Favorites: Solo female vocalists, such as Sade, Amy Winehouse & Fiest. Also, I have a special enjoyment for R&B, Jazz, Alternative - but most importantly, anything with soul and passion!!!
Movies
Special interest in Foreign, Independent and Horror films (especially B Horror and Japanese Horror, and anything zombie - I don't know why!).
Television
Reality shows - such as Whale Wars shown on Animal Planet and Discovery Channel
Books
Greenpeace to Amchitka, the Warriors of the Rainbow and Red Blood by Robert Hunter, 1984 by George Orwell, The Whale Warriors by Peter Heller, Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat, EarthForce by Paul Watson, The Last Whale by Chris Pash, the list goes on....
Heroes
My deceased father - Robert Lorne Hunter - Co-founder of Greenpeace, one of Time's magazine's 20th century eco-heroes of the planet, writer, journalist, visionary. He showed me that one person can make a difference.
Welcome to the MysSace of Emily Hunter. I am a Canadian environmental journalist and advocate that has worked on environmental issues in Canada and abroad. I also am a second-generation environmentalist as I am the daughter of Robert Hunter (first president and co-founder of Greenpeace).
My work has been published and broadcasted in the THIS Magazine, Eye Weekly, MTV Canada, CP24, City TV Toronto and CTV National. I have written a chapter in an inspiration book for young women called Making It In In High Heels and I am currently working on producing a book regarding youth environmental activism, called The Next Eco-Warriors See blog for Call For Submissions and a documentary on illegal whaling in Antarctica See YouTube preview of the doc
I have also campaigned with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in four campaigns: Galapagos Conservation 2004, Anti-whaling Antarctica 2005-2006, and again in 2006-2007 and the 2008-2009 campaigns. In Canada, I have worked with the Canadian Youth Climate Coalitions, Students Against Climate Change U of T, Bob Hunter Foundation, Earthroots, Toronto Vegetarian Association, FlickOff.org and Rouge Park.
It wiped out 85% of all species on Earth in the End-Permian Mass Extinction 251 million years ago, and can do it again, right now. The much milder Cretaceous Crisis was the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Global warming is real and unfolding. The deniers are either blind or lying.
On September 14, 2007, Wisconsin activst Amy Burns sent out a circular urging her readers to go to the Baltimore Sun to join in what is destined to be one of its hottest forums ever, a war of minds over the "sport" of hunting, with emphasis on bow-hunting. While her readers began pondering, comments from the pro-hunting side came in hard and fast. "America's most-hated Anti" Anthony Marr jumped in head first, and so did leading anti-huntresses Tierra and Mamasita. Amazingly, the battle is still raging as we speak, more than two years later in November 23, 2009! The total number of comments so far has exceeded 93,000, and growing. This is a phenomenon, and destined to be a classic, not to be missed if you care about animals at all.
Calcutta sounds like a fable in a song, but in reality, it is where John, my colleague and successor, was murdered. He was on the job for only three days when he got his throat slashed. As an undercover investigator targeting the illegal wildlife trade, especially in tiger parts, his real name was unknown, even to me, nor mine to him. We were just John and James to each other. All I know is that he was Chinese American, while his predecessor James - real name Anthony Marr - is Chinese Canadian, and how sincere he was in helping to save the Bengal tiger from being poached out of existence, while its habitat continues to dwindle due to human pressure...
Sinikka Crosland, President of The Responsible Animal Care Society (TRACS), leading and winning activist in British Columbia, who has a thing or two to show her American counterparts, will join Anthony Marr this Friday on Animal Voices to talk about this and other issues.
Animal Voices is aired every Friday 3-4pm ET/12-1pm PT: - global: online live at www.CoopRadio.org - radio: CFRO Radio 102.7FM Vancouver + 17 stations in BC, Canada. - archived in www.myspace.com/AnthonyMarr - call-in # 604- 684- 7561
Dr. Steven Best, ARA professor of philosophy at U TX El Paso, and Dr. Peter Carter, Anthony Marr's co-author of their book [Homo Sapiens! SAVE YOUR EARTH]
will be guests of Anthony Marr on Animal Voices, Friday, Sept. 8, to discuss activism, the state of the movement, and how to save Life on Earth from impending calamity within 3 years from the deadly sociopathic eco-villains in the current Global Ecological Crisis.
Animal Voices is on every Friday, 3-4pm ET/12-1pm PT - online live www.coopradio.org - archived and replayable in www.myspace.com/AnthonyMarr - radio CFRO 102.7 FM Vancouver + 15 stations in BC - call-in hotline 604-684-7561
Cory Davis, Greg Lawson, Brenda Davis, Dr. Steve Best & Anthony Marr
Assaulted Journalists Convicted for Documenting Seal Slaughter
Following their arrest on July 16, journalists Bart Smithers (South Africa) and Jim Wickens (United Kingdom) have been convicted of entering a protected marine area without a permit on the Namibian coast. They appeared in the magistrate’s court in the coastal town of Swakopmund for their trial.
The Associated Press reports that Smithers and Wickens were each given the choice of 12 months in jail or a fine of 10,000 Namibian dollars each (about $1,200), along with a six-month suspended sentence. Their employer, Ecostorm, has opted to pay the fine on behalf of the journalists.
Namibia enforces laws to prevent media exposure surrounding the horrific Namibian seal slaughter, rivaled only by Canada’s annual seal “cull”, the largest marine mammal slaughter on Earth. The journalists hope their conviction will bring attention to this issue so rarely covered in the media.
Cape seals are slaughtered on the Namibian coast annually as scapegoats for human overfishing practices and fisheries mismanagement. This is also one of Canada’s proclaimed justifications for the continuation of the harp seal slaughter, now generally recognized as cruel and unnecessary.
The men were not heard in court regarding their claim that they were assaulted violently by Namibian sealers prior to their arrest.
Sealing nations have a history of turning a blind eye to violence directed at those documenting their activities. In 2005, Sea Shepherd activists documenting the harp seal slaughter in international waters off the coast of Eastern Canada were assaulted by the sealers wielding clubs. Again in 2008, Sea Shepherd activists were seized at gunpoint and deported; ship’s officers Alex Cornelissen and Peter Hammarstedt were detained and later released on bail.
It is therefore not surprising that the Namibian government would side with the sealers and ignore the blatant injus
