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Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Topic: Maine Earth First!

What is Earth First!  What issues are Maine Earth First!ers currently working on?  How can people get involved with the Earth First! movement in Maine?

Guests: Ryan Clarke and Storm Waters

FMI:  [email protected] or [email protected]

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Producers/Hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Audio Contributed by: Adam Lacher
Segment 1: The struggles and violent repression of Honduran civil society during their work for constitutional reform and the restoration of President Zelaya are being supported internationally at the civil society level. A place of particular support is from the social movement in neighboring El Salvador. Rosa Centeno Valle, the national director of CRIPDES, a network of over 350 organized communities in El Salvador, speaks about the need for international solidarity. FMI: www.CRIPDES.net www.elsalavdorsolidarity.org
Disaster Relief Website: www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/doc106?openForm&rc=2&cc=slv&po=0&so=63
Segment 2: The Maine Green Independent Party held an Issues Forum in Belfast on October 25th, featuring their candidate for Governor, Lynne Williams. Today we bring you an excerpt of her talk in which she focused on the issue of who owns Maine’s water

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Producers/Hosts: Amy Browne, Meredith DeFrancesco
Audio contributed by: John Greenman, Adam Lacher
Topic: Mainers Calling for Healthcare Reform
Segment 1: Claire Mortimer, Family Nurse Practioner, speaking at a workshop sponsored by the Maine Green Independent Party, in Belfast, 10/24/09 (FMI: www.mainegreens.org)
Segment 2: Kathy Missal, of MoveOn’s Maine Chapter, speaking outside Senator Olympia Snowe’s office, Bangor, 10/28/09 (FMI: www.moveon.org)

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Producers/Hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco & Amy Browne
Segment 1: Legislation to address abuses of solitary confinement in Maine’s prisons submitted by Rep. Jim Schatz (Blue Hill)
Segment 2: Mainers speaking out against the war in Afghanistan–an upcoming rally in Boston, 10/17/09

After talking with constituents concerned about the abuses of solitary confinement in Maine’s prison system, Jim Schatz, the State Representative for Blue Hill, Brooksville, Castine, Penobscot, Sedgwick and Surry, working with the Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition has submitted legislation to address the issue. Representative Schatz is a member of the Legislature’s Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, has a Masters degree in correctional administration, and has taught courses at the University of Colorado in treatment of offenders.
His proposed legislation reads, in part: “[W]hile imprisonment is an accepted punishment for criminal law violations, all persons in state custody are entitled to humane treatment. Solitary confinement is an extreme administrative sanction with the potential to cause severe harm to life and health, particularly for people with mental and physical illnesses and disabilities. Therefore, prolonged solitary confinement shall only be imposed under the most extreme circumstances, when no lesser restraints on liberty are sufficient to achieve its specified limited purposes. Furthermore, its imposition shall be grounded on careful findings of fact, determined in fair proceedings, frequently reviewed and monitored.” , and outlines specific conditions and limitations for it’s use.
Next Thursday, October 15th, leaders in the state legislature will decide if they will allow the bill to be heard in the next session.
FMI
www.daapspace.daap.uc.edu/~murphyd4/prisonjustice/index.html (Includes a link to the proposed legislation)
www.afsc.org/stopmax/ht/d/ContentDetails/i/33477
www.mainepac.org

Lisa Savage of CODEPINK’s Maine Chapter with information about an upcoming rally to end the war in Afghanistan. FMI: www.codepink4peace.org/groups.php?area=20

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Producers/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco & Amy Browne
Topic: Members of the Maine Fair Trade Delegation, Daphne Loring and Stephan Donnell report back from the G20 protests in Pittsburgh last week.
FMI: www.mainefairtrade.org

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Producers/Hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
Topics: Mainers protest as LURC approves Plum Creek’s plan for the largest development in the state’s history, and a report-back from the Climate Change meetings taking place at the U.N. this week. We talk with Dr. Rachel Smolker, an organizer with Climate SOS and the CoDirector of Biofuel Watch. She has been in New York this week, monitoring the meetings, along with members of Rising Tide North America.
FMI: www.climatesos.org/ www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/wordpress/what-is-rising-tide/

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Producers/Hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco & Amy Browne
Segment 1: An interview with Bolivian water rights activist Marcela Olivera
Segment 2: We speak with PoeTree — currently touring Maine with their show “Hurricane Season”.
FMI: www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water www.hurricaneseasontour.com/ and www.defendingwaterinmaine.org

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