This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook
 This Week: Jon Elmer is a Canadian freelance journalist and photojournalist who
has lived in and reported from Palestine on numerous occasions since
the beginning of the Second Intifada there. He is the author of the
websites, From Occupied Palestine.org and JonElmer.ca.
Jon is recently
returned to Canada from the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and he joins us
today from Toronto.
Listen. Hear.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV
broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will be here in the second half to bring
us newz from Victoria's street community. But first, Jon Elmer, out of
Occupied Palestine for the holidays.
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.
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Happy Easter Monday. It's an extaordinarily holy week in the Holy Land, with both Eastern and Western Christian church calendars coinciding with Jewish Passover. One of Christianity's highest holidays, Easter is the remembrance of the suffering, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus, the Lord Christ, Son of God and Redeemer of Man's sins.
Though little publicized, Palestine is also a land of Christians; a marked minority subject to many of the inequities Muslim Palestinian's must endure, in philosophy if not enforced to the same degree. Palestinian Christians are rarely considered a part of the bifurcation in Jerusalem, but this week, and Christmas, they make the news.
Over the weekend, tensions flared when Christians pilgirms attempting to observe at Jerusalem's holy sites were hindered; while Palestinian Christians, those tracing their citizenship in Jerusalem back to the time of Jesus, where warned off, many instead holding ceremonies in Ramallah. The religious tensions highlight the political powder keg that is Jerusalem, and the explosive potential mounting there in recent months.
Jon Elmer is a Canadian freelance journalist and photojournalist who has lived in and reported from Palestine on numerous occassions since the beginning of the Second Intifada there. He is the author of the websites, From Occupied Palestine.org and Jon elmer.ca. Jon is recently returned to Canada from the West Bank city of Bethlehem and he joins us today from Toronto.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will be here in the second half to bring us newz from Victoria's street community. but first, Jon Elmer, out of Occupied Palestine for the holidays.
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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, 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, 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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