Category: RadioActive

Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco

Topic: Immigration and it’s Roots in  Free Trade Policy and Inequality in El Salvador
The Peace Accords did not result in the slated economic forum to address inequalities in the country. Instead the government adopted structural adjustment measures, leading to privatization measure and increasing free trade.
The rate of poverty is great in El Salvador.   Free trade policy has increased the crush on small farmers and others. It is difficult for people to migrate to the US, but their impetus is poverty. Ironically, this is perpetuated by neo liberal policies directed and implemented by the United States.

Guests: Lorena Martinez, CRIPDES, the Association for the Development of El Salvador
Pedro Juan Hernandez,  Popular Resistance Movement  of October 12th, (MPR-12)
Katie Sharar, Annunciation  House, El Paso, TX; Casa Marianella, Austin, TX
Lilian- Cabanas, El Salvador

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Topics:  News on the Suchitoto 13 in El Salvador,  Mumia Abu-Jamal and the MOVE 9

Guests: Adam Lacher, WERU Sister Station Committee; Jamilla Levasseur, “Friends of MOVE and Mumia”

FMI: www.weru.org “Radio Sumpul” links;  move9parole.blogspot.com; www.mumia.org;  Email: onamovemaine@gmail.com

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Topic: Colin Woodard, author of “The Lobster Coast: The Cultural History of Coastal Maine”, as well as other maritime related books, speaking on “The Triumph of the Commons: How Maine’s Lobstering Community Built a Sustainable Fishery”, at the 2008 Maine Water Symposium: Who Owns Maine’s Water?

The symposium was sponsored by The Alliance for Democracy and The Water for Life Campaign, and co-sponsored by Maine Fair Trade Campaign and Maine’s Chapter of the Women’s League for Peace and Freedom, and was held at Bates College on 3/29/08

FMI: www.defendingwaterinmaine.org, www.colinwoodard.com

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Topics: Local sustainability efforts from Food for Maine’s Future and the Good Life Center,  and  a report on dog treats produced locally, with local ingredients.

Guests:  Bob St. Peter, Good Life Center;  Logan Perkins, Food for Maine’s Future; Chris Roberts, BarkWheats

FMI: www.goodlife.org; www.foodformainesfuture.org; www.barkwheats.com

Executive Producers/Hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Contributing Producer: Eric T. Olson

Topic: Dahr Jamail

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Audio for Segment 1 recorded by Steve Votey of the UU Church of Ellsworth and Matt Murphy of WERU

Topics:

Segment 1: Jim Fisher, Hancock County Planning Commission speaking at the “Hancock County Focuses on Climate Change Conference” at the Unitarian-Universalist Church in Ellsworth in February 2008, on the topic of smart growth planning to address greenhouse emissions.  Recorded by Steve Votey and Matt Murphy, edited by Amy Browne

Jim Fisher is also the host of Common Health, a call-in show that airs on WERU the 1st Wednesday of each month at 10a.m.

Segment 2:  Phil Bailey interviews Jim Hightower about his new book, his visit to Maine for a Common Cause event this weekend, and campaign finance reform.

Phil Bailey is also the host of the short feature EarthSense that airs on WERU every Wednesday morning at 7:30

FMI:  Segment 1: www.smartgrowth.org   Segment 2: Jim Hightower will be speaking, along with Bob Edgar, President of Common Cause, in Portland, Maine Sunday evening March 16th.  Information at: www.commoncause.org

Executive Producer/host: Amy Browne

Guest Producer/host: Sam West

Topic: A speech by activist/photographer Jim Harney on the realities of immigration (FMI: www.posibilidad.org); and a short spoken word piece on feminism, read by Anita Arnold

Executive Producers/Hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Contributing Producer: Carolyn Coe

Coverage February 19th’s Day of Action, held in Portland, Maine, in opposition to “the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act”  (S1959) introduced by  Maine’s Senator Susan Collins.  Includes speakers Maureen Block, one of the organizers of the event;  Shenna Bellows of the Maine Civil Liberties Union;  Logan Perkins, Native Forest Network; and Robert Shetterly, activist/artist,  creator of “Americans Who Tell the Truth”.  Recorded and produced by Carolyn Coe.

Co-sponsors of the event included:
Maine Civil Liberties Union
National Lawyers Guild, Maine chapter
Island Peace and Justice
Peninsula Peace and Justice
Maine Veterans for Peace (William Ladd Chapter)
RAW
Native Forest Network
Peace Action Maine