The Miami Herald reports that Haiti's president, René Préval deemed "unacceptable" the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee's advice to retool Haiti's nine-member elections council.

Haiti elections are expected to be held on November 28, 2010.

Read the article here.

The world's premier magazine about world/folk/roots music, fRoots, published an article in their July 2010 issue praising the Haiti Box Set and the Lomax work within it. Write Mark Kidel opens the lid and loves what he finds inside.

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Check out this article from The Huffington Post about EarthSpark, an organization that is donating solar-powered lamps and other lighting products to Haitians in need. Recently they were in Cite Soleil, site of one of our latest Sinema Anba Zetwal screenings.

Read about EarthSpark in The Huffington Post.

The Green Family Foundation (GFF) and FastForward Haiti (FF) held a Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) members-only screening of the Sinema Anba Zetwal (SAZ) program that has been touring Haiti in the past few months. Seen to the left are FF staff members putting finishing touches on the signage at the event entrance.

The special, one-night-only event featured selections of content from the Food for Souls Tour, including the films and music recorded by ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax in Haiti in the 1930s, as well as educational and culturally relevant programming specific to Haiti and the current condition of its residents.

The repatriation of Lomax's recordings, and GFF's role in disseminating Haiti's cultural history to the world and Haiti itself, has been lauded by the CGI. This was the first opportunity most CGI members had to see the SAZ shows in person.