This Week on GR
by C.L. Cook - GRadio.Substack.com
Despite the hoped for end to the slaughter, Israel’s bombing continues in Gaza. As has the pogrom in the Occupied Territories. But even when the outright killing stops, and the food, medicines, and other necessary aid long promised are allowed finally in, people in Palestine so badly brutalized these past two years and more will still be dying for want of what we here take for granted: Basic civil infrastructure, and the skilled technicians needed to make society function.
Dr. Dorotéa Gucciardo is Director of Development for Glia Equal Care and leads Glia.org’s Open Gaza Initiative project. Dorotea’s too a member of EyeWitnessGaza, a coalition of health professionals, aid workers, community leaders and others calling out policy-makers and the media here in Canada for their failures to oppose Israel’s 21st Century Holocaust. And she’s a literal eyewitness to the Gaza genocide, now in the besieged enclave for the third time.
Dorotéa Gucciardo in the first half.
And; a massive die-off at three of fish breeding giant Cermaq’s open-pen Atlantic salmon plants over the Summer was reported just last week, though opponents of the “farms” said they suspected problems months ago. The company admitted finally their operations had experienced “elevated mortalities” at its open-pen “farm” in Clayoquot Sound, and in several other areas, blaming “harmful plankton” for the hundreds of thousands animals lost. This secrecy and impunity enjoyed by Cermaq and its few fellow fish breeding behemoth corporations is another reason those living nearby, and those making a living from the waters occupied by, the industry say they want it ended. And the government here has largely agreed.
Don Staniford is a self-described “Extreme Activist” and “Kayak Vigilante” who has campaigned against toxic salmon “pharms” for 25 years - he’s currently Director of $camon $cotland and Global Director of the Real Salmon Farming Resistance. More than a dozen years ago, the Englishman lived here in B.C., and fought then to have salmon “phactories” polluting our waters shut down.
Don Staniford and extracting the Atlantic salmon industry hook in the second half.
But first, Dorotéa Gucciardo back in Gaza.
Song: ‘Now They Say It’s Time to Recognize Palestine’
Artist: David Rovics
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/and on Telegram at: https://t.me/gorillaradio2024
