RadioActive 9/06/07

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco, Amy Browne, Carolyn Coe

Topic: Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney speaking at a peace rally in Kennebunkport, Maine on the weekend of August 25th-26th.  The rally was the largest in the town’s history.  Also speaking at the rally was Colonel Ann Wright.  Wright visited Deer Isle, Maine after the rally to speak with residents in this area.  Carolyn Coe recorded/produced today’s audio from the rally, as well as a conversation between local peace activist Pat Wheeler and Colonel Ann Wright in Deer Isle.

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RadioActive 8/30/07

Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Topic: Rising Tide North America, confronting root causes of climate change

Guest: Storm Waters

“Rising Tide is an international network born out of the conviction that corporate-friendly and state-sponsored ‘solutions’ to climate change will not save us. As a matter of survival, we must decrease our dependence on the industries and institutions that are destroying the planet and work toward community autonomy and sustainable living.”

FMI: www.risingtidenorthamerica.org

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RadioActive Special: Criminalization of Dissent 8/28/07

Producers/hosts: Amy Browne, Meredith DeFrancesco and Carolyn Coe

Guests: Storm Waters and Mark Rosenthal

Topic: A call in show on the criminalization of dissent through use of “anti-terrorism” laws and other oppressive tactics. Discussion focused on recent events in the U.S. and El Salvador. Includes an excerpt from a previous program on the “Greenscare”, featuring Maureen Block and Logan Perkins, produced by Carolyn Coe.

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RadioActive 8/23/07

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topic: This week as Presidents Calderon (Mexico) and Bush, and Premier Harper (Canada) met in Montebello, Quebec, Canada, many unions, organizations and others gathered to protest the “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America” (SPP). Today we talk with Stuart Trew of the Council of Canadians and learn what the SPP is, how it impacts trade and “homeland security” practices and why corporations and those in power favor it while there is widespread popular opposition. We’ll also hear about the use of agents provocateurs at the protest.

FMI: www.canadians.org, www.integratethis.org

To view the video of protesters exposing the agents provocateurs in their midst, go to this YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1-WTc1kow

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RadioActive 7/26/07

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topic: An interview with Bo Lozoff, author and co-director of the Prison-Ashram Project and co-founder, with his wife Sita, of the Human Kindness Foundation. Some of his books include: We’re All Doing Time, now in it’s thirteenth printing, and the recent It’s A Meaningful Life—It Just Takes Practice He will be speaking at several locations in this area in upcoming days.

FMI: www.humankindness.org Direct link to schedule of appearances: www.humankindness.org/events.html

Also: Volunteers for Hancock (County) Jail Residents, www.jailvolunteers.org

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