WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill (weru.org)
Producer/Host: Carolyn Coe
What is the value of social diversity and biodiversity? In resistance?
How does Zionism threaten diversity?
What are the historical outcomes of colonialism?
How does the Palestine Museum of Natural History work to influence Palestinian school children?
Guest: Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, founder and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History (www.palestinenature.org)
Qumsiyeh’s blog: popular-resistance.blogspot.com/
Producer/host: Amy Browne
Audio recorded by: John Greenman
March for Our Lives Town Hall held in Bangor on April 9th, in conjunction with similar events across the country.
Producer/Host: Carolyn Coe
Topics: Americans Who Tell the Truth, Bruce Gagnon
Bruce Gagnon, co-founder and coordinator of the Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, spoke at Reversing Falls Sanctuary in Brooksville, Maine, on Mar. 26 as part of their spring lenten series featuring individuals Robert Shetterly has painted for the Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series. Gagnon shared his history of activism. He also described the campaign to convert Bath Iron Works from a shipyard building warships to a facility building commuter rail systems, solar panels, and/or wind turbines.
FMI:
space4peace.blogspot.com
americanswhotellthetruth.org
Producer/Host: Carolyn Coe
Three girls, aged 12-18, describe the socioeconomic challenges in their lives, yet they remain committed to helping others in their family and community.
Guests:
Hadisa, volunteer
Muqadisa, volunteer
Fatima, student
FMI:
Borderfree Nonviolence Community Centre, Kabul, Afghanistan
Voices for Creative Nonviolence, vcnv.org
Producer/Host: Carolyn Coe
The program describes the dangerous and expensive journey of refugees fleeing the war-torn lands of Syria and Iraq. It introduces three refugees living and waiting in Athens, Greece, sharing the challenges they face and their hopes for the future. The program also shares the perspective of a child laborer in Kabul, who sells onions on the street to help earn money for his family.
Guests:
Nour Ahmad
Yasmin (pseudonym)
Ibrahim
and Shazad
Orange House (Zaatar NGO) Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/zaatarngo/
Producer/Host: Susan Dickson-Smith
Program Topic: Interview with author/illustrator Ashley Bryan
Key Discussion Points:
Ashley Bryan’s new book, Freedom Over Me, an imagining of the lives of eleven slaves
His service in the armed forces in WWII
His work as an artist
“Giving to Your Community”, WERU’s alternative to Black Friday and Cyber Monday and our way of participating in Giving Tuesday, which is a national day all about supporting community organizations by donating and volunteering.
WERU celebrated the day with a special live hour at 10am and then another at 4pm on the “Giving Voice to Your Community” theme. Local and state-wide nonprofit organizations of all kinds were invited to call in and share a little bit about their organizations and the ways that community members can support them.
Hosts, hour 1: John Greenman and Amy Browne.
Hosts, hour 2: John Greenman and Matt Murphy
Studio Engineer: Joel Mann
Producer/Host: Carolyn Coe
Topic: Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series
What does Shetterly see as the obligation of artists in society?
What informs Shetterly’s decision to paint someone’s portrait for the Americans Who Tell the Truth series?
What is the Samantha Smith challenge?
Guest:
Robert Shetterly, artist and activist
www.americanswhotellthetruth.org