Voices 4/21/09

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Linda Washburn, Anneli Sundqvist
Segment 1: Making Every Vote Truly Count: A States’ Compact For Electing The President By National Popular Vote. What is it? Will it Work? Can the Electoral College process be replaced by a truly popular vote for President and Vice-President? Can a compact among States authorize a popular vote for President and Vice-President and will this means be more successful than a Constitutional Amendment to eliminate the Electoral College? What would be the pros and cons for having an Interstate Compact for the National Popular Vote?
Guest: Ann Luther, Co-President of the League of Women Voters Maine
For more information about a national popular vote:
www.lwv.org
www.nationalpopularvote.com
Cato Institute http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9708
Common Cause
http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=1695007 and
Fair Vote http://www.fairvote.org/?page=1950.
(This segment originally aired on Women’s Windows, a program that airs every Sunday evening from 8-10pm)
Segment 2: Anneli Sundqvist, now the manager of the Deer Isle hostel, embarked on an overland journey from the middle east to her childhood home in Sweden a few years ago, and along the way she recorded her observations. These segments originally aired on public radio in Sweden, and we’ve been re-airing them here on Voices with Anneli’s permission

Weekend Voices 4/18/09

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Audio recorded by: Eric T. Olson
Topic: Excerpts from the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) forum held at the University of Maine on April 6th, 2009. The event was sponsored by the local group “Food and Medicine” and their national partners “Jobs with Justice” and featured renowned author Barbara Ehrenreich, local workers and labor organizers speaking in support of the EFCA legislation.
FMI: www.foodandmedicine.org