Producer/host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Mike Joyce, Eric Olsen, Ousman (theme music)
Topics: An interview with local Iraq war veteran Cpl. Brian Smith; Shenna Bellows, Executive Director of Maine Civil Liberties Union, on “Disappearing Civil Liberties, Abuse of Power, Post 9/11”
Family Radio Forum 11/10/06
Producer/host: Ron Beard
Topic: Families, Farms and Local Schools Why is there new attention to linking farms and schools? What is happening across Maine and locally? What are the challenges to introducing more local products to school lunch programs?
Guests: Heather Albert-Knopp, Healthy Acadia Coalition; Tim Fuller, Healthy Acadia Coalition; Scott McFarland, Principal, Mount Desert Elementary School; Linda Mailhot, Mount Desert Elementary School; Diane Lokocz, Beech Hill Farm, College of the Atlantic; Eileen Fahey, parent; Jen Schroth, Farmer, School Board Member and parent, Brooklin School
RadioActive 11/09/06
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.
Writer’s Forum 11/09/06
Producers/hosts: Dr. Betty Duff and Joan Clemons
Topic: Poetry; How the Salt Coast sages got started; Teaching English in the public schools; The rhythm of language
Guests: Sharon Bray, freelance writer for the Penobscot Bay Press, primarily the Castine Patriot, former publisher of the Bucksport Enterprise and the Narramissic Notebook; Donald Crane, since retirement has been pursuing a life-long interest in poetry and has had a number of poems published in mostly Maine based magazines;
Phil Rose, taught English for nearly 30 years and has had short stories, articles and poems, mostly with his favorite nautical theme, published in several New England magazines and newspapers. All are members of Kelly Lombardi’s Salt Coast Sages at the University of Maine in Machias.
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 11/09/06
Producer/host: Jim Campbell
On this program, we take a hint form the current approach to public education and begin our new initiative – No Listener Left Behind (NLLB). After NLLB, not only will you be able to understand what computer salespeople are talking about, you may even impress your kids! Today, we start with one of the basics: bits and bytes.
Voices 11/08/06
Producer/host: Amy Browne
Topic: An interview with Bob Watada, father of Lt. Ehren Watada–a commissioned officer who refused to go to Iraq on moral grounds. Lt. Watada is facing more than 8 years in jail for refusing to deploy and for speaking out about his reasons. His father was in Maine yesterday as part of a national speaking tour calling attention to his son’s case.
Also features a song by Ethan Miller and Kate Boverman
Theme music by Ousman
Earth Sense 11/08/06
Producer/host: Phil Bailey
Conversations on Science and Society 11/07/06
Producer/host: Jim Campbell
Do you always reach for the “anti-bacterial” dish soap at the supermarket? If so, that might not be such a great idea. There are many kinds of bacteria, and many of those are of great use to us humans. Those that cause us trouble are only helped by our overuse of antibacterial drugs and substances. Kate Boettcher knows all about such things, and so will we after listening to this edition of Conversations on Science and Society.