This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

This week: Taylor Davis and Taking a Stand Against Greed, an artist collective doing what artists do best, keeping the rest of society honest; Ray Zimmerman of Vancouver Island's Sea to Sea Green Belt Society, trying to save the best of the island for now and the future.

 

 

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 to the web news site, www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com

 

When will you take your stand? Will it be when you can't take the injustice of it all, or when your back's against the wall? All around us, we see outrageous crimes against peace, humanity, and the environment. What's more frightening than the images of wanton death and destruction we witness, deemed necessary for the greater good by the blood-soaked demigogues in Washington, London, Canberra, and Ottawa, are the myriad other cases of barbarity and avarice hidden behind the trite infotainment masquerading as journalism in this Canada and beyond. The systemic horror all that work and pay taxes a part of, "mundane evil" as once famously described, is enough to drive a soul to despair, or revolution.

For a some, that revolution has already begun. Stand Against Greed, or SAG, is a coalition of local artists and artisans determined to make their mark, and mitigate instances of egregious calumny against the vulnerable wherever they occur. SAG explains, "Regardless of country, creed, class, colour, age, or species, we all face the same future."

Taylor Davis is an artist and member of Stand Against Greed, and he'll join us in studio in the first segment.

And; WFP, TFL, ALR, TLC and Sea to Sea; what does it all mean? Land use on the island has always been contentious, but today the gloves are coming off as protections put in place over the years to conserve the island's dwindling farm and forest lands are dropped. From TimberWest ALR lands in Campbell River, to the "Bare Mountain," to the stretch of western coastline between Sooke and Port Renfrew, promises once made are apparently now void, and it's Devil take the hindmost for a land rush led by forest giants TimberWest, Western Forest Products, and others eager to cash in. But what of the heritage of B.C.'s public lands; and what prospects are left for future generations to enjoy this "Super Natural" Vancouver Island?

Ray Zimmerman is a member of the Sea to Sea Greenbelt Society who has devoted his energies to, among other things, preserving a contiguous swath of wild lands for animals both wild and human to exist in and peacefully partake of here on southern Vancouver Island. It has been a long fight, and the battle now seems more dire than ever. Ray Zimmerman and keeping it green in the second half.

And; wayward Gorilla Radio correspondent, Janine Bandcroft will be here in spirit only this week, as her wild Travails Across America Tour make her participation this week, and next we fear, impossible.

 

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