Archives for Specials

WERU Special: Great Works Dam Removal 6/15/12

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Program Topic: We take you to the banks of the Penobscot River in Bradley on Monday morning, where removal of the 200 year old Great Works Dam was about to get underway. You’ll hear the Penobscot Nation Chief, Representatives Mike Michaud and Chellie Pingree, US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and others, explaining the significance of the Penobscot River Restoration project.

Key Discussion Points:
a) Background on the dam removal
b) Reasons for removing the dam
c) Next steps in the Penobscot River Restoration Project

Call In Program: No

WERU Special: East-West Highway/Corridor Controversy 5/31/12

Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: Joel Mann

Program Topic: The East-West Highway/Corridor Controversy
Key Discussion Points:
a) What information is being withheld from the public, and why?
b) What things that ARE known about the project are raising concerns?
c) Who stands to benefit?
d) Who stands to lose?

Guests:

Hillary Lister—she has followed the various incarnations of the East-West plans for the past decade, doing coverage for Maine Indymedia, and living in and growing up in the vicinity of the various proposed routes

Diane Messer–she has attended all of the legislative hearings, offering testimony at them, and has studied the impacts of the E/W proposal on the community

Organizer Chris Buchanan of “Defending Water for Life in Maine”, and journalist Lance Tapley, who has been covering this issue, also join us by phone.

We also invited proposal’s most vocal proponent, Cianbo CEO Peter Vigue to either join us or send someone in his place today, but he declined to do so. We’ll feature excerpts from an interview we recorded with him in early May.

Call In Program: Yes

Healthy Options Special 5/29/12

Host: Cynthia Swan
Engineer: Amy Browne

Issue: Healing Lyme: Natural Healing & Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis & Its Co-infections

Program Topic: Lyme Disease
Key Discussion Points:
a) What is Lyme disease, how may it effect a person & how do people get this disease?
b) What is CD57 and why is it important people know about this?
c) What is necessary to successfully treat lyme disease and how is herbal medicine helpful?
d) What is your Herbal & Supplemental Core Protocol for treating Lyme and is it effective on its own to treat lyme ?

Guests:

STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER

Stephen Buhner is an Earth poet and an award-winning author who has written fifteen books on nature, indigenous cultures, the environment, and herbal medicine including the acclaimed book Healing Lyme: Natural Healing & Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis & Its Co-infections. Also a master herbalist and psychotherapist, Stephen resides in Vermont and New Mexico. His work has been profiled in The New York Times, CNN, Good Morning America and other media throughout North America and Europe. Since October 2006, Stephen has tirelessly answered hundreds of questions from those following his herbal protocol through his Q & A column.

His websites: gaianstudies.org

Stephen Harrod Buhner ~ Healing Lyme herbal protocol

Q & A column with Stephen Harrod Buhner for his Healing Lyme: Natural Healing And Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis And Its Coinfections herbal protocol.

buhnerhealinglyme.com

Call In Program: Yes

Noel Stookey on Saturday Morning Coffeehouse 5/26/12

Host: Jim Bahoosh
This hour of the “Saturday Morning Coffeehouse” featured a very special guest: Noel Stookey. Often referred to as the “Godfather of WERU”, Noel has been a great friend of Community Radio for over 24 years, even before the station began broadcasting. Noel talked about his soon to be released new CD and performed live in the studio.

WERU Special: Palestine/Israel 5/22/12

Producer/Host: Carolyn Coe

Key Discussion Points:
a) Framing: the political messaging in the language used about Palestine/Israel
b) Under-reported stories and voices of Palestinians and people in the Jewish Israeli human rights movement
c) “Brand Israel” and the push back against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement

Guest:
Dr. Alice Rothchild, co-founder and co-chair of American Jews for a Just Peace-Boston and author of Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resistance

Call In Program: no

WERU Special: LPG Tank Opponents Vow to Continue to Fight 3/27/12

Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: Joel Mann

Key Discussion Points:
Opponents of the massive Liquid Propane Tank facility planned for Searsport react to Searsport’s defeat of a referendum that would have allowed time to study the plan.
Resident of surrounding towns, who did not have a vote in the referendum, weigh in on the issue
Plans are in progress to take the fight to the next level (regional coordination, legal action)

Guests by name and affiliation:
Arlene Leighton, Lincolnville; Christopher Hyk, Belfast; Astrig Tanguay, Searsport

Call In Program: Yes

WERU Special: LPG in Searsport? 2/8/12

Issue: LPG Facility Proposed for Searsport
Broadcast Time: 6-8pm

Program Topic: DCP Midstream’s proposal to build a massive LPG terminal in Searsport, Maine

Key Discussion Points:
a) Safety
b) Economic Impacts
c) Environmental Impacts
d) Moratorium (and DCP Midstream’s attempts to influence)

Guests by name and affiliation:
A) Almon “Bud” Rivers, Searsport Emergency Management Director
B) Astrig Tanguay, Searsport resident and tourism-based business owner
C) Peter Taber, Searsport resident

Also audio clips featuring DCP Midstream employees, recorded 1/26/12 (DCP declined our invitation to take part in the show)

Call In Program: Yes
Political Broadcast: No

Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: Joel Mann

WERU Special – Coal Mining 1/24/12

Broadcast Time: 10am
Program Topic: coal mining in southern West Virginia

Key Discussion Points:
a)Coal companies have assaulted the landscape of southern West Virginia with large-scale surface mining operations, blasting off the tops of mountains. As coal leaves the state, so does the money it generates, leaving poor communities with polluted wells, respiratory ailments, flash floods, and unnecessary miner deaths.
b) Junior Walk of Coal River Mountain Watch shares what he has seen over the past twenty years including citizen efforts to relocate an elementary school, which sits below an impoundment filled with toxic coal waste.
c)Writer Denise Giardina describes growing up in a coal camp, community solidarity with striking mine workers, and her own love of the mountains.

Guests by name and affiliation:
A)Junior Walk, outreach coordinator of Coal River Mountain Watch
B)Denise Giardina

FMI: www.crmw.net, www.denisegiardina.com

Call In Program: n
Political Broadcast:y
Host:Carolyn Coe