Category: RadioActive

RadioActive is a grassroots environmental and social justice news radio journal hosted by Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco and heard Thursdays from 4:00 – 4:30 pm on WERU FM 89.9 Blue Hill and 102.9 Bangor, Maine in the United States.

RadioActive 6/14/07

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Guests: Stacie Jacques and Amy Hutchinson

Topic: Aerial spraying of chemicals on blueberry fields in Maine communities raises health concerns

FMI:

Maine Committee for Alternatives to Pesticide Spraying: amynrob@hypernet.com or 207-326-9240

Toxics Action Center: toxicsaction.org or 207-871-1810

Board of Pesticide Control: Director Henry Jennings, henry.jennings@maine.gov , www.maine.gov/agriculture/pesticides 28 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0028 (July meeting: July 27th, 9:30 a.m., location to be determined)

Pesticide Drift Stakeholders Committee, Lebelle Hicks, 207-287-7594, lebelle.hicks@maine.gov (Next meeting is July 9th, 9:30 a.m. at Penobscot County Cooperative Extension Office, 307 Maine Avenue, Bangor)

RadioActive 5/31/07

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topics: An update on the Green Scare sentencing from Attorney Lynne Williams, Interviews about the ban on the toxic flame retardant “deca”, with members of the Learning Disabilities Association of Maine and the Natural Resources Council of Maine

FMI: www.greenscare.org, www.portland.indymedia.org, www.nrcm.org

RadioActive 5/24/07

Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Guest: Donna Gilbert, PICA

Topic: The 16th anniversary of the sistering relationship between PICA (Peace Thru InterAmerican Community Action) and Carasque, El Salvador. We talk with Donna Gilbert of Winterport, who went to El Salvador in 1991, while the war was still being fought, to help establish that relationship.

There will be a celebration of the 16 year anniversary (and a fund-raiser for PICA’s work) in Bangor at the UU Church on Park Street, June 2nd at 6p.m.

FMI: www.pica.ws email: jon@pica.ws or 207-947-4203

RadioActive 5/17/07

Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
Contributor: Eric Herter

Topic: David Swanson, founder of www.afterdowningstreet.org , speaking about impeachment of Bush and Cheney, at an event in Portland, Maine on April 28th, 2007
Recorded by Eric Herter

FMI: www.maineimpeach.org , www.afterdowningstreet.org , www.mainepeoplesalliance.org , www.kuchinich.house.gov

RadioActive 5/3/07

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topic: The State and Local Government Sweat Free Consortium. In March 2007, at a meeting in Harrisburg, PA, state and local governments came closers to consolidating their purchasing power to prevent tax dollars from support sweatshop labor in the garment industry. Today we bring you some of the speakers from that meeting: Representatives from the state of PA, the city of San Francisco, a union garment worker, and Maine’s own Bjorn Skorpen Claeson, the Director of Sweatfree Communities

FMI: www.sweatfree.org or 207-262-7277