Around Town 11/13/25: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

Indivisible Bangor is looking for volunteers to help with their Saturday protests at Home Depot.
Contact Indivisible Bangor for more information and/or to volunteer
FMI/background:
Home Depot keeps quiet on immigration raids outside its doors (8/19) NPR
As ICE Targets Home Depot Stores, Advocates Say Company Is Failing To Protect Day Laborers (10/31) Block Club Chicago (non-profit local news)
US: ICE Abuses in Los Angeles Set Stage for Other Cities (11/4) Human Rights Watch

Resources for Organizing and Social Change (ROSC) invite you to join them on your lunch break Monday, (12pm-1pm on zoom), for The ABC’s of undermining capitalism: Agitation, Base Building & Community Empowerment, a virtual discussion w/ Author & Organizer Roderick Douglass, author of Starting Somewhere: Community Organizing for Socially Awkward People Who’ve Had Enough
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The Maine Department of Marine Resources has published updated rules for the 2025-26 scallop season, for divers and draggers, and has moved the Scallop Management Areas Map to a new URL

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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