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Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Topics: Final segment of the Don Pablo Alvarenga series.  Don Pablo Alvarenga is a historian in the town of Cinquera, Cabañas, El Salvador.  In this final segment he talks about some of the issues facing El Salvador’s people today.  Recorded January 2007.  Translated by Jesse Dyer Stewart
Also, Cathy Mink of Waldo County gives an update on efforts to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney (www.maineimpeach.org)

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Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
Guest producer: Carolyn Coe
Topics: The Reversing Falls Church in Brooksville, Maine’s tribute to Rachel Corrie (www.rachelcorrie.org) on the anniversary of her death earlier this month.  Corrie was killed in Gaza as she tried to help protect a Palestinian family whose home was about to be bulldozed.   She was 23 years old.  Also, an announcement about the 2nd annual Sustainable Food Conference coming up this weekend in Unity

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Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Topic: An interview with Orin Langelle of the Global Justice Ecology Project about the recent World Social Forum and efforts to prevent the promotion of genetically engineered trees for biofuels.

FMI: [email protected], www.globaljusticeecology.org, biojustice2007.org, biodev.org

NOTE: The Water Commons Symposium announced on RadioActive has been postponed until June

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Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topic: Lobstermen oppose LD170 — background and discussion of the related issues

Note:  The Marine Resources Committee voted 10-0 yesterday against sending the bill to the full state legislature

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Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Topics: A recap of yesterdays’ arrests of Penobscot Bay Occupation Project peace activists at Senator Susan Collins office in Bangor, along with Collin’s statement on Iran and the reaction of the activists; An interview with Daphne Loring of the Maine Fair Trade Campaign (www.mainefairtrade.org) regarding the proposed legislation called The Informed Growth Act, which aims to help communities evaluate the potential impacts of big box type development on their towns.

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Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Topics:  A representative from Red de Defensores, a network of indigenous human rights workers from Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico will be in the area on a speaking tour soon.  Manuel Mendez Guzman will talk about communities confronting globalization.  Today we talk with Nancy Hill, a local woman who has worked with the group and traveled to the area several times.  And the State Childrens Health Insurance program (SCHIP), which serves low-income children has come under threat due to budget cuts.  We talk with Anna Hicks, policy analyst at Maine Equal Justice Partners (www.mejp.org)

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Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topics: Interview with Richard Paget and Abby McMillan, two local activists working on efforts to impeach Bush and Cheney (www.maineimpeach.org); and an interview with Zachary Heiden, Staff Attorney for the Maine Civil Liberties Union, regarding the Verizon case (www.mclu.org)

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Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topic: An interview with Bonnie Preston, an area resident who recently returned from Venezuela, about the social and economic conditions she observed in that country.

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