Category: RadioActive

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topic/guest: Ron Huber, Executive Director of Penobscot Bay Watch (www.penbay.org) and long time activist involved in Sears Island protection efforts, gives his perspective on where things stand presently for the 941 acre uninhabited island.

Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Topic: An interview with Frida Berrigan on steps being taken to draw attention the prisoners being held indefinitely at Guantanamo

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topic: Local human rights activist and journalist Sean Donahue recently returned from Oaxaca, Mexico—he describes the situation there.

Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Topics: Maine union members and others engage in a Day of Solidarity Action with workers at Good Year Tire plants across the country–who have been on strike for 3 months; Local organizing to impeach Bush and Cheney

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Guests: Lynne Williams and Lauren ReganTopic: “Greenscare” –an interview with attorneys Lauren Regan and Lynne Williams. Lauren Regan is the Director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center based in Eugene, Oregon. She has been a consulting attorney for the Green Scare cases. She is also the attorney for Jeffrey “Free” Luers. Lynne Williams is on the Executive Board of the National Lawyers Guild. She works on 1st Amendment and Civil Liberties cases representing protesters and environmental activists

What is “Greenscare” ? How is the term “terrorism” being used to increase penalties for certain crimes that already carry stiff penalties? What is the status of the “Greenscare” defendants?

FMI: Civil Liberties Defense Center, www.cldc.org; Lynne Williams, 207-288-8484

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

After 22 years of work, indigenous people were poised to finally see the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Adopted by the Human Rights Council in June of this year, the UN General Assembly was expected to vote and adopt it early next month.

Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the US, however, have expressed opposition to the declaration and on Tuesday were joined by the block of African countries in voting to table a full General Assembly vote until later next year.

The declaration would be a tool to address issues including genocide, displacement, self determination, intellectual property rights, collective rights, environmental issues and the right to maintain cultural traditions.
The UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues says
opposing nations were concerned with articles addressing land and resource ownership, and the request that indigenous people give “free prior and informed consent?? for development and resource exploiting projects.

We interviewed Les Malezar, Chairperson of the Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus at the UN yesterday…

For more info: The Indigenous Working Group, www. iwgia.org

Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
Contributor: Eric Olson
Topic: Bob St. Peter, Resident Steward of the Good Life Center in Harborside, Maine, speaking at the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine’s annual Harvest Supper in Bangor, October 2006, produced by Eric Olson and originally a podcast on his website www.peacecast.us
FMI on the Good Life Center and the Nearing’s legacy: www.goodlife.org

Producer/host: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Topics: Alan Sprague reports on whales lingering downeast past their usual migration time–and why they may be in trouble soon, Sister Lucille McDonald from the Emmaeus Center in Ellsworth tells us how we can help our neighbors during this holiday season, and new WERU reporter Eric Olsen brings us a speech given by Iraq War Vet (from Maine) Brian Clement at a teach-in on the war at the University of Maine