Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Andy Worthington, Mike Ferner, Janine Bandcroft Jan. 17, 2011

This week on GR: This week on GR: Andy Worthington is a journalist and author whose book titles include: ‘Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo,’ ‘Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion,’ ‘The Battle of the BeanField,’ and his latest, ‘The Guantanamo Files: Stories of 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison.’

Worthington is also co-director of the film, ‘Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo.’ Andy is back in his native Britain now, following a tour of the United States to screen his film and discuss the issue of America’s extrajudicial practices. Andy Worthington and remembering the forgotten in the first half.

And; Mike Ferner is a peace activist, journalist, author, and president of Veterans for Peace. He visited Iraq shortly before America’s invasion of 2003, and returned again a year later, his impressions and experiences in Iraq forming the basis of his book, ‘Inside the Red Zone: A Veteran for Peace Reports from Iraq.’ Ferner recently returned from Afghanistan, where he again visited the common people of a benighted land, documenting their extraordinarily difficult struggle. Mike Ferner, back from the front 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 some of the goings on going on on Victoria’s streets and beyond. But first, Mike Ferner and finding peace at the heart of a dark conflict.

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, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com

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Author: Chris Cook

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. The show is archived at: www.gorilla-radio.com. The GR blog is at: gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com, and you can find and support the program at GRadio.Substack.com. Financial support is also possible through the Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/PacificFreePress. He's too the past contributing editor to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com, (now defunct) and tweets at @paciffreepress. G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate media. Some past guests include: M. Shahid Alam, Joel Bakan, Maude Barlow, Ramzy Baroud, David Barsamian, William Blum, Luciana Bohne, Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, Paul Cienfuegos, Yves Engler, Laura Flanders, Denis Halliday, Julia Butterfly Hill, Sam Husseini, Robert Jensen, Dahr Jamail, Chalmers Johnson, Malalai Joya, Kathy Kelly, Ingmar Lee, Dave Lindorff, Andrew Gavin Marshall, Stefania Maurizi, Greg Palast, Michael Parenti, John Pilger, Kevin Pina, Ted Rall, Paul Craig Roberts, John Ross, David Rovics, Joan Russow, Danny Schechter, Vandana Shiva, Norman Solomon, David Swanson, Andy Worthington, Mickey Z., Howard Zinn and many others.

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