Weekend Voices 3/14/09

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Topic: 2009 Camden Conference
Guest: Nicholas Burns, Professor at the Kennedy School, xpeaking at the Camden Conference
Nicholas Burns on “A New Era of Diplomacy for the Obama Administration”
What does former Under Secretary Burns think are the major foreign relations opportunities facing the Obama administration? What does former Under Secretary Burns think are the major foreign relations challenges facing the Obama administration? Why is “soft power” so important for the U.S. today? T

Talk of the Towns 3/13/09

Producer/Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension

Studio Engineer: Joel Mann

Guests: Russell Libby, Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners, www.mofga.org; James McConnon, University of Maine Cooperative Extension; Daniel Price and Ginger McDermott, Freedom Farm, Freedom Maine; Greg Veilleaux, Bar Harbor Town Council Member, supporter of farmers market there; Keith Small, Washington-Hancock Community Agency

Topic: Farmer’s Markets Connect People and Communities to Food
What role do farmers markets play for small farmers? What role do you see farmers markets play in connecting people to local food, and why does that matter? Are farmers markets part of larger trends influencing Maine food systems?
FMI on the farmers market convention: www.downeastbiz.org click on “Farm to Market”

RadioActive 3/12/09

Producers/Hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco, Amy Browne, Jesse Dyer Stewart, Carolyn Coe
Guests: Pedro Juan Hernandez, Economist & Social Movement Organizer with the MPR-12, a network of rural community cooperatives and unions; Pedro Miranda, President of PROGRESO, the regional organization of CRIPDES, in Suchitoto,
Topic: El Salvador presidential elections: Mauricio Funes, FMLN party candidate, former journalist, and ARENA party candidate Rodrigo Avila, former head of the National Police
What are the economic problems in El Salvador as a basis for the movement for political change? What US Congressional statements in recent days have inferred that the FMLN party is “pro-terrorist” and that if they win the U.S. government could cut off remittances to El Salvador? Why has the Salvadoran government located military troops through out the Suchitoto region?

FMI: www.elsalvadorsolidarity.org