Tag: Occupy Bangor

Maine Currents 9/14/16

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Studio Engineer: Joel Mann

Today on “Maine Currents” we focus on ways local people are plugging into larger movements to create positive change. Guests Tracey Hair and Larry Dansinger report back from their trip to the World Social Forum in Canada this summer, we talk about the “End Violence Together” rally and march and events marking the anniversary of the Occupy movement in Bangor this coming weekend, as well as last weekend’s Wabanaki Solidarity with Standing Rock rally, and we invite listeners to call in with question and with their own stories of working to create positive change.

Guests:
Tracey Hair started working at HOME Inc in 12 years ago. For a brief time she worked in partnership with HOME at a homeless charity located in Harlem. She lived and worked in Harlem doing street outreach, handing out sandwiches and serving food from a pop up food pantry. In addition to street outreach, Tracey taught basic computer skills to undocumented and low-income women in the Bronx. She have since returned to HOME Inc here in Orland where she currently serves as Acting Director. In addition to working with homeless people, Tracey has spent time advocating for Immigration Rights for same sex couples and is also a member of the Board of St Francis Community / Mandala Farm where she lived and worked for two years. Mandala Farm is a homeless shelter where homeless people live and work together in community. FMI: http://www.homemmausa.org/

Larry Dansinger used to work with Resources for Organizing and Social Change and still volunteers with the group. Besides attending the most recent World Social Forum this summer in Montreal, Larry helped to organize a Social Forum here in Maine in 2006 and hopes there will be another in Maine soon. Larry was also active in the Occupy Bangor’s camp next to the Bangor Public Library in 2011 and is helping to plan a 5th anniversary event there on Saturday 9/17/16, 10-11:30 am (followed by a potluck) at the park next to the Bangor Public Library.
FMI: https://www.facebook.com/OccupyBangor/?fref=ts

Mary Ellen Quinn is the Co-coordinator of Pax Christi Maine and one of the organizers of the “End Violence Together” rally and march that will be taking place in Bangor on Saturday, 9/17/16 from 1-4pm at West Market Square (rain location: Columbia Street Church). FMI: https://www.facebook.com/events/1031435066943636/

WERU News Report 9/17/13

Producer/Host: Amy Browne, Meredith DeFrancesco, Lawrence Reichard

Today we’re marking the 2 year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Here are some excerpts from our archives, as WERU covered the beginning of the movement, the occupy movement in Maine, and the one year anniversary, on this date in 2012

WERU News Special Report: Occupy Wall St. Anniversary 9/17/12

Hosts: Amy Browne, Meredith DeFrancesco, Lawrence Reichard
Engineer: Joel Mann

Live reports from OWS protest in NYC, featuring voices of Mainers taking part

Where does the OWS movement stand today, on the 1 year anniversary?
How has it influenced “Occupy” movements across the country?
What issues is the movement working on, nationally and in Maine?

Recorded interviews with several Mainers who were in NYC taking part

WERU News Report 5/2/12

Issue: Alternative, independent local news
Host: Amy Browne Producers: Jim Campbell & Amy Browne
Segment 1: “Choose Privacy Week”, featuring a talk by Michael German, Senior Council for National Security, ACLU, former FBI. (FMI: www.privacyrevolution.org )

Segment 2: We listen in on part of April’s meeting of the Bangor City Council, as they consider how they are going to deal with Governor LePage’s line item veto of state funding for the General Assistance program.

Key Discussion Points (list at least 3):
Privacy is under siege in the digital age
Since 9/11 in the US, privacy has been more and more reduced by government actions, particularly data mining
Current initiatives in congress would erode privacy even more
Bangor City Councilors are considering which programs they may need to cut to make up for the budget shortfall caused by LePage’s line item veto
Area organizations making budget requests are questioned by councilors, including one that asked why younger people can’t join the senior center, and another who grilled the Bangor Public Library representatives about their decision to not ban “Occupy Bangor” activists last fall (seemingly implying that the library may be punished financially)

Recorded talk by Michael German, Senior Council for National Security, ACLU, former FBI and audio from April’s Bangor budget meeting (several speakers)

Call In Program: no

WERU News Report 12/6/11

Broadcast Time: 4pm

Program Topics: LURC Reform Commission’s final meeting & Occupy Bangor update

Key Discussion Points:
What points has the LURC Reform commission agreed upon?
What points is the commission still hashing out?
Where does “Occupy Bangor” go from here, after being told to leave the library land and the adjacent park?

Guests by name and affiliation: Recorded audio of LURC Reform Commission members and audience member(s) at the meeting; an interview w/ Lawrence Reichard of Occupy Bangor

Call In Program: no

Host: Amy Browne
Contributing Producer: Meredith DeFrancesco
Engineer: Amy Browne

WERU News Report 11/2/11

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributing Producer: Meredith DeFrancesco

Program Topic: Occupy Bangor Kick-Off Rally (Part 3 of 3)
Key Discussion Points:
The kick-off of Occupy Bangor
)How Occupy Bangor ties in to the Occupy Wall Street movement
)What participants at Saturday’s kick off rally said about why they are taking part

WERU News Report 11/1/11

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributing Producer: Meredith DeFrancesco

Program Topic: Occupy Bangor Kick-Off Rally (Part 2 of 3) and LPG Proposal in Searsport

Key Discussion Points (list at least 3):
What participants at Saturdays’ kick off rally for Occupy Bangor had to say about why they were there
LPG facility proposed for Searsport What are the potential risks/dangers?

Guest:
Tom Gocze, Searsport resident and small business owner, and long time host of “Hot and Cold” TV and radio shows, and newspaper columns

WERU Special: Occupy Bangor 10/31/11

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributing Producer: Meredith DeFrancesco

Program Topic: Occupy Bangor Kick-Off Rally (Part 1 of 3)

Key Discussion Points:
The kick-off of Occupy Bangor
How Occupy Bangor ties in to the Occupy Wall Street movement
What participants at Saturday’s kick off rally said about why they are taking part