Wednesday, April 25, 2007

OSF's Charity Assistance Did Not Include Jean-Baptiste

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The following is from the Children's Hospital of Illinois website. Jackson Jean- Baptiste was denied care at Children's Hospital. Ja...
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Sunday, April 22, 2007

Madame Therese

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The lady in the photo holding the baby is Madame Therese. She remembers growing up in the Les Cayes area in southern Haiti. Her life was goo...

Vicarious Grief

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"According to Chochinov, there are a couple of catches to vicarious grief. The less the victims resemble us, the less grief we feel. An...
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Gorillas Receive Better Care than Haitians

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Gorillas in Brookfield Zoo near Chicago receive much better care than most Haitians in Haiti. First of all, the gorillas are fed every day. ...
Saturday, April 14, 2007

Maxime, Jackson, and Peoria's Makeover

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Maxime, in front of the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, December, 2006. Haitian kids like Maxime and Jackson continue to die while Peoria...

Haiti, MINUSTAH, and Latin America: Solidaridad?

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Please go to IRC Americas Program to see a recent article by Mario Joseph and Brian Concannon, Jr.
Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Justice and Injustice

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Liberation theologists theory of justice begins from the experience of injustice. It is rooted in reflection on the dismal poverty that subm...

Haiti's Plague is Poverty

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The Haitian baby to the right presented with seizures, fever, bulging tense fontanelle, primitive neurologic reflex at his right hand, and e...
Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Tuberculosis

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Consider these facts regarding tuberculosis: 1. Tuberculosis kills 2,000,000 people each year around the world. Tuberculosis is the leading ...
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Peoria's Headlines

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During the last several days, the headlines of several articles in the Peoria Journal Star have been about Peoria's medical center's...
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Thursday, March 29, 2007

Prayer of Saint Francis

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Lord make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, Let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith...
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

A Deafening Cry

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(Father Gerry Jean-Juste with parishoner at St. Clare's Church, Port-au-Prince, 2005.) Perhaps the single most significant event to give...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Disorderly Parts

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"We carve out order by leaving the disorderly parts out." William James

Toussaint Louverture

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"Does anyone think that men who have enjoyed the benefits of freedom would look on calmly while it is stripped from them? They bore the...
Sunday, March 25, 2007

Aristide and Education

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"Previous governments (in Haiti) never seriously tried to invest in education, and it's clear that our program was always going to ...
Friday, March 23, 2007

The First Class Parking Deck

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The Peoria Journal Star had an article on March 21, 2007 regarding OSF’s new parking deck. It is an 1,800-spot visitor and patient parking d...
Sunday, March 18, 2007

The "Brutal" Society?

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In my opinion, Haitians are very patient people. They suffer everyday in all ways imaginable. I wonder how North Americans would act in the ...
Monday, March 12, 2007

Food Insecurity Equals Madness

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I call it the "belt sign". At a well-known tuberculosis hospital in Port-au-Prince, when men get on the scales to be weighed, thei...
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Sunday, March 11, 2007

Mountains Behind Mountains

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"In Haiti they have a saying, "deye mon gen mon". Beyond the mountains there are more mountains--a beautiful expression, not ...
Saturday, March 10, 2007

Haiti Breaks Everyone's Back

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This Haitian boy has Pott's disease. He has tuberculosis of the vertebral bodies in his thoracic spine which causes the bone to become i...