Articles by Jesse Hagopian

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Haiti’s Buried Cry for Help
Jesse Hagopian – Socialist Worker, 14 Jan 2013

Three years ago, on January 12, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, causing death and destruction on a terrible scale. Seattle teacher Jesse Hagopian was there. Now, on the anniversary of the disaster, he looks at how the people of Haiti have been betrayed and victimized again by the most powerful government in the world.

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Shock-Doctrine Schooling in Haiti
Jesse Hagopian – Socialist Worker, 12 Sep 2011

Jesse Hagopian is a high school teacher in the Seattle Public Schools and a founding member Social Equality Educators (SEE). In January 2010, he was in Haiti with his wife and one-year-old son when the earthquake hit. Here, he looks at the plans that school privatization enthusiasts in the U.S. have for Haiti’s devastated school system.

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DELAYING AID FOR A PHOTO-OP
Jesse Hagopian – Socialist Worker, 26 Jan 2010

Given the examples of Iraq, Afghanistan and now Haiti, it seems like the U.S. knows how to do little other than occupy.The author, a teacher from Seattle, was in Haiti with his wife (who works on HIV education in the country) and one-year-old son when the earthquake hit. Here, he looks at the U.S. government’s […]

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