Weekend Voices 3/15/08

Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Contributing Producer: Jim Campbell

Topic: The keynote speech from the 2008 Camden Conference held in late February, 2008. Our speaker today is Harvard professor, Catholic priest, and world renowned expert on the theory of just wars, J. Brian Hehir.

The theme of the 2008 Camden Conference was “Religion as a Force in World Affairs” and Father Hehir’s task in his keynote was to offer an overview of the place and effect of religion in international diplomacy historically, today, and into the future. In the process, he discussed both the good and the bad effects of religion in international politics, the morality of using force in the context of historical just war theory, and what the fifteen-hundred year history of just war thinking tells us about about torture, pre-emptive strikes, and other issues that fill our headlines today.

Father Hehir was introduced at the conference by the Chair of the Program Committee, Jim Matlock.

For more information on the Camden Conference: www.camdenconference.org.

Voices will continue our special coverage of the conference and its theme, Religion as a Force in World Affairs, next Saturday, March 22 at 3 p.m. with a program featuring selections from talks given at the conference, produced,
as was this program, by Jim Campbell.

Talk of the Towns 3/14/08

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

Topic: Paper or Plastic—-what are the issues, what are the choices?

Guests: Maine State Representative Ted Koffman; Senator Feargal Quinn, SuperQuinn Grocery chain, Ireland; Megan Hellstead, Environmental Sustainability Manager, Hannaford;  Suzette Bergeron, Bulletin Bags;  Mindy Veichiniki, Bar Harbor Whale Museum; Kathryn Arbach, A&B Naturals, Bar Harbor

Call in show

RadioActive 3/13/08

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Audio for Segment 1 recorded by Steve Votey of the UU Church of Ellsworth and Matt Murphy of WERU

Topics:

Segment 1: Jim Fisher, Hancock County Planning Commission speaking at the “Hancock County Focuses on Climate Change Conference” at the Unitarian-Universalist Church in Ellsworth in February 2008, on the topic of smart growth planning to address greenhouse emissions.  Recorded by Steve Votey and Matt Murphy, edited by Amy Browne

Jim Fisher is also the host of Common Health, a call-in show that airs on WERU the 1st Wednesday of each month at 10a.m.

Segment 2:  Phil Bailey interviews Jim Hightower about his new book, his visit to Maine for a Common Cause event this weekend, and campaign finance reform.

Phil Bailey is also the host of the short feature EarthSense that airs on WERU every Wednesday morning at 7:30

FMI:  Segment 1: www.smartgrowth.org   Segment 2: Jim Hightower will be speaking, along with Bob Edgar, President of Common Cause, in Portland, Maine Sunday evening March 16th.  Information at: www.commoncause.org