This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

This week: The thirties had Woody Guthrie, the sixties Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs, and today we have David Rovics, ringing the musical alarm for a society veering dangerously towards oblivion; and, a March fire threatened the continuance of Vancouver's Downtown East Side "ground zero" health provider, the Health Contact Centre, Tui Hill is with the HCC and she'll join us in the second half; and, Janine Bandcroft will be here to bring us up to speed with good goings-on in and around the south island for the coming week.

 

 

Where is the theme music to these years of our discontent? Remember the sixties, when FM was young and anthems against war and injustice filled the air waves? Today, those once wild waves have been tamed; dammed through a combination of crony corruption and government cowardice, the public's air waves are no longer public, and the result is: no messages countering corporate propaganda carried.

 

Luckily, there are little stations like CFUV still willing to broadcast truth to power, and there are new technologies emerging to break the roaring silence of the so-called mainstream media on the imperative issues of the moment. And, its there you'll find the coming revolution's soundtrack, much of it sung and played by my first guest, David Rovics.

 

David Rovics and singing for our lives in the first half.

And; this week, the federal New Democrats will introduce into the Parliament a motion of non-confidence concerning the govenment's handling of the growing divide between the rich and poor in Canada.

 

There is perhaps no starker an example in this country of that burgeoning disparity than Vancouver's Downtown East Side. Home of the nation's most desperately homeless and drugs addicted, recent years have too seen the DTES become the dumping ground for physically and mentally ill citizens the government no longer cares to provide assistance to.

 

But, the Downtown East Side has its angels too, one of those being the Health Contact Centre.

 

Last March, fire swept through the HCC's East Hastings facility, leaving in doubt the centre's survival, and endangering the lives of the people depending on the approximately 500 occassions of service delivered daily there.

 

Tui Hill works at the Health Contact Centre and she'll be here in the second half.

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 the southern island in the coming week. But first, David Rovics and singing for the suffering. 

 

 

G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in the corporate media.

Some past guests include: M. Junaid Alam, M. Shahid Alam, Joel Bakan, Maude Barlow, David Barsamian, Rhoda Berenson, William Blum, Luciana Bohne, William Bowles, Mordecai Briemberg, Vincent Bugliosi, Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, Michel Chossudovsky, Diane Christian, Juan Cole, David Cromwell, Murray Dobbin, Jon Elmer, Reese Erlich, Anthony Fenton, Jim Fetzer, Laura Flanders, Chris Floyd, Connie Fogal, Glen Ford, Susan George, Stan Goff, Amy Goodman, Robert Greenwald, Denis Halliday, Chris Hedges, Sander Hicks, Julia Butterfly Hill, Scott Horton, Robert Jensen, Dahr Jamail, Chalmers Johnson, Diana Johnstone, Kathy Kelly, Naomi Klein, Anthony Lappe, Frances Moore Lappe, Jason Leopold, Jeff Leys, Dave Lindorff, Jim Lobe, Jennifer Loewenstein, Wayne Madsen, Stephen Marshall, Linda McQuaig, George Monbiot, Loretta Napoleoni, John Nichols, Kurt Nimmo, David Orchard, Greg Palast, Mike Palecek, Michael Parenti, Robert Parry, John Pilger, Kevin Pina, William Rivers Pitt, Justin Podur, Jack Random, Sheldon Rampton, Paul Craig Roberts, David Robb, Paul de Rooij, John Ross, Danny Schechter, Vandana Shiva, Norman Solomon, Starhawk, Grant Wakefield, Paul Watson, Bernard Weiner, Mickey Z., Howard Zinn and many others.
 

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