This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

This week: Jean Saint-Vil is an Ottawa-based activist and journalist and member of Haiti Solidarity Committee. He hosts the radio program, Rendez-Vous Haitien on CKCU FM, and is the author of 'Lafimen: Listwa Pep Ayisyen Depi Nan Ginen,' audio reocordings narrating Haitian history in Kreyol. Jean Saint-Vil and the "Baby's" return in the first half. 

 

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And;  Ann Birthistle is an investigator with Stop UBC Animal Research who helped uncover UBC experiments on pregnant monkeys and their fetuses. Ann Birthistle on preserving our humanity and the well-being of the animals in the second half.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us news from Victoria's streets and beyond. But first, Jean Saint-Vil and the bizarre case of Baby Doc's return to Haiti.

 

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
 

Along with George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, Lewis Carroll has been most often credited with, if not predicting, then describing the absurdity of political life. Though we've heard tons about naked emperors in the early years of the 21st Century, Carroll's rabbit hole is hands down winner for most fitting metaphor of a glorious age that sees sentencing precede trial, as with American private soldier, Bradley Manning and the denizens of Black Hole prisons around the world, and proposes offensive wars, pre-emptively conducted as a justified and reasonable form of "defense."

 

Falling headlong last week into this Up is Down, Black is White bizarro world was former Haitian dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, better known as 'Baby Doc.' As you would rightly suspect; the 'Baby Doc' is neither baby nor doctor, but the son of 'Papa Doc' Duvalier, the tyrant who ruled Haiti until his death in 1971. Baby Doc took up his father's mantle with gusto, heading a ghastly regime until his ouster in 1986.

How is it that a criminal whose minions terrorized the people of Haiti for fifteen years, and who fled with more of the country's treasure than any one man could carry, can breezily return to the scene of his crime, when a fairly elected president,  kidnapped by foreign powers for the grievous error of trying to make the lives of the people a little easier, languishes yet in exile in Africa, barred forever from returning to his home?  

Jean Saint-Vil is an Ottawa-based activist and journalist and member of Haiti Solidarity Committee. He hosts the radio program, Rendez-Vous Haitien on CKCU FM, and is the author of 'Lafimen: Listwa Pep Ayisyen Depi Nan Ginen,' audio reocordings narrating Haitian history in Kreyol. Jean Saint-Vil and the "Baby's" return in the first half.

And; Canadians may be pleased to know the country's universities are leading the way in science research; that enthusiasm may wane however when they discover it comes at a cost paid by defenseless animals.

 

The Canadian Council on Animal Care has released a study that finds the numbers of animals used in scientific experiments in this country has risen in recent years. Today, more than 2.3 million animals are utilized for a wide array of experimentation, and that number is growing.

 

One of the largest of those institutions is just across the water from us at the campuses of the University of British Columbia, where each year more 100,000 animals, including cats, pigs, rabbits, rats, birds, mice, and non-human primates are killed.

Stop UBC Animal Research is a community-based campaign associated with the Anti-Vivisection Society of BC, a non-profit organization working to abolish animal experimentation in British Columbia. Ann Birthistle is an investigator with Stop UBC Animal Research who helped uncover UBC experiments on pregnant monkeys and their fetuses. Ann Birthistle on preserving our humanity and the well-being of the animals in the second half.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us news from Victoria's streets and beyond. But first, Jean Saint-Vil and the bizarre case of Baby Doc's return to Haiti.

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