Category: Voices & Weekend Voices

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

Voices 4/21/09

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Linda Washburn, Anneli Sundqvist
Segment 1: Making Every Vote Truly Count: A States’ Compact For Electing The President By National Popular Vote. What is it? Will it Work? Can the Electoral College process be replaced by a truly popular vote for President and Vice-President? Can a compact among States authorize a popular vote for President and Vice-President and will this means be more successful than a Constitutional Amendment to eliminate the Electoral College? What would be the pros and cons for having an Interstate Compact for the National Popular Vote?
Guest: Ann Luther, Co-President of the League of Women Voters Maine
For more information about a national popular vote:
www.lwv.org
www.nationalpopularvote.com
Cato Institute http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9708
Common Cause
http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=1695007 and
Fair Vote http://www.fairvote.org/?page=1950.
(This segment originally aired on Women’s Windows, a program that airs every Sunday evening from 8-10pm)
Segment 2: Anneli Sundqvist, now the manager of the Deer Isle hostel, embarked on an overland journey from the middle east to her childhood home in Sweden a few years ago, and along the way she recorded her observations. These segments originally aired on public radio in Sweden, and we’ve been re-airing them here on Voices with Anneli’s permission

Weekend Voices 4/18/09

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Audio recorded by: Eric T. Olson
Topic: Excerpts from the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) forum held at the University of Maine on April 6th, 2009. The event was sponsored by the local group “Food and Medicine” and their national partners “Jobs with Justice” and featured renowned author Barbara Ehrenreich, local workers and labor organizers speaking in support of the EFCA legislation.
FMI: www.foodandmedicine.org

Voices 4/14/09

Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributing Producer: Carolyn Coe

Segment 1: Betsy Smith, Executive Director of Equality Maine, on LD 1020 the “Marriage Equality Bill”. Such a large turnout is expected at the Public Hearing on the bill next week (on Wednesday 4/22/09), that the event has been moved to the Augusta Civic Center. FMI: www.equalitymaine.org

Segment 2: Another installment in Carolyn Coe’s series of interviews with Iraqi refugees that she met while traveling in the Middle East earlier this year. Today: Families in Different Neighboring Countries of Iraq. Why are Iraqis deciding to return to Iraq now? Are Iraqi family members able to join their family already in Jordan? What effect did U.S. sanctions have on government workers in Iraq?

Voices 4/07/09

Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributing Producer: Carolyn Coe
Segment 1: Iraqis Resettling in Portland. What are the struggles for Iraqis living in the U.S.? What situations did they endure before moving here? Why are Iraqis moving to Maine from other U.S. states? Produced by Carolyn Coe
Segment 2: Organizer Jim Bahoosh tells us about this week’s “WERU Goes to the Movies” event, Thursday evening April 9th, 7:00 PM at the Belfast Free Library’s Abbot Room., Admission is Free
The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2006) NR
“Transforming his farm into an experimental haven in the late 1960s, John Peterson attracted hundreds of artists, hippies and other political radicals. When the agriculture crisis of the late 1980s led to the farm’s eventual collapse — and his neighbors publicly branded him a devil worshipper — most locals thought he’d call it quits”.
Special event: Eating Local Game show hosted by localivore Chrissy Fowler. Most know Chrissy as a contradance caller extraordinaire but she’s also an avid “Eat Local” advocate.

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Voices 3/31/09

Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributing Producers: Cathy Melio, Matt Murphy
Segment 1: Cathy Melio’s “Artist’s Voice” segment in conjunction with the Maine Center for Contemporary Art (www.cmcanow.org)
Segment 2: Matt Murphy interviews Irish musician and activist Tommy Sands on his recent visit to WERU (www.tommysands.com)