This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

This week, organic farmer and seed saver, Mary Alice Johnson on food security at home on south Vancouver Island, and elsewhere; acclaimed international journalist and filmmaker, John Pilger on his latest film, The War on Democracy, and more; and, Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed with some of the 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.

 

And, you can check out the GR blog at:  http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com   

 

What does it mean to live? Is it merely the continuity of biological processes, or is there more to it? Today, living here in Western Canada, stolen territory of the first peoples, human life seems pretty homogenous.

 

In the main, we go to work, or school five days a week, and kick back on the weekend with friends and family. We live largely in cities, the workings of which we generally know very little about, our food and clothing secured through trips to supermarkets, and department stores; most of what we eat and drink comes packaged, having often originating hundreds, or even thousands of miles away.

 

For most of us, that is the limit of our awareness of the lives we lead. But what happens when that cozy reality fractures? Can we still sustain life here when there is no more "out there" to supply our needs?

 

These are some of the uncomfortable questions raised by the film Gardens of Destiny we must face if life here on the coast is to continue. Gardens of Destiny is to be screened this Wednesday by the Sooke Community Health Intiative - Food Security in association with the ongoing Awareness Film Night.

 

Mary Alice Johnson is a long-time Sooke resident and founder of the ALM Organic Farm cooperative. She is an active "seed-saver," and shares heritage seeds on-line, through fullcircleseeds.com. Mary Alice Johnson in the first segment.

 

And; in a time of decay, when all the institutions of western enlightenment are perverted, resembling gnarled fruits, hanging grotesquely below democracy's dying tree; in a world where massive crimes of unprecedented magnitude are allowed to continue unmentioned and unpunished; in a climate of fear, where men and women abrogate their natural duty to decency, serving personal comfort and career first, as the vital needs of humanity fester, there remains a few dedicated and undaunted media professionals chronicling the debasement of the age, and still speaking truth to power.

 

John Pilger has, for more than four decades, served the highest ethos of journalism: Truth. He's produced more than 55 documentary films, written thousands of articles, and received the highest honours his profession affords: Twice named Journalist of the Year in Britain, and International Journalist of the Year, John Pilger was also granted the United Nations Association Media Peace Prize.

 

Among the many awards his documentary films garnered are an Emmy in the United States, and Britain's "Oscar," the BAFTA award. His latest film, the first to be released theatrically, is 'The War on Democracy,' a timely examination of the drastic decline of that institution in the early years of the 21st Century. John Pilger and the global war on democracy in the second half.

And; travellin' Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed of all that's good to do in and around Victoria in the coming week. but first, Mary Alice Johnson and life in the Gardens of Destiny. 

 

 

 

 

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