[Peace-discuss] Poem about Haitian worker oppression in Dominican Republic

[Chuck Minne]

Me too!

Wendy Edwards <wedwards at uiuc.edu> wrote:  I like it!

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:12:06AM -0600, Shara Esbenshade wrote:
> I recently had a poem of mine published in my school's online newspaper as
> a podcast. It is about Haitian workers in the Dominican Republic, which I
> have been studying this year through Global Studies Initiative, a program
> through which I will travel to the Dominican Republic this summer for two
> weeks. I think the bateys of the Dominican Republic need to be talked
> about more because very few people know about what they are or what it is
> like for a Haitian in the Dominican Republic, where mass deportations of
> Haitians and Haitian-Dominicans occur regularly. So if you'd like to read
> the poem or hear it read, below are the links.
> 
> The poem:
> http://www.uni.uiuc.edu/gargoyle/2007/03/audio_podcast_shara_esbenshade.htm
> 
> A discussion of it:
> http://www.uni.uiuc.edu/gargoyle/2007/03/audio_podcast_shara_esbenshade_1.htm
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> -Shara Esbenshade
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