Tag: Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine

WERU News Report 5/29/13

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Audio recorded by John Greenman

The Mabel Sine Wadsworth Women’s Health Achievement Award was presented last week to Dr. Sandra Caron, Professor of Family Relations & Human Sexuality at the University of Maine. Dr. Caron says that even in this age of easy access to information, many college-aged students are still shockingly uneducated about sex. WERU’s John Greenman attended the award ceremony, and we bring you some of that today – edited to fit this time slot. Please note that there are some graphic sexual references, starting about 15 minutes into the program.

WERU News Report 5/28/13

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Audio recorded by Meaghan LaSala and John Greenman

Segment 1: Agent Orange, unlabeled GMOs , seed patents, lawsuits against farmers and small businesses —like Oakhurst Dairy here in Maine– Monsanto Corporation ‘s products and business practices have raised concerns about impacts on health and the environmental, the risks of an international corporate monopoly on food, and preferential treatment –and questionable oversight –from the government.
Saturday there were ‘March Against Monsanto’ protests in hundreds of cities around the world. In Portland, several hundred people attended a rally and march.
Meaghan LaSala takes us there

Segment 2: Our weekly Peactime segment, produced in cooperation with the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine. The theme of their HOPE festival this spring was “Do One Thing” or “DOT” and several speakers presented suggestions for one thing people might do to make the world a better place

WERU News Report 5/22/13

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Audio recorded by John Greenman

Last month the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine held its annual HOPE festival, featuring a theme of “Do One Thing”. Instead of a keynote speaker, several people were given the opportunity to try to convince the audience to do one particular thing to make a difference in the community. We’ve been featuring some of these on Peacetime in recent weeks, and today we have several more, starting with a song. FMI: www.peacectr.org

WERU News Report 9/12/12

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Topic: Garrett Martin, Executive Director of the Maine Center for Economic Policy, speaking about the impacts of tax policies on low and moderate income Mainers. His talk kicked off the “Take Back Democracy” Brown Bag Luncheon Series, sponsored by the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine, each Tuesday at noon during the election season His talk was recorded by John Greenman and edited by Amy Browne

FMI- Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine: www.peacectr.org | Maine Center for Economic Policy: www.mecep.org

Weekend Voices 4/3/10

Producer: Carolyn Coe

Host: Amy Browne

Topic:  Speakers from the Active Community Teach-In “Bring Our War $$ Home”, held in Bangor on 3/20/10, sponsored by the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine.

Keynote: Mariam Atifa Raqib, President of Samsortya, a nonprofit with the goal of reforesting part of eastern Afghanistan.  Raqib worked from 1996-2007 with the Afghan Health and Social Assistance Organization in Peshwar, Pakistan.  She was born in Afghanistan.  In her keynote she provides a timeline of Afghanistan’s recent history, since the abolition of the Afghan monarchy.  FMI: www.afghanistansamsortya.org

Gold Star Mother Mary Alice Horrigan speaks about the human costs (among other costs) of war.

RadioActive 4/1/10

Producers/Hosts: Amy Browne, Meredith DeFrancesco, Carolyn Coe

Segment 1:  Speakers from the recent Active Community Teach-In held in Bangor and sponsored by the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine:  MaryBeth Sullivan, social worker at Preble Street in Portland, and member of the Bring Our War $$ Home Coalition; and Peter Kellman, labor leader, labor history writer and educator, and member of US Labor Against the War.    The provide background on the Bring Our War $$ Home campaign, and a labor perspective on U.S. military history

Segment 2:  Special “news” for April 1, 2010

Voices 3/16/10

Producer/Host: Cathy Jacobs

Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

An interview with Marty Kelly, Director of the “Voices for Peace”, based out of the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine, featuring some of the music they will be performing a concert “Singing the Circle Whole” at The Brick Church, on Union St. Bangor, March 27, 2010 at 7pm.

“Voices for Peace” will be joined by special featured artist, Gina Holsopple from Oswego, New York, will round out the program with some of her original songs.  Holsopple, a NYC performer, has released 6 albums and won the New Song Contest at the Walnut Valley Festival in Kansas in 2009. FMI: http://www.ginaholsopple.com   Holsopple’s music was featured in today’s program as well.
The proceeds from this concert will benefit the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine. For 20 years the Center has provided resources, programs and activities to create awareness and inspire grassroots involvement in nonviolent social change.. Donations  ($10 suggested, children under 12 free) will help further the work of creating a more just and peaceful world. http://peacectr.org  Voices for Peace has performed with Women With Wings, Rob Shetterly and his portraits of Americans Who Tell the Truth, Gordon Bok in “Another Land Made of Water” and for numerous congregations and organizations, including a recent benefit for The Open Door Recovery Center in Ellsworth.

Voices for Peace is an inclusive group of people who come together to sing the message of love, peace, hope and justice.  Singers and musicians come from the Greater Bangor Area and as far away as Belfast, Bucksport and Mt. Desert.   http://mpjen.org/organizations  FMI: Marty Kelley, Voices for Peace Director: 478-2684,  martylhk@yahoo.com;  Katie Greenman, Publicity Coordinator: 827-7014, kgreenman@gwi.net