Tooker on Bike
This week on GR: Angela Bischoff on the perils of pharmaceuticals and the legacy of activist legend, Tooker Gomberg.
And; Coming to a farm and forest near you: Delores Broten on the B.C.'s Liberal's liberal spread of toxic "fertilizer."
And: Janine Bandcroft will bring us up to speed with all that's good going in and around Victoria this week.
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 at the progressive web news site: http://www.pej.org.
You can check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com
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Gorilla Radio for Monday, December 12
C. L. Cook
PEJ News
December 11, 2005
Who doesn’t want to change the world? Curious creatures that we are, humanity exists in two parallel realities, our internal and external worlds. Who wouldn’t wish a peaceful, sustainable existence for oneself and all the planet’s people and creatures?
But, which world do we address? Surmounting the impediments to change in the outer world seem impossible, yet millions dedicate themselves to trying, if only in their own small ways, to create a better, saner world. It’s a difficult undertaking not easily borne, where the grinding inertia of the status quo seldom gives ground to progress, and victories, when they do come, are miniscule.
On the other hand, the pharmaceuticals industry promises an easy way to see a rosier world: Just take a pill and the pain will go away. But at what cost this promise?
Angela Bischoff has worked toward justice and environmental sustainable for nearly twenty years. Living in four different Canadian cities, she and partner, Tooker Gomberg organized dozens of education and advocacy campaigns, half a dozen election bids, and created the activist website, Greenspiration.org.
Since the untimely death of her partner, she’s been on a speaking tour to bring awareness of the downside and dangers of anti-depressants. Angela Bischoff in the first half.
And; toxic sludge is good for you! Good enough to eat in fact.
Or, so the government of British Columbia would have you believe. The newest scheme dreamt up by the brain trust on Belleville Street would allow pulp mills, the generators of some of the vilest industrial waste known to humanity, to package their slag by-products as “biosolids” to be then spread on the farms and wild lands of B.C.
Delores Broten is the Senior Policy Analyst for Reached for Unbleached, a B.C.-based environmental watchdog and activist organization. Delores Broten and stemming the tide of British Columbia’s pollution spreading policies in the second half.
And; Janine Bandcroft will be join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with all that’s good to do in and around Victoria this week. But first, Angela Bischoff and the perils of the pharmaceuticals.
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