This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook
Maude Barlow and Canada's Communities
Are Not for Sale in the first half.
And; to watch the nightly news, you'd be forgiven for believing the only
way to settle disputes is through violence or threats of violence. From
the not so deftly veiled promises of president Obama that "no options
will be taken off the table" of this or that international dispute, to
the police riot squaders spraying peaceful men and women, old and young,
with tear gas and rubber-encased steel bullets, it seems might makes
right in this world.
But, beyond the glare of television lights, past
the bleeding leading stories of the day, millions work diligently,
without pause, for peaceful solutions to apparently intractable
conflict.
Michael is at the University of Victoria tonight, in
the David Strong Building, presenting, 'Let My People Speak: Hear the
repressed voices of peace workers in Palestine and Israel' Of his work,
Riordon says, "A primary goal is to recover voices and stories of
people who are silenced and relegated to the margins and written out of
the ‘official’ version of events."
Michael Riordon 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
an eventful week past on Victoria's streets for the People's Assembly,
and beyond our borders too. But first, Maude Barlow, standing on guard
for Canada where the government will not.
Before there was the Occupy Movement, and People's Assemblies, there was Maude. Maude Barlow is as close to iconic as a living Canadian can get without winning the Stanley Cup. She is the long-time face of the Council of Canadians, forerunners of the myriad corporate resisters out there today.
 The Council came to international attention during the so-called "Battle for Seattle" at the WTO conference held in that city in 1999. Then, environment, social justice, union, and anti corporate-rule activists came out to try put a halt to the cosy, behind-doors deals between governments and corporations they believed undemocratic. A dozen years, and multiple trade deals later, it's clear those fears were well-founded.
Maude Barlow was here at UVic in October, speaking out against another brick in the corporate-rule agenda wall, CETA, or the Canada-European Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. It was the first leg of a cross-Canada tour still underway. Maude Barlow and Canada's Communities Are Not for Sale in the first half.
And; to watch the nightly news, you'd be forgiven for believing the only way to settle disputes is through violence or threats of violence. From the not so deftly veiled promises of president Obama that "no options will be taken off the table," of this or that international dispute, to the police riot squaders spraying peaceful men and women, old and young, with tear gas and rubber-encased steel bullets, it seems might makes right in this world.
But, beyond the glare of television lights, past the "bleeding, leading" stories of the day, millions work diligently, without pause, for peaceful solutions to apparently intractable conflict.
 Michael Riordon is one of those. Author, documentary film maker, playwright, and lecturer, Riordon has written five books, the latest of which is, 'Our Way to Fight: Peace Work Under Siege in Israel-Palestine.' Michael is at the University of Victoria tonight, in the David Strong Building, presenting, 'Let My People Speak: Hear the repressed voices of peace workers in Palestine and Israel' Of his work, Riordon says, "A primary goal of is to recover voices and stories of people who are silenced and relegated to the margins and written out of the ‘official’ version of events."
Michael Riordon in 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 an eventful week past on Victoria's streets for the People's Assembly, and beyond our borders too. But first, Maude Barlow, standing on guard for Canada where the government will not.
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Some past guests include: M. Junaid Alam, M. Shahid Alam, Joel Bakan,
Maude Barlow, David Barsamian, Mark and Rhoda Berenson, Diana
Beresford-Kroeger, William Blum, Luciana Bohne, William Bowles, Mordecai
Briemberg, James J. Brittain, Vincent Bugliosi, Helen Caldicott, Noam
Chomsky, Michel Chossudovsky, Diane Christian, Juan Cole, David
Cromwell, Ezili Danto, Murray Dobbin, Jon Elmer, Yves Engler, Reese
Erlich, Anthony Fenton, Jim Fetzer, Laura Flanders, Chris Floyd, Connie
Fogal, Glen Ford, Susan George, Stan Goff, Amy Goodman, Robert
Greenwald, Denis Halliday, Chris Hedges, Sander Hicks, Julia Butterfly
Hill, Scott Horton, Robert Jensen, Dahr Jamail, Chalmers Johnson, Diana
Johnstone, Malalai Joya, Kathy Kelly, Naomi Klein, Brewster Kneen, Betty
Krawczyk, Anthony Lappe, Frances Moore Lappe, Jason Leopold, Jeff Leys,
Dave Lindorff, Jim Lobe, Jennifer Loewenstein, Stephen Marshall, Robert
Massoud, Linda McQuaig, George Monbiot, Loretta Napoleoni, John
Nichols, Kurt Nimmo, Ken O'Keefe, David Orchard, Riki Ott, Greg Palast,
Mike Palecek, Michael Parenti, Robert Parry, John Perkins, John Pilger,
Kevin Pina, William Rivers Pitt, Justin Podur, Lila Rajiva, Jack Random,
Sheldon Rampton, Paul Craig Roberts, David Robb, Paul de Rooij, John
Ross, David Rovics, Danny Schechter, David Schindler, Vandana Shiva, Tim
Shorrock, Norman Solomon, Jean Saint-Vil, Starhawk, Grant Wakefield,
Harvey Wasserman, Paul Watson, Bernard Weiner, Andy Worthington, Mickey
Z., Howard Zinn and many others.
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This week: Maude Barlow was here at UVic in October, speaking out against another
brick in the corporate-rule agenda wall, CETA, or the 
