tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357357752085213364.post5280418570677129707..comments2023-04-16T08:26:17.640-04:00Comments on Changing Perspectives: On the recent upheavals in HaitiElizabeth Eames Roeblinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07483790483693405017noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357357752085213364.post-11796479783308039272007-07-05T09:26:00.000-04:002007-07-05T09:26:00.000-04:00The word in the first sentence should be "definiti...The word in the first sentence should be "definitive" rather than "definite" although both are correct. For some reason, I am unable to edit. I hope that you will come back down here next year and give us some more good reporting!Elizabeth Eames Roeblinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07483790483693405017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357357752085213364.post-12342904659128406742007-07-05T03:15:00.000-04:002007-07-05T03:15:00.000-04:00Thanks very much for the shout-out, Elizabeth. As ...Thanks very much for the shout-out, Elizabeth. As someone once said, it's very easy for activists who live in the United States and Canada (and often don't even speak Kreyol) to lecture Haitians about what life is like (or should be like, in the idealized vision of the radical bourgeois deluxe) in Haiti, quite another thing to travel the country and listen to the stories of thousands of people whose everyday struggles of survival are more awe-inspiring and worthy of respect than the posturings of any cynical politician.Michael Deiberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04810256309168860637noreply@blogger.com