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Clean Slate Program 10th Anniversary Event Thursday, Dec. 3, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Westbay Conference Center, 1290 Fillmore St., San Francisco
December 2, 2009
The Clean Slate Program, one of San Francisco’s first reentry programs, was started by Public Defender Jeff Adachi in 1999. Over the past 10 years, Clean Slate has helped thousands of individuals overcome barriers to obtaining employment, housing, professional licenses, certifications and government aid.
Haiti’s food crisis: Imposing hunger on the people of Haiti
August 10, 2008
In Haiti, they have a name for hunger. It’s called Clorox hunger – meaning something that eats you from the inside. But it’s an imposed hunger, an imposed starvation on the people of Haiti. It has a history. Until the 1980s, Haiti was self sufficient in rice production. But with the lowering of tariffs, Haitians got what we call “Miami” rice. Haiti was flooded with cheap rice imports and Haitian peasants couldn’t compete.