This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

This week: Amy Miller is a Montreal-based documentary filmmaker and activist whose film, 'Myths for Profit: Canada's Role in Industries of War and Peace' has featured in festivals from Calgary to Australia.  Amy is also a journalist, reporting for Free Speech Radio News, The Dominion online newspaper, and the Independent Media Centre in Montreal. She was in Toronto reporting on the G20 when the Pigs turned on her, as they did many journalists, and took her into custody for the crime of revealing the myth of Canadian democracy.

 

Amy Miller in the first half.

 

Listen. Hear.

 

And; Jaggi Singh is a name familiar to any who have followed or participated in the social peace and justice movement in Canada over the last couple of decades. He was famously grabbed off the streets of Quebec City during another G20 confab back in 2001, but this time his arrest was a more gentile affair. Jaggi Singh turned himself into police when he discovered there was an arrest warrant out for him; it's an order charging him as a conspirator against the laws of the land. Jaggi's first court appearance was today, and at time of writing he is still in custody. We're not sure if Jaggi will be able to appear in the second half, but failing that, someone from his support group will.

 

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.

 

When I was a boy, back in the days of America's war against Vietnam, and war against Americans who objected to it, we called them "Pigs." That would be the police. In those days there was a broad denunciation of the riot squads, who with their dogs and firehoses, batons and shotguns, attacked the people in contravention of all supposed rights and freedoms. Some were assailed with rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas, others were shot dead.

 

Often the police riots were an excuse to target further the poor and coloured folk, whose names and fingerprints would be gathered for future reference. We called them Pig because we could see the images of them on television, erect as they swung their batons and jammed their rifle butts into the unarmed, beating and jerking around the citizenry. Pigs like Animal Farm enforcers; pigs like Odysseus' crew; pigs who once were men.

A fortnight has passed now since the infamous assault against the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was allowed perpetrated against the people by the collected police and military force gathered in Toronto, ostensibly to protect the international financiers gathering there for the G20 meetings. Some Canadians are still being held, charged with phony, trumped up allegations of conspiracy, or for posing in their person a perceived threat to the safety of the nation. Last weekend saw protests in the streets of many Canadian cities, where the people came out again, despite the gross behaviour exhibited by the Pigs; behaviour that serves now as a threat to any in this country Canada who would dare challenge the authorities, asserting the right of dissent without fear of injury or arrest, and to demand inquiries be immediately mounted to name, shame, and punish those responsible for enacting the great crime against the peace and polity.

Amy Miller is a Montreal-based documentary filmmaker and activist whose film, 'Myths for Profit: Canada's Role in Industries of War and Peace' is also a journalist reporting for Free Speech Radio News, The Dominion online newspaper, and the Independent Media Centre in Montreal. She was in Toronto reporting on the G20 when the Pigs turned on her, as they did many journalists, and took her into custody for the crime of revealing the myth of Canadian democracy. Amy Miller in the first half.

And; Jaggi Singh is a name familiar to any who have followed or participated in the social peace and justice movement in Canada over the last couple of decades. He was famously grabbed off the streets of Quebec City during another G20 confab back in 2001, but this time his arrest was a more gentile affair. Jaggi Singh turned himself into police when he discovered there was an arrest warrant out for him; it's an order charging him as a conspirator against the laws of the land. Jaggi's first court appearance was today, and at time of writing he is still in custody. We're not sure if Jaggi will be able to appear in the second half, but failing that, someone from his support group will appear. The case for the pre-emptive arrest of Jaggi Singh in the second half.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us  with her take on newz both local and less so at the bottom of the hour. But first, Amy Miller documented the flowering of Canadian fascism.  

 

 

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