Category: RadioActive

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topic: The federal government is demolishing public housing units—ones that were not severely damaged in Hurricane Katrina and could be repaired—despite high rates of homelessness in New Orleans.  This week in New Orleans and around the country people are holding events to draw attention to the situation.  We talk with a group of former New Orleans relief workers who engaged in civil disobedience at the Bangor Maine HUD office this week, and speak by phone with a New Orleans resident working on this issue.

Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Topics: Gary Tyler case update and action alert, “Homegrown Terrorism” legislation

Address for letters re: Gary Tyler:

Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, Office of Governor, P.O. Box 9400, Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9004 FAX: 225-342-7099

Pardon Board, 504 Mayflower St., Bldg 6, Baton Rouge, LA 70902 FAX: 225-342-2289

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco, Amy Browne, Guest producer: Carolyn Coe

Topic: The efforts to close the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Formerly known as the School of the Americas (aka the School of the Assassins), the Ft. Benning, GA based, US funded program is known for its many graduates who have gone on to commit acts of terrorism, especially in Latin America. Carolyn Coe attended the annual protest rally earlier this month and brings us this report.

FMI: www.soaw.org

Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Contributer: Eric Herter

Topic: An interview with Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space on the probability of an imminent U.S. attack on Iran.  He is interviewed by Rosalie Paul on the Public Access TV show “This Issue” (of which Gagnon is the usual host)

FMI: www.space4peace.org

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Contributor: Carolyn Coe

Topic:  The October 27th, 2007 rally for peace in Boston–recorded by Carolyn Coe

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

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Segment 1: An interview with Logan Perkins, of Food for Maine’s Future, about their “Eat Local Challenge”. FMI: www.foodformainesfuture.org www.belfast.coop

Segment 2: An interview with Judith Lawson, coordinator of local activities associated with the “Step it Up” campaign’s National Day of Climate Action this weekend. FMI: www.stepitup2007.org or (207) 326 – 8485

Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

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An interview with David Smith-Ferri, author of Battlefield without Borders, a volume of poetry published in January, 2007. David wrote two thirds of the poems while in Iraq under circumstances ranging from visiting with Iraqis in their homes and at hospitals to encounters at bomb sites.   Proceeds from the sale of the book go to the Iraq War Victims Fund  Smith-Ferri, along with Kathy Kelly (Voices in the Wilderness, Voices for Creative Non-Violence) will be in Maine Saturday night at an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of Peace Action Maine.

FMI: www.battlefieldwithoutborders.org, www.peaceactionme.org

Segment 2: An update on CAFTA, particularly recent developments in Costa Rica