Category: Voices & Weekend Voices

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Contributor: Joel Mann

Topics: An interview with a local veteran who is facing foreclosure on his home as he appeals denial of disability benefits; An upcoming fund-raiser for the Bay School

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Topic: The latest in the popular series of conversations between local award-winning artist and activist Robert Shetterly and the subjects of his portrait series “Americans Who Tell the Truth”. Today’s interview with Cindy Sheehan was recorded on July 5th, 2007

FMI: www.americanswhotellthetruth.org, www.gsfp.org, www.thecampcaseypeaceinstitute.org

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Contributors: Meredith DeFrancesco, Ursula Ruedenberg (Pacifica), and Linda Washburn

Topics: An interview with a man involved in community radio in Liberia, conducted at the Grassroots Radio Conference in Lowell, Mass. in June 2007, and an excerpt from an interview with a local woman, Marie Ivey, about her family’s experience with autism and the need for services in the area (Originally aired on Womens Windows on WERU in June 2007)

Marie Ivey’s website FMI about autism and local supports: www.jacksfriends.org

The entire interview as it aired on Womens Windows (with the music edited out) is archived here as “Autism Interview”

Producer/host: Carolyn Coe

The launch of the Pastors for Peace 18th US-Cuba Friendshipment at the Quebec-Maine border crossing of Coburn Gore. US Customs detained humanitarian aid destined for Cuba, imposing the 45-year blockade against Cuba.

Producer/host: Amy Browne

On July 1st, 2007, more than 3,000 people gathered in Kennebunkport, Maine to participate in an anti-war, anti-occupation, pro-impeachment march and rally, while international media were gathered in the area to cover the Bush/Putin summit taking place at nearby Walker’s Point. This is part 2 of a 2 part report, featuring some of the speakers and sounds from the rally and march. Included are excerpts of speeches by Gary Higgenbottom of maineimpeach.org and David Swanson of afterdowningstreet.org , brief interviews with a military mother and some resort workers who were watching the march, and the sounds from some of the street theater.

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Today marks the 23^rd anniversary of the death of Charlie Howard, a young gay man who was murdered in Bangor. A memorial service will be held tonight at the Hammond Street Congregational Church at 6:30, and then there will be a walk, as there have been many years, to the site of Charlie Howards death on the State Street Bridge. One such memorial tribute was held three years ago. This report originally aired on Voices on that 20^th anniversary. (FMI: Dan Williams knead24u@yahoo.com)

Also, the Federal Communications Commission, the FCC, held a public hearing last week in Portland, Maine, one of a handful they are holding around the country to find out if people feel the media are serving the needs of local communities. The hearing last over 7 hours, so we can’t bring you all of it, but today we’ll hear the FCC Commissioners as they describe what it is they want to hear about from the public—in case you want to submit written comments— and then we’ll hear the comments made at the hearing by Adam Lacher of WERU, Maggie Avener of WERU and Prometheus Radio Project, and another familiar voice, Irwin Gratz. (FMI: www.fcc.gov/localism/)

 

 

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Topic: More than 3,000 people rallied in Kennebunkport Sunday, July 1st, 2007, as George Bush and Vladmir Putin met at the nearby Bush summer home, taking advantage of international media presence to call for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney and an end to the war in Iraq. At least one of the speakers also took the opportunity to use the international media to convey a message to the rest of the world: “We’re sorry”

This is part 1 of a 2 part report. Today we hear from Dan Lourie, Maine Veterans for Peace; Gary Higgenbottom, Maine Campaign to Impeach; Pat Scanlon, musician and Vietnam veteran; and David Kaminski, Maine Lawyers for Democracy

FMI: www.maineimpeach.org, www.afterdowningstreet.org

Producer/host: Amy Browne
Contributor: Robert Shetterly

Topic:  Another in a series of conversations between award-winning artist and activist Robert Shetterly, and the subjects of his portrait series and book “Americans Who Tell the Truth”.  Today he talks with author Terry Tempest Williams, author of “The Open Space of Democracy” (Orion, 2004) and Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert (Pantheon, 2001)

FMI:  The Rwanda Healing Project: www.barefootartists.org ; Terry Tempest Williams: www.coyoteclan.com ; Robert Shetterly and “Americans Who Tell the Truth”: www.americanswhotellthetruth.org