This Week: The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association is heading on the road next month, going north to visit communities served by the RCMP to host workshops on police accountability. It's an effort BCCLA president, Robert Holmes says is meant as both a means to educate and to learn what concerns residents of the north and famed "heartland" of the province have about the way policing is conducted in their neighbourhoods.
David Eby is Executive Director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, and is an adjunct professor of law at the University of British Columbia. He is also the president of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, and a research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. David Eby in the first half.
And; Nathalie Des Rosiers is General Counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and Executive Director of its Education Trust. She is the previous Acting Vice President - Governance of the University of Ottawa, and served as Dean of the Civil Law Section of the U. of Ottawa's Faculty of Law. Nathalie also served as president of the Law Commission of Canada from 2000-2004. Nathalie Des Rosiers and Canadian law after the G20.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us news from Victoria's streetz and beyond. But first, David Eby and weighing the future of the RCMP in B.C.
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This week: The BCCLA has filed a submission with the Legislature urging Bill 20 be dropped. Micheal Vonn is Policy Director at the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, and an Advisory Board Member for Privacy International. She is a former Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia and currently serves as Adjunct Professor at UBC's School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies. Micheal Vonn in the first half.
Ontario's premier, Dalton McGuinty says he will visit Israel later this month, while Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu is slated to to make the first visit of a sitting Israeli prime minister to Canada in more than sixteen years. Jon Elmer is a Vancouver-based freelance journalist and photo-journalist who has lived in and reported from the West Bank for more than a decade. He is currently in Bethlehem, one of premier McGuinty's scheduled stops, and joins us in the second half with the latest news from the occupation.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV Radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with the goings-on amongst Victoria's burgeoning street community. But first, Michael Vonn and the Liberal proposition of Big Brother for B.C.'s new school hall monitor.
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, www.pacificfreepress.com.
Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com
This week: Today, prisons provide where hospitals once did, and the care they administer falls far short of the Just Society we had so recently striven for. The situation is serious enough, that the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association has mounted a campaign to bring change to the way prisons here treat inmates, especially those fallen through the mental health cracks. Carmen Cheung is a lawyer with the BCCLA, where she works on litigation and legal reform. Before coming here, she worked on criminal and regulatory defense in private practice in New York City. Carmen Cheung in the first half.
And; Dana Frank is a history professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author, among other books, of Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America, which focuses on Honduras. She is writing a book on the AFL-CIO's cold war intervention in the Honduran labor movement. Dana Frank and Hondurans' "Great Awakening" in the second half.
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, www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com
The "bravest woman in Afghanistan" delivers her message to Canada. Joya is currently touring her book, co-written with Canadian activist, Derrick O'Keefe. Malalai Joya and a message from the edge of the imperial project in the first half.
Greg McMullen is an articled student of law currently working with the BCCLA, and he'll join us in the second half for a preview of Canada's Police State to come.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with current goings on on Victoria's streets. But first; Malalai Joya and talking war and occupation to Canadians.
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, www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com
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