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: Amy Browne
“THE ELECTION OF TRUMP: ONE YEAR LATER” – a panel discussion held at the University of Maine on 11/9/17. The panelists were Kimberly Hammill, of the Bangor Racial and Economic Justice Coalition, Maia Dendinger of the Socialist Party of Maine, and Doug Allen, a Professor of Philosophy and peace activist who also moderated the discussion
Maine Currents- independent local news, views and culture, Tuesdays at 4pm on WERU-FM and weru.org
Producer: Donna Loring
Guest Host: Amy Browne
Studio Engineer: John Greenman
Topics:
What’s happening at Standing Rock currently and local solidarity efforts
Racism associated with Trump’s campaign and future concerns
Guests:
Dawn Neptune Adams, Sunlight Media Collective, Penobscot Nation
Sherri Mitchell, Indigenous Rights Attorney, Penobscot Nation
Chief Kirk Francis, Penobscot Nation
Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: John Greenman
Local communities respond to the recent mass shooting in Orlando. We bring you to vigils held this week in Bangor and Belfast, Maine and then we talk with long time activist and former “Ism Prism” host Valentine King and open the phone lines for your calls. Valentine King is a cultural maven and independent thinker who has been based in Sommesville, Maine for the past 8 years. Originally from Philadelphia, he was active in the independent arts and queer cultural movement in the 1980s, and was part of the movement fighting for recognition of AIDS as a national health crisis at that time. For many years, he was a youth development worker at the Youth Health Empowerment Project, an agency devoted to promoting HIV prevention and youth leadership.
Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Amy Browne
Issue: Mascot issue
Program Topic: Mascot issue Skowhegan High school
Key Discussion Points:
a) why is the mascot issue so i
b) why being used as a mascot is so offensive
c) next steps/how to help
Guest: Maulian Dana Smith
Watch a video of this interview, here: http://www.seveneaglesmedia.org/videogallery/mascot-issue/
Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Amy Browne
Issue: 50th Anniversary of Peter Francis Murder at Peasant Point/Creation of a Joint Investigative Task Force by United South and Eastern Tribes/ First time in history to investigate crimes against their own Tribal members
Program Topic: Searching for Justice for family and community
Key Discussion Points:
a) Establishment of a United South and Eastern Tribes Investigative Task Force
b) Investigate what happened and the effects of a failed justice system
c) Task Force as model for rest of Indian Country
Guests:
Michael Corey Hinton, Great grandson of Peter Francis and an attorney for Akin Gump a prestigious law firm in Washington DC
Penobscot Nation Chief, Kirk Francis
USET Chair of its Criminal Justice Committee Robert Bryant
Producer/Host: Anita Arnold
Engineer: Amy Browne
Program Topic: White Ally Movement in Maine
Key Discussion Points
a) Ally Training and connection to Wabanaki Reach Training
b) Qualities of Allies
c) White privilege connection to racial justice
d) Maine’s Ally Movement
Guests:
Barbara Kates, Community Organizer/Ally Trainer for Maine Wabanaki Reach
David Smith, Member of White Ally Group in Belfast, Maine
Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: John Greenman
Issue: Racism in its various forms
Program Topic: Racism in places of power
Key Discussion Points:
a) What is the definition of Racism?
b) Is there Racism in our Institutions of power such as our government and our law enforcement agencies?
c) How do we recognize it and address it?
Guests:
(A) Professor David Gillborn Director, Centre for Research in Race & Education Editor, ‘Race Ethnicity and Education’ Department of Education & Social Justice School of Education University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
(B) Penobscot Nation Police Chief Robert Bryant
Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: John Greenman
Special presentation of “The 1927 Project”, a presentation about an early 20th-century lynching in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 2013, the project’s creator, writer/historian Stephanie Harp traveled to Arkansas to join descendants and relatives of those connected to the lynching to present historical and personal perspectives on what happened. “The 1927 Project” recreates that community discussion. “The public discussion in Little Rock was the first to include family members of so many major figures in the 1927 events,” Harp said. “The wounds from this lynching are still very raw in Little Rock. We all gain a better understanding of today’s news by looking at its roots in the past.” Harp holds a master’s degree in U.S. history from the University of Maine where the lynching was her research topic, and a bachelor’s degree in English from Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia. She has published journalism, creative nonfiction and book reviews, and has presented her research and writing in Maine, North Carolina and Arkansas.
Stephanie Harp and Orono High School students Emily Noyes, Tom Boss, Erin Luthin, Elsa Jolliffe Saunders, and Jessie Walker join us in the studio for the presentation and discussion.
FMI: http://www.stephanieharp.com/inheritance/