Michael O. Allen

Tag: Haiti

  • Aspiration

    Wyclef Jean–“If I Was President [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pq_3OheqzU[/youtube] Election time is coming If I was president, I’d get elected on Friday, assasinated on Saturday, and buried on Sunday. If I was president… If I was president An old man told me, instead of spending billions on the war, we can use some of that money, in the…

  • World of Hunger

    Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising Anger Tyler Hicks/The New York Times In a garbage dump in Port-au-Prince, people recently scavenged for food. More Photos > E-MAIL PRINT REPRINTS SAVE SHARE By MARC LACEY Published: April 18, 2008 Correction Appended PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Hunger bashed in the front gate of Haiti’s presidential palace. Hunger poured…

  • Millions in Hunger

    Food Crisis Is Depicted As ‘Silent Tsunami’ Sharp Price Hikes Leave Many Millions in Hunger By Kevin Sullivan Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, April 23, 2008; A01 LONDON, April 22 — More than 100 million people are being driven deeper into poverty by a “silent tsunami” of sharply rising food prices, which have sparked riots…

  • Surging

    John McCain was for “cutting and running” before he was against it. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin

  • Plungers Waved In Angry March

    Sunday, August 17, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, CAROLINA GONZALEZ and PAUL SCHWARTZMAN, Daily News Staff Writers Brandishing toilet plungers and chanting “KKK must go!” thousands of angry protesters yesterday descended on Brooklyn’s 70th Precinct, where two cops have been charged with torturing a Haitian immigrant. Pressed tightly against a line of cops standing behind…