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This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook
 This week: Alison Weir is a freelance journalist and lecturer, due to speak here in Victoria Thursday at the BC Government Employees Union auditorium
on the topic: 'If Canadians Knew: Israel-Palestine Beyond the
Headlines.'
Zoe Blunt is with No2010 Victoria.net, and she and a few hundred
kindred spirits got together in downtown Victoria on Friday to give
voice to those concerned about the dark side of the Olympics movement.
She's also a Langford-based pro-activist, freelance journalist,
wilderness and environmental educator, and was intimately involved with
the recent Torch welcoming reception.
Victoria Street Newz publisher, and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft
will be here at the bottom of the hour to keep us current on an
extraordinary week in the streets of Victoria.
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
Why do the marginalized voices addressing any number of issues and debates bother? Why, when a single article in the state/corporate media can generate a greater readership than a year of efforts by street papers, internet news sites, or blogs do journalists, citizen journalists, and the myriad volunteers in a plethora of organizations continue to spend uncounted hours of service to the cause? Perhaps part of it is because they believe: If only the people knew of the gross injustices allowed done in the name of corporate profit maximization, and government's failure to enforce the law, they would stand up and demand a stop be put to egregious criminality and the impunity its perpetrators enjoy.
Alison Weir is a freelance journalist and lecturer, due to speak here at in Victoria Thursday at the BC Government Employees Union auditorium on the topic: 'If Canadians Knew: Israel-Palestine Beyond the Headlines.' Alison Weir in the first segment.
And; Victorians were treated to the pomp and circumstance of the Running of the (Olympic) Torch through the streets and byways of the city and environs. If the hyper-security employed to protect the procession is any indication, the bloated billion-plus police and military budgets allowed for the Vancouver games will likely balloon into the stratosphere - just as the over-run cost for the 2010 version of the greatest circus on earth already has. In recent years, Olympics Committee excess, (in all possible definitions of the word) has many opposed to the prospect of opening the public purse for the private pursuit of profit, only to bear huge social, financial, and environmental costs the modern spectacle levies.
Zoe Blunt is with No2010 Victoria.net, and she and a few hundred kindred spirits got together in downtown Victoria on Friday to give voice to those concerned about the dark side of the Olympics movement. She's also a Langford-based pro-activist, freelance journalist, wilderness and environmental educator, and was intimately involved with the recent Torch welcoming.
Zoe Blunt and Victoria bidding aloha to the torch in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher, and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to keep us current on an extraordinary week in the streets of Victoria. But first; Alison Weir and telling what, if only, Canadians knew about Palestine.
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, Mordecai Briemberg, 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, Malaila Joya, Kathy Kelly, Naomi Klein, Brewster Kneen, Betty Krawczyk, 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, Lila Rajiva, Jack Random, Sheldon Rampton, Paul Craig Roberts, David Robb, Paul de Rooij, John Ross, David Rovics, Danny Schechter, David Schindler, Vandana Shiva, Norman Solomon, Starhawk, Grant Wakefield, Paul Watson, Bernard Weiner, Mickey Z., Howard Zinn and many others.
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