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Mike Ferner is Acting Director of Veterans for Peace and is their former national president. He's a long-time peace activist who went to Iraq in the days leading to Operation Iraq Liberation with Voices in the Wilderness, and again to document the effects of the invasion on that country in 2004.

Mike Ferner and a growingly restive Occupy Movement in America 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 news from Victoria's People's Assembly, (still camped at Centennial Square) and doings from further afield too. But first, Ben Wang Breathin' the Eddy Zheng story.

 

 

Besides fat profits for its investors, America's Industrial-Prison Complex is also producing thousands of "graduates," men and women schooled in the hard political realities of contemporary American life. The "Land of the Free" is today the world's single-largest incarcerator, holding an estimated 2.3 million of its citizens, with millions more involved with the criminal corrections system through parole, or under house arrest. Of that staggering imprisoned population are thousands of non-citizens, who upon release face the prospect of deportation. Eddy Zheng is one of those.

Ben Wang is an Oakland-based documentary filmmaker who co-directed and produced AOKI, the film chronicling the life of Black Panther Party founding member, Richard Aoki. Wang is also a co-chair of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee, and co-editor of their book, 'Other: An API Prisoners' Anthology.' He's currently in production of 'Breathin' The Eddy Zheng Story.'

Ben Wang and Eddy Zheng, "one of the most visible Asian American leaders to emerge from the prison system" in the first half.

And; Oakland's prison population is due to increase sharply, if the powers opposed to the Occupy movement spreading across America get their way. Last week, in the dead of night, Oakland's finest, in one of the most egregious displays of police violence against the peaceful protest so far seen in the States, attacked with tear gas projectiles, flash-bang grenades, and other so-called "non-lethal" ordnance. Veterans for Peace activist Scott Olsen was at the protest, standing with other uniformed vets between riot-troopers and the Occupy Oakland camp when shot, point blank, in the head. The incident has outraged citizens across the country, none more so than Olsen's fellows at Veterans for Peace.

Mike Ferner is Acting Director of Veterans for Peace and is their former national president. He's a long-time peace activist who went to Iraq in the days leading to Operation Iraq Liberation with Voices in the Wilderness, and again to document the effects of the invasion on that country in 2004. He is author of the book, 'Inside the Red Zone: A Veteran For Peace Reports from Iraq,' and wrote 'VFP Case for Impeachment and Prosecution,' and is a Vietnam era vet, and former Toledo City Councillor and union organizer, who has been arrested for "disturbing the war" on several occasions. Mike also served as Communications Director for the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy (POCLAD) and for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. His articles appear at the VPF site and across the internet.

Mike Ferner and a growingly restive Occupy Movement in America 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 news from Victoria's People's Assembly, (still camped at Centennial Square) and doings from further afield too. But first, Ben Wang Breathin' the Eddy Zheng story.

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