All profits from Philosophy Football’s ‘Aidez Hait’ T-shirt will go to the appeal launched by the TUC towards emergency relief and long-term rehabilitation of the victims of the earthquake. Details here.

The Philosophy Football Aidez Haiti shirt is available from here .

Photographer Jess Hurd is someone Philosophy Football has worked with in the past year, collaborating on exhibitions. Recently returned from the earthquake zone, she warns that her photos should be viewed with caution, they are extremely harrowing.

Two outstanding articles on Haiti have in the past week have made points  Philosophy Football entirely endorse. Seumas Milne wrote "While last week’s earthquake was a natural disaster, the scale of the human catastrophe it has unleashed is man-made. It is uncontested that poverty is the main cause of the horrific death toll: the product of teeming shacks and the absence of health and public infrastructure. But Haiti’s poverty is treated as some baffling quirk of history or culture, when in reality it is the direct consequence of a uniquely brutal relationship with the outside world — notably the US, France and Britain — stretching back centuries." Full article here.

And Andy Kershaw has pointed out how an apparently sympathetic media has often served to misrepresent the ordinary Haitians  "Too much energy in the last week has been expended on bickering the fetish about "security". This assumption that there is a security threat has gone completely unchallenged by an army of foreign press, unfamiliar with Haiti and the character of the Haitians. Indeed, TV reporters particularly, having exhausted the televisual possibilities of rubble, have been talking up "security", "unrest" and "violence" when all available evidence would indicate anything but." Full article here

We intend to hand our first donation over at next Wednesday’s TUC  Concert For Haiti, details here.  Do help us raise the funds as quickly as possible, and do please spread the word via Facebook, blogs, emails, twitter etc.