Category: News

This week, a look at Canada as Fall approaches; Thomas van Heyningen and the Diabetes Hope Foundation scholarship program for youth with the disease; Janine Bandcroft bringing us up to speed with good goings on in and around Victoria in the coming week.

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

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 56:40 — 51.9MB) | Embed

Subscribe: RSS | More

This week: journalist, poet and author, John Ross on the return of Gunboat Diplomacy in Latin America; Jon Elmer on recent Israeli atrocities in Occupied Palestine.

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

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:50 — 54.8MB) | Embed

Subscribe: RSS | More

This week: Vincent Mosco and begging the question, “Will media’s sheep look up?” Zoe Blunt chronicles the wee peoples’ fight on the south island; and, Janine Bandcroft from sunny Texas.

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

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:24 — 25.1MB) | Embed

Subscribe: RSS | More

Jason Leopold is a self-confessed news junkie, whose shingle includes stints with the Dow Jones Newswire, the L.A. Times, on-line sites, Truthout.org and Consortium News, and his investigative reporting has garnered him two Project Censored awards, uncovering the slime beneath American monster corporations Halliburton and Enron. He is also the author of the best-selling autobiography, News Junkie, and co-founder of the new news site, The Public Record. Jason Leopold in the first segment.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:51 — 53.0MB) | Embed

Subscribe: RSS | More

This week: Kevin Neish on the Fernwood Community Association’s long struggle with City Hall coming to a head; Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed on good local goings-on in the coming week; and Songs for Mahmud: the music of David Rovics.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 36:32 — 33.5MB) | Embed

Subscribe: RSS | More

Joan Russow on watching the Security and Prosperity Partners in New Orleans

This week, American novelist Mike Palecek on his latest release, Iowa Terror, a walk with the Western Canada Wilderness Committee and a couple thousand friends in Victoria, and Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed on good goings-on in and around the lower island in the coming week.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 23:41 — 21.7MB) | Embed

Subscribe: RSS | More

last month, to much fanfare, the Campbell government announced their 2008 budget. Remarkably, that budget contains North America’s first carbon tax. The tax has been well received in some environmental quarters, but is this carbon tax all it pretends to be? Roger Annis is a trade unionist and social activist and member of Vancouver’s Stopwar.ca coalition. He’s looked into the details behind the Liberal’s newly turned green leaf.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:37 — 28.0MB) | Embed

Subscribe: RSS | More

With Kosovo again in the news, a look back to one of Gorilla Radio’s first programs. In May of 1999, while the bombs were still falling on Belgrade and other places constituting the Former Republic of Yugoslavia. I recorded this interview with professor Oliver Schmidke, then of the University of Victoria. The interview was meant to be intercut with a live discussion, the tape of which has gone missing. – lex

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:02:26 — 57.2MB) | Embed

Subscribe: RSS | More

This week: Justice activist, Katherine Hughes following the persecution of Dr. Rafil Dhafir, still imprisoned nearly five years after his bogus arrest; award-winning film maker and author, Stephen Marshall on the betrayal of the left and Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing; and Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed with all that’s good to do in and around Victoria in the coming week.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:46 — 54.7MB) | Embed

Subscribe: RSS | More

This week on GR: activist, scholar, educator, and author of numerous articles, reviews, medical papers, and books, Joel Kovel on his latest book, ‘Overcoming Zionism;’ freelance journalist and author, Dahr Jamail and ‘Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq.’