Children of Haiti (Independent Lens) A MUST see.

Please go look up Independent Lens (one of my favorite programs) for a showing on "Children of Haiti"". Its gripping and real.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/children-of-haiti/

Frontline (also a favorite program of mine) on PBS also have a program about Haiti, that was fabtastic; "Battle of Haiti"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/battle-for-haiti/

 

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I love those PBS programs FG been watching them for years.

Independent Lens
Frontline
Wide Angles
Nature

I'm a big PBS Buff as well.

When I'm watching the tele, I'll generally be tuned into something like A&E, National Geograhic (Wild), History Channel, etc.

I saw a terrific HBO documentary the other day about Myanmar (Burma) and the video jockeys that smuggle out images from the country about what is going on internally. I think it was officially shot for DR-TV, part of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation.

From the days of Toussaint L'Ouverture when Haiti achieved independence in 1804 from France it has been crippled by deep class distinctions established under the French rule, where the privileged mulatto population had access to education, wealth and land. Something that they have held on to to this day. External and internal politics has run that nation into the ground.

 

you know, the first thing that went through my mind when i saw that was that i would love to adopt a child from haiti, but that really isn't the answer is it. thanks for sharing lovely