This week: Israeli Defense Forces spent much of last week punishing Gaza with rockets and bombs, initially in retaliation for an attack last Monday launched from Egypt into the Sinai Peninsula, far to the south. As was the case in August of last year, when eight Israelis were killed outside the town of Eilat, the IDF immediately connected this latest attack with Gaza, resulting in air attacks that have killed at least nine to date.
Egypt interceded in mid-week, brokering a ceasefire between the Hamas government in Gaza and Israel, but rockets and mortars fired from third parties in Gaza and IDF retaliation threatened to unravel that effort.
It all underscores the volatile situation in the region, made even more so perhaps by the naming of Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi as Egypt's new president.
Jon Elmer is a Canadian writer and freelance photojournalist who has lived in and reported from Occupied Palestine for the better part of the last decade. Jon's work can be found featured across the internet at Al Jazeera English, the InterPress Service, and Le Monde diplomatique among others, and at his site, JonElmer.ca.
Jon Elmer and interesting times continuing in Gaza and the Middle East in the first half.
And; the practices of Canadian mining companies abroad are increasingly in the global spotlight, if less often featured at home. From Madagascar, Continental Africa, and Asia, to Papua New Guinea, Central America, Mexico and right in Canada, mining outfits, many flying flags of mere convenience, are wreaking havoc on the natural world, despoiling the environment and ruining societies with the misfortune of existing above the objects of the industry's desire.
Worse than this is the complicity, in many cases, of the Canadian government.
Jennifer Moore is the Latin America Program Coordinator for Mining Watch Canada. Jen spent years in Latin America as a freelance print and broadcast journalist, specializing in communities affected by Canadian-financed mining companies.
Jennifer Moore and a victory for Ecuador 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 news from our city's streetz and beyond. But first, Jon Elmer and a fragile, and rapidly changing political climate in the middle east.
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: Canadian mining companies are making a killing in Latin America; at least that is the concern of indigenous activists in Mexico, El Salvador, and seemingly everywhere else the Maple leaf flagged mining corporations show up. I recently spoke here with Canadian freelance journalist Dawn Paley about her friend, Bernardo Vásquez Sánchez, a Zapotec community activist in San José Progreso, Oaxaca, Mexico, gunned down with his cousin, Rosalinda Dionicio Sánchez, and brother Andres Vásquez Sánchez.
Bernardo was fighting the Canadian concern, Fortuna Silver over its plans in San José. As it happens, Victoria-based activist Terry Wolfwood was scheduled to meet with Bernardo Vásquez Sánchez, but arrived too late.
Wolfwood is Director, and a founding member, of the Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation. The BBCF.ca site says it, quote; "[O]rganizes, works for and supports action, education and creativity for peace, social justice, human rights, and women’s rights."
Terry Wolfwood in the first half.
And; Last week I spoke with Tom Woodley of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East. CJPME sponsored a Canada-wide tour by renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappé that ended here in Victoria Saturday. Dr. Pappé, is a history and political science professor at the University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (UK), and is too currently Director of Europe’s first Centre for Palestine Studies, housed within the Institute. He is author of, among many others, the book, 'The Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinians.' The theme of his tour was, “The False Paradigm of Peace: Revisiting the Palestine Question.”
Ilan Pappé 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 streetz and beyond. But first, Terry Wolfwood and mining justice for communities effected by the Canadian mining industry.
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: Tim Shorrock is an American investigative journalist whose ties to Japan go deeper than most of his colleagues. He grew up in Tokyo, and has Japanese relatives still living there. For much of the 1980's Shorrock reported on Asia from Japan, following closely Japanese political figures, and financial intrigues in the then-ascendant leader of the Asian Tiger economies.
Tim Shorrock in the first half.
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Janni Aragon is a political science professor here at UVic. She specializes in gender politics and feminist theories, international relations, (with a special emphasis on US politics) and youth politics and the growing role of social media in issue oriented campaigns and elections.
Janni Aragon and Canadians finding a way around the information gatekeepers in the second half.
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 what's going on on Victoria's streets 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: Food Not Lawns member, Nick Montgomery, one among the many calling for a change of landscaping policy at the University of Victoria in the name of food security.
This year's installment of the annual Golden Corporate Piggy Awards in Victoria.
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 what's going on on Victoria's streets.
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.co
The annual Golden Corporate Piggy Awards for 2010 were held in Victoria today. As usual, the most deserving swine were recognized for their contribution to the state of the world.
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