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 08/31/06

Hosts/Producers: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

An interview with Derrick Jensen, award winning, best selling author of several books, most recently Endgame Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization and Endgame Volume 2: Resistance
www.derrickjensen.org

Derrick Jensen and musician Dana Lyons will be in Rockport, Maine on September 9, 2006 at a benefit for the Audubon Expedition Institute (FMI: Jasper Montgomery, 207-338-5859)

RadioActive 08/24/06

Producers/Hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
Topics:
Valerie Cartonio of the Maine Native Prison Project joins us to talk about the work her group and others around the state are doing to support prisoners and their families and keep them connected with the community.
Also, a rebroadcast of a segment that originally aired on WERU on “Voices” in February 2006: Dave Piszcz interviewed Jim Robbins of Robbins Lumber in Searsmont (Maine). Robbins had just returned from Cuba where he was part of a contingent of Maine business people who traveled with Governor Baldacci to explore trade possibilities.

RadioActive 08/17/06

Hosts/Producers: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Topics: A study outlining the potential economic impacts of a Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) terminal on Passamaquoddy Bay has just been released. Linda Godfrey, an Eastport business person and coordinator of the Save Passamaquoddy Bay 3 Nation Alliance joins us by phone to talk about the findings.
Area residents concerned that the chemicals being sprayed aerially on blueberries are harming their health gathered in Blue Hill yesterday to speak out–RadioActive interviews some of those present.
Also, an announcement about an upcoming workshop that aims to teach people to become more effective in their use of the media.

RadioActive 08/10/06

Hosts/producers: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Guests/topics: Ron Greenberg, a local peace activist working to organize a massive peace rally in Bangor this late summer or fall
Jon Falk, Peace thru InterAmerican Community Action (PICA), describes their efforts to establish an Eastern Maine Fair Economy Commission

Why is Ron Greenberg taking on such an ambitious project? What does he feel he needs in order to be successful?
What is the Eastern Maine Fair Economy Commission and how can interested people get involved?

RadioActive 08/03/06

Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
Topic: Interviews with some of the people staffing and/or visiting some of the non-profit vendors tables at the 2006 WERU Full Circle Fair, including Earth First!, The Beehive Collective, CROPS (pesticide issues), Veterans for Peace and PICA (Peace thru InterAmerican Community Action)

RadioActive 07/27/06

Hosts/Producers: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Topic: National and local activists express concerns about the use of chemicals sprayed on blueberries, and discuss the EPA’s plans for phasing-out use of the chemical (Guthion/AZM)