Category: Voices & Weekend Voices

Locally produced radio magazine on cultural & community events & people. Every Wednesday from 4:00 – 4:30 PM

Weekend Voices 8/01/09

Producer/Host/Engineer: Amy Browne
Guests: Robert Shetterly, Dud Hendrick, Chris Hedges

Local activists Rob Shetterly and Dud Hendrick speak with Chris Hedges, one of the subjects in Shetterly’s award-winning portrait series and book, “Americans Who Tell the Truth”. Chris Hedges, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author of seven books, will be speaking at the Deer Isle Reach Auditorium on Thursday, August 13, at 7:00 p.m. His new book is called “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”

Weekend Voices 7/25/09

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Carolyn Coe, Eric T. Olson

Segment 1: WERU volunteer Carolyn Coe visited Gaza in May & June, 2009 and has produced a series of reports on the conditions she witnessed. Today’s segment: The Qattan Centre for the Child in Gaza City, a library serving children under age 15. What cultural centers exist for the people of Gaza?
What is the role of the arts in meeting the psychosocial needs of traumatized children? How does the continued seige of Gaza affect daily life for Palestinians there?
Guests: Reem Abu Jaber, Director, El Qattan Centre for the Child, and screaming (happy) children

Segment 2: Writing Socialist History. a talk by Professor David Roediger, Kendrick Babcock Chair of History and Afro-American Studes at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. (Speaker is introduced by Prof. Nathan Godfried of the University of Maine.) What are effective approaches in conducting interviews for biographical works? How did radical activists of the twentieth century view their struggles from the perspective of their later lives? Why is it important to record the life stories of the radical activists of the twentieth century? Recorded/produced by WERU volunteer Eric T. Olson. This lecture was part of the Spring 2009 Controversy Series at the University of Maine

Weekend Voices 7/18/09

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Magnus Johnstone and Gray Parrot
Segment 1: Magnus Johnstone, speaking with Rick Kidson and Dan Woodrow about the upcoming Beltek Arts and Music Festival.
Segment 2: Gray Parrot talks with Neil Douglas Salisbury, a local activist with an interesting take on issues ranging from income taxes to travel restrictions

Weekend Voices 7/04/09

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Dave Evans, Carolyn Coe
Segment 1: The new Deer Isle Hostel, FMI: www.deerislehostel.com
Segment 2: International Solidarity Movement activists in Gaza.
FMI: palestinianprisoners.blogspot.com; YouTube videos posted by Ya9ni; fishingunderfire.blogspot.com; farmingunderfire.blogspot.com; palsolidarity.org

Weekend Voices 6/27/09

Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Carolyn Coe and Matt Murphy

Segment 1: Aziz Abu Sarah, a Palestinian now living in the U.S., speaking in Bangor, Maine on 6/24/09 on the topic of Palestinians and Israelis working together for peace. The event was co-sponsored by the Eastern Maine Chapter of Brit Tzedek v’Shalom (the Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace) and The Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution (CRDC) at George Mason University. In just four years, Brit Tzedek v’ Shalom has become America’s largest Jewish peace group with over 45,000 supporters, and 40 chapters nationwide. This event was part of a Speaker’s Series they are sponsoring. For more information about Brit Tzedek v’Shalom, contact Barbara Kates at bkates50@hotmail.com or 207-947-6858. For more information about CRDC: www.gmu.edu/departments/crdc

Segment 2: Maine Folklife Center needs community support and involvement as it struggles to survive following budget cuts. Matt Murphy talks with Executive Director Pauleen MacDougall. FMI: www.maine.edu/folklife or 207-581-1848

Segment 3: All the latest news from the Bagaduce Music Lending Library and Flash in the Pans with the Blue Hill Pops— an interview with Mary Cheney Gould, Founder, Organizer and Music Director
The Blue Hill Pops Concert will be Friday July 3rd at the George Stevens Academy gym in Blue Hill, Maine. FMI: www.bagaducemusic.org

Voices 6/23/09

Producer/Host: Cathy Melio
Contributor: John Greenman

Segment 1: Center for Maine Contemporary Art’s “Artists Voice” feature.
Segment 2: Tomorrow (Wednesday) at Husson University, Aziz Abu Sarah, a Palestinian peace activist from the West Bank will share experiences of his life and as a member of the Bereaved Family Forum, a group of Israeli Jews and Palestinians who have lost close family members in the violence. Ahead of this even, John Greenman talks with Alex Grab, an Israeli who is active with the Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace. Grab teaches at the University of Maine and is an outspoken advocate for a middle eastern peace that recognizes the 1967 borders.