Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Dougie Strang, Yves Engler, Janine Bandcroft August 22, 2019

This Week on GR

by C. L .Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com

August 22, 2019

How does one determine when it's time to quit? When do you know your relationship with a partner, relative, job, or even the way you engage with the World has led to a dead-end?

And, what then is to be done?

Ten years ago, two English writers, each convinced ecological campaigning in hopes of changing the trajectory of our modern consumptionist society was both doomed to failure and ultimately delusional, united to create, 'Uncivilization: The Dark Mountain Manifesto'.

It proved the beginning of a project that continues yet, questioning "the stories our societies like to tell about the world and our place within it..."



Listen. Hear.

Dougie Strang is a Scotland-based writer and performer who's been involved with the Dark Mountain Project from near its inception.

He currently serves as chair of the Steering Group, and also writes for the project's books and website, and helps organise DM events and collaborations with other organisations. Strang says his performance work, "explores human/animal interactions, and our relationship to ritual and ceremony."

Dougie Strang in the first half.

And; with a Fall election call expected any day, the time couldn't be better for Canadians to examine anew the state of the country's political system; paying especial attention to Ottawa's players as at their quadrennial electoral games.

Yves Engler is a Montréal-based activist, essayist, and author whose numerous articles appear at his site, YvesEngler.com, Dissident Voice, The Palestine Chronicle, and Pacific Free Press among other places. His latest, 'Unifor aligns with Liberal foreign policy instead of international solidarity' is as round an evisceration of both the largest private sector union in Canada and it's bosom pals in the Liberal party you're likely to find.

Some of Engler's ten book titles include: ‘A Propaganda System-How Canada’s Government, Corporations, Media and Academia Sell War and Exploitation’, ‘Canada in Africa – 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation’, ‘The Ugly Canadian – Stephen Harper’s Foreign Policy’, and his latest, ‘Left, Right: Marching to the Beat of Imperial Canada’.

Yves Engler and Our Canada, Ourselves in the second half.

And; Victoria-based activist and long-time Gorilla Radio contributor, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour with the Left Coast Events Bulletin of some of the good things to be gotten up to in and around our town in the coming week.

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Thursday between 11-Noon Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca.  He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/