Philosopher Peter Hallward has an important short piece on "Our role in Haiti's plight" up on the Guardian. It's being attacked in the comments by a lot of people who clearly don't get it. Mark Fisher (aka k-punk, author of Capitalist Realism) has a good discussion of the text and the reactions it's drawing on his blog.
I for one agree with the sentiment being expressed by Hallward and k-punk: we have to send aid (=money), but we have to be careful what this aid means in practice, and even then we can't pretend that we thereby wash our hands of complicity in an un-natural (or as I prefer to call it post-natural) disaster.
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