This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

This week; Damien Gillis is a Vancouver-based documentary filmmaker and co-creator of the new environmental and social justice website, TheCanadian.org. He's spent the last several years campaigning to put an end to the Atlantic Salmon fish farming enterprises widely believed to be behind the disappearance of wild Pacific Salmon on the coast.

 

Damien Gillis in the first half.

 

Listen. Hear.

 

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to keep us apprised of events from Victoria's streetz  and beyond. But first, Damien Gillis recruiting for a second War in the Woods in Clayoquot Sound.

 

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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Twenty years ago it was called the 'War in the Woods.' Thousands of British Columbians, and environmental defenders from around the world, took a stand against the logging of Clayoquot Sound on the wild west side of Vancouver Island. Nearly a thousand were arrested, very nearly matching the mass arrests seen in Toronto recently. The "war" made news across the planet, prompting the NDP government of the time to reconsider allowing the destruction of the Clayoquot. But that was then. Today, despite its designation as a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve, mining and logging interests are again banging on the door, but this time there are no thousands at the ready to defend against the further despoiling of another of the Island's dwindling pristine watersheds. Not yet.

Damien Gillis is a Vancouver-based documentary filmmaker and co-creator of the new environmental and social justice website, The Common Sense Canadian.org. He's spent the last several years campaigning to put an end to the Atlantic Salmon fish farming enterprises widely believed to be behind the disappearance of wild Pacific Salmon on the coast.

 

Damien Gillis in the first half.

And; in his seminal book, '1984' George Orwell wrote: "He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future." With the year 1984 well in 2010's mirror, Orwell's warning could not be more prophetic. Today, as the planet grows smaller, we are collectively ruled by history as never before. It is a vision of the past allowing endless militarism, and unprecedented barbarism. It is a vision that is, as Michael Moore observed while collecting his Oscar award in the days before the launching of the current war and occupation of Iraq, a fiction.

Gilad Atzmon is an accomplished jazz and pop musician, whose music has been internationally recognized, earning him among other honours, the BBC album of the year for his release, 'Exile.' His latest album is, 'In Loving Memory of America.’ Gilad is also a writer of fiction, and a political and philosophical essayist. His novels, 'Guide to the Perplexed' and 'My One And Only Love'  have been translated into 24 languages. Atzmon is an ex-patriot Israeli, and veteran IDF soldier, whose writing about the ongoing occupation of Palestine, and the nature of the forces behind that occupation has earned him both praise and condemnation. His latest article challenges our current understanding of history, arguing it is time to revisit our recent past. Of that history, Atzmon says;

"To save the world and to bring peace about, we must learn our past and we must be free to [do] so. Revisionism is the means towards a better future."

Gilad Atzmon and revisioning our past for a future peace in the second half.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to keep us apprised of events from Victoria's streetz  and beyond. But first, Damien Gillis recruiting for a second War in the Woods in Clayoquot Sound.

Some past guests include: M. Junaid Alam, M. Shahid Alam, Joel Bakan, Maude Barlow, David Barsamian, Mark and 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, Ken O'Keefe, David Orchard, Riki Ott, 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, Harvey Wasserman, Paul Watson, Bernard Weiner, Mickey Z., Howard Zinn and many others.