This Week on GR

by C. L. Cook

This week:  Jason Hribal is an author and editor, who re-released John Oswald's 1791 book, 'The Cry of Nature: An Appeal for Mercy on Behalf of Persecuted Animals' deals with the nature of human/animal relations. His own book, 'Fear of the Animal Planet' due out in the Fall follows the theme.

 

Jason Hribal in the first half.

 

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And; David Williams is president and executive director of the Friends of the Nemaiah Valley, an organization working to protect the jewel of B.C.'s interior. David is also president of R.A.V.E.N., an organization dedicated to providing financial resources to assist Aboriginal Nations' legal battles against industry and other "developers" that would threaten their traditional way of life.

 

David Williams and saving Fish Lake in the second half.

 

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to keep us current with Victoria'z street scene.

 

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

 

Last month, Tilikum the performing Orca turned on a trainer at San Diego's SeaWorld, repeatedly dragging the unfortunate woman to the bottom of the fish tank until she was drowned. It was not the first time Tillikum had killed. Tilikum, Victorian's may recall, was once an inmate of the now defunct Sealand of the Pacific. There he was implicated in the drowning death of another young trainer, unlucky enough to have fallen into the pool with Tilikum and fellow incarcerees, Nootka and Haida. The three Orca took turns tossing and towing the trainer to the bottom until she too died. That incident led to the transfer of the three whales to San Diego.

 

Jason Hribal is an author, whose book, 'The Cry of Nature: An Appeal for Mercy on Behalf of Persecuted Animals' deals with the nature of human/animal relations. His latest book, 'Fear of the Animal Planet' due out in the Fall follows the theme. Jason Hribal in the first half.

And; British Columbia's Fish Lake faces extinction. The Taseko mining concern has a plan to use Fish Lake, or Teztan Biny as local indigenous people would have it called, as a convenient tailings dump site. No worries, Taseko reassures the natives who hold the lake sacred, and other northern residents, they'll build an artificial lake for the community to take the place of the Fish.

 

David Williams is president and executive director of the Friends of the Nemaiah Valley, an organization working to protect the jewel of B.C.'s interior. David is also president of R.A.V.E.N., an organization dedicated to providing financial resources to assist Aboriginal Nations' legal battles against industry and other "developers" that would threaten their traditional way of life. David Williams and saving Fish Lake in the second half.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to keep us current with Victoria'z street scene. But first, Jason Hribal and the secret history of the Orca resistance.   

 

Some past guests include: M. Junaid Alam, M. Shahid Alam, Joel Bakan, Maude Barlow, David Barsamian, Rhoda Berenson, William Blum, Luciana Bohne, William Bowles, Mordecai Briemberg, James J. Brittain, Vincent Bugliosi, Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, Michel Chossudovsky, Diane Christian, Juan Cole, David Cromwell, Murray Dobbin, Jon Elmer, Reese Erlich, Anthony Fenton, Jim Fetzer, Laura Flanders, Chris Floyd, Connie Fogal, Glen Ford, Susan George, Stan Goff, Amy Goodman, Robert Greenwald, Denis Halliday, Chris Hedges, Sander Hicks, Julia Butterfly Hill, Scott Horton, Robert Jensen, Dahr Jamail, Chalmers Johnson, Diana Johnstone, Malalai Joya, Kathy Kelly, Naomi Klein, Brewster Kneen, Betty Krawczyk, Anthony Lappe, Frances Moore Lappe, Jason Leopold, Jeff Leys, Dave Lindorff, Jim Lobe, Jennifer Loewenstein, Wayne Madsen, Stephen Marshall, Linda McQuaig, George Monbiot, Loretta Napoleoni, John Nichols, Kurt Nimmo, David Orchard, Greg Palast, Mike Palecek, Michael Parenti, Robert Parry, John Pilger, Kevin Pina, William Rivers Pitt, Justin Podur, Lila Rajiva, Jack Random, Sheldon Rampton, Paul Craig Roberts, David Robb, Paul de Rooij, John Ross, David Rovics, Danny Schechter, David Schindler, Vandana Shiva, Norman Solomon, Starhawk, Grant Wakefield, Paul Watson, Bernard Weiner, Mickey Z., Howard Zinn and many others.