This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

This week: Ezili Danto is a Haitian-American playwright, performance poet, and author. She's also a social and political activist and commentator, and human rights attorney. She is the founder and president of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network. She also serves as managing editor of the on-line journal, Haitian Perspectives, and publishes the Ezili Danto Newsletter. Ezili Danto and Day 27 in New Haiti in the first half. 

Mary Desmond is president of the Shawnigan Lake Watershed Watch Association, and says the fight to save the watershed is about more than losing natural habitat and a rural lifestyle. Mary Desmond and staying the vandal's hand in the second half.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us newz straight from the streetz of Victoria and environs. But first Ezili Danto and Haiti: Year One.

Four weeks have passed now since the devastating earthquake that rocked Haiti. The American invasion pretending to be an aid mission is well entrenched, thousands of U.S. and international soldiers have secured the air and seaports, and now have a stranglehold on aid as it arrives. That is; when they allow it to arrive. In the countryside, the people are still dying for lack of basics like potable water, food, and medicines. The corporate and state media brigades that arrived in the days after January 12th have petered out, now only a handful remain to witness the desertion of the Haitian people and with it the last vestige of the ruling western elite's pretense to humanity. As with the phony promised change in America, for Haitians it is the same as it ever was; the people are being ground under foot by want and cruelty, while their deliverance lays behind barbed wire, jealously guarded by beasts in service to insatiable greed.

Ezili Danto is a Haitian-American playwright, performance poet, and author. She's also a social and political activist and commentator, and human rights attorney. She is the founder and president of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network. She also serves as managing editor of the on-line journal, Haitian Perspectives, and publishes the Ezili Danto Newsletter. Ezili Danto and Day 27 in New Haiti in the first half.

And; one watershed at a time, Vancouver Island is fast on its way to becoming an environmental wasteland. This time the wreckers have their eye on Shawnigan Lake's watershed, where they plan, what else but suburban sprawl into the already plundered forest lands. Typically, this systemic erasure of wild space is called "development,"  but there are some telling differences with what's being planned around Shawnigan. Mary Desmond is president of the Shawnigan Lake Watershed Watch Association, and says this fight is about more than losing natural habitat and a rural lifestyle. Mary Desmond and staying the vandal's hand in the second half.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us newz straight from the streetz of Victoria and environs. But first Ezili Danto and Haiti: Year One.  

 

 

 

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