RadioActive 10/16/08

Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco

Topic: Organized Rural Communities of El Salvador on Free Trade and Immigration

How do free trade policies and neo-liberal economics effect the economy and people of El Salvador?  How does free trade effect immigration?  How do free trade policies effect the agricultural economy in small rural communities?

Bernardo Belloso is a National Directive Council Member of the Association of Rural Communities for the Development of El Salvador, CRIPDES. CRIPDES is the largest rural grassroots movement in El Salvador which coordinates the organizing, education and mobilization of over 300 rural communities spread through seven provinces of El Salvador.
Jose Heriberto Orellana Franco is a Directive Council Member in the community of Carasque (the Sister City of Bangor), one of the strongest CRIPDES-organized communities in the department of Chalatenango.

www.cripdes.org; www.elsalvadorsolidarity.org

Baby Talk 10/16/08

Producer/Host: Cathy Jacobs

Topic: Confident Parents, Remarkable Kids

What are the 8 principles outlined in Bonnie Harris’ book? How does our perception shift when we see a child as having a problem, not being a problem? What is connective communication?

Guest: Bonnie Harris, specialist in parenting and child behavior, and author of two books for parents, the most recent entitled Confident Parents, Remarkable Kids. Bonnie talks about her eight principles for “raising kids you’ll love to live with,” one of which is “My child’s greatest need is acceptance.”

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 10/16/08

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Happily, we’ll have no more hanging chads in this year’s presidential election. Less happily, there are a lot of very serious unknowns in the use of electronic voting machines. To date, these machines have proven problematic, and they may even be hackable. Let’s keep our fingers crossed AND our eyes open.