Brooksville artist Robert Shetterly interviews journalist Hal Crowther, one of the “Americans Who Tell the Truth” in Shetterly’s portrait series (FMI about the portrait series: www.americanswhotellthetruth.org)
Category: Specials
WERU Special 10/26/06:Elections Call In Show (#2)
Elections Call In
Host: Jill Goldthwait
An open forum for all candidates and their supporters and/or opponents to call in live and express their opinions.
WERU Special 10/24/06: Dahr Jamail speaking in Maine
Dahr Jamail speaking in Maine
Producer: Carolyn Coe
From www.dahrjamailiraq.com:
In late 2003, weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people and US soldiers, Dahr Jamail went to Iraq to report on the war himself.His dispatches were quickly recognized as an important media resource. He is now writing for the Inter Press Service, The Asia Times and many other outlets. His reports have also been published with The Nation, The Sunday Herald, Islam Online, the Guardian and the Independent to name just a few. Dahr’s dispatches and hard news stories have been translated into French, Polish, German, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic and Turkish. On radio as well as television, Dahr reports for Democracy Now!, the BBC, and numerous other stations around the globe. Dahr is also special correspondent for Flashpoints.
Dahr has spent a total of 8 months in occupied Iraq as one of only a few independent US journalists in the country. In the MidEast, Dahr has also has reported from Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.
For more information, and for Dahr Jamail’s MidEast Dispatches:
WERU Special Elections Call In 09/29/06
Host: Jill Goldthwait
Candidates and supporters called in to share their messages
WERU Special 8/31/06 Pesticides
Producer/host: Meredith DeFrancesco
Interviews with several people concerned that the chemicals sprayed on Maine’s blueberries pose a public health risk
Guest: Bob Jones, Maine Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (bjonesinn2@yahoo.com, 207-664-6190); Shelly Davis, Farm Worker Justice, one of the litigants in the United Farmworker lawsuit against the EPA; Dr. Mike Roland, Medical Director of the Maine Migrant Health program and a participant in the EPAs Migrant Clinician Network; Jody Spear, activist with Citizens for Reform of Pesticide Spraying (CROPS) (jodyspear@hotmail.com); Jane Lynch, organic blueberry grower
Talking Furniture Greatest Hits, VII (Part 3, Tracks 27-31)
by Dave Piszcz, aka Radio Jones
“The indigenous satirist must make use of the materials at hand within the immediate environment. In some places in the world, people build houses of sticks plastered with muck or even cow dung. Fortunately, the vast American socio-political landscape provides a wealth of manure which can be sculpted into the wattle-and-daub audio artwork contained herein”
“Thanks for your ears. Your hearts and minds remain under your own guidance at all times. ILLEGITIMATI NON CARBORUNDUM!” –Radio Jones
Talking Furniture’s Greatest Hits, V. II. written, produced, directed and performed at Talking Furniture Studios, Searsmont, Maine, USA, PO Box 71, 04973
Talking Furniture Greatest Hits, VII (Part 2: Tracks 8-26)
by Dave Piszcz, aka Radio Jones
“The indigenous satirist must make use of the materials at hand within the immediate environment. In some places in the world, people build houses of sticks plastered with muck or even cow dung. Fortunately, the vast American socio-political landscape provides a wealth of manure which can be sculpted into the wattle-and-daub audio artwork contained herein”
“Thanks for your ears. Your hearts and minds remain under your own guidance at all times. ILLEGITIMATI NON CARBORUNDUM!” –Radio Jones
Talking Furniture’s Greatest Hits, V. II. written, produced, directed and performed at Talking Furniture Studios, Searsmont, Maine, USA, PO Box 71, 04973
Tracks
Talking Furniture, Greatest Hits, VII (Part 1: Tracks 1-7)
by Dave Piszcz, aka Radio Jones
“The indigenous satirist must make use of the materials at hand within the immediate environment. In some places in the world, people build houses of sticks plastered with muck or even cow dung. Fortunately, the vast American socio-political landscape provides a wealth of manure which can be sculpted into the wattle-and-daub audio artwork contained herein”
“Thanks for your ears. Your hearts and minds remain under your own guidance at all times. ILLEGITIMATI NON CARBORUNDUM!” –Radio Jones
Talking Furniture’s Greatest Hits, V. II. written, produced, directed and performed at Talking Furniture Studios, Searsmont, Maine, USA, PO Box 71, 04973
Tracks 1-7