Ape Goes to Elizabeth May at the Reynolds Ecofair April 13, 2013

Date 2013-04-14

Went down to the Reynolds High School Ecofair to catch Green Party of Canada leader, Elizabeth May address the gathered.

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Sharmine Narwani Nov. 11, 2012

Date 2012-11-11

Over the last decade, Canada has changed its international focus, becoming more directly tied to both U.S. interests and methods of attaining and maintaing those interests. This has meant a dramatic increase in military spending, and a necessary redefinition of the role the country plays in the world. But are Canada's politicians and militarists prepared to enter the byzantine world of hard power politics, and is the Canadian public being adequately informed about the ramifications of the nation's new course? Sharmine Narwani is a Senior Associate at St. Antony's College, Oxford University and writes commentary and analysis of Middle East geopolitics for La Akhbar, Al Jazeera, the Huffington Post, and New York Times, among others. She holds Masters degrees from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in both Journalism and Middle East Studies. Sharmine has made three trips into Syria this year alone, and is recently returned from a visit to Iran, where she conducted a series of interviews concerning poltical and development issues there. Sharmine Narwani also produce the blog mideastshuffle.com where an archive of her writings on the region may be accessed.

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Tom Swanky, Zoe Blunt, Janine Bandcroft Aug. 27, 2012

Date 2012-08-28

The late American writer, Kurt Vonnegut set the record straight in his great novel, Breakfast of Champions, where he wrote of the "discovery" of America by Columbus: "1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them." 1862 is the date Victoria City would have us all remember with pride and joy, for that was the year "people" began living here. But actually, 1862 is the year pirates whose names grace our streets and byways yet executed a plan that rightly belongs atop the annals of world infamy; a plan that destroyed not only the lives of more than 100,000 individuals, but one meant to destroy entirely the peoples of the Pacific coast of what we now call British Columbia. Genocide is a term loosely used today, but there is none better to describe the beginnings of European settlement at this place, and after 150 years, no better time to finally face the truth of it. Tom Swanky is perhaps an unlikely historian. The retired businessman took on the research end of his son Shawn's film project on the Tslihqot'in War, and the hanging by the colonials of their Chiefs in 1864. It was during the research for that project, Tom noted the great gulf separating the victors' narrative from that of the vanquished, and discovered a paper trail leading to revelations he could hardly believe. Over ten years of research culminated in his book, 'The True Story of Canada’s ‘War’ of Extermination on the Pacific'. Tom will be presenting some of his research at the Seventh Annual Anarchist Bookfair, beginning September 8th. Tom Swanky in the first half. And; it's been said, "History doesn't repeat, but it does echo." and the echoes of the original colonial sins are ringing throughout the interior of British Columbia now. Though their suits may have changed in 150 years, the cut of the cloth has not; at this very moment, marauders cloaked in propriety plot to dispossess the natives, driving through their lands rightofways as paths to enrich themselves, and profit the distant government. It's not gold for Empire this time, but energy they crave; the new coin of the realm. The Enbridge pipeline project hopes to make of the province a conduit for Alberta's bitumen mines, sluicing the toxic goo through pipes to the sea at Kitimat. Last week, the project sprung another leak, with VanCity announcing divestiture of all investments in the companies behind the scheme. Zoe Blunt is a Victoria-area based environmental activist, organizer, and facilitator. She's a citizen journalist whose work has been instrumental in the implementation of myriad campaigns locally, and throughout the province designed to protect the ecological integrity of B.C.'s wild lands, ensuring habitat viabililty for the animals in it, and cultural continuity for the people depending on it. Zoe was front and centre in efforts to convince VanCity to change their investment portfolio options, excluding Enbridge related vehicles. Zoe Blunt and plugging the pipeline's progress in the second half. And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us in the second half to bring us up to speed with some of the good things going on in and around Victoria in the coming week. But first, Tom Swanky and the Great Darkening at the heart of our colonial beginnings. 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.ca/

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Finian Cunningham, Douglas Jack, Janine Bandcroft July 23, 2012

Date 2012-07-24

This week: Piggy-backing the so-called Arab Spring of 2011, the Western press has consistently painted attacks against the Syrian state as an indigenous liberation struggle, ignoring evidence of third country involvement. Therefore, consumers of corporate and state media are largely unaware of the role Western actors play in planning, arming, and directing those attacks - attacks that would, in any other context, be considered terrorism. But what about those following the alternative press; are they being better served on Syria? Finian Cunningham is a Belfast-based freelance journalist whose reports for Bahrain's Gulf Daily News were cut short at the height of the citizen uprising there last year. He now writes a column for the Canadian-based alternative internet news source, Global Research, where he recently published an article challenging the 'alternative" media take on the Syria conflict, specifically questioning progressive flagship program Democracy Now's coverage. Finian Cunningham in the first half. And; until very recently, Canada enjoyed a reputation as a concerned global citizen, and champion for humane domestic and international policies. The ascension of Stephen Harper, and the behaviour of the late and unlamented Liberals, put finally an end to that perception, but the fact Canada's reputation was more myth than reality is a subject rarely broached in polite Canadian society. Douglas Ou-ee-ii-jay-ii Jack is a long-time environmental and social activist, whose work is now focused on establishing systems to provide for abundant ecological livelihoods for all. To that end, Jack founded the Sustainable Development Corporation, and created the website, Indigene Community.info. Douglas Jack recently wrote the article, 'Friendly Peaceful Canada Actually the Worst Place on Earth?' offering a pointed critique of the way this country Canada operates in the world. Douglas Ou-ee-ii-jay-ii Jack and Canada punching above its weight. And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour from her secret island redoubt to bring us newz from Victoria's streetz and beyond. But first, Finian Cunningham and 'Democracy Now and the "Progressive" Alternative Media: Valued Cheerleaders for Imperialism and War'. 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

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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Steve Anderson, Gerry Bill, Janine Bandcroft July 2, 2012

Date 2012-07-03

Steve Anderson is Executive Director at OpenMedia.ca, an organization at the forefront of resistance to all manner of proposed government and corporate controls designed to, by turn, restrict Internet freedoms, and further commodify access for the benefit of corporate monopolists. Open Media is sounding the warning now in a campaign against proposed TPP provisions they say would determine how the internet will be governed, and who will profit by it. Steve Anderson and stopping the TTP trap in the first half. And; efforts to confront and defy the Cuba embargo have continued; the best known of these is the Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan, which has traveled from cities across Canada and the United States for each of the last twenty-two years of the Bloqueo, carrying "contraband" goods for Cuba. Gerry Bill is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and American Studies at Fresno City College in California. He's traveling for the seventh time with this year's 23rd Pastors for Peace aid caravan to Cuba. Gerry is one of the founders of the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, and is on the boards of the Fresno Free College Foundation, Peace Fresno, and the Central California Criminal Justice Committee. Gerry Bill and sailing again for Cuba with the Pastors 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 both local, and as they unfold at the Canadian border, where Vancouver's contingent to the Pastors for Peace caravan to Cuba has been held up. But first, Steve Anderson and StoptheTrap.net. 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

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