NEW VIDEO: Ay Haiti

The Latin world has released their support song for Haiti. It counts on appearances from Shakira, Alejandro Sanz, BeBe, Juanes and many others. Personally I have to say I like this one better than the “We are the world” remake.

THE $12 TRILLION TRAP: The Economic Crisis, the Obama Administration's Response and Its Global Impact

Policy Innovations adviser Joseph Stiglitz will speak tonight at a fund-raiser for pediatric care in Sierra Leone:

Welbodi Partnership invites you to an evening with Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate and Columbia University Professor of Economics, discussing "THE $12 TRILLION TRAP: The Economic Crisis, the Obama Administration's Response and Its Global Impact." The event will be moderated by Bloomberg News Editor-at-Large Mr. Robert Friedman, with an exhibition of photographs by Czech photographer David Lacina.

Time: May 26th 2009, 7-9PM
Location: Fourth Universalist Society of New York
160 Central Park West at 76th Street
Please RSVP at welbodinyc@gmail.com or by phone at (917) 945-7879

A minimum donation of $25 is requested. Exhibition photographs will be available for sale at $100. All cash donations and half of sale proceeds will go towards supporting the Welbodi Partnership, a charity dedicated to improving the provision of pediatric care in Sierra Leone. The event is made possible through the kind support of Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt, the Fourth Universalist Society of New York, Mrs. Anya Stiglitz, Mr. Robert Friedman, and Mr. David Lacina.