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Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

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Producer/host: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topic: Climate change initiative

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Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Topics: An interview with local activist Hillary Lister about the situation with incinerating “construction and demolition debris” and out of state waste in Maine, as well as an update from Hillary, and from attorney Phil Worden, about trends for sentencing activists who engage in civil disobedience in Maine.

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Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topic/guest: Ron Huber, Executive Director of Penobscot Bay Watch (www.penbay.org) and long time activist involved in Sears Island protection efforts, gives his perspective on where things stand presently for the 941 acre uninhabited island.

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Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Topic: An interview with Frida Berrigan on steps being taken to draw attention the prisoners being held indefinitely at Guantanamo

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Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topic: Local human rights activist and journalist Sean Donahue recently returned from Oaxaca, Mexico—he describes the situation there.

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Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Topics: Maine union members and others engage in a Day of Solidarity Action with workers at Good Year Tire plants across the country–who have been on strike for 3 months; Local organizing to impeach Bush and Cheney

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Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Guests: Lynne Williams and Lauren ReganTopic: “Greenscare” –an interview with attorneys Lauren Regan and Lynne Williams. Lauren Regan is the Director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center based in Eugene, Oregon. She has been a consulting attorney for the Green Scare cases. She is also the attorney for Jeffrey “Free” Luers. Lynne Williams is on the Executive Board of the National Lawyers Guild. She works on 1st Amendment and Civil Liberties cases representing protesters and environmental activists

What is “Greenscare” ? How is the term “terrorism” being used to increase penalties for certain crimes that already carry stiff penalties? What is the status of the “Greenscare” defendants?

FMI: Civil Liberties Defense Center, www.cldc.org; Lynne Williams, 207-288-8484

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