Americas

Today, with more than 500,000 people still living under sun-scorched tarps two years after the earthquake of January, 2010, the Haitian housing rights movement continues to gain urgency.

While imprisoned for the attempted assassination of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick, three anarchists -- Alexander Berkman, Henry Bauer, and Carl Nold -- published a sort of underground magazine, by and for the men with whom they were jailed.

Although political and social divisions have long fissured Haitian movements, organizations from across historic divides are demanding many of the same things. One clear, common emphasis is the immediate need for land and housing for the displaced.

Many of the same ultra-right families of the richest 1% in the U.S. currently attacking New Deal reforms protecting working families are the same families who attacked President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1930s for introducing these reforms.

In this interview filmmaker Sam Mayfield talks about what drew her to cover the uprising in Wisconsin, her experiences on the ground, her hope for the impact of the documentary, and the connection between the Occupy movement and its counterpart in Wisconsin.

The earthquake in Haiti on 12 January 2010 proved so devastating partly because the country’s development model had failed so completely. Now those funding the reconstruction of the country are pursuing the same disastrous path.