Category: RadioActive

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Topics: An interview with Nancy Oden of the Clean Water Coalition (www.cleanearth.net) regarding opposition to a proposal for re-zoning in Township 14 (in Washington County) to allow for a construction and demolition debris dump to be located there. The Land Use Regulatory Commission (LURC) is holding a public hearing and accepting comments on the proposal. Also, an update on the “Day of the Dead” actions at the Mexican consulate and elsewhere in Boston last week in solidarity with the people of Oaxaca and in memory of murdered journalist Brad Will.

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Producers/hosts: Carolyn Coe, Meredith DeFrancesco, Amy Browne
Topics: Carolyn Coe brings us a report on local residents who visited the Bangor offices of Senator Collins to express serious concerns with the Bush administration’s suspension of habeas corpus and other policies.

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Guests: Ron Green, President of Firefighters Local 772, Bangor, Maine; Jack McKay, President of Eastern Maine Labor Council and activist with Food and Medicine
Topic: TABOR, the “Tax Payers Bill of Rights”

Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Topics: 2 more state governors have joined Maine’s Governor Baldacci to pool resources to combat the use of sweat shop labor in products purchased by state governments. We talk with Bjorn Skorpen-Clausen, Executive Director of Sweatfree Communities. And on this so-called “Columbus Day” activists in Bangor hold a talk called “Columbia: 500 years of Resistance” and reflect on that countries current crisis. Daphne Loring, one of the organizers of a Witness for Peace delegation that will be traveling to Columbia joins us to tell us more. And Susan Beebe of Camden, Maine calls in with news of yet another DOT road widening project that is threatening old trees– this time in Southern Maine

Hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco, joined today by WERU reporter Carolyn Coe
Carolyn Coe joined Mainers as they traveled to Washington, DC recently where they met up with others from around the country who are calling for the release of the “Cuban 5” political prisoners.

Who are the Cuban 5?
Why are they considered political prisoners?
What do the Mainers involved in this think about the case?

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Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
An interview with Doug Rawlings of Maine Veterans for Peace, the keynote speaker at the upcoming peace rally in Bangor, Maine
An update on the Passamaquoddy and Bureau of Indian Affairs legal situation

Hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
Coverage of International Peace Day actions in support of the Declaration of Peace at Senator Olympia Snowe’s office in Bangor, Maine where 11 activists were eventually arrested for refusing to leave (because Snowe would not respond to their repeated attempts to communicate with her)

Note: Beginning/introduction clipped—this recording joins the show in progress

Hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Connie Jenkins joins us to talk about peace activists plans to mark international peace day in Bangor, and Heather Martin-Zboray tells about plans to show support to the survivor of a racial attack in Hancock, Maine

How will international peace day be observed in Bangor?
What is the pledge of peace?
What are area residents doing to show support for the woman who survived a racist attack in Hancock?