Talk of the Towns 3/10/17

Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

Issue: Community concerns and opportunities

Program Topic: Acadia Fire Soccer Academy—Developing Skills and People

What led to the creation of Acadia Fire Football Club (AFFC)?
Explain the importance of the mission “to offer the highest level of skill development to the greatest number of players.”
What led to the development of coaching philosophy at AFFC? And how has your coaching approach has been received by players and parents?
Summarize the importance of AFFC for the development of children’s overall emotional and physical wellbeing.
For players: How has participating with AFFC made your life better in other areas?
Why do parents like having their children play with AFFC?
What are the long term goals of AFFC?

Guests:
Michael Curless, Director, Acadia Fire
Simon Hulbert, Bar Harbot, Student at University of Southern Maine, coach and long time player
Lelia Weir, Bar Harbor, Grade 7… current player

RadioActive 3/9/17

Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco

Program Topic: Report on Maine Indian Land Claims Settlement Act

Key Discussion Points:

1) Today we hear part of a March 2nd presentation before the Maine State Legislature’s Judiciary Committee, on new report examining the Maine Indian Land Claims Settlement Act, authored by the Suffolk University’s Indigenous Rights Clinic and commissioned by the Maine Indian Tribal State Commission.
2).The report, “The Drafting and Enactment of the Maine Indian Land Claims Settlement Act: Report on Research Findings and Initial Observations”, includes a compilation of documents and communications from the time of the Settlement Act negotiations, with particular examination of such issues as reserved rights to resources, unabrogated treaty rights, conflicts of terminology between sustenance and subsistence, “internal tribal matters”, and the application of federal Indian law in Maine.
3). We hear interviews from the four of the five Wabanaki tribal chiefs present.

Guests:
Nichole Fredricks. Report author, Suffolk University’s Indigenous Rights Clinic, www.mitsc.org/documents/157_2017-2-22Suffolk.MICSAReport.Final.Feb2017.pdf
Chief Kirk Francis, Penobscot Nation, www.penobscotnation.org/
Chief Brenda Commander. Houlton Band of the Maliseet, www.maliseets.com/index.htm
Chief Charlie Peter Paul. Aroostook Band of the MicMac, www.micmac-nsn.gov/
Chief Ralph Dana, Passamaquoddy at Sipayik, www.wabanaki.com/

This program was produced in partnership with the Sunlight Media Collective.

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 3/9/17

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

The “Right to Be Forgotten” is now enshrined in European Union law. What the heck is the “Right to Be Forgotten” and is it a good idea or, from a US point of view, a violation of our First Amendment?

Maine Currents 3/8/17

“Our Rights At Risk- Why the Courts Matter”, a discussion held in Bangor last week, featuring panelists Andrea Irwin, Executive Director of the Mabel Wadsworth Center (mabelwadsworth.org), Eliza Townsend, Executive Director of the Maine Women’s Lobby (mainewomen.org/mwl), and Nicole Golden-Bouchard, Attorney, Spruce Run-Womancare Alliance (sprucerun.net)

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Audio recorded by Abbie Strout and edited by Amy Browne

Maine Currents- independent local news, views and culture, every Wednesday at 4pm on WERU-FM and weru.org