This Week on GRadio
by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk demanded Monday the United States lift sanctions against Cuba “immediately”. The High Commissioner blamed the oil embargo in place since January for killing children, saying the severe sanctions violate “basic principles of international human rights law”. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio charges the Caribbean island nation is - as well a being a threat to the Super Power’s security - “one of the leading sponsors of terrorism in the entire region”. His State Department declared a “national emergency” to invoke the oil embargo coming atop America’s 67 year-long blockade creating, according to Turk, a humanitarian crisis endangering the lives of all citizens.
Randy Caravaggio is a long-time organizer with the Victoria Friends of Cuba. Randy and his comrades have transported vital medical and other necessary supplies to Cuba for more than thirty years, and were there earlier this year doing the same.
Randy Caravaggio in the first half.
And; as well as traveling to Cuba, The Victoria Friends of Cuba also do banner drops on Victoria’s busiest highway every week, host film screenings, and promote concerts and special events to raise money for their work. There will be just such a special happening coming up June 25th at Broad View United Church in Victoria.
David Rovics is an itinerant musician and prolific songwriter. He’s sat in, stood up, and faced down the powers that should not be on every issue of import you can imagine. He’s been compared to Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs, and every uncompromising musical advocate of the human condition of the last century.
David’s catalogue is immense, running many hundreds of songs-long, and his devoted fan base hundreds of thousands deep. His unparalleled embrace of AI for activism is both courageous and a challenge to those eschewing innovation despite the costs. He’s just back from a Spring tour in Europe, and he’ll be playing up and down the Island, and over on the Mainland too, through June and into July.
David Rovics, minstrel of our Titanic times in the second half.
But first, Randy Caravaggio, shining light on Cuba in its darkest hour.
Music: David Rovics/Ai Tsuno
Songs: ‘You Can’t Get Into the U.K.’, ‘The Holocaust is Now’
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at:
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