This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

Author, film maker, and all around new communications renaissance man, Anthony Lappe on 'Shooting War;' a day at the Langford municipal hall protest for wild spaces protection on Vancouver Island; Janine Bandcroft bringing us up to speed on local goings-on.

 

 

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 . And, you can check out the GR blog here.   

 

It took years after America's hurried exit from Vietnam for fiction to catch up with the reality of that war; but that was in the PI, or Pre-Internet world. Communications technology has, in 2007 little resemblance to those way back days, before PC's, iPods, homogenous corporate media and embedded journalists; so, it's little wonder novels, films, and other media are chronicling the debacle in the desert now, even as the battles rage on.

 

And why wait?

 

The Bush administration has touted its war as "generational" in nature; one could spend a life-time waiting for its end, before addressing the Global War on Terror. Anthony Lappe is a new-communications renaissance man; a television producer, radio personality, executive editor and co-creator of the internet's Guerrilla News Network, and a features writer for a score of magazines and newspapers, author of 'True Lies,' an eye-opening account of America in the post-Bush years, and the award-winning documentary film maker behind  BattleGround: 21 Days on the Empire’s Edge an expose of life in war ravished Iraq. His new book is 'Shooting War,' a fictional take on war correspondents informed by his real life experiences in Iraq.

 

And; there is another war; a war in the woods just minutes from Victoria. The forces arrayed are familiar to anyone who has lived in these parts, as are the issues. The south island is running out of space. Development is out-stripping the land available, and more people are moving to the island to enjoy its laid-back atmosphere. One of the city's major features, wild lands, rivers, forests and lakes within just a few kilometers of downtown, are now contested by developers eager to make a fortune, and citizens determined to stand between the trees and the bulldozers. Last Saturday, dozens of activists rallied at Langford's municipal hall. I went down to the demonstration to listen in.

 

And; Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with all that's good to do in and around Victoria in the coming week.

 

 

G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate media.

Some past guests include: M. Junaid Alam, M. Shahid Alam, Joel Bakan, Maude Barlow, David Barsamian, Rhoda Berenson, William Blum, Luciana Bohne, William Bowles, Vincent Bugliosi, Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, Michel Chossudovsky, Diane Christian, Juan Cole, David Cromwell, Murray Dobbin, Jon Elmer, 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, Kathy Kelly, Naomi Klein, Anthony Lappe, Frances Moore Lappe, Jason Leopold, Jeff Leys, Dave Lindorff, Jim Lobe, Jennifer Loewenstein, Wayne Madsen, Stephen Marshall, Linda McQuaig, George Monbiot, Loretta Napoleoni, John Nichols, Kurt Nimmo, David Orchard, Greg Palast, Mike Palecek, Michael Parenti, Robert Parry, John Pilger, Kevin Pina, William Rivers Pitt, Justin Podur, Jack Random, Sheldon Rampton, Paul Craig Roberts, David Robb, Paul de Rooij, John Ross, Danny Schechter, Vandana Shiva, Norman Solomon, Starhawk, Grant Wakefield, Paul Watson, Bernard Weiner, Mickey Z., and many others.