This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

This Week; Independent B.C. filmmaker and environmental defender, Damien Gillis. He has, in tandem with former broadcaster and politician Raif Mair, travelled the breadth and length of British Columbia giving presentations of his film and imploring the public of this province act before the salmon are driven to extinction.

 

Listen. Hear.

 

Now, Gillis and Mair are partnering again to create Common Sense Canadian, a synergy of multi-media aimed at providing you the people an alternative to a media that has abandoned its responsibilities to inform fairly.

 

Damien Gillis and bringing back sense to the commons in the first half.

 

Nearly two weeks since the devastation of the Caribbean nation of Haiti, and despite countless hours of media coverage, the real story behind that devastation is hardly known.

 

Canadian Jean St.-Vil is a Haitian born social justice activist who has long championed the cause of the country of his birth, decrying the criminal usurpation of its democracy and continued impoverishment of its people by an unholy alliance of the American, Canadian, and French governments and the trans-national corporations they serve.

 

Jean St.-Vil and the undermining of Haiti in the second half.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to highlight, among other things, the latest news from Victoria's activist Kevin Neish and his attempts to bear witness to the kangaroo court trial of Colombian union activist, Liliany Obando.

 

But first, Damien Gillis, Common Sense Canadian. 

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

 

A famous wag once said, the problem with common sense is it ain't so common. In British Columbia in the year 2010, that adage could be expanded to include the common good.

 

In years past, the role of the media was taken largely for granted; it was assumed the press would stand up to powerful and corrupt elements of society, using their charter to defend the interests of the little people. While that assumption may be of the rose-coloured variety, and there may never have been a time when media barons and t.v. moguls cared one wit for the good of their fellow citizens, what we see today is naked collusion between big business, big government, and concentrated, entirely biased big media.

 

Following years of government sanctioned deregulation, and what media operators call "convergence," big media is now no different than the monopoly interests once decried in the press. So who speaks for the wee people, who in the finish get it in the neck from both ends?

 

Damien Gillis is a freelance filmmaker who has worked tirelessly to bring the issue of the destruction of the pacific salmon to a greater public. He has, in tandem with former broadcaster and politician Raif Mair, travelled the breadth and length of British Columbia giving presentations of his film and imploring the public of this province act before the salmon are driven to extinction. Now, Gillis and Mair are partnering again to create Common Sense Canadian, a synergy of multi-media aimed at providing you the people an alternative to a media that has abandoned its responsibilities to inform fairly. Damien Gillis and bringing back sense to the commons in the first half.

And; it's nearly two weeks since the devastation of the Caribbean nation of Haiti, and despite countless hours of media coverage, the real story behind that devastation is hardly known. Canadian Jean St.-Vil is a Haitian born social justice activist who has long championed the cause of the country of his birth, decrying the criminal usurpation of its democracy and continued impoverishment of its people by an unholy alliance of the American, Canadian, and French governments and the trans-national corporations they serve. Jean St.-Vil and the undermining of Haiti in the second half.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to highlight, among other things, the latest news from Victoria's activist Kevin Neish and his attempts to bear witness to the kangaroo court trial of Colombian union activist, Liliany Obando. But first, Damien Gillis, Common Sense Canadian.