News and Views.(Haiti storms)

This issue of News and Views focuses on work being done to raise awareness and provide aid to areas affected by the onslaught of tropical storms in Haiti and the massive 6.5 magnitude earthquake that recently hit Pakistan, taking lives and displacing many women, children, and families. Gina Athena Ulysse and the MADRE organization have been doing work to bring attention to these issues in these respective regions. Believing that our readers will want to know of these appeals, Feminist Studies brings them to your attention.

Haiti

Gina Athena Ulysse, professor of anthropology and African American studies at Wesleyan University, has been working to raise awareness about the recent devastation in Haiti by performing poetry at selected screenings of a new documentary by filmmaker T'et Ansanam, Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy, to benefit Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees (HWHR).

Tropical storms Fay, Gustav, Hannah, and Ike have wreaked extensive damage and flooding in Haiti, deluging the port city of Gonaives and the Artibonite valley, causing over 1,000 reported casualties, and leaving over 1,000,000 people displaced. Never having recovered from the storms that devastated the region in 2004, roads, bridges, crops, and livestock remain decimated, and the agricultural region of Mapou is completely isolated due to flooded roads. In addition, survivors of the storm are now ...