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 This Week on GR: Jon Steinman, deconstructing more than just dinner; Eloise Charest Bear Clan and the plundering of B.C.'s rivers run; Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed with all that's good going on in and around Victoria in the coming week; and more...
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
As the old saying goes:
- "Ne'er were so many killed, that dug
their graves with a knife and fork."
It's a saw as true today as when
coined back in the 17th century, but that's where similarities end; the
food systems most of us in North America depend on today would be
entirely unrecognizable to the gout-plagued forbears in Europe, and
largely alien even to contemporary first generation Canadians coming from
mainly agrarian societies.
Today, the sheer size, scope, and
complexities involved in getting your dinner to your plate boggles the
mind of mere diners; or at least it would, if given a second thought.
As with so much in our modern life, even the most basic functions
required to sustain life, like eating, has become something we need
expert help in understanding.
Jon Steinman is a Nelson, B.C.-based
writer, broadcaster, and creator of CJLY's award-winning radio
programme, 'Deconstructing Dinner,' carried here at CFUV Thursday
afternoons at 1pm. Steinman warns of the serious consequences of our
dietary "lifestyle of convenience," consequences already coming home to
roost in troubling, and sometimes terrifying ways. Jon Steinman and
what's on your plate in the first half.
And; more essential even
to human survival than the food we eat is water. Without water, human
fragility quickly becomes apparent; we wither and die in a matter of
days. Water is the essence of virtually all life on this planet, and as
far as we know for certain, it is a substance confined to planet Earth.
Amazing then the way it is treated in Canada, where millions of gallons
of fresh water are fouled beyond reclamation daily to produce oil and
grease the wheels of industry. As well as removing irreplaceable water
from the hydrological cycle, we also interfere with the natural course
of waterways with dam works, routinely destroy wetlands, continue to
log trees in watersheds, and fill in delta lands for housing
developments, all at incalculable costs to the natural environment and
its wild inhabitants.
Eloise Charest Bear Clan is a long-time peace,
justice, and environment activist. She has traveled the world doing
good works in dangerous environments, but it is only in her native
Canada were her efforts for the common good of people and the land
rewarded with prison time. Eloise Charest Bear Clan still championing
the wild in the second segment.
And; Janine Bandcroft will join
us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with all that's
good to do in and around Victoria in the coming week. But first, Jon
Steinman and reconstructing your diet.
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Pacific
Free Press is a new sister site to Atlantic Free Press (already a
Google News Source). Like AFP, PFP is not a simple news aggregator. All
of our writers have been contacted, have joined the site and said they
will contribute their editorials that appear on their own blogs or are
syndicated elsewhere - and - some have stated they will provide
original work that will be initially exclusive to Pacific Free Press.
The sheer amount of writers working with Atlantic Free Press has
brought us to the point where we felt we need to divide some of the
material by starting a new site.
Using our Open Source content
management system (CMS), Joomla, our writers use a WYSIWYG editor to
contribute their submissions and images and we publish upon review -
it's cutting edge participatory journalism.
We have set up an
Author's Guide which is used for training the writers on Joomla,
podcasting (yes we podcast), and other emerging methods to communicate
their media.
We don't comb the net, hunting down articles,
that we would 'like' to appear in our publication and have been working
for over a year to put together a core team of people to work with us.
The
mission of Pacific Free Press is simple: to dig out nuggets of truth
from the slag-heap of lies, ignorance and witless diversion that has
buried public discourse today. Pacific Free Press provides a new venue
for disseminating hard news and insightful, fact-based analysis of the
harsh realities too often ignored or distorted by the mainstream press.
We have over a dozen PHD's on our writer's list - from all parts of the
globe.
Key writers who are onboard and will provide original work include:
Some
of our other writers include Andrew Bard Schmookler, Anwaar Hussain,
Chris Floyd, Craig Murray, Dave Lindorff, David Swanson, Doug Mitchell,
Frank Pitz, Ingmar Lee, James Kunstler, James Petras, Jason Miller,
Jennifer Matsui, Jeremy R. Hammond, Joel S. Hirschhorn, Joshua Frank,
Katherine Hughes, Kevin Harris, Larry C. Johnson, Linda Milazzo, Manuel
Valenzuela, Mark Crispin Miller, Mel Seesholtz, Michael Wills, Mickey
Z, Mike Whitney, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Nicola Nasser, Norman Solomon,
Paul J. Balles, Paul Lehto, Paul William Roberts, Phil Rockstroh, Ramzy
Baroud, Richard Kastelein, Richard Marsden, Robert Jensen, Rod Amis,
Rosemarie Jackowski, S. Artesian, Sam Welch, Seth Sandronsky, Shahid
Alam, Shepherd Bliss, Stephen Lendman, Tom Chartier, Tom Engelhardt,
Walter Brasch, Weldon Berger, Will Durst, William Bowles, William A.
Cook, William Blum, Winter Patriot and many others found here.
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Our
strategy for Pacificfreepress.com is to provide pennings from dissident
and alternative writers (Libertarian and Left) whose work does not
appear in Google News due to the lack of solid, reputable sources for
work of this kind. Google News is a rather fair and level playing field
- with mathematical algorithms as it's objective editors rather then
inherently subjective humans. Hence the importance of us being part of
the roster at Google News.
We feel that creating another
vehicle for the West Coast and East Asia Region (as opposed to Atlantic
Free Press) will allow more direction towards producing works from a
variety of Asian and Pacific West Coast voices which would be a great
resource for Google News and an outlet for alternative and dissident
journalists that don't normally get mainstream media coverage.
Best
Richard Kastelein
V.O.F. Expathos, The Netherlands
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