Well, heeeee's baaack! With the vengeful whine of chainsaws, and the awe-inspiring thunder in the woods accompanying orchestrated clearcut operations, Ender Ilkay, frustrated West Van. wildland developer, the same who once promised hundreds of luxurious "cabin" abodes abutting the Juan de Fuca Provincial Park just west of Sooke, is returned like an ancient day prophesy of pestilence to come, fulfilling his promise to clearcut what he was forbidden to pave. For the record; Ender says he's sorry to see it, but that's the way it goes. And, he promises more clearcut logging to come.
Zoe Blunt is a long-time South Island-based environmental defender and activist/organizer. Zoe's past campaigns with Wild Coast, VicFAN and other organized manifestations include: an attempt to forestall the so-called Bear Mountain development, (a failed effort that culminated spectacularly in a massive SWAT team assault on three tree-sitters at the site of the long-derelict but soon-to-be-revived Spencer Road overpass); the successful turn-around of mega-developer at large, Ender Ilkay's Marine Trail Resort; conducting activist and non-violent resistance workshops; and participation with the Caravan to Wet-suwet-'en, an annual congregation at the planned site of the pipeline confluence for the controversial Pacific Trail Pipeline project.
Blunt was also instrumental in convincing VanCity's ethical investments arm to disinvest itself of Enbridge-related investment vehicles.
Zoe Blunt has appeared on this show many times over the years, and joins us again in the first segment.
And; he's waited in custody, sometimes under appalling conditions, for more than three years, but Private Bradley Manning's espionage and aiding the enemy trial began finally Monday at Fort Meade, Maryland. Manning has already admitted to being the source of hundreds of thousands of files released to Wikileaks. The Manning case has sparked protest around the world, and while some consider Bradley a hero comparable to Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers during America's war againt Vietnam, others condemn him as a traitor who put his comrades in arms in harm's way.
David Swanson is an activist, organizer, prolific essayist, journalist, broadcaster, and author whose book titles include: 'The Military Industrial Complex at 50,' 'When the World Outlawed War,' and 'War Is a Lie' among others. He's the host of Talk Nation Radio, and blogs from DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org.
David Swanson and Bradley Manning's, sort of, day in court in the second half.
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 some of what's good to do in and around the capital city, and beyond. But first, Zoe Blunt and the Ender of days in the woods near Juan de Fuca Provincial Park.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 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/
Those listening who remember the release of Duran Duran's 'Rio' video may too recall, more than MTV, life in the nineteen eighties also meant living under the shadow of nuclear destruction. MAD Ronnie Ray Gun ruled America and, aided by sinister side-kick, George Bush seemed poised to take the world down a dark path towards the conflagration of an inevitable nuclear Armageddon.
As doomsday's children, many a night we tossed restless, only to rise the day after to find our nightmares of atomic hellfire were not imagined but the realpolitik of our times. It's an age we who lived through firsthand would have relegated to the dust bin of history, but sadly the insanity didn't end with the fall of the Soviet empire, nor with the welcome demise of the demigod figure heads of the Free World.
Today, none of us can afford the comfortable illusion humanity, having dodged the bullet of imminent destruction in the last century, is now out of the woods.
laray polk bookLaray Polk is a journalist, multimedia artist, and author whose articles have appeared in her adopted home town paper, The Dallas Morning News, and online at Common Dreams, CounterPunch, D Magzine, In These Times, Znet and Pacific Free Press, among others. Laray was also a recipient of a grant from The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund which she used to expose the threat posed to the Ogallala Aquifer by a Texas radioactive waste disposal site.
Laray Polk's latest project is the book, 'Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe.' Co-authored with Noam Chomsky, it's a series of interviews conducted with the famed American academic dissident, intended as a warning and reminder that, "talking about the unspeakable can still be done with humor, with wit and indomitable spirit."
Laray Polk in the first half.
And; while the Reagan/Bush tag team terrorized me and the rest of the world with the promise of instant nuclear annihilation back in the eighties, they and their allies were fulfilling that promise in a more prosaic way throughout Latin America. Guatemala recently made the news in North America with the singular story of former dictator and dedicated US ally and commie hunter Efrain Rios Montt's conviction for crimes against humanity committed against the mainly indigenous people of his country. It was an incredible, undreamed of halcyon moment of justice prevailing for we grey beards still remembering the terror brought down against the Maya people in pursuit of American corporate interests in that place then. But, it seems now to be a victory too good to believe.
parry book americas stolen narrativeRobert Parry is an investigative reporter, author, editor, and co-founder of Consortium News.com, the Internet's first news magazine website. Parry broke many stories from Latin America during the dirty war years for Newsweek and the Associated Press, and followed those with revelations of the Iran-Contra scandal that contributed greatly to George H.W. Bush's single term presidency.
Robert Parry's book titles include: 'Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq,' 'Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush,' and his latest 'America's Stolen Narrative: From Washington and Madison, to Nixon, Reagan and the Bushes, to Barack Obama'.
Robert Parry remembering Guatemala and more 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 some of what's good to do in and around our city and beyond in the coming week. But first, Laray Polk and waking from nuclear nightmares and other environmental catastrophes.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 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/
Went down to little Victoria's contribution to the M25 Global March Against Monsanto today. Nearly a thousand came out to march, sing, chant, and demonstrate to the world's most odious corporate entity its days are numbered. Here's a link on the bigger picture of the March, where perhaps more than a million took to the streets in more than 40 countries and 500 cities and towns. http://www.march-against-monsanto.com/
If you've been listening long, you know it's CFUV's Victoria Day special, an homage to the 'Garden City,' Victoria, namesake of Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria of Kent, Her Majesty the Queen of England, Imperial Majesty Queen-Empress of India, Defender of the Faith, Princess of Hanover and Duchess of Brunswick and Lunenburg, Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duchess in Saxony etc., etc. et cetera.
Thankfully, we do this only once a year, on that day dedicated to celebrating the Queen's memory across the realm - save Quebec. For our part, here at CFUV, we spend the entire day looking at the past, present, and possible futures our fair burg has to offer.
Leading us first through that wild and winding history up to the present day, and looking forward too is award-winning journalist, editor, author, civic activist and co-founder of the watchdog website, JohnsonStreetBridge.org, Ross Crockford.
Ross was a long-time contributor to, and editor for, the city's iconic weekly, Monday Magazine. He currently freelances for Western Living, Adbusters, Explore, and the Globe and Mail among other publications. Crockford is too the recipient of a Western Magazine Award for business writing, the Jack Webster Award of Distinction for investigative reporting, and a National Magazine Award for sports writing. His book, Victoria: The Unknown City is an alt. guidebook for both the seemly and lesser so sides of town, covering the city's shining and seedy past and present.
Ross Crockford in the first half.
And; Victoria is changing fast, but nowhere are those changes more keenly felt than in the city's first residential neighbourhood, the sequestered corner of James Bay. There, densification, gentrification, and the exploding popularity of Victoria as a cruise ship destination conspire with a conspicuous lack of considered planning to create over-crowded, chaotic and dangerous conditions for residents and visitors alike. Marg Gardiner is president of the James Bay Neighbourhood Association. The JBNA is a non-profit society that has, since 1993, served as a conduit and link for residents to ensure quality of life and the preservation of neighbourhood values; values threatened today like never before.
Marg Gardiner and James Bay weathering a storm of popularity along Victoria's waterfront in the second half.
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 some of the latest goings on going on on our city's streets, and beyond. But first, Ross Crockford and getting to know our largely unknown city, Victoria.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 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/
Welcome to GR, etc. With BC's provincial election less than 24 hours away, there's one issue that we can cover without fear of trespassing on media elections gag orders. Neither of the two parties likely to lead the next government oppose open-pen fish farming in the province.
Despite mountains of evidence suggesting the folly of concentrated feed lots for fish; the obvious ill effects on the fish bred in cramped captivity; dubious health benefit claims of a human diet including these drugged and unnaturally sustained creatures; proven dangers pathogens from these operations pose to wild fish; the standing on its head of the precautionary principle required to keep this industry afloat, with the many known and suspected negative effects it represents, the BC Liberals and BC New Democratic Party both essentially support business as usual.
It's all so much of more of the same for BC-based scientist and wild salmon crusader Alexandra Morton, who last week, along with Ecojustice filed a best practices law suit against salmon farming giant Marine Harvest and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, (DFO) for the alleged "transfer of diseased farmed Atlantic salmon into waters shared by wild fish." As disturbing as the ramifications of Marine Harvest's willful, and possibly illegal, endangering of wild salmon in this manner are, (not to mention the apparent lackadaisical policing of its own policies by the Department of Oceans and Fisheries appear to be in this case, and others) more so is what this case reveals about another frightening virus, joining the already devastating and universally feared ISA virus afflicting farmed salmon stock, and its possible release into the wild.
Alexandra Morton back in court in the first half.
And; this May 15th marks Nakba Day for those within occupied Palestine, and the millions more comprising the Palestinian diaspora. Nakba Day's modern manifestation commemorates the day after Israel's 1948 declaration of independence.
Jon Elmer is a Canadian writer and photojournalist specializing in the Middle East and Canadian foreign and military policy. He has lived in and reported from Occupied Palestine for the better part of the last decade, based primarily in Jenin, Bethlehem and Gaza City. Jon's also reported from more than a dozen countries from the middle east, to Nepal, Western Sahara, the Basque country and right here in Canada. His articles and photographs are featured in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Le Monde diplomatique, The Progressive, Al Jazeera English among others. He is also a contributor, with Anthony Fenton to the book, 'Empire's Ally: Canada in Afghanistan.'
Jon Elmer and marking time passed in Occupied Palestine 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 some of what's good to do in and around our city in the coming week. But first, Alexandra Morton and keeping PRV in its cage.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 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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