http://archives.weru.org Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill (weru.org) Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:14:24 +0000 en hourly 1 Copyright © WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives 2011 archives@weru.org (WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives) archives@weru.org (WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives) 1440 http://weru.org/sites/all/themes/marinelli/weru/img/WERU-podcast-small-20110628.png http://archives.weru.org 144 144 Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, ME 99.9 Bangor (weru.org) WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives archives@weru.org no no http://archives.weru.org/weru-news-report/weru-news-report-61511 http://archives.weru.org/weru-news-report/weru-news-report-61511#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:00:13 +0000 Community Radio WERU FM http://archives.weru.org/?p=7685 http://archives.weru.org/weru-news-report/weru-news-report-61511/feed 0 0:29:57 Producer/Host: Amy Browne Contributing Producer: Carolyn Coe with assistance from Lindsey Saunders Segment 1: An interview with Lisa Savage, CODEPINK Maine Local Coordinator, about the upcoming annual mayor’s conference where a resolution will[...] Producer/Host: Amy Browne Contributing Producer: Carolyn Coe with assistance from Lindsey Saunders Segment 1: An interview with Lisa Savage, CODEPINK Maine Local Coordinator, about the upcoming annual mayor’s conference where a resolution will be considered that calls for Congress to “bring our war dollars home” to be spent on local community needs. Lisa will attend and report back to WERU next week. She will also be the contact person for a Mainer who will be on the next humanitarian aid flotilla to Gaza at the end of June. “The Audacity of Hope” flotilla sets sail 13 months after the Israelis stormed a similar flotilla and killed several activists. Lisa Savage will also follow up with us over the next few weeks re: their progress. FMI: http://www.codepink4peace.org/section.php?id=429 Segment 2: When transnational mining companies discovered coal and moved into the department of Cesar, Colombia, paramilitaries also arrived. Local rivers have become contaminated, people and animals are getting sick, and social problems have worsened in the city of La Jagua and neighboring communities. Area leaders discuss the impacts of the coal mining on their communities. Speakers: Dioselina Carvajal Saravia, victim of paramilitary violence Adanies Quintero, representative from agriculture sector Ricardo Machado, union member, welder for Carbones de la Jagua (a Glencore mine) Ana Marquez Martinez, police inspector, Boqueron Oswaldo Aguilar Mejia, former univ. professor and member of local AfroColombian association, La Jagua Jaime Giraldo Duque, president of the displaced persons association, La Jagua Of note: According to US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, the US-based Drummond Company paid paramilitaries for protection of its Colombian mining operations. http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/14935-us-coal-firm-drummond-paid-paramilitaries-wikileaks.html Glencore, another transnational operating in the area, is about to sell publicly on the London exchange. archives@weru.org no no http://archives.weru.org/weru-news-report/weru-news-report-41211 http://archives.weru.org/weru-news-report/weru-news-report-41211#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:00:59 +0000 Community Radio WERU FM http://archives.weru.org/?p=7457 http://archives.weru.org/weru-news-report/weru-news-report-41211/feed 0 0:29:24 Producer/Host: Amy Browne Contributor: Carolyn Coe Segment 1: The Senate Judiciary Committee held a public hearing this afternoon on LD 1046 “An Act To Amend the Application of the Maine Human Rights Act Regarding Public Accommodations”[...] Producer/Host: Amy Browne Contributor: Carolyn Coe Segment 1: The Senate Judiciary Committee held a public hearing this afternoon on LD 1046 “An Act To Amend the Application of the Maine Human Rights Act Regarding Public Accommodations”, sponsored by Representative Kenneth Fredette. The group “EqualityMaine” is among those opposing the proposed legislation. They say it chips away protections under the Maine Human Rights Act. Here is some of the testimony heard by the committee this afternoon. Segment 2: AntiWar rallies were held in New York & San Francisco– as well as here in Bangor, Maine on Saturday. The rallies in New York and San Francisco were organized by the United National Antiwar Committee, and endorsed by hundreds of other peace and human rights groups, and were held in conjunction with demostrations being held in the middle east, also calling for peace. One of the speakers in New York was (Ret.) Colonel Ann Wright — a peace activist, the subject of one of Robert Shetterly’s “Americans Who Tell the Truth” portraits, and participant in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla that was tragically raided by the Israeli military last year, resulting in several deaths. WERU’s Carolyn Coe recorded her speech, and spoke with her later, during the march. archives@weru.org no no http://archives.weru.org/voices/weekend-voices-7310 http://archives.weru.org/voices/weekend-voices-7310#comments Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:00:05 +0000 Community Radio WERU FM http://archives.weru.org/?p=6284 http://archives.weru.org/voices/weekend-voices-7310/feed 0 0:55:06 Producer/Host: Amy Browne Contributors: Carolyn Coe, Lawrence Reichard Segment 1:  Husam Zomlot and Ann Wright, speaking at the United for Justice with Peace strategy conference titled “Breaking the Siege of Gaza” on June 19,2010 in Camb[...] Producer/Host: Amy Browne Contributors: Carolyn Coe, Lawrence Reichard Segment 1:  Husam Zomlot and Ann Wright, speaking at the United for Justice with Peace strategy conference titled “Breaking the Siege of Gaza” on June 19,2010 in Cambridge, MA :  What are activists doing to build the movement and to end the seige of Gaza and U.S. support for the occupation of Palestine?  What was the experience of the passengers aboard the humanitarian flotilla raided by the Israeli navy?  Producer: Carolyn Coe Segment 2: Lawrence Reichard report on conditions in Honduras, on the 1 year anniversary of the coup. archives@weru.org no no http://archives.weru.org/radiosumpulelsalvador/u-s-el-salvador-report-61910 http://archives.weru.org/radiosumpulelsalvador/u-s-el-salvador-report-61910#comments Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:30:10 +0000 Community Radio WERU FM http://archives.weru.org/?p=6182 http://archives.weru.org/radiosumpulelsalvador/u-s-el-salvador-report-61910/feed 0 0:04:34 Producer/Host: Kathleen March, University of Maine Hello. This is Kathleen March.  Welcome to WERU’s US-EL Salvador report. This week we discuss the protests in San Salvador against Israel’s attack on the humanitarian aid ship headed to [...] Producer/Host: Kathleen March, University of Maine Hello. This is Kathleen March.  Welcome to WERU’s US-EL Salvador report. This week we discuss the protests in San Salvador against Israel’s attack on the humanitarian aid ship headed to Gaza.  The report is prepared by the University of Maine in collaboration with Radio Sumpul in El Salvador and US-El Salvador Sister Cities. El 4 de junio un grupo de simpatizantes del Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FLMN) protestó en San Salvador contra Israel por el asalto a una flota que llevaba ayuda humanitaria como alimentos y medicinas, rumbo a Gaza, causando por lo menos 9 muertos y decenas de heridos. Los manifestantes, convocados por un comité de solidaridad con el pueblo palestino y el FMLN, se concentraron frente a la legación diplomática israelí con carteles y gritos. “Estamos pidiendo el cese del cerco a la franja de Gaza y que se retomen inmediatamente las negociaciones por la paz establecidas en los diferentes instrumentos internacionales”, declaró el diputado del FMLN Jorge Schafick, quien ha pedido que la comunidad internacional exija de Israel una solución inmediata a la situación. Los manifestantes llevaban banderas palestinas y carteles con mensajes como: “Cese a la agresión contra los pueblos de Palestina” o “Terroristas israelíes fuera de los territorios del Líbano y Palestina”.  Schafick es hijo del fundador del FMLN, de origen palestino que murió en 2006.  Criticó el que el Parlamento salvadoreño no aprobara una iniciativa presentada por el FMLN y “otros diputados de origen palestino” sobre el tema. La Asamblea Legislativa ha afirmado que la comisión analizará la solicitud, para que el Parlamento exprese su “profunda indignación por la acción criminal de las Fuerzas de Defensa y Gobierno del Estado de Israel en contra de los integrantes de la flotilla de la Libertad”. Por lo menos nueve activistas de derechos humanos fallecieron durante el asalto de los militares israelíes, que tuvo lugar en la madrugada del 31 de mayo.  Cerca de 40 activistas internacionales y cinco soldados israelíes resultaron heridos. Israel mantiene un bloqueo marítimo contra la ciudad de Gaza como represalia contra la resistencia palestina, que lleva a cabo una justa lucha por la independencia, según el deseo de Yasser Arafat.  Raúl Martínez, del Comité de Solidaridad con Cuba, dijo que “repudiamos enérgicamente este acto criminal contra una embarcación humanitaria, cometido por el ejército y gobierno israelita, gobierno fascista que también apoya el bloqueo económico contra Cuba Socialista.”  Marlon Anzora, estudiante de la UCA (Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas), explicó que “estamos aquí para solidarizarnos con el sufrido pueblo palestino, para decirle que no está solo, que la conciencia del mundo repudia este atentado terrorista de Israel, somos pueblos hermanos en el dolor y la esperanza.” This has been Kathleen March with the WERU US-EL Salvador report. This week we discussed the protests in San Salvador against Israel’s attack on the humanitarian aid ship headed to Gaza.  The report was prepared by the University of Maine in collaboration with Radio Sumpul in El Salvador and US-El Salvador Sister Cities. RadioSumpul/ElSalvador archives@weru.org no no http://archives.weru.org/voices/voices-6110 http://archives.weru.org/voices/voices-6110#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:00:03 +0000 Community Radio WERU FM http://archives.weru.org/?p=6154 http://archives.weru.org/voices/voices-6110/feed 0 0:30:59 Producer/Host: Amy Browne Studio Engineer: Matt Murphy A special live call-in edition of “Voices”, with listener reactions to the Israelis attack on a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza. Producer/Host: Amy Browne Studio Engineer: Matt Murphy A special live call-in edition of “Voices”, with listener reactions to the Israelis attack on a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza. archives@weru.org no no http://archives.weru.org/radioactive/radioactive-11410 http://archives.weru.org/radioactive/radioactive-11410#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:00:41 +0000 Community Radio WERU FM http://archives.weru.org/?p=5525 http://archives.weru.org/radioactive/radioactive-11410/feed 0 0:30:38 Producer/Host: Amy Browne Today we’re joined by Tom Jackson, filmmaker, founder of Joe Public Films, and producer of the award-winning “Out of Balance”, “Greetings from Missile Street”, “Worlds Apart: 9-11 First R[...] Producer/Host: Amy Browne Today we’re joined by Tom Jackson, filmmaker, founder of Joe Public Films, and producer of the award-winning “Out of Balance”, “Greetings from Missile Street”, “Worlds Apart: 9-11 First Responders Against War”, and “Defending the Commons: Making Water a Commodity”   He has just returned from a trip to Gaza, where he taught Palestinian youth documentary filmmaking skills, American Friends Service Committee, and where he, and they, participated in the “Gaza Freedom March”. FMI: www.joepublicfilms.com RadioActive archives@weru.org no no http://archives.weru.org/voices/weekend-voices-72509 http://archives.weru.org/voices/weekend-voices-72509#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:00:38 +0000 Community Radio WERU FM http://archives.weru.org/?p=4802 http://archives.weru.org/voices/weekend-voices-72509/feed 0 0:57:50 Producer/Host: Amy Browne Contributors: Carolyn Coe, Eric T. Olson Segment 1: WERU volunteer Carolyn Coe visited Gaza in May & June, 2009 and has produced a series of reports on the conditions she witnessed. Today’s segment: The Qattan C[...] Producer/Host: Amy Browne Contributors: Carolyn Coe, Eric T. Olson Segment 1: WERU volunteer Carolyn Coe visited Gaza in May & June, 2009 and has produced a series of reports on the conditions she witnessed. Today’s segment: The Qattan Centre for the Child in Gaza City, a library serving children under age 15. What cultural centers exist for the people of Gaza? What is the role of the arts in meeting the psychosocial needs of traumatized children? How does the continued seige of Gaza affect daily life for Palestinians there? Guests: Reem Abu Jaber, Director, El Qattan Centre for the Child, and screaming (happy) children Segment 2: Writing Socialist History. a talk by Professor David Roediger, Kendrick Babcock Chair of History and Afro-American Studes at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. (Speaker is introduced by Prof. Nathan Godfried of the University of Maine.) What are effective approaches in conducting interviews for biographical works? How did radical activists of the twentieth century view their struggles from the perspective of their later lives? Why is it important to record the life stories of the radical activists of the twentieth century? Recorded/produced by WERU volunteer Eric T. Olson. This lecture was part of the Spring 2009 Controversy Series at the University of Maine archives@weru.org no no http://archives.weru.org/voices/weekend-voices-70409 http://archives.weru.org/voices/weekend-voices-70409#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:00:06 +0000 Community Radio WERU FM http://archives.weru.org/?p=4750 http://archives.weru.org/voices/weekend-voices-70409/feed 0 0:55:48 Producer/Host: Amy Browne Contributors: Dave Evans, Carolyn Coe Segment 1: The new Deer Isle Hostel, FMI: www.deerislehostel.com Segment 2: International Solidarity Movement activists in Gaza. FMI: palestinianprisoners.blogspot.com; YouTube videos p[...] Producer/Host: Amy Browne Contributors: Dave Evans, Carolyn Coe Segment 1: The new Deer Isle Hostel, FMI: www.deerislehostel.com Segment 2: International Solidarity Movement activists in Gaza. FMI: palestinianprisoners.blogspot.com; YouTube videos posted by Ya9ni; fishingunderfire.blogspot.com; farmingunderfire.blogspot.com; palsolidarity.org archives@weru.org no no http://archives.weru.org/voices/weekend-voices-62009 http://archives.weru.org/voices/weekend-voices-62009#comments Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:00:34 +0000 Community Radio WERU FM http://archives.weru.org/?p=4684 http://archives.weru.org/voices/weekend-voices-62009/feed 0 0:59:20 Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne Contributing Producer: Carolyn Coe Topic: Carolyn Coe reports back from her recent trip to Gaza with CodePink Segment 1: Conversation with Um Khaled. Her son Ahmed interprets. She describes her experience living[...] Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne Contributing Producer: Carolyn Coe Topic: Carolyn Coe reports back from her recent trip to Gaza with CodePink Segment 1: Conversation with Um Khaled. Her son Ahmed interprets. She describes her experience living with the Israeli blockade, her hopes for her sons, and the contrast between life in Gaza and other places where she has lived. Segment 2: A woman’s story of living through the Israeli attacks during the “last war” and a call for the borders to open, with Nisreen Hisham AlBorno, Director of the National Center for Community Rehabilitation and John Ging, Director of UNRWA’s operations in Gaza. archives@weru.org no no http://archives.weru.org/voices/weekend-voices-11709 http://archives.weru.org/voices/weekend-voices-11709#comments Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:00:05 +0000 Community Radio WERU FM http://archives.weru.org/?p=3957 http://archives.weru.org/voices/weekend-voices-11709/feed 0 0:56:45 Producer/Host: Amy Browne Contributing Producers: Carolyn Coe, Isatou Jobarteh Topics: We talk with 2 women from the US (Kathy Kelly and Audrey Stewart) who traveled to Gaza last week in hopes of telling the stories the mainstream corporate media ar[...] Producer/Host: Amy Browne Contributing Producers: Carolyn Coe, Isatou Jobarteh Topics: We talk with 2 women from the US (Kathy Kelly and Audrey Stewart) who traveled to Gaza last week in hopes of telling the stories the mainstream corporate media are ignoring about the attack on Palestine, Carolyn Coe talks with an Iraqi family that has been forced to take refuge in Syria, and Isatou Jobarteh brings us some of the news from West Africa. FMI: Kathy Kelly,  (Voices for Creative Non-Violence, http://vcnv.org/)  &  Audrey Stewart, (Loyola Law Clinic), will be posting reports on http://electronicintifada.net/ and http://www.counterpunch.org/ . Direct Aid Iraq: http://www.directaidiraq.org/ archives@weru.org no no http://archives.weru.org/radioactive/radioactive-1809 http://archives.weru.org/radioactive/radioactive-1809#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:00:46 +0000 Community Radio WERU FM http://archives.weru.org/?p=3927 http://archives.weru.org/radioactive/radioactive-1809/feed 0 0:29:08 Producers/Hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco Topic: 3 perspectives on Israel’s assault on Gaza, with Molly Little, Frida Berrigan & Bruce Gagnon Segment 1: Molly Little.   In 2005, Molly Little spent three months in Israel and the West B[...] Producers/Hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco Topic: 3 perspectives on Israel’s assault on Gaza, with Molly Little, Frida Berrigan & Bruce Gagnon Segment 1: Molly Little.   In 2005, Molly Little spent three months in Israel and the West Bank, conducting interviews with Israeli peace activists, members of an Israeli kibbutz, employees of the Israeli Knesset, and people from a wide range of Palestinian society, including students, farmers, political activists, artists, public officials, teachers, and health care providers. Her articles and op-eds have appeared in Lefthook, The Providence Journal-Bulletin, The Palestine Monitor, Portland Indy Media and elsewhere.  She’ll be giving a talk next week in Bath, called “American Witness in Palestine: Roots and Realities”. (Friday, January 16 at 7:00 pm, Addams-Melman House,212 Center Street, Bath, ME) We spoke with Molly Little by phone from her home in Whitefield, Maine earlier today: Segment 2: “War In Gaza, Weapons From the USA”, Frida Berrigan, Senior Program Associate of the “Arms and Security Initiative” at the New America Foundation, columnist for “Foreign Policy in Focus”, and a contributing editor of In These Times magazine. She is also the author of several reports on arms trade and human rights, and will talk with us today about the ties between the US and Israel.  FMI: Frida Berrigan, berrigan@newamerica.net, 212-431-5808 ext 200 Segment 3: Bruce Gagnon, a long-time organizer, currently based in Maine, for his perspective on the Peace & Justice communities response to the situation in Gaza. FMI: http://space4peace.blogspot.com/ RadioActive archives@weru.org no no