Community radio and social change in Haiti

I found this interview with Sony Esteus, director of society for social mobilization and communication, talking about the importance of community radio as a tool for social change in Haiti really interesting. It's something activists in the US should learn from. Here's a portion of it:

"For us, community and popular radio isn't an end in itself. It's part of a global plan of social change, of transformation of the society. We're going to continue to do popular education to change the mentality and behavior of people, as well as to denounce what's being done against the people today. As we move forward, we want to help people understand how to organize themselves and also how to fight the projects now underway, which are going to reinforce their poverty."

We need more than just the failed Air America experiment. We need a grassroots, social justice oriented media that speaks to the issues and concerns of ordinary citizens as well how to combat. Instead we have the right wing media machine which peddles in fear mongering, intolerance and militarism draped in the language of populism and patriotism.