Stories by Lyn Duff
Lyn Duff is an associate producer of Pacifica Radio's Flashpoints on KPFA and a writer for Pacific News Service.
Posted on Jan 12, 2005, Source: Pacific News Service
The killing of Haitian street children, which had declined after child-welfare campaigns waged by former President Jean Bertrand Aristide, has skyrocketed, according to human rights workers.
Posted on Mar 2, 2004, Source: Pacific News Service
Memories of the caring leader clash with harsh media portrayal of the fallen Haitian president.
Posted on Jun 29, 2000, Source: YO! Youth Outlook
"I was 13, a nerd with thick glasses and frizzy hair, when my mother sent me to an upscale residential summer camp. I arrived at summer camp to find that all the other girls in my bunk were already good friends, and I was an outsider. To fit in, I agreed to submit to their 'tests of friendship.' The next morning I was found naked, blindfolded, with my hands tied, walking down a highway in the mountains."
Posted on May 22, 2000, Source: WireTap
"Growing up in a single parent home I had my share of fast food. Breakfast was a run through the McDonald's drive thru for the Big Breakfast or an Egg McMuffin, hold the ham ... I decided that, in order to get in touch with my suburban roots, a day of noshing some greasy burgers and fries was in order."
Posted on May 15, 2000, Source: WireTap
Piercing, although popular in the US for years, has only recently become widespread in Israel -- where Jewish religious law prohibits piercings because of interpretations of the Torah.
