YVR Labour Strife, Honduras, Gaza Freedom March, Prorogued, CRTC, 'peg Landfill, Hybrid Car dangers

Program Title: Goundwire for Jan 19, 2010
Description: This January 19th edition of Groundwire was put together in the studios of CJLY, a community station on Sinixt Traditional Territory in Nelson, BC.

Host(s): Groundwire
Featured Speakers/Guests: David Parker (CKDU, Halifax) speaks with Dawn Paley about Canadian involvement in last year's coup; Christopher Currie (CFRC, Kingston) talks with Helga Mankovitz, a member of the group Independent Jewish Voices (Canada) about her recent participation in the Gaza Freedom March. Tessa Vanderhart, interim Program Director at UMFM, in Winnipeg interviews Jan Oleszkiewicz, U of M Faculty of Environmental Engineering, and Winnipeg's manager of solid wastes Darryl Drohomerski about turning garbage into energy; Voiceprint's Michael Slack speaks with Robin East, President of the Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians about the dangers hybrid vehicles may pose to blind and partially-sighted Canadians; Catherine Fisher, a volunteer at CJLY in Nelson speaks with Emma Godmere, Ottawa Bureau Chief of the Canadian University Press about the Canadian Conservative Minority Government's decision to prorogue Parliament, and Bessie Wapp, also a volunteer at CJLY, speaks with Member of Parliament for BC Southern Interior, Alex Atamenenko about the same topic. Omme Salma Rahemtullah (CHRY, Toronto) asks some York U students how they feel about the Government's decision; Frieda Werden, with support from Bea Bernhausen (CJSF, Burnaby) tackles the Unite Here Local 40 labour strife story unfolding now at YVR in Vancouver, and presents the words of some of the HMS Host workers who are threatened by the proposed lockout; Jacky Tuinstra Harrison, Groundwire National Coordinator speaks with NCRA Executive Director Kevin Matthews about next week's CRTC policy hearings and their significance for Campus and Community Radio Stations all across Canada. Music in this issue of Groundwire was provided by Faith Nolan and Mary Watkins, Zeelia, Kate Reid, and Lana Bensen.

Credits: David Parker (CKDU), Christopher Currie (CFRC), Tessa Vanderhart (UMFM), Voiceprint, The Canadian University Press, Omme Salma Rahemtullah (CHRY), Catherine Fisher and Bessie Wapp (CJLY), Frieda Werden and Bea Bernhausen (CJSF), Jacky Tuinstra Harrison, Groundwire Coordinator

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