WERU News Report 4/18/12

Issue: Independent, Alternative Local News
Producer/Host/Engineer: Amy Browne
Contributor: John Greenman

Program Topics: Segment 1: Steve Brouwer talking about his new book “Revolutionary Doctors: How Venezuela and Cuba are Changing the World’s Conception of Health Care”; Segment 2: The Maine People’s Alliance marked tax day yesterday by attempting to present tax bills to Bank of America branches across the state. I caught up with the group in Bangor

Key Discussion Points:
a) Training of medical professionals in Venezuela
b) Maine People’s Alliance protest
c) Bank of America –bail out and tax responsibility

Guests:
A) Steve Brouwer (lecture recorded by John Greenman at the UMaine Marxist and Socialist Lecture Series)
B) Nicole Brown, Maine People’s Alliance (fmi: www.mainepeoplesalliance.org)

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