Tag: drones

Maine Currents 12/14/16

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Segment 1: Naomi Schalit, Senior Reporter for the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, and frequent guest here on Maine Currents, joins us to talk about what she discovered in a 9 month long investigation into poverty and single parenting in Maine – an investigation that resulted in a 5-part series which you can read at pinetreewatchdog.org

Segment 2: A talk by Dud Hendrick, local Vietnam veteran and member of Veterans for Peace. He spoke earlier this month at the Reversing Falls Sanctuary in Brooksville, Maine. This piece was recorded and produced by WERU’s Carolyn Coe

Maine Currents- independent local news, views & culture on WERU-FM 89.9 Blue Hill, 99.9 Bangor, Maine and www.weru.org, Wednesdays 4-5pm Eastern

WERU News Report 11/20/13

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Maine’s 1st District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree was among those attending a congressional briefing yesterday, that featured victims of US drone strikes in Yemen, telling their stories. The briefing was organized by CODEPINK and followed a Global Drone Summit that was held over the weekend. Congresswoman Pingree made a brief statement about her position on the issue:

Here is some of yesterday’s briefing, with audio made available to us by CODEPINK, and a special thanks to Maine CODEPINK organizer Lisa Savage. Florida Representative Alan Grayson:

WERU News Report 9/24/13

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

A “peace walk” across the state, from Limestone to Bath, will be held next month to draw attention to issue of drone surveillance at home and drone killing overseas. The issue of US drone attacks on civilians in other countries has been widely reported on by “Democracy Now” and other news sources. And as we reported here on the WERU News Report earlier this year, there have been efforts here in Maine to regulate the use of drones in the state. Two of the leaders of that effort spoke on the topic of “Domestic Surveillance and Drones in Maine and the Nation” at the University of Maine last week. Bruce Gagnon is the Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, and Shenna Bellows is the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 12/6/12

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Let’s do some catch up with recent developments of topics we’ve looked at recently: Pentagon directives on killing using robots and drones; a Supreme Court ruling regarding the freedom to videotape police in public places; an update on the “six strikes” process that ISPs will be using when a customer supposedly shares copyrighted materials without authorization; and, for the holiday season, an E-Book Privacy Chart, courtesy of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, to help us understand what kind of information about us and our reading habits e-book readers and books collect. You can find it at www.eff.org/pages/reader-privacy-chart-2012.

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 6/7/12

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
The news of drone attacks that seem to occur weekly in places thousands of miles from our shores bring up questions about how technology is changing the definition of war, and even of what it means to be a warrior. An 1984 movie seemed to presage our current world of video game warfare – but the movie was fantasy, but these days people actually die. How should we think about the technology of war in our world today?

WERU Community SoapBox 4/10/12

Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: Joel Mann

Issue: Open-mic style call-in show

Key Discussion Points:
Bipartisan politics, political participation, upcoming events, drones, Mirza Shahzah Akbar denied visa, Juniper Ridge/Old Town landfill, Casella, chicken jerky treats for dogs- danger, CSAs, local food, unions, Governor LePage

Guests: n/a

Call In Program: Yes