Category: RadioActive
RadioActive 12/11/08
December 11th, 2008, No Comments
Producers/Hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Topics: What is Maine doing to protect the threatened Canada Lynx from trappers? Maine’s Citizen Trade Commission Public Hearing–excerpts (more to air on Weekend Voices on 12/20 and 12/27/08)
Guest: Daryl DeJoy, Wildlife Alliance of Maine
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December 4th, 2008, Comments Off
Producers/Hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Topic: The Trade Reform, Accountability, Development and Employment Act (The TRADE Act, sponsored by Congressperson Mike Michaud; The Maine Citizen Trade Policy Commission and it’s 12/4 public hearing in Bangor
The Maine Citizen Trade Policy Commission, the first of it’s kind in the country, was formed to examine the impacts of [...]
RadioActive 11/27/08
November 27th, 2008, Comments Off
Producers/Hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Topic: A continuation of the interview with photojournalist and human rights activist Jim Harney. FMI: www.posibilidad.org
RadioActive 11/20/08
November 20th, 2008, Comments Off
Producers/Hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
Segment 1:We talk with Jim Harney, a well-known photojournalist and international social justice activist. Jim is terminally ill, but continues to use his time and energy to speak out about important issues–today he reflects on the “School of the Americas” aka “The School of the Assassins” at Ft. Benning, GA. [...]
RadioActive 11/13/08
November 13th, 2008, Comments Off
Producers/Hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Today we take a look at local reactions to the news that the U.S. has elected it’s first African-American President—ranging from hope to racism, and back to hope— as the community pulls together in opposition to racism. Interviews with Assata Sherrill and Dan Lourie; Then we talk with Paul Mayewski [...]
RadioActive 10/23/08
October 23rd, 2008, Comments Off
Producers/Hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco & Amy Browne
Topics:
Segment 1: This past Friday, October the 17th, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC, announced that it had dismissed energy developer Quoddy Bay LNG’s application fro a liquefied natural gas terminal on the Passamaquoddy tribe’s residential land at Pleasant Point. FERC stated the company had still not provided them with [...]
RadioActive 10/16/08
October 16th, 2008, Comments Off
Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco
Topic: Organized Rural Communities of El Salvador on Free Trade and Immigration
How do free trade policies and neo-liberal economics effect the economy and people of El Salvador? How does free trade effect immigration? How do free trade policies effect the agricultural economy in small rural communities?
Bernardo Belloso is a National Directive Council Member [...]
RadioActive 10/09/08
October 9th, 2008, Comments Off
Producers/Hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Topics: Discussion with the director of Food and Medicine on the state of the economy at national and state level. And interviews on Maine connections to Salvadoran communities through the US El Salvador Sister Cities network
What are some of the findings of a new survey and report on the current [...]
