Category: Voices & Weekend Voices

Producer/host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Cathy Melio, Denis Howard
Topics: Cathy Melio talks with two of the volunteers involved with producing the annual “Work of the Hand” craft show and sale in Rockport, Maine; Denis Howard talks with a visitor to WERU about her job in public radio in Sweden

Voices 10/04/06 [ 27:29 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Producer/host: Amy Browne
Part 2 of special coverage of the Maine Peoples Alliance State Legislative Candidates forum held 9/19/06 at the Bangor Public Library.
Marge May kicks off her coverage of the U.S. Senate race in Maine

Producer/host: Amy Browne
Marge May interviews Dr. Neva Goodwin, a Co-Director of the Global Development and Environmental Institute of Tufts University in Massachusetts. Goodwin holds a Ph.D. in economics and a Master’s in Public Administration. She has strong roots in Maine, dividing her time between Mount Desert Island and Massachusetts. This interview was recorded in July 2006

Host/Producer: Amy Browne
Contributor: Karen Larsen
Topics: The 1st of a 2 part special covering the Maine People’s Alliance’s State Legislative Candidates forum held in Bangor on September 19th, 2006; Autumnal Equinox celebration with Karen Larsen; Youth organizer Hazel Stark with information about a group of young people from our area who are planning a trip to El Salvador to learn about environmental concerns and sweatshops in the area

Producer/host: Amy Browne
Topics:
A special baby shower that took place in Hancock, Maine on Sunday to welcome a baby and show support for the mother who survived a racist assault in Hancock on September 9th; A conversation about food sovereignty in Maine, with Rob Fish of GE(GeneticEngineering)Free Maine
Theme music: Ousman

Producer/host: Amy Browne
Contributor: Meredith DeFrancesco
Topics: Upcoming local community big box forums; Alaska Wildlife refuge drilling- and how Maine’s congressional delegation has voted; Area peace activists and their on-going attempts to communicate with Senators Snowe and Collins about the war; A baby shower in Hancock to honor a mother who survived a recent racist attack
Music by Ethan Miller and Kate Boverman

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
People who have immigrated to Maine from other countries talk about their experiences (Audio recorded by Matt Murphy at “Crossing the BLVD” events in Bucksport Maine in August 2006
Area residents react to reports of a racist attack on a pregnant woman in Hancock recently, by organizing a baby shower for her to show support.

Producer: Amy Browne
Contributers: Carolyn Coe, Meredith DeFrancesco
Topic: Carolyn Coe worked with the Azande Sudanese Community in Portland, Maine to produce a piece about their community, traditions, and settling into their new homes in Maine. Also, a 9/11 retrospective “WERU style” with clips from WERU local news in the days and years following 9/11/2001.
Theme music by Ousman