Category: Voices & Weekend Voices

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

Weekend Voices 11/15/08

Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Contributing Producer: Eric T. Olson

Jim Harney, Artist in Residence for Posibilidad, is a photojournalist, lecturer, and educator who has spent decades working in solidarity with the victims of globalization.   Wednesday, November 12th, 2008, he led a discussion on the global impacts of the economic crisis, particularly in Mexico and Central America, as well as opportunities and challenges likely to be presented by the Obama administration.  The event was sponsored by PICA (Peace through InterAmerican Community Action) and recorded by WERU volunteer producer Eric T. Olson.

FMI: www.posibilidad.org ;  www.pica.ws

Voices 11/11/08

Producers/Hosts: Marge May and Ann Luther, League of Women Voters

Topic: Election of the Maine State Attorney General

Why you want to be Attorney General? What is your law background? How has that prepared you for the office? How do you see the role of Attorney General in Maine? What difference do you think you can make in that role? What would be your priorities, if elected?

Guests:

Cab Howard, Assistant Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Maine School of Law. Professor Howard joined the Law School as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 1997 after nearly a quarter century of public service as a member of the Maine Attorney General’s Office.

The candidates: Representatives John Brautigam, Sean Faircloth, and Janet Mills.

Voices 11/4/08

Executive Producer: Amy Browne

Contributing Producer: Bill Phillips, Maine People’s Alliance

Topic: Interview with State Representative Bob Duchesne on Working with Legislators

How can constituents best ensure that their voices will be heard by the State Legislature? How common is it for legislators to hear from their constituents? How effective are personal contacts between constituents and legislators?

Guest: Robert Duchesne, State Representative for District 13. Home phone: 207-827-3782, email: duchesne@midmaine.com

Voices 10/28/08

Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Contributing Producer: Jim Fisher

Topic:  On today’s program WERU volunteer Jim Fisher talks with  Carrie Jones and Brian Langley, candidates for Maine’s 38th House District representing the greater Ellsworth area, and with Jerry Call and Sue Hufnagel of MidCoast Health Care Reform– who are promoting single payer health care policies.  They present their ideas on health care reform in Maine.

Weekend Voices 10/25/08

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Contributor: Carolyn Coe

Topics:

Segment 1:  Helen Lindsay, a part-time Mainer, talks about her recent trip to Iran with the “Fellowship for Reconciliation”.  Produced by Carolyn Coe.  FMI: www.forusa.org

Segment 2: We talk with Brent Hall of the Brewer-based group “Food & Medicine”, about the events they have scheduled for this evening: Their 2nd Annual Haunted House and Harvest Festival featuring “The Humble Farmer”, Robert Skoglund.  From 5- 6:30pm they will hold tours through “Maniac McSame’s Mansions of Mutation” where vile plans are being devised to steer America down the wrong course. “In each of his many mansions, McSame is committing crimes against healthcare, affordable housing, and worker rights, all the while mutating to look strangely like a prominent US political figure from Texas.”  Later there will be live guitar and mandolin from Orono duo Larry LeBlanc & Adria Elskus, fall children’s games (from MSEA-SEIU childcare workers), and local, seasonal, delicious food.  The guest speaker will be distinguished Maine humorist Robert Skoglund, “The Humble Farmer”. Skoglund is known throughout Maine and the US for his 29 years on public radio, his quick Maine humor, and hilarious “rants”.   All ages are welcome.  Admission is free, donations will be accepted to benefit laid-off workers through the Solidarity Harvest.   Location: 20 Ivers St., Brewer, ME  FMI:  207-989-5860 or www.foodandmedicine.org

Voices 10/21/08

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Topic: Home Visiting Week—Why Are They Celebrating?

What is the purpose of Home Visiting programs for new parents?  How do the new families benefit?  How might one obtain these services?

Guests:  Femke Harvey, Cathy Jacobs, Wesley Neff, Jane Brissette

FMI: cjacobs@downeasthealth.org or 1-800-492-5550

Weekend Voices 10/18/08

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Audio recorded by Matt Murphy

Topic: The historical significance of the upcoming elections in El Salvador.

Bernardo Belloso, a Directiva member of the Association of Rural Communities for the Development of El Salvador (CRIPDES), and Jose Heriberto Orellana Franco, a Directiva council member from Carasque, Chalatenango (Bangor’s Sister City), spoke about the topic in Bangor, Maine on 10/9/08. Jan Morrill co-coordinator of US-El Salvador Sister Cities translates

FMI: www.elsalvadorsolidarity.org ; www.weru.org (El Salvador/ Radio Sumpul Archives section); www.mofga.org, www.pica.ws,