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**Cersdog** · 10-09-2010, 04:52 PM

I think I've met this Marisol (if she is 42 and not 23 as first quoted) - she's from a very poor barrio where she still lives, and is a lawyer and an amazing person.

Link to the original article:
Beverly Bell: "The Last Thing to Lose are Your Dignity and Hope": Haitian Refugee Camps Model Future Society (Part II)
I'd like to send it to the Diario Libre columnist who wrote that nasty piece about "Where is Sonia Pierre" in the aftermath of the earthquake.
De buena tinta - ¿Dónde está Sonia Pierre? - DiarioLibre.com

I wish you would!

But I can understand why Dominicans have gotten so upset with her - since she has helped to promote this idea that ALL Haitians here are treated "like slaves" - which those of us who live here understand is not the truth.

I know that all activists can have a rigid point of view (been there- done that) but the issue of the stateless people in the DR is a very real one and needs to be addressed.

10-09-2010, 04:52 PM	#3
Cersdog Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 378 Senior Member	I think I've met this Marisol (if she is 42 and not 23 as first quoted) - she's from a very poor barrio where she still lives, and is a lawyer and an amazing person. Link to the original article: Beverly Bell: "The Last Thing to Lose are Your Dignity and Hope": Haitian Refugee Camps Model Future Society (Part II) I'd like to send it to the Diario Libre columnist who wrote that nasty piece about "Where is Sonia Pierre" in the aftermath of the earthquake. De buena tinta - ¿Dónde está Sonia Pierre? - DiarioLibre.com I wish you would! But I can understand why Dominicans have gotten so upset with her - since she has helped to promote this idea that ALL Haitians here are treated "like slaves" - which those of us who live here understand is not the truth. I know that all activists can have a rigid point of view (been there- done that) but the issue of the stateless people in the DR is a very real one and needs to be addressed.
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