Editor's note: In RS 1137, we published " Beyond Relief ," a report that examined the failure of international efforts to rebuild Haiti following last year's devastating earthquake. Sean Penn, a leader in the reconstruction effort, sent us a lengthy and passionate critique of the story. His full letter is presented here. To read our response, click here . S hame on me. It is not narcissism that leads me to this statement, for I have no shame in recognizing the well-populated club in which I now see I can count myself as having been a member for most of my adult American life. As a person invested in, and having benefited from, the film industry since about 1980, of course, I'd had some peripheral awareness years ago that filmmaker Jonathan Demme was a voice in our own wilderness screaming, "There is a country of people down here in total poverty (call that: no emergency rooms when their children are sick with fever) only a one-and-a-half-hour flight from Miami Beach!" "Come on, Johnny!" I thought, "don't gimme no cause célèbre!" It took a fluke of timing and a major fucking earthquake, some 30 years later, to rattle my cage, while… Read full this story
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