Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. The show is archived at: www.gorilla-radio.com. The GR blog is at: gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com, and you can find and support the program at GRadio.Substack.com. Financial support is also possible through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PacificFreePress, or via e-transfer to: lex@gorilla-radio.com. Tweets found at @paciffreepress. Some past guests include: Jennifer Abbott, M. Shahid Alam, Joel Bakan, Ramzy Baroud, Eva Bartlett, Vanessa Beeley, Christopher Black, Kristina Borjesson, Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, Paul Cienfuegos, Radhika Desai, Joe Emersberger, Yves Engler, Laura Flanders, William S. Geimer, Denis Halliday, John Helmer, Sam Husseini, Kim Ives, Dahr Jamail, Robert Jensen, Malalai Joya, Kathy Kelly, Dan Kovalik, Dimitri Lascaris, Jonathan Latham, Ingmar Lee, Dave Lindorff, Tarek Loubani, Stefania Maurizi, Nils Melzer, Glenn Michalchuk, Sharmine Narwani, Stavroula Pabst, Michael Parenti, John Pilger, Mazin Qumsiyeh, Andy Lee Roth, Richard Sanders, Pitasanna Shanmugathas, Vandana Shiva, John Stauber, Ken Stone, David Swanson, Andre Vltchek, Andy Worthington, Alfred de Zayas, Howard Zinn and many others.
Phil Rockstroh is a self-described auto-didactic, gasbag monolist, poet, lyricist phiolosopher, and author of numerous articles and essays published across the internet and one I pulbished at Pacific Free Press.com I titled: 'American Reichstag,' while its author calls 'Tales of Angst, Alienation and Martial Law: Roasting Marshmallows on the American Reichstage Fire to Come.' Phil Rockstroh in the first segment.
And; is there transcendance from the Sturm and Drang of the times we happen to live in? Is there a way we can make of our short lives lived here and now, more meaningful than we are so far doing? Are we hurting the world through our daily actions, and if so, can we do things in another way, so we don't hurt the planet and the creatures on it? Yes, there is; and we are; and we can! Joseph and Zach Borkovic are the father-son force behind Earth Spirit, a Cowichan Bay-based endeavor to make a difference. Joe and Zach Borkovic and getting the earth spirit in the second half.
And; Janine Bancroft can't join us this week, but she'll be full of stories when she gets back from her summer travels next week. But first, Phil Rockstroh and tales of angst, alienation, and martial law.
This week; author and media educator, Robert Jensen and the prophetic challenge: “Who is guilty,when all are responsible?” Brewster Kneen uncovering the invisible giant, Cargill Inc. And, Janine Bandcroft on her recent travels through America in support of Goods for Cuba and breaking the blockade with the Pastors for Peace.
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: journalist, poet and author, John Ross on the return of Gunboat Diplomacy in Latin America; Jon Elmer on recent Israeli atrocities in Occupied Palestine.
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: Taylor Davis and Taking a Stand Against Greed, an artist collective doing what artists do best, keeping the rest of society honest; Ray Zimmerman of Vancouver Island’s Sea to Sea Green Belt Society, trying to save the best of the island for now and the future.
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: Vincent Mosco and begging the question, “Will media’s sheep look up?” Zoe Blunt chronicles the wee peoples’ fight on the south island; and, Janine Bandcroft from sunny Texas.
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
These five men are imprisoned in various American jails, unable to visit their families. They’ve been in jail about 10 years, the corporate media blurred the story by instead focussing on the strange tale of the kidnapped Gonzales boy that happened about the same time. The audio is a discussion about it.
Recorded in Havana with an elected representative, a translator, and audience participation from various Pastors for Peace Caravanistas plus a Cuban on-looker. Apologies for the poor sound quality.
Whether a president who starts wars without just cause, or a soldier who slaughters an innocent family, but never faces justice, they both commit atrocities that leave their victims no due recourse. It could be the retroactive “authorization” for crimes, as the recent amendments to the FISA Act in the United States proposes, or the slew of pardons the unimpeached president Bush will necessarily decree for crimes committed by those in his service in some short months time; but whatever the reasons, what we see today from the headlines to the frontlines to the breadlines is a growing culture of impunity, undermining that most basic foundation of our society: Justice.
Without equality before the law, civilization dies. Without the guarantee that those endangering the life and liberty of the polity will be arrested their illegal endevours, and brought before a panel as impartial as is possible to be judged and sentenced accordingly, anarchy prevails: Not the anarchy of literalists, poets, or utopians, where Humankind is finally freed the fetters of the arbitrary diktats of Church and State, but a jungle where savagery rules. It’s a dangerous moment, as empires go; the only stage of development following the crapulent flourishing of unanswerable criminality is collapse.
William Blum is an America author and creator of The Anti-Empire Report, an internet bulletin marking the passage of that sad nation at its most corrupt moment. Blum’s, who gave up his position with the Johnson administration in objection to his nation’s activities in Vietnam, book titles include: ‘Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II,’ ‘Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Super-Power,’ West-Bloc Dissident, a Cold War Memoir,’ and his latest, ‘ Freeing the World to Death: How the United States Gets Away With It.’ He’s also a contributor to the newly released anthology of our times, ‘International Justice and Impunity: The Case of the United States.’ William Blum in the first segment.
And; American war resister, Robin Long was scheduled to appear before a hearing into his status in Canada today in Vancouver. Long was arrested by Canada’s increasingly muscular Border Services agents in Nelson recently, and charged with violating conditions of his residency permit; charges he denies. Sarah Bjorknas is with the Vancouver chapter of the War Resisters Support Campaign and she’ll be here in the second half to bring us up to speed with Robin Long’s application for a stay of deportation.
And; Goods for Cuba caravanista, Janine Bandcroft has reportedly left the country, but we’re not sure if she’ll be able to touch down at the bottom of the hour with her doubtlessly interesting travellogue; but first: Getting away with it with William Blum.
It happened again last week; with the tiresome inevitability of an unwanted visit by a least favourite relative, another massive “escape” of Atlantic salmon from a “fish farm” near Campbell River has resulted in at least 30,000 of the invasive species being loosed into coastal waters here. Escapes like the Canada Day one from the Marine Harvest operation is just one of the myriad problems to the health of indigenous species posed by B.C.’s burgeoning fish farm industry, again highlighting the great peril this business promises.
Alexandra Morton is founder of the Raincoast Research Society, and Director of the Salmon Coast Field Station. She’s based on the British Columbia mainland’s mid-coast, at the Broughton Archipelago, where she has studied sea and wildlife for more than twenty years. Alexandra Morton in the first segment.
And; Canada needs a free press; this according to media and social justice activist, and friend to GR, Jack Etkin. Tomorrow, Jack and his fellow travellers will again be on the streets to bring to the people of the city the message Victoria’s highly concentrated media will not: The time for media reform is NOW.
Jack Etkin and massaging the “mainstream” message in the second half.
And; wayward Gorilla Radio contributor Janine Bandcroft has at this hour completed her journey to Cuba with the 19th annual Goods for Cuba Caravan. We’ve managed to receive her progress reports up until now, but Cuba presents communication problems we have so far been unable to solve. But tune in next week, and we’ll likely have her updates. But first today, Alexandra Morton and what Marine Harvest’s spilt fish means for B.C.’s Pacific salmon.
It’s one of the planet’s biggest corporations, but is hardly known outside the business world. Chances are, just about everything you will eat or drink today, and everyday, has passed first through the hands of Cargill Incorporated. In 1995, Canadian farmer, educator, publisher, broadcaster, and author, Brewster Kneen wrote ‘Invisible Giant: Cargill and It’s Transnational Strategies,’ and at the request of Pluto Press revisited the subject for a second edition. Kneen says: “I was shocked and amazed at the changes I found since the first edition appeared.” Brewster Kneen in the first segment.
And, though less well known, Canada too has rubbished eight hundred years of Western jurisprudence in the wake of 9/11, enacting so-named “Terrorism Laws” that effectively toss out the concept of Habeas Corpus, that right to maintain the freedom of one’s own body notwithstanding a public charge, prosecuted in an open court, abiding by universal evidentiary rules, and allowing the accused be provided the opportunity to face her accusor; that in Canada today is history. Dr. Mahboob Khawaja is a Canadian university professor whose son, Momin was arrested in Ottawa March 29th, 2004 for alleged complicity in a British bombing conspiracy. Momin Khawaja’s trial began last week, more than four years after his arrest. Mahboob Khawaja and Canadian justice delayed in the second segment.
And; skyrocketing ferry fares has British Columbians crying no fair…and it’s about to get worse. While a deterent to tourism, an extra cost of doing all business on the islands, and an irritant to occassional commuters, the continued rise of fares is now threatening the viability of island life for B.C.’s coastal communities. The situation has motivated the masses to form Rock the Boat Coalition, an organization of concerned islanders determined to stem the tide of rising ferry costs. Sheila Nopper is a Denman-based writer and founder of the coalition. Sheila Nopper, rocking the boat in the third segment.
And; Janine Bandcroft will peek in from her journey to cuba from somewhere in America with the 19th Goods for Cuba Caravan near the bottom of the hour. But first, Brewster Kneen making apparent the beast with a return to the lair of the “Invisible Giant.”