Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill (weru.org)
Producer/host: Jim Campbell
Time to take another look at RFID tags, those tiny electronic chips that can take the place of bar codes, and do so much more. These days they are not only appearing on product shipping palettes, they are also showing up on the wrists of grammar school children. Don’t take too long in the restroom, kids – your tag will tell a tale on you!
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:
Producer/Host: Sonia Turanski
What does it mean to forgive?, #1: The African concept of “Ubuntu”
Producer/host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Rhonda Frey, Meredith DeFrancesco, Marge May, Darwin Davidson, Ousman
Topics:
An interview with faculty from the Native Studies program at the University of Maine; the next in a series of interviews with the U.S. Senate candidates from Maine; an interview with Patti Casey of the Bluegrass Gospel Project
Host: Matt Murphy
Community call-in “soap box” on a variety of topics (determined by callers)
Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Guests: Ron Green, President of Firefighters Local 772, Bangor, Maine; Jack McKay, President of Eastern Maine Labor Council and activist with Food and Medicine
Topic: TABOR, the “Tax Payers Bill of Rights”
Producer/host: Cathy Jacobs
Guests: Ellen Farnsworth, Family First at Downeast Community Hospital, Machias; Pam Gagnon, Child and Family Opportunities, La Leche League leader, Hancock and Washington Counties
Topic: Breastfeeding
What are the benefits of breast feeding to baby, mom and others? Why do some women choose to breast feed and others don’t? How can all of us support breast feeding?
Producer/host: Jim Campbell
We walk around all day with electromagnetic waves surrounding us, and actually passing right through our bodies. Our eyes and ears can see and hear only a tiny part of that spectrum, both in the physical world and through the media of radio and TV. So it might be worth wondering justwhat the electronic spectrum is, how it is divided up, and where our radio and television channels live in it. Let’s.