This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

This week, Andrea Licata is an Italian scholar, author, and campaigner against both Air Base Aviano and the proliferation of American and NATO military bases spreading around the world; Joan Russow on watching the Security and Prosperity Partners in New Orleans; Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed with all that's good going-on in and around Victoria in the coming week.

 

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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

 

 

Today the United States runs military bases in more than a hundred and twenty countries around the world. There is resistance to the American presence in many of those countries, but so far threats and payoffs to local rulers has sufficed to maintain America's military "bootprint" abroad.

 

Vicenza is in Italy's picturesque northeast, close to the borders with Austria and remnant Yugoslavia. The cross-roads region is no stranger to militaries of various stripes traversing its territory, but the citizens of Vicenza have insisted for almost a decade now that the American air base at Aviano be repatriated.

 

Andrea Licata is an Italian scholar, author, and campaigner against both Air Base Aviano and the proliferation of American and NATO military bases spreading around the world. His first book, 'From Military to Civil: The Preemptive Conversion of the USAF Base at Aviano' argues the economic profitability of beating that spear into plowshares for Italians.

 

Andrea is currently speaking across North America at the invitation of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, a broad coalition of peace and anti-militarism organizations, with the 'No Bases Tour.'  Andrea Licata in the first segment.

And; today, Stephen Harper met with Mexican president Filipe Calderon and out-going U.S. president George W. Bush in New Orleans. The meetings are a continuation of the now annual so-named 'Three Amigos Summit,' meant to shore up relations among the three principals of NAFTA, the North America Free Trade Agreement.

 

What's on the agenda of this year's confab is not a matter deemed worthy of public scrutiny, but activist following the backdoor deal-making characterizing these get togethers say the SPP, or Security and Prosperity Partnership billed at the top of the agenda is nothing less than the means of undoing democracy in the three nations, making finally official corporatist rule for 'Fortress North America.'

 

Joan Russow is a long-time Victoria-based activist, co-founder of the Ecological Rights Association, the Vancouver Island Human Rights Coalition, and the Global Compliance Research Project, former leader of and candidate for the Green Party of Canada.

 

Dr. Russow has a long and distinguished record of environmental activism locally and globally, and she'll be here in the second half to discuss the issues Stephen Harper and his "amigos" daren't utter publicly.

And; Janine Bandcroft will be here 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, Andrea Licata and Italians saying there is no basis for continued American bases.

 

 

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