This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook - Gorilla-Radio.com
This assault being waged against human decency in Palestine is a
test; a test to gauge how much atrocity we watching will countenance.
What we’ve allowed befall others in Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan, Libya,
Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Ukraine, and elsewhere has metastasized, becoming
finally the full-blown horror of Gaza. And it’s a horror that will, if
we allow it continue over there, in due course return to be visited upon
us as well.
So, why is it allowed time and again? And, who profits this belittlement of humanity?
Kathy Kelly is a long-time peace and justice activist, essayist, author, and recipient of numerous awards for her peace service, including multiple nominations for the Nobel Peace prize. Kathy’s book titles include, ‘Prisoners on Purpose: a Peacemakers Guide to Jails and Prison,’ and ‘Other Lands Have Dreams: from Baghdad to Pekin Prison.’
These days she’s serving as Board President at World BEYOND War, where among other things, she’s been busy co-coordinating the November 2023 Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal. The Tribunal launched Sunday, November 12, with the first segment examining the wanton and repeated criminality of the destruction of Gaza.
Kathy Kelly in the first half.
And; for the last six weeks, millions have gathered in cities and towns across the World to express their collective outrage at what is happening right now in Palestine, and in an effort to pressure their respective governments to demand Israel stop its indefensible destruction of Gaza and its people. Victoria, British Columbia is no different, where every week since Israel’s onslaught began citizens have come to the Legislative Buildings, seat of the provincial government, to raise their voices against the statuary and granite facades in hopes of moving their representatives.
Soundscapes from the Palestine solidarity manifestations in the second half.
But first, Kathy Kelly and trying the profiteers at 2023’s Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal.
Song: Nails in the Wall
Artist: Speedy J. – Kait Gray
From Grant Wakefield’s, The Fire This Time, 2002.
Photograph: Munition workers painting shells at the National Shell Filling Factory No.6, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire in 1917. This was one of the largest shell factories in the country, circa 1917. Photo by Horace Nicholls, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph: https://www.instagram.com/khaledbeydoun/p/CzG4c2tATXn/
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at Gorilla-Radio.com, GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/
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