Voices 10/18/06

Producer/host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Meredith DeFrancesco; Ousman (theme music)
Topics: Meredith DeFrancesco interviews Rhonda Frey who recently returned from a cultural exchange trip to Venezuela. She was part of a contingent from the Penobscot Nation. And puppets from the upcoming Beech Hill Farm Fall Festival are interviewed about that event.

Weekend Voices 10/14/06

Producer/host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Marge May; Ousman(theme music)
Topics: School of the America’s watch Latin America Coordinator Lisa Sullivan talks about efforts to close the school that has also been called “School of the Assassins”; Marge May’s interview series with U.S. Senate Candidates from Maine continues, today they answer questions about the economy; Johnathan Leavitt of the Maine Marijuana Policy Initiative talks about that new group’s plans to revise Maine’s marijuana laws.

Family Radio Forum 10/13/06

Producer/host: Ron Beard

Guests: Jane Freeman, Healthy Peninsula; Corinne Pert, Principal, Brooksville School; Bec Poole, Brooksville community member; Peter Sly, Brookin

Topic: Building a Healthy Community in Brooksville

What is Healthy Peninsula?; How does it relate to the state network?; How is it related to a vision of creating healthy communities?

RadioActive 10/12/06

Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Topics: 2 more state governors have joined Maine’s Governor Baldacci to pool resources to combat the use of sweat shop labor in products purchased by state governments. We talk with Bjorn Skorpen-Clausen, Executive Director of Sweatfree Communities. And on this so-called “Columbus Day” activists in Bangor hold a talk called “Columbia: 500 years of Resistance” and reflect on that countries current crisis. Daphne Loring, one of the organizers of a Witness for Peace delegation that will be traveling to Columbia joins us to tell us more. And Susan Beebe of Camden, Maine calls in with news of yet another DOT road widening project that is threatening old trees– this time in Southern Maine