Let’s Talk About It 7/12/24

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production Assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: Jackie Lee McLean

Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse

He strangled her, tried to smother her, forced her at gunpoint to take a bottle of sleeping pills and a judge lowered his bail so he could be released from custody.

Topics:
1. Domestic violence murder hidden as suicide
2. Puffball sentencing of domestic abusers
3. Reckless Maine judges

Guest:
Anonymous

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grass roots survivor-powered non profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse one conversation and community at a time all across Maine.

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BoatTalk 7/9/24

Producers/Hosts: Alan Sprague & Jon Johansen
Engineers: Pepin Mittelhauser, Matt Murphy

BoatTalk is the call-in show for people contemplating all things naval.

About the hosts:
Alan Sprague is a retired boat carpenter and a volunteer at WERU for over thirty years. He and the late Mike Joyce started Boattalk in 2003 and Alan carries on.

Jon Johansen is the editor and roving reporter for the Maine Coastal News. He is Chairman of the Board of the Penobscot Marine Museum, President of Maine Built Boats, President of Maine Lobster Boat Racing, and Director of the International Maritime Library in his spare time.

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The Maine Monitor Radio Hour 7/4/24

Producer/host: Amy Browne

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.  

Deputy Editor Stephanie McFeeters was joined today by reporters Josh Keefe and Rose Lundy for a discussion of their recent work, including the articles linked below (in the FMI section).

FMI:

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Outside the Box 7/2/24: “A Better Economy”

Producer/Host: Larry Dansinger

About the host:
Larry Dansinger (no pronouns) of Bangor came to Maine in 1974 and has been here ever since. Some of Larry’s activities since then: Done community organizing on numerous issues through INVERT and then Resources for Organizing and Social Change (ROSC), committed civil disobedience several times, grown a garden yearly since 1977, joined various food cooperatives and two men’s groups, refused to pay federal income taxes for war, lived on a community land trust for 23 years, and met a wonderful partner whom Larry has loved for over 40 years. Larry has produced Outside the Box features on WERU since 2007 and continues to look for unique ways of seeing almost any problem or situation.

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Coastal Conversations 6/28/24: Swans Urchin’s

Producer/Host: Tiegan Paulson, production assistant
Additional credits: Thank you to Olivia Jolley, for finding interviewees and providing archival materials from the Swan’s Island Historical Society. Thank you to Galen Koch for editing and production assistance. Thanks to Natalie Springuel for production assistance.

Coastal Conversations: Conversations with people who live, work, and play on the Maine coast, hosted by the University of Maine Sea Grant Program.

This month:

At the turn of the century Mainers up and down the coast were caught up in a rush for green gold. The green sea urchin fishery had grown incredibly lucrative. Communities like Swan’s Island saw people from all over the world showing up to dive, cull, and tend. These are the recollections of three of those people.

Guest/s:
Howard Dentremont – Urchin diver
Jason Matthews – Urchin diver
Jerry Smith – Captain of an urchin boat

About the hosts:

Natalie Springuel has hosted Coastal Conversation’s since 2015, with support from the University of Maine Sea Grant where she has served as a marine extension associate for 20 years. In 2019, Springuel received an award for Public Affairs programming from the Maine Association of Broadcasters for the Coastal Conversations show called “Portland’s Working Waterfront.” Springuel is passionate about translating science, sharing stories, and offering a platform for multiple voices to weigh in on complex coastal and ocean issues. She has recently enrolled in audio production training at Maine Media Workshop to dive deeper into making great community radio.

Catherine Devine is the recipient of the 2023-2024 Cathy and Jim Gero Acadia Early Career Fellowship in Science Communication at Schoodic Institute. She is the producer of season 2 of Schoodic’s Sea to Trees podcast and a graduate of New York University.

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Climate & Community 6/27/24: Heat Waves & Cooling Centers

Host: Brianna Cunliffe

Description: Climate & Community covers June’s record-breaking heat wave that brought sweltering temperatures to Maine communities, giving us a taste of climate impacts to come, and challenging a state where peoples’ bodies and communities’ infrastructure is unprepared for climbing temperatures. We discuss how several towns across the state are leveraging climate resilience funding to create cooling centers or other places of refuge to help the most vulnerable among us cope with these impacts. To find a cooling center near you, visit: www.maine.gov/mema/response-recovery/mass-care.

Johannah, Brianna, Tanvi, Gus, Corey, and Beth are the team at A Climate to Thrive, a nonprofit working to build a model of community-driven, solutions-focused climate action. Since its origins around a potluck table as concerned neighbors gathered to take action on climate change, A Climate to Thrive, or ACTT, has been supporting solutions on Mount Desert Island and beyond since 2016. Learn more at www.aclimatetothrive.org.

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World Ocean Radio 6/26/24: An Ocean Literacy Declaration

Host: Peter Neill
Producer: Trisha Badger

ABOUT THIS EPISODE
World Ocean Observatory is ever in search of new systems that convert knowledge into action, especially as they relate to ocean education and communication. Here on World Ocean Radio we often discuss the concepts and principles of ocean literacy, and the ways in which they can be distilled into learning opportunities for educators and students everywhere. We are pleased to report a prospective turning point in the ocean literacy movement: concepts that have been articulated into a new report out of the first Ocean Literacy World Conference held in Venice, Italy 7-8 June, 2024.

WORLD OCEAN RADIO
5-minute weekly insights dive into ocean science, advocacy and education hosted by Peter Neill, lifelong ocean advocate and maritime expert. A catalog of more than 700 episodes offer perspectives on global ocean issues and viable solutions, and celebrate exemplary projects. Available for RSS feed and for broadcast by college and community radio stations worldwide. You will also find this week’s World Ocean Radio episode at Exchange.prx.org, at Audioport.org, WorldOceanObservatory.org where the full catalog of episodes is searchable by theme, and wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Around Town 6/26/24: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

BUILDING HOPE, a documentary on homelessness by locally-based filmmakers Kane-Lewis Productions, will debut this weekend in Castine, followed by a discussion with a panel of experts working on addressing the issue.

Co-producer Melody Lewis-Kane and Cullen Ryan, Director of Community Housing of Maine, are here with the details.

About the host:
Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021.

Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License

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