is that the haitian government is functioning better than the american government and as you know the european union has plain old even the paschal budget so we have to put things in perspective and give them credit when they do some good things by implying that the haitian government is functioning better than the u.s. government or the e.u. is a cutting global critique of the dysfunctional nature of these government bodies carter mention that he's seen haiti's struggle for years to fully implement self-governing democracy and that despite these shortcomings he's seen progress being made but as a former u.s. president i was surprised that he didn't mention that the policy is undermining true democracy and sustainability in haiti have for the last century come from the u.s. government u.s. involvement began in one nine hundred fifteen when the government began to control haiti in a way that allowed them to maintain an outpost for u.s. corporate interests. fast forward to nine hundred ninety when john bertrand aristide became the first democratically elected leader of haiti but instead

presence has been referred to as an occupation polls show that haitians overwhelmingly want the u.n. to leave their stay has been tainted by a number of scandals ranging from rape and even the killing of civilians mixon a local habitat organizer explains his hope for haiti. national committee can be part of it but i think the haitian needs to resolve the problem because the first same day means it is life from start from scratch but starting from scratch would require releasing the remaining aid money or reallocating the funds currently spent on up keeping thousands of troops to be reinvested toward sustainable agriculture and infrastructure for the entire country so this is it this is haiti how can this . nation rise above its legacy of colonialism centuries of international segregation a yearly barrage of natural disasters and a constant struggle for political stability we may never know unless we give the haitian people a chance to try for themselves. r.t. port au prince haiti. i. all right so there's plenty that could be said about haiti so far we've only touched upon a few of th

if you live here and grew up here is a haitian american or a haitian person, we wanted to present the anthology of what it is to have all of these voices together. >> host: bespeak all three? >> i do, yes. what is your story about? >> to grow growth and a haitian household, your parents are always talking about this. it's about a family. they are earthquake stories. they are poems, all kinds of stories in this book. >> host: joining me is edwidge danticat. she is one of the authors about a new haitian anthology. she is also a new book critic circle award winner. and you were over, is that right? >> guest: yes, i got the great honor of meeting oprah. in your book,. >> host: in your book, "brother, i'm dying", what was that about? >> guest: that was my memoir. it was said here in south florida where my uncle died in immigration custody. my father was was also dying out pulmonary finals >> host: edwidge danticat is our author. author of "so spoke the earth." we have a caller. >> caller: i would like to ask about the haiti earthquake, it was caused and when it hit haiti -- it is one of yo

is something you grew up in haitian household. your parents were talked about [inaudible] in the old days. and it's about a family that was let down. in the '80s, when "the dictatorship" ended families were broken down in the middle. there were people thought one they were going back to haiti and others thought i like it here and i'm staying. sometimes it was a husband and wife. the story the family split and a daughter tries to reunite with the father. so the earthquake story is there are sort of stories, poems, alls kinds of stories in this book. >> joining us here on booktvs in in miami is edwidge danticat. one of the authors of "so spoke the earth: the haiti i knew, the haiti i know, the haiti i want to know" he's a national book credittic sickle award winner. "brother i'm dying." you an oprah feature. >> yeah. i had the honor of being on oprah's book club. get meet her. for my first book. i got t >>he and "brother i'm dying wasa theh subject." >> e were together here on booktv, you have been so kind all the time. it was my me

and this is what haitian women are.hat's what she is for her family but also for thousands of women and children who have survived the atrocities of rape and domestic violence. i have seen firsthand how lives are transformed because of the extraordinary work of malya and her team. it's inspiring to be with you and josie, to hear from reginald and michelle. all of the women there and the children that witness how haitian women know what haitian women need. they need someone who comforts them in the hospital, files complaints with the police, and recruits young men to be security guards and patrol the camps. someone who hands out whistles and brings flashlights to the darkest places to keep the rapists and criminals away, someone like malya, a pillar of strength, working with dignity to build respect for women under haiti's blue sky. ♪ ♪ ♪ i want to sing ♪ ♪ i want to shout ♪ ♪ i want to scream 'til the words dry out ♪ >> it's my honor to present my friend, cnn hero, malya villard-appolon. [ speaking creole ] [ speaking c

all told about 1800 haitians work for the mission. hundreds of thousands have been served in orphanages, schools and hospitals. funding comes from private individuals, found dations and government grants. this year he got the $1 million opus prize by the minnesota-based opus foundation. he does not see his work in charitable or heroic terms. >> rather than saying i gave you this chance, i say, i was fortunate. i had that chance. it came to me. i didn't make it. we want that same chance to come to you so that we have the same chance. we're people who care by being the bridge between resources that have benefitted us in our life for our education and well-being, and we just want to be the bridge for letting that happen. that's by people who have their own capacity and dreams. >> a long road he admits where success is built one small stretch at a time. for religion and ethnics newsweekly, this is sam lazaro in hate hety. . >>> we talked this week to one of the most prominent leaders of the evangelical christian right. he's richard land,

all of the women there and the children that witness how haitian women know what haitian need.he camps. someone who hands out whistles and brings flashlights to the darkest places to keep the rapist and criminals away, someone like malya, a pillar of strength working with dignity to bring back hope for women under haiti's blue sky. [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ] ♪ [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ] ♪ i want to sing ♪ i want to shout ♪ i want to scream 'til the words dry out ♪ [ applause ] >> it's my honor to present my friend, cnn hero, malya villard-appolon. [ applause ] [ speaking creole ] [ applause ] >> wait, my friend. you must stay here. three works have marked me. women, strength and pride, which my friend embodies so fiercely. when i say women, think of all the women that stood up to say no to violence. when i say strength, find it no matter what to help the victims. this is what we feel when we feel pride every time we do the work that we do. malya would like to say thank you, because w

into the country two years ago it's a disease that has killed over seven hundred fifty thousand haitians i'm sorry seven hundred fifty thousand asians and infected six hundred twenty thousand more but of course the u.n. still hasn't taken responsibility for the outbreak thankfully there are other organizations taking the initiative to shed some light on the growing epidemic. in fact filmmaker over stone who we just had on the show yesterday has just launched a petition demanding that the u.n. take urgent action to resolve the problem and ensure access to clean water so the talk about haiti's ongoing struggle in the initiatives that are work to fight the color demick and the country's political instability i'm joined now by beatrice lynn storm human rights lawyer and attorney at the institute for justice and democracy and haiti beatrice thanks for joining me. thanks for having me can you really quickly clarify i think i just butchered the number of how many have actually died from the cholera outbreak could you just correct quickly sure so the official numbers are that since october two t

that will restore haitians dignity and reaffirm that human rights really are for all and the u.n. does not. doesn't have any community when there is harm that's caused has really taken so many lives in haiti. haiti is the forgotten country at times and thank you so much for your initiatives for your efforts really appreciate your time beatrice lindstrom thank you. when's the last time you experienced a random act of kindness for young texas resident name hayden carlo that random act of kindness was just as unexpected as the person it came from you see carlo a struggling twenty five year old with two children was pulled over by a police officer who notices expired registration sticker and this is what happened take a look. there's there's no explanation for why i haven't done it except for the i don't have the money i said it was either feed my kids or get this registration done the officer wrote a citation and handed it to the twenty five year old opened it up there's a hundred dollar bill i was i broke down in my car what else do you do that's right the police officer handed carl

. >> they're also building a new health care facility here, all told about 1800 haitians work for the mission begun by him, hundreds of thousands have been served in orphanages, schools and hospitals. funding comes from individuals, foundations and government grants. this year he was awarded the $1 million opus prize given to a faith-based social entrepreneur out of the minnesota-based opus foundation. he does not see his work for the haitians he serves as charity. >> we give them the chance that we all have had, rather than saying, i gave you this chance. i say, i was fortunate i had that chance, it dime me. i didn't make it. we want that same chance to come to you. >> but in haiti, he admits, progress is slow and success builds one small stretch at a time. >> ifill: >> ifill: fred's reporting is a partnership with the under-told stories project at saint mary's university in minnesota. >> brown: finally tonight, the gift of poetry over 100 years, in a conversation we recorded recently with poet and editor christian wiman. written today whatever style, genre or approach, written a hun

i teach a lecture course which is called slavery release and revolution that starts with the haitian revolution of the late 18th century and goes to garby. of about slavery of the emancipation a the the broad western hemisphere

. >> hatian -- haitian musicians found a special way to have their voice heard. >> they are in geneva to take part in the festivities. for the u.n.'s high commissioner of human rights, the ability to participate, work together, and have your voice heard are rights that everyone should exercise freely. >> i particularly have been inspired by what has happened in the streets of egypt, north africa, the middle east, as well as the occupy wall street protest, where people have come out in huge numbers, asking for their civil and political rights, achill -- economic, social, cultural rights. >> being heard often start small. in this kenyan village, the chief uses twitter to communicate with residents. he says it has made the running of the community much smoother. >> i believe that is the best example. we find that those people are the grassroots. those people in the villages, they don't know about technology. they have been suffering. >> it also means his friends back home can follow him on his dirty to geneva, despite the difference -- on his journey to geneva, despite the differences --

also teach a lecture course, which is called "slavery, race, and revolution" which starts with the haitian revolution of the late 18th century and goes to garby in the early 20th century, about slavery and emancipation in the broad western hemisphere, and how it interconnected -- it becomes a comparative and international history. i teach a introductory course called "making of the modern world," a world history course i do with one of my african history colleagues from the middle of the 18th century to roughly the present, and than i teach graduate students, and my work is in the history of the 19th century broadly, and history of american empire that i've been interested in. i'm now working on a book that's a history of the 19th century, and it's a lot about the west so it's new areas of interest. >> host: we've been talking with professor hahn about his most recent book, "the political worlds of slavery and freedom," and he's also the pulitzer winner for his 2004 book, "a nation under our feet." professor hahn, thank you for your time today. >> guest: well thank you for having me. i rea

as you know, a few years ago the haitian people suffered an earthquake and the initial problem was crush injuries. yes, infection and dysentery and water supply and all those things would follow fairly soon, but the initial catastrophe was crush injuries, trauma, and the hospitals were gone. so what did we do? the world responded as best it could. what we did, the naval maritime forces, we sent our balts group down there which was patroling the area, we sent the hospital ship comfort down. so you have the comfort on the east coast, you have the mercy on the west coast. the mercy is parked down in san diego. it just got back from its asian humanitarian assistance from guam, indonesia, vietnam, an amazing number of nations we're partnering with. those hospital ships with 1,000 beds, 12 operating rooms, they produce their own medical oxygen, they have ct scanners and they can do almost anything a hospital on the west coast can do and we can park them offshore as we did in haiti and in haiti they spent the first 72 hours once they got on scene doing nothing but repairing crush injuries and r

they'd go, "the haitians, but nobody here," no matter how black they were.well, when did you learn you were black?" he said, "oh, that's easy, when i was in new york." ( laughing ) "when i went to new york, all the white people told me i was black." >> hinojosa: well, so how do we... how do we... we're trying. i mean, we're doing this show, we've got you here. what needs to happen? how do we... how do we engage in this conversation? i mean, i try to make it happen with everyone that i meet. >> i think in... let's remember that the history of this country is always the history of going from one end to another; from extremes, like a pendulum, in both parties-- in issues that have to do with opening the borders or closing the borders. so we are going through a period that has to be seen in context. there have been others that have been similar. we have been also through better moments. i am not ssure, maria, tha this moment is against a color as it is against class, and particularly, against foreignness, aliens, people that come from somewhere else. i think thi

government finances huge deficit maxon stacy a haitian discuss the so-called hollywood accountant schemes the policy even more pressure on the economy here's a quick preview of the full kaiser report coming up later today. burgeoning as. that these are monies that are for pensions for police nurses you know hospital workers farman and this money that is taken out of their paycheck every week is put into these retirement funds and then the state intercedes they collateralized those funds back a bond which i'm sure the rating agencies moody's picture s. and p. of course i'm sure they gave a good rating and then the hollywood people came in and stole that money and then those people lose their pension accounts and you know one of the things in america that's really one of the greatest tragedies is how the firemen the policemen the workers the teachers the people who actually work for a living not steal money like on wall street are basically financially raped every single day by these people so. drug companies invest huge sums into creating new kinds of medicine to tackle the world's deadlie

fund as you say it was a contingency plan for a rainy day and at the time people were saying well haitian is spent on infrastructure improving russia the future of it and well actually it seemed to work because he loved for the mistakes that were made in one nine hundred ninety eight when we had a catastrophic disaster in terms of the economy we had all opines as promised in the ruble devaluing so it meant that the financial crisis they hit the globe in two thousand and eight left rough so largely unscathed. so those lessons were learned also just to demonstrate how how good he was as a finance minister in two thousand and six the whole of the u.s.s.r. that was accounted for such as put in to perspective for you know it's right yeah the paris club that was was paid off completely forty five billion dollars. basically he's no longer in power he hasn't been a minister for more than a year now but apparently its policies are still still in place yet he's still furry respected i mean i think it's because of that cushion funds we know that he did actually lose his position that's because at th

which is what is continuing happened you well do you think that the radius can lose faith in those haitians as a whole i mean we've heard these talks of wrapped up a looks like a self will be meeting again in tehran in january but we've had talks after talks after talks with no outcome. i think the result is we paid you could go and you go a long way to try and. come to come to an agreement and as i say every time we do it for the demands of the mines in place of an iranians are adamant they are not going to construct nuclear weapons and it will the home of the west reprints and i'm speaking to and wondered you know the united kingdom government is going to spend billions of poe's on really policing its weapons of mass destruction trident nuclear weapons it's developing a nuclear weapon program there's no talk of sanctions against the united kingdom there's no talk of sanctions against the united states which plan to use these weapons as we reveal today so mccain used to use them in the korean war and in the cuban missile crisis and has used atomic weapons in russia on august second one hun

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. >> the haitian government estimates the earthquake claimed more than 300,000 lives. for veradia, this rescue team from across the globe has made all the difference. she has her life. >> because it was to me incredible and impossible that all this would happen. these people are heroes >> i felt very connected to her. this is an experience that will follow me the rest of my life. >> it's a pleasure to see her. to be able to help my country. >> coming up, a tourist captures something extraordinary. >> then you hear this noise. like a click, click, click. >> when a centuries old sequoia crashes to the ground. and later for these tourists, a day trip in italy ends in terror when caught on camera: what on earth? continues >>> when a giant sequoia tree falls in the woods, not only is someone there to hear it, but the rare event is caught on camera. >> there was a cracking noise, something like that. >> at this moment the tree is falling. >> these are among the planet's largest organisms. soaring as high as 300 feet above the ground and reaching 20 to 30 feet in diameter. se

i'm chris ullman, chair of the national small business assist haitian and that's really what this is all about. i think it's paramount everybody understands the president on down this is not a political issue. in this cookie said, a lot of people in business are holding cash. there are stories of capital to come forward as soon as they know. the investment in uncertainty. as soon as it is result, you will see the economy began to kick again. but we are all very active in contacting our representatives and senators. [inaudible] >> we tell them a couple things. one is to bipartisanship and and got this thing objectively because this will be an issue in their next campaign if that's where their heads around. more importantly in the economic welfare of this country politics has to go aside. [inaudible] unless the wealthiest americans are willing to stand up and say we need to acquire deeper income tax rates, republicans are going to cover to do politically. a lot of you fall in that category. is there anyone willing to step forward and say you support this or you advocated this during me

and so, they have never met a haitian before. in fact, one week and they invited whole family to come see an asian. one of the relatives is disappointed because i was not wearing one of those chain dynasty teams. when i told him as an san francisco, gore appear, they said you made that city of san? [laughter] [applause] >> i'm so glad we have so many people from the neighborhood here tonight. >> you spoke of the old-school irish americans here. was there anyone that was like a liaison between the old enemy that myth of assorted heraldic? >> absolutely. yes, in fact my book is a set wanted to write a history of san francisco and said the opening of my book about the wonderful san francisco legendary character, vincent hallinan from the preceding work who grew up in a very irish catholic family, but rejected a lot of what he had grown up in and became the link to the new. he started talking sort of a nick and nora character with his beautiful wife, vivian allen and he told the story the murder case they were involved in the 1930s.

. >> tell me about the trials and trouble haitians of president bill clinton. you're coming in and abc in the '90s, and bill clinton is president. yet the impeachment woes. did you have to deal with any of second term clinton problems? >> yeah, a good part of my first year at abc news was dealing with the clinton issues. the monica lewinsky story broke 10 months into my tenure in january of 1998. i was down in cuba. the pope was visiting cuba and we're all -- peter jennings, ted koppel, we have had well over 100 news people down there to cover the event. i got a call one night, cokie roberts and some of the other people from the desk in your thing we've got this investigation we've got going on that looks like it's going to break. there's this young intern who told her close friend that she had a relationship, inappropriate relationship with the president. i said that's ridiculous. that can't be right. we had no reasonably just telling the truth, that a friend is some truth so forget it. i went back into then and in about an hour they said we just confirmed jan