Author: Community Radio WERU FM

Baby Talk 08/17/06

Host: Cathy Jacobs
Topic: Rearing Babies in Other Cultures
What are the main differences between child-rearing practices in other cultures, such as the Gusii in Kenya, and in the U.S.? How are male and female babies viewed differently in Asian cultures? What factors determine child-rearing practices?
Guests: Dr. Robert Levine, Dr. Sarah Levine
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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 08/17/06

Host/Producer: Jim Campbell
Topic: The U.S. is now issuing spanking new passports – with RFID chips in them. The State Department swears these new passports are full of all sorts of security measures which makes it impossible to copy them, skim information from them, or do anything else that might shake our confidence in the usefulness of devices that may one day store not only our pictures and personal information, but also our fingerprints, iris scans and DNA profiles. But guess what? On almost the same day that the U.S. posted all those reassuring (as long as you don’t mind being chipped like cattle) words, there was a demonstration of how to clone an RFID passport. Feel more secure?

Voices 08/16/06

Producer: Amy Browne
Reporter Carolyn Coe interviews local activist Peter Robbins who has been active in Cuba solidarity efforts for several years. He shares his thoughts about the future of Cuba, especially in light of Fidel Castro’s recent health problems
Also, the Beehive Design Collective joins us to tell us about a dance they’ll be holding in Machias (Maine) this weekend to celebrate their successful renovation of the Machias Grange.

Indigenous Voices 08/15/06

Hosts: Rhonda Frey and Meredith DeFrancesco
Topic: The Maine Indian Land Claims Settlement, focusing on the Maine Indian Tribal State Commission
An overview of the Maine Indian Land Claims and the settlement that occurred in 1980. The new tribal/state initiative to address the gray areas still at issue in the implementation of the settlement act. A discussion on the issues of alternative dispute resolution processes, the definition of “internal tribal matters”, and the parameters of tribal sovereignty vs. “municipality”.
Guests: John Diffenbacher-Krall, Executive Director of Maine Tribal State Commission; Tim Love, former Tribal Governor of the Penobscot Nation and negotiator of the Maine Indian Land Claims; John Banks, Director of Natural Resources for the Penobscot Nation and member of the Maine Indian Tribal/State Commission

RadioActive 08/10/06

Hosts/producers: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Guests/topics: Ron Greenberg, a local peace activist working to organize a massive peace rally in Bangor this late summer or fall
Jon Falk, Peace thru InterAmerican Community Action (PICA), describes their efforts to establish an Eastern Maine Fair Economy Commission

Why is Ron Greenberg taking on such an ambitious project? What does he feel he needs in order to be successful?
What is the Eastern Maine Fair Economy Commission and how can interested people get involved?

Writer’s Forum 08/10/06

Hosts: Dr. Betty Duff and Joan Clemons

Guests: Authors Jean Davison and Lee Smith

Topic: The authors read from their work and a discussion follows.

Jean Davison holds a Ph.D from Stanford University. She is the author of several books, including Agriculture, Women and Land: The African Experience and Voices from Mutira: Change in the Lives of Rural Gikuyu Women. She founded the non-profit organization, IDEA, in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980s. The group later merged with Global Exchange. Now retired from teaching at American University, international consulting work, writing, and family are her top priorities. She splits her year between Cape Rosier (Maine) and Austin, Texas. She is a member of the Deer Isle Writers Collective and her most recent publication is The Ostrich Wakes: Struggles for Change in Highland Kenya.
Lee Smith is the author of eleven novels including Oral History, Saving Grace, The Devil’s Dream, and Fair and Tender Ladies as well as three collections of stories. Her novel, The Last Girls, was a New York Times bestseller as well as co-winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. A retired professor of English at North Carolina State, she received an Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999. Her new novel On Agate Hill will be published in October 2006. Lee spends her summers in Castine (Maine).