[Peace-discuss] Oliver Stone: Help the UN rectify its cholera blunder in Haiti

[Robert Naiman]

This petition has more than 10,000 signers.

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From: Oliver Stone, Just Foreign Policy <noreply at list.signon.org>
Date: Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:18 PM
Subject: Help the UN rectify its cholera blunder in Haiti
To: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org


Dear Robert,

We all make mistakes. Sometimes our mistakes badly hurt other people. When
we make a mistake that badly hurts other people, it's our responsibility to
do what we can to rectify the harm caused by our mistake.

*The United Nations made a terrible series of mistakes in Haiti that badly
hurt hundreds of thousands of Haitians.* First, the UN sent troops to Haiti
who were carriers of the deadly waterborne disease cholera, which was
previously unknown in Haiti. Then, the UN didn't make sure that UN troops
were using proper sanitation procedures. As a result, UN troops who were
infected with cholera dumped their contaminated waste in a river that was
used by Haitians for drinking water. Then, when people complained about
sanitation problems at the UN base, the UN didn't do anything about the
complaints.

*As a result of the UN's mistakes, since October 2010 **cholera has killed
thousands of people in Haiti.* Hundreds of thousands of Haitians have
gotten ill, in a country with poor health care infrastructure to take care
of them.

Now the UN has an opportunity to try to rectify the situation. The
anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti is coming up in a few days, and
that's a time when the world will turn its focus towards Haiti. It's also a
time when the UN could make an announcement about what it's going to do
about helping Haiti get rid of cholera. The government of Haiti and the UN
have a plan, but so far the plan isn't funded. A plan that's not funded
can't do anything. We need public pressure *NOW* on the UN and other donors
to come through with money to implement the plan.

*Can you help us build pressure on the UN and other donors to produce the
money to get rid of cholera in Haiti?* I've initiated a petition at Avaaz
which has been signed by thousands of people from around the world. If we
get enough signers, Members of Congress will present this petition to the
UN.  *Please sign and share my petition at this link:*

http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/End_Haitis_Cholera_Epidemic_with_UN_Action_Now_1/
<http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/End_Haitis_Cholera_Epidemic_with_UN_Action_Now_1/>

Thank you for helping me help Haitians who've been hurt by cholera to raise
their voices to the UN.

–Oliver Stone, on behalf of Just Foreign Policy



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