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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, David Rovics, Mandeep Dhillon, J9 for Mon. June 2, 2008
This week: Folk singer-songwriter extraordinaire, David Rovics reprises; from No One Is Illegal, Mandeep Dhillon on Canada's proposed Bill C-50; Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed on local good goings-on.
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This week marks a cultural high point for Victoria; David Rovics,
troubadour extraordinaire will perfom in our fine berg this Thursday,
June 5th at Camosun College's historic Young building. I had the
opportunity to talk with the globetrotting bard for peace and justice a
couple of weeks back and will give that interview a second listen.
David Rovics, and raising voice for the voiceless in the first half.
And; who is illegal? Some countries, those artifices made of lines
drawn on maps of areas on this planet that spins around a yellow star,
located in a small system, nestled on the edge of a spindly arm of the
Milky Way, were created in large part by drunken pirates, thieves and
murderers, whose successors now declare:
"For some, existence is, in
itself, in this place, a crime."
These sons and daughters of buccanneers
take it upon themselves to punish for the sin of living here those
people they declare to be "illegal" with imprisonment in cages and
concrete caves; to be watched over and hectored by sadists, and
psychopaths; brutalized for the crime of simply being.
That these latter day pirates are racists is not necessarily their only
motivation: Declaring some humans lesser than others is an ancient and
effective method to make easier for the master's conscience the forced
extraction of the lives and labours of the slave class.
But, resistance
to the slave masters is as ancient as this systemic barbarity, and
today in slave nation Canada, resistance is growing.
No One is Illegal is an organization addressing the atrocities visited
upon human dignity commited by the inheritors of the pirates who stole
and named this land, and yesterday they and their supporters rallied in
the cities and towns across the country so-named to declare their
opposition to the furtherence of legislation drawn against the natural
law of humanity in the form of bill C-50.
Mandeep Dhillon is a member of No One Is Illegal, herself a legally
recognized Canadian human being who stands opposed to C-50, and he'll
be here to tell us why. Mandeep Dhillon and scrapping C-Five-0 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 Victoria in the
coming week. But first, David Rovics, and singing for the suffering.
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This week: Folk singer-songwriter extraordinaire, David Rovics reprises; from No One Is Illegal, Mandeep Dhillon on Canada's proposed Bill C-50; Janine Bandcroft brings us up to speed on local good goings-on.
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