orleans
Znet Article, August, 30 2008
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In the blazing midday sun, hot and thirsty little children walk around bags of diapers and soft suitcases piled outside a locked community center in the Lower Ninth Ward. Military police in camouflage and local police in dark blue uniforms and s...
Quigley: Katrina Pain Index – New Orleans Three Years Later
Znet Article, August, 24 2008
Bill Quigley
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New Orleans three years later...
Quigley: War Immemorial Day – No Peace for Militarized U.S.
Znet Article, May, 26 2008
Bill Quigley
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Memorial Day is not actually a day to pray for U.S. troops who died in action but rather a day set aside by Congress to pray for peace. The 1950 Joint Resolution of Congress which created Memorial Day says: “Requesting the President to issue a ...
Quigley: USA Role in Haiti Hunger Riots
Znet Article, April, 22 2008
Bill Quigley
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Riots in Haiti over explosive rises in food costs have claimed the lives of six people. There have also been food riots world-wide in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivorie, Egypt, Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen.
