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Thinking more deeply about Haiti – “underlying causes and long term solutions” »

stair_stepScott Fina offers a contrasting view to David Brooks recent New York Times editorial about the role of poverty in Haiti’s suffering from its earthquake, recently circulated over FamVin. Below he writes “My point?  Haiti (like Katrina) is indeed much more a story of poverty than a story of natural disaster, as David Brooks states.   But ultimately the plot and context of that story are not about an inferior culture, but systemic injustice.”

FAMVIN invites all viewers to enter into dialog with two contrasting points of view by clicking on the comment button above the graphic and adding your thoughts about” underlying causes and long term solutions” (John Paul II).

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