Grassroots Haitian movements for social justice have set themselves a formidable task: not only addressing the ongoing humanitarian crisis, but also challenging the reconstruction effort to include their leadership and avoid reproducing the conditions that helped make the earthquake so disastrous.
The privatized, top-down approach to aid delivery in the camps for displaced Haitians has made possible all manner of abuse and coercion. Haitian activists are responding by demanding their human rights, even as they challenge dominant conceptions of those rights.
Examines the intensification of human rights abuses by law enforcement and security forces in the Americas. Characteristics of urban police forces; Views on the trend toward authoritarian security and policing; Analysis of conservatives and left on the origin of crime and violence.;