Tag: women’s rights

Maine Currents 3/8/17

“Our Rights At Risk- Why the Courts Matter”, a discussion held in Bangor last week, featuring panelists Andrea Irwin, Executive Director of the Mabel Wadsworth Center (mabelwadsworth.org), Eliza Townsend, Executive Director of the Maine Women’s Lobby (mainewomen.org/mwl), and Nicole Golden-Bouchard, Attorney, Spruce Run-Womancare Alliance (sprucerun.net)

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Audio recorded by Abbie Strout and edited by Amy Browne

Maine Currents- independent local news, views and culture, every Wednesday at 4pm on WERU-FM and weru.org

Maine Currents 10/19/16

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

“Rights At Risk” panel discussion featuring Andrea Irwin, JD, Executive Director of Mabel Wadsworth Center and Eliza Townsend, Executive Director of the Maine Women’s Lobby, discussing the impacts of court decisions on women’s reproductive rights here in Maine and across the country. Judy Kahrl of Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights facilitated. Recorded at the Bangor Public Library on September 29th, 2016.

We also have a report on Friday’s announcement that a mining company’s lawsuit against the country of El Salvador was dismissed after 7 years of struggle.

FMI:
www.mabelwadsworth.org/
www.mainewomen.org/
www.grandmothersforreproductiverights.org/
www.stopesmining.org/
www.elsalvadorsolidarity.org/

Reproductive Left 8/2/16

Producer/Host: Abbie Strout

Issue: Social and political issues that impact our sexual and reproductive health produced by WERU in collaboration with Mabel Wadsworth Women’s Health Center – www.mabelwadsworth.org.

Program Topic: Winning the Right to Vote with Posie Cowan

Key Discussion Points:
History of the women’s rights movement from a personal perspective
The 19th Amendment
Equal representation in Congress

Guests:
Posie Cowan, Blue Hill, Maine
Terry Marley-DeRosier, WHNP, Mabel Wadsworth Women’s Health Center

Maine Currents 9/2/15

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Audio recorded by Abbie Strout

On today’s show we take you to a “Women’s Equality Day” rally in Bangor, where speakers celebrated progress and looked to the work ahead, and then later, in the community event spotlight this week we talk with Astrig Tanguay about the upcoming annual Fiber College in Searsport (FMI: facebook.com/fiber.college and website: www.fibercollege.org/ , (207) 548-6059/)