Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributing Producer: Carolyn Coe
Topic: Carolyn Coe reports back from her recent trip to Gaza with CodePink
Segment 1: Conversation with Um Khaled. Her son Ahmed interprets. She describes her experience living with the Israeli blockade, her hopes for her sons, and the contrast between life in Gaza and other places where she has lived.
Segment 2: A woman’s story of living through the Israeli attacks during the “last war” and a call for the borders to open, with Nisreen Hisham AlBorno, Director of the National Center for Community Rehabilitation and John Ging, Director of UNRWA’s operations in Gaza.
Category: Voices & Weekend Voices
Locally produced radio magazine on cultural & community events & people. Every Wednesday from 4:00 – 4:30 PM
Voices 6/16/09
Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Matt Murphy, Sylvia Smith, Willie Marqaurt
Segment 1: We continue our coverage of the rally for Single Payer Universal Health Care that was held in Augusta May 30th. FMI: www.mainehealthcarereform.org, Blog:http://medicare444all.blogspot.com/
(The first 2 hours of audio from the rally aired on Weekend Voices the last 2 Saturdays. Those programs are also archived on this site.)
WERU is holding a Public Forum called “Single Payer: Fact vs. Fiction” at the Alamo Theater on Tuesday evening June 23rd from 6-8p.m. A panel of speakers will include those for and those against the Single Payer option. Audience members will be encouraged to comment and ask questions, and the event will be broadcast live. Admission is free
Segment 2: Matt Murphy talks with one of the organizers of Poetry Downeast’s inaugural Open mic and Reading at the Grind in Ellsworth, on Wednesday, June 24th, 7-9p.m. FMI: bowenswersey@gmail.com, 207-469-7328
Weekend Voices 6/13/09
Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Audio recorded by Willie Marquart and Sylvia Smith, edited for length by Amy Browne
Today we continue our coverage of the rally for Single Payer Universal Health Care that was held in Augusta on May 30th, with this audio recorded at the event by Willie Marquart and Sylvia Smith. It has been edited slightly for length.
Feature the Raging Grannies; activist Nancy Galland; Representative Ed Mazurek, the sponsor of a Maine resolution supporting single payer; Green Party Gubernatorial Candidiate Lynne Williams; John Newton of the Maine Chapter of the Maine Chapter of the AFL-CIO; and activists Marybeth Sullivan & Dexter Kamilewicz.
Join us for the weekday edition of Voices, Tuesday afternoon at 4, to hear the final segment of speakers at the rally. The first set of speakers aired on Weekend Voices last Saturday. If you missed it then, you can listen at our archives at www.weru.org
WERU is holding a Public Forum called “Single Payer: Fact vs. Fiction” at the Alamo Theater on Tuesday evening June 23rd from 6-8p.m. A panel of invited speakers will include those for and those against the Single Payer option. Audience members will be encouraged to comment and ask questions, and the event will be broadcast live. That’s 6-8p.m., June 23rd, at the Alamo in Bucksport. Admission is free.
**CORRECTION— It was incorrectly stated in today’s program that Rep. Ed Mazurek is the sponsor of HR 676.
Voices 6/09/09
Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributing Producer: Leah Renee
Topic: Judith Sloan’s work and her upcoming production at the Stonington Opera House, June 18th.
What is Earsay? How has immigration to the U.S. changed in the past decade? What is it like to be a teenage refugee in America?
Guest: Judith Sloan – Co-Director of Earsay
FMI: www.earsay.org
Sweeping Statements: Won 1st Place in Missouri Review National Audio Competition, 2008
Produced, Written, Performed and Edited by Judith Sloan
Music Produced, Composed and Performed by Taylor Rivelli
What’s Your Status: Won First Runner Up in Missouri Review National Audio Competition, 2009
Produced Written, Performed and Edited by Judith Sloan
Music Produced, Composed and Performed by Taylor Rivellli
We Look Like Sisters:
Produced, Written, Performed and Edited by Judith Sloan
Weekend Voices 6/06/09
Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Segment 1: Rally for Single-Payer Health Care, part 1. Audio recorded by Sylvia Smith and Willie Marquart. Edited by Amy Browne.
The speakers heard in today’s segment were:
Jerry Call, co-founder of Maine Health Care Reform; Richard Dillihunt, MD, a retired general, vascular and transplant surgeon. He is a member of Physicians for National Health Program and a veteran spokesperson in Maine for single payer, universal health care; William Clark, MD. A physician of Internal medicine and a specialist in addiction medicine, Dr. Clark was formerly on the faculty of Harvard medical school and president of the American Academy of Communication in Healthcare; Claire Mortimer, a Family Nurse Practitioner currently working at Maine Dartmouth Family Practice in Fairfield. She has been an activist for national single payer health care since the late 1970’s. The emcee was Pat LaMarche, columnist and former Green Party Candidate for Maine Governor and Vice President. Listen to “Voices” and “Weekend Voices” over the next few weeks for more audio from the rally. A
FMI: www.mainehealthcarereform.org, Blog: http://medicare444all.blogspot.com/
WERU “Single-Payer: Fact vs. Fiction” public forum & live broadcast will take place at the Alamo Theater in Bucksport, Tuesday 6/23/09, 6-8p.m. All are welcome, admission is free. FMI: info@weru.org
Segment 2: Operation Breaking Stereotype. Producer: Leah Renee Deasy
Students from Searsport District High School and the Urban Assembly School of Law and Justice What is Operation Breaking Stereotypes? What do teens feel strongly about? What are some things students in NY and Maine have in common?
FMI: Operation Breaking Stereotypes: www.operationbreakingstereotypes.org
Voices 6/02/09
Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributor: Matt Murphy
Segment 1: Natural Resources Council of Maine & Maine Audubon’s press conference this morning in Bangor, where the Land Use Regulatory Commission was meeting for final deliberations on Plum Creek’s proposal for the largest development in the state’s history. Both groups have serious concerns about the proposal. FMI: www.nrcm.org
Segment 2: An interview with Bonny Myers, director of a production of “Nickel and Dimed” that will be held at the Grand in Ellsworth this coming Friday, Saturday and Sunday. FMI: www.grandonline.org
Weekend Voices 5/30/09
Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Meredith DeFrancesco & Marge May
Topics: Organizer Jerry Call on the Single-Payer Universal Health Care Rally in Augusta (today from 12-2p.m at the Statehouse). FMI:www.mainehealthcarereform.org;
Jim Bahoosh on the “Come Boating” program in Belfast. FMI:www.comeboating.org;
Ina & Esu Anahata and Danny Garcia on the “Peace, Water and Wisdom” walk for the BARKA Foundation and their work on Burkina Faso West Africa. FMI:www.barkafoundation.org, www.globalwalk.cc, email inaandesu@barkfoundation.org, and www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxvjl5z3DvU;
Sonali Kolhatkar on Afghanistan. FMI: www.uprisingradio.org or http://loveandsubversion.net
Voices 5/26/09
Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributing Producers: Cathy Melio & Carolyn Coe
Segment 1: “Artist’s Voice” produced in conjunction with the Maine Center for Contemporary Art. FMI: www.cmcanow.org
Segment 2: Najlaa Al-Nashi, Direct Aid Iraq. What are some of needs not met for Iraqis by large NGOs in Jordan? What is Direct Aid Iraq doing to meet the medical needs of Iraqis in Jordan? What is their current educational fundraising project? FMI: www.directaidiraq.org