RadioActive 10/25/07

Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Topics:

Segment 1:

An interview with David Smith-Ferri, author of Battlefield without Borders, a volume of poetry published in January, 2007. David wrote two thirds of the poems while in Iraq under circumstances ranging from visiting with Iraqis in their homes and at hospitals to encounters at bomb sites.   Proceeds from the sale of the book go to the Iraq War Victims Fund  Smith-Ferri, along with Kathy Kelly (Voices in the Wilderness, Voices for Creative Non-Violence) will be in Maine Saturday night at an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of Peace Action Maine.

FMI: www.battlefieldwithoutborders.org, www.peaceactionme.org

Segment 2: An update on CAFTA, particularly recent developments in Costa Rica

Voices 10/23/07

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Contributor: Marge May

Topic: An interview with Claude Anshin Thomas,Vietnam Veteran, Zen Buddhist Monk, Non-Violence Advocate and Author of At Hell’s Gate: A Soldier’s Journey from War to Peace  He will be in the Blue Hill area this weekend for a public talk, book signing and 2-day meditation retreat

FMI: About the workshops:  benjamin@anewpossibility.org or 207-374-5768;  About Claude Anshin Thomas in general:  www.zaltho.org

WERU Special: Child Soldiering 10/23/07

Producer/host: John Greenman

Topic: Child Soldiering

Speech  by Arthur Serota, Executive Director, UMECS (United Movement to End Child Soldiering)

Recorded Sept. 20th, 2007 at UMaine

Most everyone has heard that children are terrorized into becoming fighters in several places around the world.
It’s easy, though, to forget about something flabbergasting when it’s something that’s happening a long way from home.

What Arthur Serota has to say will make it hard to forget. As a matter of fact, we strongly advise parents to make sure only their mature adolescent children listen to his talk.

It’s a powerful and shocking presentation. One you won’t soon forget.

FMI:
United Movement to End Child Soldiering
http://www.endchildsoldiering.org/index.htm