Category: Voices & Weekend Voices

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

Weekend Voices 2/24/07

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Contributor: Rob Shetterly

Topic: Artist Robert Shetterly interviews Ross Gelbspan, one of the subjects of Shetterly’s award-winning portraits series and book “Americans Who Tell the Truth”
Gelbspan is a journalist and author of “Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists are Fueling the Climate Crisis — and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster”, 2004, (Basic Book), as well as “The Heat Is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth’s Threatened Climate”, 1997, (Perseus Books).

For more information:
http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org
http://www.heatisonline.org

Voices 2/20/07

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Contributors: Marge May, Brook Minner, Hugh Curran, Matt Murphy, Joel Mann (theme music)

Topics: An interview with Malalai Joya, a 25 year old woman who is a member of the Afghan Parliment; Domestic Violence and Homelessness; Homelessness in Literature

Weekend Voices 2/17/07

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Contributing producers: Alan Sprague, Joel Mann, Denis Howard

Topics: A report on recent earthquake activity in the Mount Desert Island area; Interviews with Richard Sheppard of Ameranouche (www.ameranouche.com) and Chuck Donnelly (katewegner.com), two of the musicians who will be appearing at the WERU Winter Showcase.

Voices 2/13/07

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Contributing producers: Eric Olson, Sarah O’Malley

Topics: Professor Doug Allen’s speech in honor of MLK Day; the premier of the new short feature “The World Around Us”; and some Mainers plan to send a Valentine’s Day message to Congress, urging impeachment investigations

Voices 2/6/07

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Topic: The MOFGA (Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association) and CORDES/CCR (Chalatenango, El Salvador) Sistering Committee, their history and current projects, featuring interviews with several committee members on a January 2007 delegation to El Salvador.

FMI:
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, www.mofga.org
Peace through Interamerican Community Action (PICA), www.pica.ws

Also check WERU’s archives for other recent programs about El Salvador, including WERU’s Sister Station relationship with Radio Sumpul in Guarjila, Chalatenango, El Salvador Tune in to RadioActive on Thursday afternoons, February 8th and February 15th at 4 p.m. for a new, 2 part report about Radio Sumpul

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Weekend Voices 2/3/07

Producer/host:  Amy Browne

Topic:  Part 3 of a 3-part special covering the SpeakOut on the topics of impeaching Bush and Cheney, and the war in Iraq, held January 11, 2007 at the Hutchinson Center in Belfast, Maine

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