Archives for Specials

WERU Local News Special: Opposition to Plum Creek Proposal 11/29/07

Producer/host: Meredith DeFrancesco

Guests: Emily Posner and Storm Waters, Native Forest Network

A call in show about the opposition to Plum Creek’s proposal to develop the Maine woods.

LURC Public hearings on the issue (from the LURC website, www.maine.gov/doc/lurc ):

Public Sessions (10:00 AM – 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM)

Members of the public are welcome to attend and/or participate in any of the four scheduled public sessions. Any person wishing to testify before the Commission is urged to read the rules governing public testimony before LURC (available for downloading [at www.maine.gov/doc/lurc ]

1. Saturday, December 1, 2007 (Greenville High School Auditorium, 130 Pritham Ave, Greenville)
2. Sunday, December 2, 2007 (Augusta Civic Center, 79 Community Dr, Augusta)
3. Saturday, December 15, 2007 (Holiday Inn By the Bay, 88 Spring St, Portland)
4. Sunday, December 16, 2007 (Greenville High School Auditorium, 130 Pritham Ave, Greenville)

PLEASE NOTE: There will be a re-broadcast of a panel discussion on this issue on Weekend Voices, Saturday December 1st at 3p.m. (also archived below)

FMI: www.nrcm.org , www.maine.gov/doc/lurcwww.endgame.org , www.dontbuysfi.com

WERU Local News Special: Opposition to Plum Creek Proposal 11/27/07

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Guests: Logan Perkins, Will Neills, Storm Waters– volunteers with the Native Forest Network, one of many groups raising serious concerns about the plan proposed by Plum Creek in the Moosehead Lake region of Maine

LURC Public hearings on the issue (from the LURC website, www.maine.gov/doc/lurc ):

Public Sessions (10:00 AM – 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM)

Members of the public are welcome to attend and/or participate in any of the four scheduled public sessions. Any person wishing to testify before the Commission is urged to read the rules governing public testimony before LURC (available for downloading under “Additional Information” to the right)

1. Saturday, December 1, 2007 (Greenville High School Auditorium, 130 Pritham Ave, Greenville)
2. Sunday, December 2, 2007 (Augusta Civic Center, 79 Community Dr, Augusta)
3. Saturday, December 15, 2007 (Holiday Inn By the Bay, 88 Spring St, Portland)
4. Sunday, December 16, 2007 (Greenville High School Auditorium, 130 Pritham Ave, Greenville)

PLEASE NOTE: THIS AIRED WHILE THE STATION WAS AT LOW POWER DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES. WE WILL RE-AIR THIS PROGRAM ON WEEKEND VOICES ON SATURDAY 12/01/07

FMI: www.nrcm.org , www.maine.gov/doc/lurc , www.endgame.org , www.dontbuysfi.com

WERU Special: Child Soldiering 10/23/07

Producer/host: John Greenman

Topic: Child Soldiering

Speech  by Arthur Serota, Executive Director, UMECS (United Movement to End Child Soldiering)

Recorded Sept. 20th, 2007 at UMaine

Most everyone has heard that children are terrorized into becoming fighters in several places around the world.
It’s easy, though, to forget about something flabbergasting when it’s something that’s happening a long way from home.

What Arthur Serota has to say will make it hard to forget. As a matter of fact, we strongly advise parents to make sure only their mature adolescent children listen to his talk.

It’s a powerful and shocking presentation. One you won’t soon forget.

FMI:
United Movement to End Child Soldiering
www.endchildsoldiering.org/index.htm

WERU News Special 9/27/07, Mainers to Michaud: “Impeach!”

Producer/host: Amy Browne

People from all walks of life and all parts of Maine stood in line for up to 2 hours yesterday, and many more signed statements, to deliver a message to Congressman Michael Michaud at his Bangor office: “Support Impeachment of Bush and Cheney”.  This is the unedited first hour of what they had to say.  More will follow today at 4p.m. on RadioActive.

FMI: www.maineimpeach.org

RadioActive Special: Criminalization of Dissent 8/28/07

Producers/hosts: Amy Browne, Meredith DeFrancesco and Carolyn Coe

Guests: Storm Waters and Mark Rosenthal

Topic: A call in show on the criminalization of dissent through use of “anti-terrorism” laws and other oppressive tactics. Discussion focused on recent events in the U.S. and El Salvador. Includes an excerpt from a previous program on the “Greenscare”, featuring Maureen Block and Logan Perkins, produced by Carolyn Coe.

Powerful Peace Special 6/26/07

Producer/host: Sonia Turanski

Topic:  The Future of Religion, a one-hour live discussion with audience phone-in question.

Guests: Cliff Guthrie   Cliff Guthrie was ordained as a Methodist minister, but has moved away from that role into teaching religious studies at Husson College and Bangor Theological Seminary.  Some of his major interests include the academic study of religion, religion and the cognitive sciences, and religion in film.  Cliff is currently working on an article about the future of religion in Maine.
Dana Sawyer   Dana Sawyer teaches world religion classes at BTS and religion and philosophy classes at Maine College of Art in Portland. Some of his major interests include Hinduism, Buddhism, the Perennial Philosophy, and mysticism.  Dana is the author of a biography of Aldus Huxley, and is currently working on a biography of one of the foremost scholars of world religions, Huston Smith.
Rabbi Darah Lerner   Darah Lerner is the Rabbi of Congregation Beth El in Bangor, and will round out our panel of experts.  As a female ordained in one of the oldest prominent religions, Rabbi Lerner will bring a voice that speaks to the valuable and unchanging traditions of Judaism, as well as providing a personal example of Judaism’s ability to evolve.

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