Category: Voices & Weekend Voices

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Weekend Voices 3/27/10

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Topic: Paul Pillar Speaking at the 2010 Camden Conference
What is the U.S. policy in Afghanistan and how does it affect the region? In the opinion of the speaker, is our policy there succeeding?  What is the best course of action in Afghanistan given the situation there today?
Guest: Paul Pillar, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Center for Peace and Security Studies, Georgetown University. Former National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia.  Q&A included Paul Pillar, Ronald Neumann, Ahmed Rashid, Larry Goodson, Nicholas Burns

Voices 3/23/10

Producer/Host: Cathy Melio

“Fear No Art” monthly feature

Topic: Contemporary Art in Maine
What opportunities do Maine artists have for exhibiting contemporary art?  What sort of artwork is in the UMMA collection?  Where can people in the midcoast hear live music?
Guest: George Kinghorn, director of the University of Maine Museum of Art (UMMA) in Bangor   www.umma.org

Weekend Voices 3/20/10

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Topic: Camden Conference Presentation by Larry Goodson, Professor of Middle East Studies, Department of National Security and Strategy, U.S. Army War College.

What are the current U.S. objectives in Afghanistan?  What is the current U.S. strategy to achieve those objectives?   How likely is that strategy to be successful?

Voices 3/16/10

Producer/Host: Cathy Jacobs

Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

An interview with Marty Kelly, Director of the “Voices for Peace”, based out of the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine, featuring some of the music they will be performing a concert “Singing the Circle Whole” at The Brick Church, on Union St. Bangor, March 27, 2010 at 7pm.

“Voices for Peace” will be joined by special featured artist, Gina Holsopple from Oswego, New York, will round out the program with some of her original songs.  Holsopple, a NYC performer, has released 6 albums and won the New Song Contest at the Walnut Valley Festival in Kansas in 2009. FMI: http://www.ginaholsopple.com   Holsopple’s music was featured in today’s program as well.
The proceeds from this concert will benefit the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine. For 20 years the Center has provided resources, programs and activities to create awareness and inspire grassroots involvement in nonviolent social change.. Donations  ($10 suggested, children under 12 free) will help further the work of creating a more just and peaceful world. http://peacectr.org  Voices for Peace has performed with Women With Wings, Rob Shetterly and his portraits of Americans Who Tell the Truth, Gordon Bok in “Another Land Made of Water” and for numerous congregations and organizations, including a recent benefit for The Open Door Recovery Center in Ellsworth.

Voices for Peace is an inclusive group of people who come together to sing the message of love, peace, hope and justice.  Singers and musicians come from the Greater Bangor Area and as far away as Belfast, Bucksport and Mt. Desert.   http://mpjen.org/organizations  FMI: Marty Kelley, Voices for Peace Director: 478-2684,  martylhk@yahoo.com;  Katie Greenman, Publicity Coordinator: 827-7014, kgreenman@gwi.net


Weekend Voices 3/13/10

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Segment 1: Excerpts from the Maine State Legislature’s Health & Human Services Committee Public Hearing for LD 1706, held on March 2nd.   If passed, LD 1706 would require labels on cell phones sold in Maine, warning that they may cause brain cancer and should be kept away from children and pregnant women.
Experts from Europe and the U.S. attended the hearing and presented research results indicating a link between cell phones and brain cancer and other ailments.  Cell phone industry representatives and their lobbyists and consultants—including a former CDC staffer, argued that the phones are safe.
Note: Many of the expert witness who were brought in to testify regarding the dangers associated with cell phones were not recorded, due to an apparent glitch in the state legislature’s web stream, which was corrected in time for the industry representatives testimony.
Segment 2:
A listener editorial (Cynthia Swan re: a recent statement by the Catholic Church condemning the practice of Reiki)