Shipping Containers used in Haiti for Maternal / Child Organization linked to Alefantis

Shipping Containers used in Haiti for Maternal / Child Organization linked to Alefantis (pizzagate)

submitted 8 years ago by Battle_of_Evermore

I was reading the Metro Weekly article https://archive.is/hu5jg#selection-1175.88-1175.348 and came across:

"But Alefantis, who turns 40 this year, has worked in restaurants since high school, including a stint in New York working at a Bobby Flay location. Prior to opening Buck’s, he had served two years as the general manager of Johnny’s Half Shell in Dupont Circle."

When I looked up Johnny's Half Shell website https://archive.is/OzwA6 there was a recent facebook link:

"DOING THE THINGS WE WANT TO..' My college crush Elizabeth Sheehan #care2communities has been saving women in Haiti one day at a time, this week she visits the Half Shell!"

The Care 2 Communities website https://archive.is/8PiGg shows the following on their page, at bottom:

I searched Containers 2 Clinics https://archive.is/v76V4 and found:

"Containers 2 Clinics (C2C) seeks to reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality rates in the developing world by providing access to high-quality primary healthcare for women and children. We deploy shipping containers converted into clinics to areas with inadequate facilities and collaborate with local organizations and governments to provide clinical, laboratory, pharmacy, and health education services."

So the restaurant that Alefantis managed is linked to a maternal / child organization, that operates in Haiti and deals with shipping containers.

Also see: https://archive.is/5065V https://archive.is/Bl8O4 https://archive.is/JPUIf

Edit: Comments from carmencita:

Found another tidbit. https://care2communities.org/2012/02/28/haiti-adolescent-girls-network-2/ *** I was looking up a Dr. Carvair and found Haiti Adolescent Girls Network. On the front page is none other than a video with Bill Cllinton ready to extol the wonders of the Org. There are many girls and they are all adorable. So another connection is Americares and the Population Council. Take a look. I am going to check on the Dr.

AngB23 comments:

Elizabeth Sheehan Wikileaks $2000.00 contribution https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/1808 https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/21101

Seems to be another one in newton, Mass. Allison Howard-Berry

http://us13.campaign-archive1.com/?u=6ea196c601a3be4c3e1e34751&id=83b8981ea9 https://govtribe.com/vendor/containers-2-clinics-inc-newton-ma

Board of Directors: Peter Urbanczyk, Chair, Sberbank CIB; Elizabeth Sheehan, Founder & President; Dave Adams, AFC Urgent Care; Miriam Christof, JustJump Marketing; Contance A. Eagan; Mona Eliassen, Eliassen Group; Milton Millman, Goldman Sachs; Sally Ourieff MD, Translational Consulting; Nicole Sahin, Globalization Partners; Marie Marthe Saint Cyr, Lambi Fund; Gerald Sheehan, Board Emeritus, Sheehan Family Companies

Is this the same Sheehans? If so...they are seem pretty rich and in other forms of distribution.

https://www.sheehanfamilycompanies.com/our-history

(This checks out because in this article https://archive.is/JPUIf she states "grew up in a small town in Massachusetts as one of eight children. My father, who owned and operated a beer distribution company," The company is in Massachusetts.)

ACHILLES_HEEL comment and truck screenshot (can anyone make out what's on the side of it?) :

For more information about C2C, please contact Allison Howard-Berry, Executive Director.

Our mailing address is: Care 2 Communities 711 Atlantic Avenue Lower Level Boston, MA 02111

Which takes us to precisely this location using cut and paste with Google Maps. Have a close look at 2nd sphere photo of a truck carrying a covered container. https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Workbar+Boston/@42.351019,-71.058698,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e37a78b9e1844f:0xed1be26907c4ff1f!8m2!3d42.351019!4d-71.056504!6m1!1e1 https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Workbar+Boston/@42.3509505,-71.0563052,3a,75y,295h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s1Cd_dXdMkwghJhVGfoiuZg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D1Cd_dXdMkwghJhVGfoiuZg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dsearch.TACTILE.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D129%26h%3D106%26yaw%3D295.6489%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e37a78b9e1844f:0xed1be26907c4ff1f!8m2!3d42.351019!4d-71.056504!6m1!1e1

Here's a screen shot of the covered container on the back of the truck pinned at the 711 address. http://imgur.com/a/yoaWK

AnonOpenPress found:

https://archive.fo/phDtj

rodeo13 comment:

I did some digging last night and came across something interesting. I think this NGO called Americares may be the even bigger global picture:

From the C2C website: “C2C’s partner in Haiti, AmeriCares, was instrumental in the founding of the Haiti Adolescent Girls Network.” Notice that this statement is just above the video with Bill Clinton. (https://care2communities.org/2012/02/28/haiti-adolescent-girls-network-2/))))

Who is behind Americares? “AmeriCares guidance includes Honorary Chairman Zbigniew Brzezinski, Ambassador at Large Barbara Bush, and Prescott Sheldon Bush, Jr.“ (https://web.archive.org/web/20170419055700/http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/AmeriCares)))) ... A look at AmeriCares' advisory board shows links to both the U.S. government and right-wing organizations in the United States. Besides its links to the former CIA director, AmeriCares' board includes his brother Prescott Bush, former U.S. Treasury Secretary William Simon, former U.S. Secretary of State Zbigniew Brzezinski, General Colin Powell, and former U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger. If asked what word best characterized this group of people, would anyone say "humanitarians"?” (https://web.archive.org/web/20170419060521/http://truedemocracy.net/td2_2/68dyk.html))))

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rodeo13 8 years ago

Really excellent post, @Battle_of_Evermore!

I did some digging last night and came across something interesting. I think this NGO called Americares may be the even bigger global picture:

“The timing of the recent planeload of supplies to Iraq is hardly the first controversy over a shipment from AmeriCares. Sandinista officials accused AmeriCares of being a CIA front and part of the secret network of private groups used by Marine Corps Lt. Col. Oliver North to deliver aid to the Contras. In 1988 the embattled Sandinista government in Nicaragua rejected an airlift of newsprint donated by AmeriCares to the right-wing opposition daily newspaper, La Prensa. It had been timed to arrive just before the elections. The newspapers that supported the Sandinista government were unable to buy newsprint at that time because of a U.S.-imposed embargo on newsprint, but Vice President George Bush's staff called the Nicaraguan Embassy to try to expedite the shipment to La Prensa. Two years earlier, AmeriCares had delivered 200 tons of newsprint to La Prensa during another crisis created by the U.S.

AmeriCares has also delivered supplies to contra terrorists based in Honduras. AmeriCares' tax returns revealed donations of cash and materials to the brother of contra leader Adolfo Calero. The Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, a front organization of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, channeled $350,000 to AmeriCares.

The AmeriCares website shows that its shipments seem to find their way to wherever the CIA is most active. Special "humanitarian supplies" have been shipped to contra forces in Afghanistan and their rear bases in Pakistan. An airlift was organized for U.S.-supported forces in Eritrea and Tigre during the war in Ethiopia. During the civil war raging in the Balkans, aid was sent to Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo.

AmeriCares often acts as an arm of U.S. foreign and domestic policy by reinforcing and supplying the most reactionary organizations. It controls the distribution network to millions of people in desperate need. This strengthens the infrastructure and influence of groups with a political agenda supportive of U.S. corporate goals. Millions of dollars of supplies flooding into a region during a war crisis or famine can exert enormous political influence. As Forbes, the magazine that calls itself the "capitalist tool," enthused, "AmeriCares is a splendid example of what a free-enterprise approach can accomplish in charity."

A look at AmeriCares' advisory board shows links to both the U.S. government and right-wing organizations in the United States. Besides its links to the former CIA director, AmeriCares' board includes his brother Prescott Bush, former U.S. Treasury Secretary William Simon, former U.S. Secretary of State Zbigniew Brzezinski, General Colin Powell, and former U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger. If asked what word best characterized this group of people, would anyone say "humanitarians"?” (https://web.archive.org/web/20170419060521/http://truedemocracy.net/td2_2/68dyk.html))

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AngB23 8 years ago

Awesome research. Do you know how the money was channeled from Unification Church to AmeriCares? I was looking at a few donation sites and wondering if there's a way to follow or dig deeper into these money trails. I haven't researched yet who owns these donation sites, but, here's a few I found

https://mygrowfund.org/

If you use the drop down for Recipient- a TON of NGOs https://donate.charity.org/

http://www.globalhealthcommittee.org/donate.php

https://www.globalgiving.org/donate/11555/americares-foundation-inc/

https://bitpay.com/597153/donate

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rodeo13 8 years ago

Wow - didn't know there was a connection between the Unification Church and AmeriCares. I'll do some digging as well and see what comes up.

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