Albert Lea, MN–(ENEWSPF)–January 19, 2010 Responding to the Haiti earthquake has been one of the toughest challenges ever, international aid agency Oxfam said today, one week since the quake struck, killing at least 80,000 people. Although aid is beginning to get through, the impact of the earthquake on Oxfam’s Haitian[Read More…]
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UN Security Council Authorizes 3,500 More UN Peacekeepers for Haiti
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–19 January 2010 – The Security Council today backed Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s call to increase the overall force levels of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti to support the immediate recovery, reconstruction and stability efforts following last week’s devastating earthquake. Following his visit on Sunday to the capital,[Read More…]
Doctors Without Borders Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Trying to Save Lives in Port-Au-Prince
Port-au-Princ, Haiti–(ENEWSPF)–January 19, 2010. By Jeanne Cabeza and Michelle Chouinard I thought I was going to die when the earth shook. I was at Pacot, the Doctors Without Borders physical rehabilitation center in Port-au-Prince. Five minutes after the quake, people were banging on our door in need of help. There[Read More…]
Illinois to Aid Haiti Earthquake Relief Effort
SPRINGFIELD—(ENEWSPF)–January 18, 2010. Members of the 183rd Fighter Wing in Springfield have been activated to support earthquake relief efforts in Haiti in the first such mobilization of Illinois National Guard forces. Five members of the Springfield-based unit are en route today to U.S. Air Forces Southern Command at Davis-Monthan Air[Read More…]
Remarks by President Obama on Race to the Top at Graham Road Elementary School
Falls Church, Virginia–(ENEWSPF)–January 19, 2010 – 10:25 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. You guys look really cute in those chairs. (Laughter.) I am pleased to be joined today by my outstanding Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, at Graham Road Elementary School, one of Virginia’s finest schools. And here at Graham[Read More…]
GALA ND/SMC Response to Hate Speech in Anti-Gay Observer Cartoon
Note: This past Tuesday, a gay-bashing comic strip ran in The Observer. You can see the comic that ran in the paper, as well as the one that was originally rejected and the hateful conversation that transpired, here. GALA ND/SMC’s official response is below. As officers of the Gay and[Read More…]
Notre Dame’s President Responds to Anti-Gay Observer Cartoon
Notre Dame, IN–(ENEWSPF)– The Jan. 13 issue of the University of Notre Dame’s student newspaper The Observer included a cartoon that was inappropriate and offensive. “The University denounces the implication that violence or expressions of hate toward any person or group of people is acceptable or a matter that should[Read More…]
Assistant Managing Editor of Notre Dame’s Observer Resigns Over Gay Cartoon Flap
Notre Dame, IN–(ENEWSPF)– Kara King, Assistant Managing Editor of the University of Notre Dame’s student newspaper The Observer, tendered her resignation to the publication’s editorial board Monday. The editors published a statement indicating they "greatly respect King’s courage in writing a letter to our community and appreciate her service to[Read More…]
IRC Deploys Emergency Team to Haitian Capital Devastated by Quake, Jan. 18, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti–(ENEWSPF)–18 Jan 2010 – The International Rescue Committee’s Emergency Response Team is on the ground in Haiti, joining other rescue workers delivering aid to hundreds of thousands of Haitians in desperate need of food, clean water and shelter. On Sunday, the team visited 13 sites in the battered city[Read More…]
Doctors Without Borders Teleconference on Haiti Earthquake, January 18, 2010
Port-au-Prince, Haiti–(ENEWSPF)–January 18, 2010. Benoit Leduc, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) operations manager for Haiti, and Loris de Filippi, MSF operational coordinator in Port-au-Prince, participated in a teleconference with press regarding MSF’s response to the January 12, 2010, earthquake. Avril Benoit: Welcome to the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières[Read More…]
