This coming Sunday, the UVic department of Social Justice hosts the public forum and presentation, 'The Campaign to End the Blockade of Gaza - Canada's Role, featuring Palestine solidarity activist, Ehab Lotayaf.
Ehab, or "Captain Ehab" as at least one detractor has dubbed him, was a member of the Freedom Waves aid flotilla aboard the Canadian ship Tahrir last year. Local social justice activist, Kevin Neish is a flotilla veteran, having been aboard the Turkish ship, Mavi Marmara when it was attacked by Israeli commandos in international waters.
Kevin will join us in the first half to discuss the flotilla campaigns and his upcoming mission to El Salvador as an elections observer.
And; a year after the revolution in Tunisia there has been little improvement in the standard of living for the average Tunisian; and, in Egypt, the military still rules and has violently cracked down on opponents, imprisoning thousands through military commission trials.
In Libya, where a revolt of another sort led to the murder of former leader Moammar Gaddafy, and where the bona fides of the revolutionaries was questioned from the outset, it seems their struggle has liberated nothing more than trans-national corporations' access to the country's resources and reconstruction contracts. And then there's Syria, where 2012 is proving to be for them what 2011 was for Libya.
Patrick Henningsen is a UK-based pundit, commentator, online journalist, and founder of 21st Century Wire, a news service launched during the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Summit. According to Henningsen, 21st Century Wire is an attempt to, quote; "deliver content that looks squarely at power, its architecture, as well as the seeds of corruption."
Patirck Henningsen and the Syria regime change PR operation moving into high gear.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 newz from the city's streets and beyond. But first, Kevin Neish and the many meanings of Tahrir.
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
Today two long-time friends of the show: Victoria-based social activist, Kevin Neish, again returned from Colombia bearing witness to the trial of union activist, Liliany Obando, imprisoned now nearly two years while waiting for her case to be heard. Kevin Neish in the first half.
And; Bethlehem-based freelance journalist and photojournalist, Jon Elmer reporting from the West Bank while the world watches sport, broadcast from his home-base in Vancouver, Canada. Jon Elmer has lived in and reported from occupied Palestine many times; his experiences there published at al Jazeera, and news websites across the internet. He's also the author of the websites, From Occupied Palestine.org, and Jon Elmer.ca. Jon Elmer live from Occupied Palestine in the second half.
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And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will possibly be here at the bottom of the hour, or maybe not. Janine is over in Vancouver, documenting some of the myriad protests occurring there over the weekend. But first, Kevin Neish and news from killer Colombia's kangaroo court system.
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; Independent B.C. filmmaker and environmental defender, Damien Gillis. He has, in tandem with former broadcaster and politician Raif Mair, travelled the breadth and length of British Columbia giving presentations of his film and imploring the public of this province act before the salmon are driven to extinction.
Now, Gillis and Mair are partnering again to create Common Sense Canadian, a synergy of multi-media aimed at providing you the people an alternative to a media that has abandoned its responsibilities to inform fairly.
Damien Gillis and bringing back sense to the commons in the first half.
Nearly two weeks since the devastation of the Caribbean nation of Haiti, and despite countless hours of media coverage, the real story behind that devastation is hardly known.
Canadian Jean St.-Vil is a Haitian born social justice activist who has long championed the cause of the country of his birth, decrying the criminal usurpation of its democracy and continued impoverishment of its people by an unholy alliance of the American, Canadian, and French governments and the trans-national corporations they serve.
Jean St.-Vil and the undermining of Haiti in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to highlight, among other things, the latest news from Victoria's activist Kevin Neish and his attempts to bear witness to the kangaroo court trial of Colombian union activist, Liliany Obando.
But first, Damien Gillis, Common Sense Canadian.
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
Today, tales of prisons. Beyond the prison-world western power has brought to Afghanistan, in Colombia a bitter class war has raged for generations. Once declared a war on communism and Marxist rebellion, now it is called a drug war. But Colombia's "drug war" bears strange casualties; its prisons are full of detained activists, and unionists, and indigenous rights proponents, not the dope dealers you would expect. In fact, Colombia's war today is against the underclass and indigenous, as it always has been.
Kevin Neish is just returned from a trip he took down Colombia way to bear witness to the trial of friend Liliany Obando, a social rights activist wrongly imprisoned for more than a year, and finally preparing to face Colombia's version of justice. Kevin Neish in the first half.
And; Canadian freelance journalist Jon Elmer, living in and reporting from Occupied Palestine on a deeper newer wall for Gaza, and stirrings of a massive prisoner exchange from Israel in the coming weeks.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUv broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to keeps us current with Christmas on the streetz. But first, Kevin Neish and bearing witness for Liliany Obando.
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