Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill (weru.org)
Producer/host: Amy Browne
Contributing producer: Eric Olson
Topics: A speaker from Mexico describes the struggle of the Zapatistas to protect their communities from the impacts of so-called free trade, FMI: www.mexicosolidarity.org and www.defensorescomunitarios.org
and Kate Harris describes the upcoming “Who Owns Maine’s Water–A Symposium on Water Commons”, that will be taking place at the University of Maine Farmington on March 24th, FMI: www.defendingwaterinmaine.org)
Producers/hosts: Alan Sprague and Mike Joyce
Topics: Small Boat Building, Boat School, Lobster By-Catch: Is it better to build a boat right side up or down? What about lobster by-catch? Bottom Paints and other toxics.
Guests: Author Greg Rossel, Maine State Senator Denis Damon
Call in show
Producer/host: Dr. Tim Hagney
Producer/host: John Greenman
Topic: Fangak, part 2
Producer/host: Sonia Turanski
Topic: Internet filtering
Producer/host: Ron Beard
Topic: Media and our connections to our home on Earth
Guests: Read Mercer Schuchardt, NewForest Institute, Brooks, Maine, 66 Monroe Hwy, Brooks, ME 04921, 207-722-3639, info@newforestinstitute.org;
Colleen O’Connell, Faculty, Audubon Expedition Institute at Lesley University and co-founder of the Maine Earth Institute, oconnell@Lesley.edu;
Catherine Elliot, Wildlife Specialist, UM Cooperative Extension, celliot@umext.maine.edu, www.umext.maine.edu, www.tanglewood4h.org;
Laura Briscoe, Dorr Museum of Natural History, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME, www.coamuseum.org
Call in show
Producers/hosts: Karen Ireland, Meredith DeFrancesco, Carolyn Coe, Matt Murphy
Topic: Overview
Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
Topics: A recap of yesterdays’ arrests of Penobscot Bay Occupation Project peace activists at Senator Susan Collins office in Bangor, along with Collin’s statement on Iran and the reaction of the activists; An interview with Daphne Loring of the Maine Fair Trade Campaign (www.mainefairtrade.org) regarding the proposed legislation called The Informed Growth Act, which aims to help communities evaluate the potential impacts of big box type development on their towns.
