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)
Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Audio recorded by John Greenman
Professor Paul Mayewsky, Director of UMaine’s Institute for Climate Change and co-author of “The Ice Chronicles” and “Journey Into Climate – Adventure, Exploration and the Unmasking of Human Innocence”, speaking at the University of Maine on March 21, 2013. His talk was part of the university’s Socialist and Marxist Studies lecture series. The website that was mentioned is: www.10green.org/
Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Audio recorded by John Greenman
Segment 1: David Cobb, spokesperson for the Move to Amend Coalition, speaking in Rockland in April. More information is available at movetoamend.org.
Segment 2: In our Peacetime segment this week, we have another voice from the HOPE festival, where the theme this year was “Do One Thing”
Producer/Host: Amy Browne
The Maine State Legislature’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee’s public hearing on LD 1429, “An Act To Allow School Administrative Units To Establish Rules, Procedures and Guidelines for Properly Trained Staff To Carry a Concealed Handgun on School Property while Acting in Their Official Capacities”.
Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Audio recorded by: John Greenman
Headline: As we went to air today, the Environment and Natural Resources committee of the state legislature was holding a work session on 3 bills related to mining in Maine. Thus far they have voted “ought not to pass” on LD 1059 “An Act To Protect Maine’s Environment and Natural Resources Jeopardized by Mining”, and on LD 1324 “An Act To Protect Local Communities When a Mining Project Is Terminated”.
Segment 1: In our Peacetime segment today, and for the next several weeks, we are going to be featuring speakers from this year’s HOPE festival. As we reported a few weeks ago, this year’s theme was “Do One Thing” or “DOT”. Modeled on TED talks, each speaker was given a few minutes to try to convince audience members to take action on a particular issue
Segment 2: On our last 2 WERU News Report programs we’ve explored the widening gap between the rich and poor. Continuing on that theme today, we have Garrett Martin, Executive Director of Maine Center for Economic Policy, speaking at the University of Maine last month, as part of their Marxist and Socialist Studies Lecture series. He was introduced by Professor Doug Allen
Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Audio recorded by: John Greenman
Professor Thomas Pogge, Director of the Global Justice Program, and Leitner Professor of Philosophy & International Affairs at Yale University, spoke at UMaine last month on poverty and inequality. His talk provides an academic framework for understanding the widening gap between rich and poor, and how it is perpetuated.
Producer/Host: Larry Dansinger
Program Topic: Views of May Day/International Workers Day by Maine Youth
Key Discussion Points:
a) What May Day means to those interviewed
b) How interviewees saw the status of working people in Maine and the US
c) Where there are problems for working people, what interviewees thought could be done to solve them
Guests:
A) Alex Jackimowicz
B) Katrina Bisheimer
C ) Jessie Dowling
Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributor: Matt Murphy
In our first segment today, Matt Murphy talks with singer/songwriter Dean Stevens about his upcoming tour with David Dodson, which includes a fundraiser for sister cities in El Salvador.
2nd segment: In Augusta today several pieces of proposed legislation of interest to opponents of the proposed E/W Hwy/Corridor, drew an overflow crowd to the transportation committee. The bills were presented to the committee by the sponsors. (Audio from the public hearing)
Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Audio recorded by John Greenman
Segment 1: With parts of the University of Maine system facing cuts, it might seem that they are having some financial problems- but it turns out that they have quite a nest egg stashed away that they could be tapping into to avoid cutting programs, according to a new report by John Christie of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting (www.pinetreewatchdog.org)
Segment 2: Michael Figura, Legal Fellow with the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, was in Maine Friday, speaking at a forum on the “National Defense Authorization Act’s “indefinite detention” provision, the PATRIOT Act, and related threats to civil liberties“. Friday’s forum at the Peace & Justice Center in Bangor, was one in a series of forums held in Maine towns. Organizer Jon Olson also spoke at the event.