This Week on GR:
by C. L. Cook
 Kevin Neish is a Victoria-based human rights activist who has travelled
to Palestine on numerous occasions to show solidarity for the
Palestinian cause, and to protest the deprivations, violence, and
criminality foisted on them by the state of Israel. His most recent
action in that pursuit culminated on the night of May 31st, 2010 on
board the Turkish cruise ship, Mavi Marmara, the scene of a lethal
assault by Israeli commandos that resulted in the murder of nine,
unarmed rights activists by the military.
Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a scientist, author, lecturer, and defender
of the wilds that remain. She is a botanist; medical and agricultural
researcher; and self-defined "renegade scientist" in the fields of
classical botany, medical biochemistry, organic chemistry, and nuclear
chemistry. Her book titles include, 'The Global Forest,' 'A Garden for
Life: The Natural Approach to Designing, Planting, and Maintaining a
North Temperate Garden,' 'Arboretum America: A Philosophy Of The
Forest,' and her latest, 'Arboretum Borealis: A Lifeline of the
Planet.'
Diana Beresford-Kroeger and getting to know the trees in our Northern back yard 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 up to speed with the
goings on on Victoria's streets and beyond.
Welcome to GR, etc. And welcome to the revolution! Across the middle-east, popular, and suspected orchestrated, mass movements are challenging the power structure.
The latest and most dramatic instance of this is of course in Egypt, where at time of writing, the regime of Hosni Mubarak is teetering on the verge of collapse. Mubarak has, with the blessing and financial complicity of the "international community" ruled as omnipotent dictator, imprisoning untold millions over the course of his thirty plus yer tyranny, torturing and killing Egyptians, and in this last years of globalized terror, serving as a one-stop shop of horrors for the United States and her allies to drop off those they wished "interrogated" by means their own national constitutions forbade.
But Egypt's greatest service to empire is and has been its role as proxy gate-keepers for Israel, manning the walls that maintain the brutal siege of Gaza, and by extension, Palestinian ambitions for a free society connected to the outside world.
 Kevin Neish is a Victoria-based human rights activist who has travelled to Palestine on numerous occasions to show solidarity for the Palestinian cause, and to protest the deprivations, violence, and criminality foisted on them by the state of Israel.
His most recent action in that pursuit culminated on the night of May 31st, 2010 on board the Turkish cruise ship, Mavi Marmara, the scene of a lethal assault by Israeli commandos that resulted in the murder of nine, unarmed rights activists by the military.
Kevin Neish and the unflagging international efforts to end the siege of Palestine in the first half.
And; there is another, larger siege today. It is global in its scope, and poses a greater threat to the survival of humankind, and all species inhabiting this lonely world we all dwell upon.
Across the Earth, forests are falling. North and South, the great oxygenators are dying, and so too are myriad species, billions of creatures, that depend on the forests to survive. In the 1980's, the burgeoning environmental movements of the North focused on Brazil's destruction of the great Tropical Rainforests, overlooking for the most part the misuse and abuse of the wilderness in their own North, ignoring the ruination of the Great Boreal Forests.
 Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a scientist, author, lecturer, and defender of the wilds that remain. She is a botanist; medical and agricultural researcher; and self-defined "renegade scientist" in the fields of classical botany, medical biochemistry, organic chemistry, and nuclear chemistry. Her book titles include, 'The Global Forest,' 'A Garden for Life: The Natural Approach to Designing, Planting, and Maintaining a North Temperate Garden,' 'Arboretum America: A Philosophy Of The Forest,' and her latest, 'Arboretum Borealis: A Lifeline of the Planet.'
Diana Beresford-Kroeger and getting to know the trees in our Northern back yard 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 up to speed with the goings on on Victoria's streets and beyond. But first, Kevin Neish and ending the siege of Palestine.
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Some past guests include: M. Junaid Alam, M. Shahid Alam, Joel Bakan,
Maude Barlow, David Barsamian, Mark and Rhoda Berenson, Diana
Beresford-Kroeger, 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, Jean St. Vil, Starhawk, Grant Wakefield, Harvey Wasserman, Paul
Watson, Bernard Weiner, Andy Worthington, Mickey Z., Howard Zinn and
many others.
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