This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

This week: Vancouver-based freelance journalist, author and researcher, Anthony Fenton will be here in the second half. Anthony's book, 'Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority,' co-authored with Yves Engler, explores the western aid paradigm and what it has meant for the people of Haiti and beyond. Friend of the show, Anthony Fenton in the second half.  

Listen. Hear.

 

 

As Canada daily comes to resemble more its cousin south in both domestic and foreign policy, the last expressions of those ersatz differences, non-governmental organizations, working with monies provided in part by government, are being attacked. The Republican-styled Harper administration has in recent weeks and months targeted supposed arm's-length organizations working in the Middle-East, primarily in Palestine, revoking funding, and in the famous case of Right & Democracy, stacking the board of directors and driving out those deemed insufficiently loyal to Mr. Harper's view of Israel and its place in Canadian affairs.

 

[Michel Lambert declined at the last minute to show up. - ape.]

 

Another of the high profile international NGO's effected by Conservative muscularity is the Alternatives Action and Communication Network for International Development, more briefly known as Alternatives. In operation since 1994, the Montreal-based organization recently found itself as welcome by the Conservatives as a vestigial tail at a beach party, seeing the entirety of its governmental financial support cut.

Michel Lambert is Executive Director and co-founder of Alternatives. Michel specializes in developing information and communication technologies in the service of better facilitating networking among and between civil society groups and organizations in the developing world. He has, since Alternatives' funding deadline came and went without word from its primary funder, CIDA, (the Canadian International Development Agency) has gone public. Michel Lambert in the first half.

And; Vancouver-based freelance journalist, author and researcher, Anthony Fenton will be here in the second half. Anthony's book, 'Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority,' co-authored with Yves Engler, explores the western aid paradigm and what it has meant for the people of Haiti and beyond. Friend of the show, Anthony Fenton in the second half.  

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with some of the goings on going on on Victoria's streets; but first, Michel Lambert and finding alternatives to Stephen Harper's vision of Canada abroad.  

 

Some past guests include: M. Junaid Alam, M. Shahid Alam, Joel Bakan, Maude Barlow, David Barsamian, Rhoda Berenson, William Blum, Luciana Bohne, William Bowles, Mordecai Briemberg, James J. Brittain, Vincent Bugliosi, Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, Michel Chossudovsky, Diane Christian, Juan Cole, David Cromwell, Murray Dobbin, Jon Elmer, Reese Erlich, Anthony Fenton, Jim Fetzer, Laura Flanders, Chris Floyd, Connie Fogal, Glen Ford, Susan George, Stan Goff, Amy Goodman, Robert Greenwald, Denis Halliday, Chris Hedges, Sander Hicks, Julia Butterfly Hill, Scott Horton, Robert Jensen, Dahr Jamail, Chalmers Johnson, Diana Johnstone, Malalai Joya, Kathy Kelly, Naomi Klein, Brewster Kneen, Betty Krawczyk, Anthony Lappe, Frances Moore Lappe, Jason Leopold, Jeff Leys, Dave Lindorff, Jim Lobe, Jennifer Loewenstein, Wayne Madsen, Stephen Marshall, Linda McQuaig, George Monbiot, Loretta Napoleoni, John Nichols, Kurt Nimmo, David Orchard, Greg Palast, Mike Palecek, Michael Parenti, Robert Parry, John Pilger, Kevin Pina, William Rivers Pitt, Justin Podur, Lila Rajiva, Jack Random, Sheldon Rampton, Paul Craig Roberts, David Robb, Paul de Rooij, John Ross, David Rovics, Danny Schechter, David Schindler, Vandana Shiva, Norman Solomon, Starhawk, Grant Wakefield, Paul Watson, Bernard Weiner, Mickey Z., Howard Zinn and many others.