Guest: Dave Nickarz -- member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society crew aboard the Farley Mowat anti-whaling boat in Antarctica. Dave took part in disabling Japanese whaling vessels and in other direct actions to save the whales. Dave is from Winnipeg, Manitoba, and also discusses his activities against the fogging of Malathion there.
This show will be aired on your computer on Thursday, September 27 at 11 a.m., and is repeated on Tuesday, Oct. 2 at 6 pm. Click on http://www.TribecaRadio.net LIVE after that the show will be archived at http://www.tribecaradio.net/blog/categories/stealThisRadio/ , where you can also hear all of the shows broadcast thus far.
For more info on Sea Shepherd's heroic work, please check out: www.seashepherd.org For more info on Community Supported Agriculture in New York City, contact the Sixth Street Community Center at (212) 677-1863 For more info on activities against pesticide spraying: http://nospray.org
Also, on Steal This Radio #21, Mitchel Cohen reports on the tremendous victory won by Harry Bubbins' (see Steal This Radio #4), the Friends of Brook Park and other grassroots activists' against Giuliani's 7-year-old proposal to privatize Randall's Island (which had also been championed by NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg) and turn it into a $215 million water theme park. http://friendsofbrookpark.org
Music: Pete Seeger, "Waste Deep in the Big Muddy" The Fugees/Lauren Hill, "Killing Me Softly With His Song" Billy Bragg: "Rachel Corrie" (music by Bob Dylan)
Theme: Mario Savio, speaking in Berkeley at the inauguration of the Free Speech Movement, 1964; and David Rovics, "Jenin"