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Downstream
The afterlife of American junk
Moore Gerety, Rowan http://harpers.org/archive/2019/06/downstream-haiti-american-junk/
Publisher: Harper's Magazine
Date Written: 01/06/2019
Year Published: 2019
Resource Type: Article
The squat warehouse at Miami’s 5th Street Terminal was nearly obscured by merchandise: used car engines; tangles of coat hangers; bicycles bound together with cellophane; stacks of wheelbarrows; cases of Powerade and bottled water; a bag of sprouting onions atop a secondhand Whirlpool refrigerator; and, above all, mattresses -- shrink-wrapped and bare, spotless and streaked with dust, heaped in every corner of the lot -- twins, queens, kings. All this and more was bound for Port-de-Paix, a remote city in northwestern Haiti.
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