This week: Welcome back Tyranny! It's been some hundreds of years since the West emerged the Dark Ages, where religious zealots ruled the land, sequestering science to dusty vaults, and consigning those who would search out knowledge to dungeon and flame. In the famously religious American state of Utah, a young American took a stand against egregious illegality, stopping a crime against both the people and nature, and therefore a crime against Creation. And, for this courageous act that young man languishes today in a prison, subject to all the degradation, humiliation, and mindless abuse that so typifies such medieval structures.
Beth Gage is a documentary film maker who, with her husband George, left the advertising and commercial feature film world to found Gage & Gage productions. The Gage's latest film is the just released, 'Bidder 70' chronicling an American outrage, the story of 'Bidder 70,' Tim DeChristopher.
Beth Gage in the first half.
And; America has no monopoly on either outrage or the vast despoilation of nature; Canada too has been outrageously profligate in that regard, but never so much so as under the current Stephen Harper regime.
Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist and author who has spent more than 20 years studying and writing about Canada's oil and gas industry. Andrew is also a columnist with The Tyee online publication, where his most recent article is titled, 'Understanding Harper's Evangelical Mission.'
Andrew Nikiforuk 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 the city's streets and beyond. But first, Beth Gage and 'Bidder 70,' Tim DeChristopher's "journey from economics student to incarcerated felon."
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
Just as Rome wasn't built in a day, the fall of an empire doesn't occur in one fell swoop; it takes time for the pillars of a great society to erode to the point they will not sustain the weight of its continuity. That is where we in what was once called 'Western Civilization' stand today. In Britain, Canada, Australia, and at the heart of the Anglo-American Empire, the United States, the tenet of democracy, that thing that convinced us we epitomized the apex of achievement, that we were, as one premature pundit ejected, on the assumption to power of George W. Bush and his cadre of "Neo-Cons, at the "end of [political] history" is a corroded remnant, incapable of sustaining even the illusion of a free and fair society. From Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and Bagram Airbase to the Homeland's shredded constitutional protections, Democracy's day is almost done.
Naomi Wolf is an American author, social critic, political activist and feminist. Her book 'The Beauty Myth' was a landmark moment for gender discourse in America, and was cited, when released in the early 1990's, by the New York Times as "one of the most important books of the 20th Century." Wolf's latest book may prove too to be of equal value to the 21st Century, if in the future books of its nature are to be allowed reviewed in the Times, or anywhere else. 'The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot' is an urgent rallying cry to arms to all that would save American, and world democracy. Naomi Wolf in the first segment.
And; one of the essential elements needed to create a truly totalitarian state is: Surveillance. From the Nazi recruitment of children to spy on their parents, (and others) to the infamous system of citizens used to rat out their neighbours deployed in the so-called communist countries, the primary objective of the Totalitarian State is to instill fear in the populace, making them uncertain of who they can trust, and insecure in every facet of their lives. Today, technology has added some disturbing wrinkles to the surveillance society. Tim Shorrock is an American journalist whose work has appeared at the Nation, Salon, Mother Jones, Harper's magazines, among other places, and his latest major piece is 'Domestic Spying, Inc.' a timely expose of the radical expansion of the surveillance of American society the Bush administration hopes to enact. Tim Shorrock and who's watching who in the second half.
And; Janine Bandcroft will be here to bring us up to speed with all that's good to do in and around Victoria in the coming week. But first, Naomi Wolf and counting down to democracy's end.
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