May 19, 2010 / Praxis
In this essay, Nadine Pinède reflects on a 2003 trip to Haiti and on a gathering of the MPP, Haiti’s largest grassroots organization, which focuses on food production and peasant mobilization as a response to poverty in Haiti.
Nadine Pinède earned her PhD at Indiana University and is an Elizabeth George Foundation Scholar in the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA program. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Twin Cities Reader, Radcliffe Quarterly, Literary Newsmakers, the Matrix Anthology of Literary and Visual Arts, and Soundings Review.
In this essay, Nadine Pinède reflects on a 2003 trip to Haiti and on a gathering of the MPP, Haiti’s largest grassroots organization, which focuses on food production and peasant mobilization as a response to poverty in Haiti.