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Rev. Jackson heads to food-strapped Haiti
UPI ^
| April 27, 2008
Posted on 04/27/2008 9:40:07 PM PDT by kingattax
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, April 27 (UPI) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson and several leaders of Florida's Haitian community arrived in Haiti Sunday to study the country's food crisis, Haitian radio reported.
Jackson and others are expected to discuss food-price inflation with Haitian leaders, according to officials of his Rainbow Push Coalition.
Protests over spiking food prices left at least seven people dead this month and prompted lawmakers to oust Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis.
On Sunday, Ericq Pierre, a former senior adviser with the Inter-American Development Bank, was named Alexis' successor.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: food; foodcrisis; foodinsecurity; haiti; hunger; jackson; starvation
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posted on
04/27/2008 9:40:08 PM PDT
by
kingattax
To: kingattax
for what? make a hate speech against anyone not haitian?
To: kingattax
Let’s hope he stays there forever!
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posted on
04/27/2008 9:45:04 PM PDT
by
jws3sticks
(Hillary can take a very long walk on a very short pier, anytime, and the sooner the better!)
To: kingattax
How much money can he expect to fear monger from these poor people?
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posted on
04/27/2008 9:50:11 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Acts 16:31, Romans 10:13 ... nuff said.)
To: kingattax
Re:
Rev. Jackson heads to food-strapped Haiti I always heard they like dark...
Never mind! Say, didn't Bill Clinton use the American military to solve this problem back in 1994?
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posted on
04/27/2008 9:50:40 PM PDT
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: kingattax
Did they take a sack lunch??
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posted on
04/27/2008 9:52:39 PM PDT
by
taraytarah
(This Virtual Tagline is a soon-to-be-scrapped $20 million prototype.)
To: Bender2
Never mind! Say, didn't Bill Clinton use the American military to solve this problem back in 1994? and of course hellary was right there to plan and implement the policy and to give daily operational orders for the mission
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posted on
04/27/2008 9:53:58 PM PDT
by
kingattax
(99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
To: taraytarah
Did they take a sack lunch??being seen with one of those on you in haiti these days would be harmful to your health
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posted on
04/27/2008 9:56:49 PM PDT
by
kingattax
(99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
To: kingattax
As fat as he’s become he shouldn’t be asking where the food is.
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posted on
04/27/2008 9:58:54 PM PDT
by
OeOeO
(Sic Transit Gloria Mundi... Gloria get me a beer,and hurry..)
To: kingattax
JJ must walk backwards in circles,
because in truth he heads nowhere,
he butts in everywhere...
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posted on
04/27/2008 9:59:30 PM PDT
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
To: The Spirit Of Allegiance
butting in has been his whole life
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posted on
04/27/2008 10:00:27 PM PDT
by
kingattax
(99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
To: kingattax
Rev. Jackson heads to food-strapped Haiti
Maybe they'll eat him. God knows he's fed on the body politic for so long himself.
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posted on
04/27/2008 10:05:27 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: jws3sticks
Lets hope he stays there forever! Amen.
To: kingattax
To: kingattax
Probably conducting a voter registration.
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posted on
04/27/2008 11:01:35 PM PDT
by
FearlessFreep
(Never bring a fart to a sh#t fight.)
To: kingattax
Good, maybe they’ll eat him.
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posted on
04/28/2008 2:28:01 AM PDT
by
Roy Tucker
("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."--Ayn Rand)
To: kingattax
Here’s a concept - how about helping American’s with the skyrocketing cost of food. And here’s another - how about those third world hell holels pull themselves up by their bootstraps and start making life better for themselves rather than whining for someone else to carry them. Seems I heard a similar little tidbit somewhere about teaching a man to fish.
To: kingattax
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posted on
04/28/2008 3:32:56 AM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: kingattax
OK, so J.J. is going to go over there, make a couple of speeches about how all their problems are caused by whitey and by capitalism, then leave...
This is suppose to help them how?
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posted on
04/28/2008 4:15:06 AM PDT
by
Lost Dutchman
("Weep for the future Na'Toth, Weep for us all." (G'Kar-Babylon 5))
To: television is just wrong
He hopes to find caucasians he can sue over this hunger.
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posted on
04/28/2008 4:32:32 AM PDT
by
omega4179
(Katrina-fatigued)
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