Donate to WERU Today!Host/Producer: Amy Browne
Diana Merenda and Betsy Armstrong from Maine Voices for Palestinian Peace talk about the award-winning, critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated film No Other Land. Despite the honors the film is receiving, US film companies have avoided picking up the film for distribution, but it will be shown at the Alamo, tomorrow night.
No Other Land, a story of the complex bonds between a Palestinian activist & Israeli journalist during Israeli expulsions in the West Bank.
Thursday, February 27, 6 pm (doors open 530)
Alamo Theatre, 85 Main Street
FMI:
www.972mag.com/no-other-land-oscars-masafer-yatta-erasure/
www.mvprights.org/events
www.coalitionforpalestine.me/
www.oldfilm.org/alamo-theatre
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/movies/no-other-land-oscars.html
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
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