This week on Gorilla Radio:

Haitian-Canadian journalist and activist, Jean St. Vil and the killing of democracy in Haiti.

Author, journalist, and media critic, Norman Solomon and war made easy.

And; Janine Bandcroft bringing us up to speed with all that's good to do in and around Victoria this 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 at the progressive web news site: http://www.pej.org.

You can check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com

Gorilla Radio for Monday,
December 5th, 2005

C. L. Cook

Glorious democracy! Expect to hear a lot about the virtues of our political system while candidates vie to form Canada’s next government. But don’t expect the defenders of the gift of the Greeks to make much mention of Haiti’s democracy, or the role Canada played undermining President-elect, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A quick glance at the Liberal Party of Canada’s website reveals scant mention of Haiti, beyond the 180 million dollars the government has pledged to assist the illegal, interim government imposed on the people nearly two years ago. Like-wise, perusing the site of perennial opposition New Democratic Party site expresses concern for reported government human rights abuses, but fails to make the connection between those systemic abuses and Canada’s culpability in empowering a murderous, thuggish regime. Jean St. Vil is a Haitian-Canadian journalist and activist with the Canada Haiti and founding member of the Canada Haiti Action Network. He appeared here at UVic a few weeks ago at the symposium, ‘Why Haiti? The Ottawa Initiative or Canada’s First Coup d’Etat’ and to present the film ‘Aristide and the Endless Revolution.’ Jean St. Vil and Canada’s imperial ambition in the first half.

And; what greases and enables the machinery of the horrid war-factory that has become America? Norman Solomon is a media and politics columnist, activist, author, and the Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. Some titles among his many books include: ‘Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You,’ co-authored with foreign correspondent, Reese Erlich, ‘Wizards of Media Oz,’ ‘The Habits of a Highly Deceptive Media,’ and , ‘The Power of Babble.’ His latest is, ‘War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.’ Norman Solomon, exposing the War Elephant in America’s living-room in the second half.

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 this week. But first, Jean St. Vil and the killing of democracy in Haiti.

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