Tag: poverty

United Way of Eastern Maine Presents 8/18/12

Host: Adam Lacher, Director, Communications and Community Engagement for United Way of Eastern Maine .

Guest: Patricia Estabrook, Executive Director of the Game Loft in Belfast, Maine
Issue: Waldo County, poverty, youth development, peer to peer development, after school programs, games.
About: United Way of Eastern Maine Presents is a weekly radio program featuring the the voices of Maine community organizations from Piscataquis, Penobscot, Washington, Hancock and Waldo counties. More info at: www.unitedwayem.org

RadioActive 9/15/11

Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco

Key Discussion Points:
We discuss the new 2010 Census statistics, which shows 1 in 6 people in the United States lives in poverty.
161,000 Mainers live in poverty, according to the current definition. That’s 12.5%, up from 11.9% in 2009.
We speak with Congressman Michaud on the impact of free trade on jobs, a perspective that rebuts President Obama’s speech on jobs last Thursday.

Guests by name and affiliation:
A) Representative Mike Michaud from Maine, US Congress
B ) Christopher St. John, Maine Center for Economic Policy

RadioActive 7/10/09

Producers/Hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topic: The urgent impacts climate change will continue to have on food security through out the world. The G8 Summit in Italy this week has said they will examine these issues. Whether any plan will emerge remains to be seen. The leaders of the so-called Group of 8 or G8 countries are meeting in Italy this week in an annual summit to discuss global issues…

Guest: Gawain Kripke, Oxfam America’s policy director
To view report “Suffering the Science: Climate Change , People and Poverty” -www.Oxfam America.org. FMI www.350.org

Conversations thru the Ism Prism 6/02/09

Producer/Host: Anita Arnold
Studio Engineer: Joel Mann
Topic: Maine Economic Human Rights
What are economic human rights and how do they apply to Maine? Why do we have poverty and will it ever be eliminated? How does our class structure apply to economic human rights?
Guest: Larry Dansinger, ROSC
Call in show

Conversations Through the Ism Prism 4/07/09

Producer/Host: Anita Arnold
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Topic: Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign
What is the campaign and how is it connected to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Why is poverty invisible and why are poor people blamed for their lack of resources? What is needed to mobilize resources to change the system of poverty in Maine?
Guest: Cheri Honkola, National Coordinator of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign
Call-in show
FMI: www.economichumanrights.org; www.mejp.org (Maine Equal Justice Partners)