Weekend Voices 4/18/09

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Audio recorded by: Eric T. Olson
Topic: Excerpts from the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) forum held at the University of Maine on April 6th, 2009. The event was sponsored by the local group “Food and Medicine” and their national partners “Jobs with Justice” and featured renowned author Barbara Ehrenreich, local workers and labor organizers speaking in support of the EFCA legislation.
FMI: www.foodandmedicine.org

RadioActive 3/26/09

Producers/Hosts: Amy Browne & Meredith DeFrancesco
Segment 1: Local workers and union members speak out in support of the Employee Free Trade Act (EFCA)
Segment 2: Army Corps of Engineers Public Meeting tonight in Searsport. At stake: whether “Umbrella Wetlands Mitigation” will allow the Maine Dept of Transportation to build a port on Sears Island. Ron Huber joins us to talk about that issue, and also the lawsuit he recently filed against the state in hopes of protecting the island.
FMI: Ron Huber, 207-691-7485, coastwatch@gmail.com, www.penobscotbay.blogspot.com
Comments may be sent to: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, Regulatory Division, Attn: Ruth Ladd, 696 Virginia Rd., Concord, MA 01742-2751 or 800-343-4789 or ruth.m.ladd@usace.army.mil (Reference Proposal File NAE-2008-1703)