This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook
 William K. Carroll is a political researcher, educator, author, and
professor in the Sociology Department here at the University of
Victoria's Interdisciplinary Minor/Diploma Program in Social Justice
Studies. He's the author of more than a hundred articles, chapters and
reports, and his book titles include: 'Corporate Power and Canadian
Capitalism,' 'Corporate Power in a Globalizing World,' and his latest,
'The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class.'
William K. Carroll in the first half.
Kevin Pina is an American journalist and filmmaker who has reported from
Haiti on and off for more than twenty years, and who lived in the
capital for more than seven years.
From his early days as a KPFA radio
reporter documenting the human rights abuses in Port au Prince's poorest
neighbourhoods, to covering the initial 1991 coup d'état against
populist president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, (and subsequent coups and
ongoing police state horrors) to his own imprisonment there in 2005,
Pina has borne witness in a way few foreign correspondents can equal.
Kevin Pina and Haiti's continuing struggle in the second half.
And;
Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV radio broadcaster, Janine
Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed
with events going on on the streets of Victoria and beyond. Here, in the still early days of 2012, we're witnessing the beginnings of societal transformation whose scope is unprecedented. Across the globe, from the Arab Spring, to the Occupy Movement of the Western nations, and to the largely suppressed but burgeoning environmental, social justice, and union struggles in Neo-Capitalist China, (not to mention the Bolivarian successes in South America) it's clear: The masses believe the time for changing the way the world is ordered is here.
It's a frighten  ing thought, no doubt, for the masters of the status quo - and frightening too for those facing rioting, and heavily armed, police in the streets. But scariest for all us is the prospect of what this means for our futures, and for that of generations to come.
William K. Carroll is a political researcher, educator, author, and professor in the Sociology Department here at the University of Victoria's Interdisciplinary Minor/Diploma Program in Social Justice Studies. He's the author of more than a hundred articles, chapters and reports, and his book titles include: 'Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism,' 'Corporate Power in a Globalizing World,' and his latest, 'The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class.'
William K. Carroll in the first half.
And; for hundreds of thousands in Haiti, the future ended January 12, 2010. That was the day of the earthquake. But, the earthquake was not the beginning of Haiti's long-festering problems, merely an acceleration of the country's misery; a quickening of a sort, bringing into sharp relief the systemic social dysfunction maintaining Haiti as the perennially poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere.
 On February 29th, 2004 Haiti suffered another national calamity, but there was little natural about it; on that day, wildly popular president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide was kidnapped by western powers and hustled out of the country and into imposed exile.
Kevin Pina is an American journalist and filmmaker who has reported from Haiti on and off for more than twenty years, and who lived in the capital for more than seven years. From his early days as a KPFA radio reporter documenting the human rights abuses in Port au Prince's poorest neighbourhoods, to covering the initial 1991 coup d'état against populist president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, (and subsequent coups and ongoing police state horrors) to his own imprisonment there in 2005, Pina has borne witness in a way few foreign correspondents can equal. His film titles include: 'El Salvador: In the Name of Democracy,' 'Amazonia: Voices from the Rainforest,' 'Haiti: Harvest of Hope,' 'Haiti: The UNtold Story,' and 'HAITI: We Must Kill the Bandits.'
Kevin Pina and Haiti's continuing struggle in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with events going on on the streets of Victoria and beyond. But first, William K. Carroll and transformational times for the transnational capitalist class.
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