Producer/host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Carolyn Coe, Ousman
Topic: Every November thousands gather at Fort Benning, GA to memorialize victims of the graduates of the School of the Americas and to call for the facility to be closed. In recent years the school’s name has been changed to the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, but it is still known to many as the SOA–The School of the Assassins–because of atrocities committed by many of the graduates. Reporter Carolyn Coe recently returned from this years’ vigil and she brings us this report.
Category: Voices & Weekend Voices
Locally produced radio magazine on cultural & community events & people. Every Wednesday from 4:00 – 4:30 PM
Weekend Voices 11/25/06
Producer/host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Matt Murphy, Carolyn Coe, Ousman
Topics: Diane Wilson, fourth generation shrimper, activist and author of An Unreasonable Woman (2005), as well as one of the “Americans Who Tell the Truth” in Robert Shetterly’s portrait series, speaking at the Maine Peoples Alliance’s Rising Tides Award dinner in Bangor in October 2006. Also, an update on efforts to establish a cabinet level Department of Peace and Non-Violence
Voices 11/22/06
Producer/host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Carolyn Coe, Ousman
Topic: Activist artists Natasha Mayers and Robert Shetterly speaking at an opening of Mayers work in Lewiston, Maine earlier this month.
For more information: www.americanswhotellthetruth.org
Weekend Voices 11/18/06
Producer/host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Dave Evans, Ousman, Jim Campbell
Topics: Moonbeam, a car that gets 100 mpg, built by a local man who wants to help you build one too; A local woman talks about setting up a non-profit to help the forgotten people of Burundi; The author of a book on high tech trash talks about the problems that trash poses for the ecosystem.
Voices 11/15/06
Producer/host: Amy Browne
Shenna Bellows, Executive Director of the Maine Civil Liberties Union, speaking on the Military Commission Act, torture and treatment of prisoners, recorded by Eric Olsen at the University of Maine in October 2006
Weekend Voices 11/11/06
Producer/host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Mike Joyce, Eric Olsen, Ousman (theme music)
Topics: An interview with local Iraq war veteran Cpl. Brian Smith; Shenna Bellows, Executive Director of Maine Civil Liberties Union, on “Disappearing Civil Liberties, Abuse of Power, Post 9/11”
Voices 11/08/06
Producer/host: Amy Browne
Topic: An interview with Bob Watada, father of Lt. Ehren Watada–a commissioned officer who refused to go to Iraq on moral grounds. Lt. Watada is facing more than 8 years in jail for refusing to deploy and for speaking out about his reasons. His father was in Maine yesterday as part of a national speaking tour calling attention to his son’s case.
Also features a song by Ethan Miller and Kate Boverman
Theme music by Ousman
Weekend Voices 11/04/06
Producer/host: Amy Browne
Topic: The first hour of a U.S. Senate Candidates debate held at Colby College in October 2006. Hosted by Colby College and also sponsored by the Kennebec Journal and the Morning Sentinel newspapers. Recorded by Marge May.