WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill (weru.org)
Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco
Topic: US Trade Representative in Bangor — Reaction from Local Fair Trade Activists
When the US Trade Representative visited Bangor to promote the free trade model, community organizations and unions held a rally to speak out on how free trade has hurt the economy and democratic process, as well as environment and labor.
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