Voices 11/06/07

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Contributors: Eric Olson, Joel Mann

Topics:

Segment 1:Attorney and Civil Liberties activist Phil Worden’s acceptance speech, on behalf of himself and Lynne Williams, also an Attorney and Civil Liberties activist, for an award they received at the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine’s annual Harvest Dinner in Bangor in October 2007.  The award was given in gratitude for all the work they have done on behalf on activists and defending the constitution in Maine.

Segment 2: An interview with the new director of the Grand in Ellsworth

Conversations Thru the Ism Prism 11/06/07

Producer/host: Anita Arnold

Topic: White Privilege and its Relationship to Racism– How is privilege defined and executed in our society? How does white privilege operate? Systemically? Individually? How can we be more aware of our privilege?

Guests: Barbara Smith and Myer Taksel of the University of Maine Diversity Leadership Institute; Julie Desherbinin, Colby College, activist

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A Word in Edgewise 11/05/07

 

Producer/host: R.W. Estela

R.W. Estela is a pilot, contractor, and teacher of English and aikido who has written and aired national and international essays for WERU since 1991.

 Every week for the past sixteen years wherever he might be in North America, Central America, or Europe, R.W. Estela continues to explore the meaning of late-20th-century and early-21st-century existence — etymologically, metaphorically, literally with his most recent A Word in Edgewise on Monday mornings at 7:30 A.M.