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Welcome to Gorilla Radio, continuing to broadcast, not live from the basement of the Student Union Building at the University of Victoria, but live-to-tape via Skype, for the foreseeable… There has been much written on the World after Covid in the vein of how this unprecedented cessation of the economy for millions could prove to … Continue reading “Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Joe Emersberger, Kathy Kelly, Janine Bandcroft April 30, 2020”

The Covid-19 interrupted Funding Drive 2020 show… GR 10-58 101.9 FM ‘cfuv.ca’ Thursday March 19th, 2020 FundingDrive 11:00:00 2:00 Welcome to the strangest of the one thousand and fifty-eight Gorilla Radio episodes I’ve presented here at CFUV over the last 21 years. This was to be my contribution to the 2020 FundingDrive show, but that, … Continue reading “Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Joe Emersberger Fundriving 2020”

It’s easy to forget, living here as we do in Canada’s “Majority Culture”, embraced by comfort and taking as granted ready access to amenities both necessary and frivolous, that there are other ways of being, ways that beyond the train-schedule regularity making up most of our day to days constitute an entirely different kind of … Continue reading “Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, David Curtis, Joe Emersberger Janine Bandcroft Feb. 6, 2020”

Joe Emersberger sits down to talk with me about Canada’s welcoming of the Venezuelan pretender, Juan Guaido, the Bolivian coup and scheduled May 3rd election, and if Bernie Sanders’ team will follow Jeremy Corbyn’s disastrous electoral example in the American election. Joe Emersberger is a Canada-based writer whose work, primarily focused on media distortion and … Continue reading “Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Joe Emersberger raw February 1, 2020”

Extractivist industries and their proponents are too rumoured behind the violent ouster this past week of the duly elected president of Bolivia, Evo Morales. Canada’s government, in concert with its U.S. counterpart have voiced support for the extrajudicial undermining of the president there, as they both have supported anti-democratic campaigns in Honduras, Venezuela, and Brazil … Continue reading “Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Joe Emersberger November 14, 2019”

The fight against neo-colonism, exemplified by extractivist industry policies everywhere, continues. In Canada, and throughout jurisdictions in both North and South, resource interests and their allies in government have invoked and enacted “consultation” measures. Presented as a means of inclusion for local, primarily indigenous, community participation in the mining, logging, and fossil fuel exploration and … Continue reading “Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Ellen Moore, Joe Emersberger, Janine Bandcroft November 14th, 2019”

We all know water means life; so why then do we treat it like dirt? Whether by using our streams and rivers as open sewers, or permitting construction and other industrial activities in watersheds, we’ve allowed clean, pure water, lifeblood of both ecosystems and human civilization become just something running freely from a tap. But … Continue reading “Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, June Ross, Joe Emersberger, Janine Bandcroft July 11, 2019”