Friday, June 03, 2022

Surviving Democracy: Leftist and Afro-Colombian Rights Activist in the Lead Going to Second Round

Polls Put Left-Wing Candidates Facing Death Threats In the Lead to Win Colombia’s First-Round In Historic Presidential Election

Gustavo Petro (right) and Afro-Colombian activist Francia Márquez, 
his vice-presidential running mate on the Pacto Histórico ticket.
credit: Twitter / Francia Márquez

Onlookers say their popularity might explain a surge in death threats against the candidates. The ticket is striking: Petro is a former guerilla-turned-elected-official while Márquez is an award-winning Afro-descendant activist. 

It's Clearcut: Stop Old Growth Logging Now!

Save Old Growth the campaign to end ALL old growth logging in BC

 
May 31, 2022
 
Help grow the civil resistance campaign across British Columbia to demand the government pass legislation to immediately end all old growth logging in BC.


Listen. Hear. Sophie Papp & Zain Haq talk about 

Save Old Growth's Upcoming Campaign

 

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Your donations help us to set up new groups in new cities and towns across the province. To get the government to act, people need to take action in organized groups throughout BC. Your money goes towards mobilization, training, set up and the materials needed for a new group to be ready to take action in their town.

 

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

What's Olde: The (Notso) New War Order

GRESHAM’S NEW LAW – IN WAR THERE IS NO LAW

by John Helmer - Dances with Bears

 
May 30, 2022
 
In the history of war-fighting in Europe,  what state has waged war when its state treasurer, state banker, and state auditor were opposed to the war; aimed to cut the army off from the money required for troops and weapons; and schemed between themselves to sign terms of capitulation with the state’s enemies?

 

This question has been answered in a biography of Sir Thomas Gresham, the sixteenth century English monarchs’ banker, foreign exchange manipulator, smuggler, fraudster, land robber, and founder of the London stock exchange and its methods. 

Monday, May 30, 2022

Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Tim Boultbee, Ken Stone June 2nd, 2022

This Week on GR

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

 
June 2, 2022

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded May 28th, 2022
 
 

In early May, Cuban president, Miguel Diaz-Canel returned the diplomatic favour, hosting his Mexican counterpart, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Havana. The two signed various agreements tying the two nations closer, while AMLO used the opportunity to further criticize historical US foreign policy in the hemisphere, reminisce about Mexican support for Castro and the Cuban revolution, and to call for the lifting of the decades-long blockade against Mexico’s “sister nation.” None of this likely pleases the United States, but worse still for the Biden administration is Obrador’s hardly veiled threat to boycott next week’s Summit of the Americas confab in Los Angeles.

Tim Boultbee is a long-time activist for Latin American human and democratic rights. From Ronald Reagan’s Dirty Wars against the people of Nicaragua and El Salvador to the financial annexation of Mexico by means of the NAFTA agreement he has borne witness as an international observer at the front lines of the fight for justice. Tim is currently a member of CASC, the Victoria Central America Support Committee, assisted the Building Bridges Human Rights Project in Chiapas, and worked to raise funds for the Fray Bartolome Human Rights Center in San Cristobal.

Tim Boultbee in the first half.

And; just as Canada has supported US belligerence in Latin America, (earning for the trouble exclusion from CELAC, the organization likely to determine the cultural, political, and economic future of the hemisphere) the current administration too has gone along with its larger neighbour’s campaign to isolate China. The lengths Trudeau’s government is willing to go to please Uncle Sam was made painfully obvious in its two-plus years contralegal persecution of Huawei executive, Meng Wanzhou. Now, it has announced the exclusion of Huawei from this country’s 5G communications network development.

Ken Stone is a long-time antiwar activist whose served as an executive member of both the Syria Solidarity Movement and Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War. Ken and the Coalition fought tooth and nail against the incarceration of Meng Wanzhou and extradition efforts by the United States, and they’ve opposed the odious AUKUS military pact threatening war with China in the Pacific. The danger AUKUS presents to World peace ramped up last fall with the deal to provide nuclear powered submarines to Australia, and more lately with the announced rapid development of hypersonic missile technology and expanded electronic warfare aimed at the People’s Republic.

Ken Stone on Huawei in Canada, and AUKUS going over the top in the Pacific in the second half.

But first, Tim Boultbee and Biden’s Summit of the Americas proving a low point in hemispheric interrelations.

Chris Cook has hosted Gorilla Radio since 1999. Check out the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com