This week: Around the country, across the continent, and throughout the once-called 'Free World' the Smart Meter and its variants is appearing, bulldozing its way onto the walls and into wireboxes the world over, whether welcomed or not. But, what are these devices; and why are people worried?
Brian Thiesen is Chairman of the Kamloops chapter of Interior Smart Meter Awareness, an affiliate of No BC Smart Meters, and he joins us in the first half.
Listen. Hear.
And; Last month, Bernardo Vásquez Sánchez, a Zapotec community activist in San José Progreso, Oaxaca, Mexico was gunned down with his cousin, Rosalinda Dionicio Sánchez, and brother Andres Vásquez Sánchez as they drove home. Bernardo knew his life was in danger; others opposing foreign mining companies in his ancestral territories have died violently. Bernardo recently told a Canadian journalist what he thought the crux of the growing tensions between Canadian listed, Fortuna Silver and locals was.
Dawn Paley is a Vancouver-based journalist who has written for a multitude of newspapers and magazines in Canada. She has worked in radio and television too, her reports featuring on Democracy Now!, Free Speech Radio News, and CBC Radio. Dawn is also a contributing editor with The Dominion - Canada's grassroots newsmagazine, and is a co-founder of the Vancouver Media Co-op. She is also a media educator, teaching community journalism workshops and online journalism, most recently with the Alliance for Global Justice.
Dawn Paley from south of south of the border 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 the streetz of the city and beyond.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com
Between 100-150 Victorians came out Sunday to voice their opposition to the unilateraly imposed installation of so-called 'Smart Meters' by the publicly owned power utility, BC Hydro. The meters are a hot-button issue with health, privacy, and government accountability activists, and the evidence backing the objections of these disparate groups grows stronger by the day. That may be the reason Hydro is moving at break-neck speeds to have the, estimated, $750 million project. Irksome too, this program was slid in by the governing BC Liberal party with minimal public consultation, and excluded oversight by the BC Utilities Commission, whose function is to hold the Crown corporation to account.
With municipal elections looming, and a provincial poll predicated by law before next summer, this could be a paradigm-shifting issue for British Columbia.
This is a show I rescued from obscurity. Recorded originally on analog cassette, the tape had been trodden upon. At great pains, I rewound the tape into a new cassette and transferred to this format. the audio quality suffers somewhat, but the material in both Ranyn Seibold's segment on the power industry in British Columbia, and George Monbiot's discussion of war, empire, and energy are still highly relevant.
Jen Moore is past freelance journalist and researcher who lived in and reported from Ecuador for years. She was a member of a coalition of nine civil society organizations in Latin America that first brought the Canadian mining company, Blackfire Explorations into the limelight for alleged corrupt practices at the 'Payback' mine in Chiapas.
Moore is now the Latin America Program Coordinator for Mining Watch Canada. Jen Moore and Canada's business practices coming home in the first half.
Listen. Hear.
And; with school set to resume in British Columbia tomorrow, there is what promises to be a battle Royale brewing between the provincial Liberals and the BC Teachers Federation.
There are already rumours of a September work stoppage, and already veiled threats of back to work legislation being quickly implemented by the provincial government should teachers walk out. The teachers say they are determined to make a difference for kids with this round of bargaining.
Susan Lambert is president of the BCTF and she'll be here in the second half to instruct and illustrate the issues at hand 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 news from the city's streets and beyond. But first, Jen Moore on Blackfire, Mariano Abarca, and Blackfire Exploration's operations in Mexico and beyond.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com
This week: Crowds in the Egyptian capital reacted to Israel's encroachment of their territory and the killing of five Egyptian soldiers by surrounding the Israeli Embassy, with one intrepid scaling the highrise housing it and pulling down the Israeli flag. Typically, there was no international condemnation of the Israeli attacks in Gaza, or the killing of civilians there. In fact, Israel has lobbied the United Nations to draw up a Security Council Presidential Statement condemning the attack in Eilat.
Saturday, Israel issued an apology to Egypt for the attack, but the press, and most notably the Jerusalem Post, is condemning the Egyptians for allowing terrorists passage across the Sinai. Now, the Israeli regime and its allies in the press are calling into question the Sinai agreement with Egypt, hinting at a re-annexation of the so-called 'Peninsula of Peace.'
Jon Elmer is a Canadian journalist and photographer living in and reporting from Occupied Palestine. Jon's reports are carried by Al Jazeera, the InterPress Service, and are featured at other online forums. His work can also be found at his website, JonElmer.com. Jon Elmer and Israel under attack in the first half.
And; over the weekend, the Vancouver Sun featured the leaked "minutes" of an internal BC Hydro conference call, where Hydro CEO, David Cobb reportedly criticized the government's IPP, or Independent Power Producers policy. Also known as the Run of Rivers program, or "Ruin of Rivers" to its many opponents, the controversial plan was rammed through the Legislature by the former Campbell government and effectively divided what exists of an "environmental activist community" in British Columbia. I spoke to David Cobb in July, asking directly about contracting out power production in the province. Me and David Cobb in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher, and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft is back from her foray into the wilds of Vancouver Island's retirement country, and will join us with harrowing tales of her survival at the bottom of the hour. But first, Jon Elmer and Assassins Across the Sinai.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com
G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in corporate and state media. Gorilla Radio airs live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 102FM, 104.3 cable, and on t
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