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)
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.
Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Topics: Interviews with Daryl DeJoy and Cecil Gray about the proposed ban on bear trapping in Maine (the last state that allows the practice), and with Jack McKay of Food and Medicine, about the impact of recent Circuit City firings on local employees, the Employee Free Choice Act, and the organization’s annual May Day celebration.
FMI:
www.wildlifealliancemaine.org
www.foodandmedicine.org
Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Contributor: Carolyn Coe
Topics: Project Occupation was back in Bangor today urging Senator Susan Collins to stop funding the occupation of Iraq. Meanwhile in the nearby courthouse, arraignments were taking place for some of the activists arrested at the March protest at the Senator’s office. Also, an update on impeachment efforts. FMI: www.maineimpeach.org
Also, an interview with Julie Beckford of Rebel Hill Farm–grower of the plants sold in the annual PICA (Peace thru InterAmerican Community Action) fund-raiser, taking place now. FMI: www.pica.ws
Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
Topics: Final segment of the Don Pablo Alvarenga series. Don Pablo Alvarenga is a historian in the town of Cinquera, Cabañas, El Salvador. In this final segment he talks about some of the issues facing El Salvador’s people today. Recorded January 2007. Translated by Jesse Dyer Stewart
Also, Cathy Mink of Waldo County gives an update on efforts to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney (www.maineimpeach.org)
Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
Correction: Recorded in January 2007, not 2001 as stated at one point during the program.
Note: Contains descriptions of torture.
Some of the sistering delegations from Maine to El Salvador have the opportunity to meet with Don Pablo Alvarenga, the local historian in a town called Cinquera, on the edge of a recovering forest reserve, in the mountains of Cabanas, El Salvador. Don Pablo meets with visitors inside a church that was bombed during the US backed war in the 1980s and early 90s, and tells about his experiences in his 66 years.
Today Don Pablo picks up the story in the late 1970s as more and more people were being forced to flee from the U.S. trained death squads into the mountains. He talks about the decision to take up arms to defend themselves and how the resistance became organized. Jesse Dyer-Stewart translates.
Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
Guest producer: Carolyn Coe
Topics: The Reversing Falls Church in Brooksville, Maine’s tribute to Rachel Corrie (www.rachelcorrie.org) on the anniversary of her death earlier this month. Corrie was killed in Gaza as she tried to help protect a Palestinian family whose home was about to be bulldozed. She was 23 years old. Also, an announcement about the 2nd annual Sustainable Food Conference coming up this weekend in Unity
Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
Topic: An interview with Orin Langelle of the Global Justice Ecology Project about the recent World Social Forum and efforts to prevent the promotion of genetically engineered trees for biofuels.
FMI: info@stopgetrees.org, www.globaljusticeecology.org, biojustice2007.org, biodev.org
NOTE: The Water Commons Symposium announced on RadioActive has been postponed until June
Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Topic: Lobstermen oppose LD170 — background and discussion of the related issues
Note: The Marine Resources Committee voted 10-0 yesterday against sending the bill to the full state legislature
Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
Topics: A recap of yesterdays’ arrests of Penobscot Bay Occupation Project peace activists at Senator Susan Collins office in Bangor, along with Collin’s statement on Iran and the reaction of the activists; An interview with Daphne Loring of the Maine Fair Trade Campaign (www.mainefairtrade.org) regarding the proposed legislation called The Informed Growth Act, which aims to help communities evaluate the potential impacts of big box type development on their towns.
