Word in Edgewise 8/18/08
August 18th, 2008Producer/Host: R.W. Estela
World Ocean Radio 8/18/08
August 18th, 2008Producers/Hosts: Amelia Poole & Peter Neill, World Ocean Observatory
Topic: Coastal Strategies and Invention
FMI: www.thew2o.net
Weekend Voices 8/16/08
August 16th, 2008Executive Producer & Host: Amy Browne
Contributors: Bill Phillips, Peter Rottman, Meredith DeFrancesco, Helen York, Andy Buckley
Segment 1: Health care in America produced by Bill Phillips and Peter Rottman
Guest: Dr. Peter Millard, physician, the Family Medicine Residency Program at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine
How do health outcomes in the United States compare with those in other modern, industrialized democracies? How do health care costs in the U.S. compare? How are health care expenditures in the U.S. currently allocated?
Segment 2: We’re celebrating 20 years of great community radio this month by counting back the years in the station’s history. Today we’re remembering 2001 with a RadioActive program from August of that year, produced and hosted by myself, Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco with assistance from Helen York and Andy Buckley.  This archived episode of RadioActive featured coverage of the groups “Let Cuba Live” and “Pastors for Peace” as their caravan converged at the Maine/Quebec border with medical supplies that they hoped to get through to Cuba via Canada, in defiance of the U.S. embargo. Features “play by play” coverage of the civil disobedience that ensued.
RadioActive 8/14/08
August 14th, 2008Producers/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 the Americas, or FTAA, ministerial meetings in Miami.  Inside luxury resort hotels, the FTAA meetings were not going well as more and more countries were becoming aware of the negative impacts of corporate globalization.  The resorts were surrounded by fencing and riot police, keeping any dissent well out of view of those inside.  The protests were spirited, but in no way violent.  We broke away after covering a Teamsters protest march and found a pay phone to call in to WERU with an update. What follows is that call-in segment, engineered by Heather Candon, then recorded audio from the protests that aired later, including an impromptu press conference with a Miami police official in which you will also hear the voice of Andrea DeFrancesco and other reporters as well.  So let’s take a trip back in time to 2003…
Writers Forum 8/14/08
August 14th, 2008Producers/Hosts: Betty Duff and Joan Clemons
Topic: Adam The King by Jeffrey Lewis & Full Fathom Five: A Daughter’s Search by Mary Lee Coe Fowler
What is the state of American fiction today? What are the problems of publicizing books today? What is the inspiration for today’s books?
Guests: Jeffrey Lewis, author, Meritocracy Quartet ; Mary Lee Coe Fowler, author, Full Fathom Five: A Daughter’s Search
FMI: jefflewis@earthlink.net; maryleecoefowler.com, mlfowler@maine.rr.com
Notes from the Electronic Cottage 8/14/08
August 14th, 2008Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
As part of WERU’s 20 years in 20 days celebration, we return to October of 2003 for an edition on GPS, or Global Positioning Systems, which were just beginning to gain broad adoption at the consumer level. GPS is a great tool, but like all technology, it has its positive and negative applications. We look at few of them today since the issues raised in 2003 are still alive today.
