This Week on Gorilla Radio
by C. L. Cook
 This week on GR, environmental activist and wild lands defender, Ian McAllister of Pacific Wild.org on British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest, and Victoria Street Newz publisher and activist, Janine Bandcroft getting ready for the 20th Pastor's for Peace Caravan to Cuba.
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.
Nearly twenty years has passed since an intrepid group of European and
American scientists ventured to British Columbia's wild central coast.
The plan then was to take stock of the wildlife, and assess the threats
posed to their habitat. Today, Pacific Wild.org continues monitoring
what we now call the Great Bear Rainforest, and the news is troubling.
Ian McAllister is, with wife Karen and father Peter, co-founder of
Pacific Wild. He co-authored with Karen the book, 'The Great Bear
Rainforest,' the seminal work credited with garnering international
interest in the preservation of B.C.'s endangered temperate rainforest,
and he's the man behind the lens for the recently released coffee-table
photography book, "The Last Wild Wolves.' Ian McAllister from his base
at the heart of the Great Bear in the first segment.
And; Janine Bandcroft, fill-in at Gorilla Radio during my recent trip
to the Great Bear Rainforest, is preparing for a journey of her own to
another of the world's endangered regions. Cuba has defied the fate
American presidents from Eisenhower to Obama would see it suffer and
survived. Twenty years ago, the Reverend Lucius Walker and the Pastors
for Peace organized an aid caravan to take medical supplies and other
essentials of civic life across the U.S. embargo lines to the samll
Caribbean island. That defiant act was followed the next year, and the
next, and the next, and will be repeated for the twentieth time this
summer. Janine Bandcroft is a long-time environmental and social
justice activist. She's the publisher of the Victoria Street Newz, and
a broadcaster here at CFUV. Bustin' the embargo with Janine Bandcroft
in the second segment. But first, Ian McAllister and saving the Great
Bear Rainforest.
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