Archive for the ‘RadioActive’ Category
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Producers/Hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
The WERU community is celebrating 20 years of great community radio---and counting down to our next membership drive--- by taking a look back. Today we’re going back to 2003. In November of that year we reported from the protests at the Free Trade Area of ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco
Topic: Today we consider the life and work of photojournalist Jim Harney, as he prepares for a walk in solidarity with the undocumented. Get updates from walk and see Jim's work at www.posibilidad.org
And we get an update on aerial spraying from the Maine Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Producers/Hosts: Amy Browne & Meredith DeFrancesco
Topic/Guests: Award-winning local artist and activist Robert Shetterly talks with Teri Blanton. Blanton is a survivor of a Superfund toxic waste site near her home in Harlan County, Kentucky. Her courageous stand against the abuses of coal companies has won her notoriety within her state. ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Producers/Hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco, Amy Browne
Contributors: Matt Murphy and Joel Mann
Topic: Veterans and the 4th of July
Segment 1: Matt Murphy talks with the "Veterans for Peace" and their supporters marching in a local 4th of July parade
Segment 2: Award-winning author Deborah Joy Corey ("The Skating Pond", "Losing Eddie") reads an essay ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Today we bring you an episode of the public access program “This Issue”. Interviewer Bruce Gagnon talks with two activists involved with the movement for a People’s Veto of Real ID in Maine : Lu Bauer and Chris Miller of “Maine People for Real Freedom”. 55,000 signatures on petitions are ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Topic: The last time we reported on Plum Creek’s proposal for a massive development in the Moosehead Lake region, the Land Use Regulatory Commission (LURC)---which oversees the unorganized territories of Maine--- had just concluded a series of public hearings. The next step was for LURC to take the ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Topic: A continuation of the call-in show special this morning on the future of Sears Island, allowing callers who couldn't get through this morning a chance to call in again.
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Topic: An interview with Bruce Gagnon, Founder and Coordinator of Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.
Two leading peace activists in the Czech Republic began an unlimited hunger strike on May 13 in protest of U.S. plans to deploy a so-called “missile defense” radar in their country. ...
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