A People’s Almanac 11/12/12

Producer/Host: Meaghan LaSala

This week, A People’s Almanac features the first “sit down” strike in the US, the second national Moratorium against the Vietnam war, obscenity trials for Radclyffe Hall’s classic lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness, the end of South Africa’s apartheid and an article by Lewis H Douglass condemning President McKinley for US imperialism, racial hypocrisy and the American-Philippine war.

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Talk of the Towns 11/9/12

Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Engineer: Amy Browne

Program Topic: A Midwife’s Letters from the “land of the children” an interview with Linda Robinson, Women’s Health Center, Bar Harbor and author of Sunday Morning, Shamwana

Key Discussion Points:
a) How did you come to seek a year with Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Engineer: Amy Browne
?
b) What was your basic assignment? What was the situation that Doctors without Borders was attempting to address? How did this relate to the overall political situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo?
c) You describe your weekly email’s home, to a network of family and friends as kind of a lifeline—say more about how that came about and how you nurtured that lifeline.
d) Describe the village of Shamwana and your compound
e) Short reading that conveys key challenges you faced in providing care
f) Short reading that conveys when you felt the best about your work and that of other team members
g) When did you decide that you wanted to take your emails from Shamwana, and your journal, and create a book?
h) You had some false starts before you decided on publishing the book yourself?
Once you decided on self-publication, what was the process?
i) If others are considering self-publication, what questions should they ask themselves?
Now that the book is published, you are free to continue to write the story of your life … what comes next?
j) Contact information for purchasing book and public readings/signings

Guest: Linda Robinson, Women’s Health Center, Bar Harbor and author of Sunday Morning, Shamwana

Call In Program: Yes

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RadioActive 11/8/12

Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco

Program Topic: Historical look at solar power in US, with the director of Maine Solar Energy Association

Key Discussion Points:
a) As so called Super Storm Sandy illustrates the impacts of climate change on the gathering intensity of weather patterns, we look towards on the ground solutions.
b) Today, we look at some of the history of solar power in the United States, through the experiences of Maine Solar Energy Association director Rich Komp.
c) We touch on the cuts to government funding for solar research and development and implementation during the Reagan administration, and the role of big oil in suppressing solar companies.

Guest: Dr. Richard Komp, director of Maine Solar Energy Association www.mainesolar.org

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