This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

 

Chris Johnson is a local community activist, organizer, and independent journalist. As well as serving as a director of the Vancouver Island Community Forest Action Network, among other things, Chris is also one of the principals behind the nascent B-Channel. Chris Johnson breaking the media monopoly with DIY news in the second half.

And, recently returned home too, Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV stalwart Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with her whirlwind summer travels.

 

 

With the enacting of Bill C-23, Stephen Harper's government hopes to strengthen Canada's trade ties with Colombia. The move is not opposed by the official opposition, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff saying "engagement" with South America's most brutal regime is more important than something as trifling as the moral rectitude of the country. Though thousands of unionists, social workers, peasants, and any others that bar the way to dictator "president" Uribe's self-aggrandizement are routinely wiped out or thrown into hell-hole prisons, rather than stand on our supposed principles, the latter day Neville Chanberlains leading both main parties would do deals with the beast in the name of business first and last.

Kevin Neish is a Victoria-based social activist and long-time rights defender. He's just recently returned from Colombia, where he had the first hand opportunity to witness Colombian justice up close and personal. Kevin Neish in the first half.

And; how does a civilization drown in its own crapulence? It begins with ignorance. Like Rome's doomed denizens, dumbed down by bread, circuses, and lead plumbing, the populations of the nations making up western civilization today are kept in the dark regarding the disastrous fate our societal paradigm necessitates. This is in no small part due to the sequestering of mass communications into the hands of a few massive corporations, and the venal liars they control at the highest levels of State media. Chris Johnson is a local community activist, organizer, and independent journalist. As well as serving as a director of the Vancouver Island Community Forest Action Network, among other things, Chris is also one of the principals behind the nascent B-Channel. Chris Johnson breaking the media monopoly with DIY news in the second half.

And, recently returned home too, Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV stalwart Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with her whirlwind summer travels. But first, Kevin Neish and life inside the land of Canada's newest fascist partner, Colombia.     

 

 

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