Archives for Specials

WERU Special: Winona LaDuke 2/7/13

Producer/Host: Meaghan LaSala

Winona LaDuke: Environmental Justice from a Native Perspective
Donna M. Loring Lecture Series
November 8, 2012 at the University of Southern Maine

Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe) is an internationally acclaimed author, orator and activist. LaDuke has devoted her life to protecting the lands and life ways of Native communities. She is the Co-Director of Honor the Earth, a national advocacy group encouraging public support and funding for native environmental groups.

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Common Ground Fair Keynote: Jay Feldman 9/22/12

Unedited. Recorded by Matt Murphy

FMI: www.mofga.org , www.beyondpesticides.org/

From the MOFGA website: “For more than three decades, Jay Feldman has been hammering away at the likes of Monsanto, Scotts Miracle-Gro, Dow, Dupont, Bayer, Syngenta and pesticides industry lobby groups such as the misleadingly named RISE (Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment).

Feldman cofounded the advocacy organization Beyond Pesticides and has been its director since 1981. Like MOFGA, Feldman seeks a transition to a world free of toxic pesticides. Under his leadership, Beyond Pesticides maintains a well-organized, national network of allies who pressure the chemical industry, raise awareness among the general public, and promote safer alternatives to synthetic pesticides. The organization’s primary goal is to effect change through local action, helping individuals and community-based organizations stimulate discussion on the hazards of toxic pesticides while providing information on safer alternatives.

Many of us in Maine will appreciate the fundamental belief that Feldman shares with communities threatened by pesticide pollution: People must have a voice in decisions that affect them directly. Decisions should not be made for us by chemical companies or by decision makers who either do not have all of the facts or refuse to consider them.

In addition to Feldman’s commitment to Beyond Pesticides, he serves on the National Organic Standards Board, which makes recommendations to the USDA on policies regulating production and distribution of organic food and products.

2012 marks the 50th anniversary since the publication of Rachel Carson’s, Silent Spring. Please come hear Feldman’s thoughts about our country’s continued reliance on pesticides, and about how we can transition to a world independent of synthetic pesticides.”

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WERU Special: Great Works Dam Removal 6/15/12

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Program Topic: We take you to the banks of the Penobscot River in Bradley on Monday morning, where removal of the 200 year old Great Works Dam was about to get underway. You’ll hear the Penobscot Nation Chief, Representatives Mike Michaud and Chellie Pingree, US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and others, explaining the significance of the Penobscot River Restoration project.

Key Discussion Points:
a) Background on the dam removal
b) Reasons for removing the dam
c) Next steps in the Penobscot River Restoration Project

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WERU Special: East-West Highway/Corridor Controversy 5/31/12

Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: Joel Mann

Program Topic: The East-West Highway/Corridor Controversy
Key Discussion Points:
a) What information is being withheld from the public, and why?
b) What things that ARE known about the project are raising concerns?
c) Who stands to benefit?
d) Who stands to lose?

Guests:

Hillary Lister—she has followed the various incarnations of the East-West plans for the past decade, doing coverage for Maine Indymedia, and living in and growing up in the vicinity of the various proposed routes

Diane Messer–she has attended all of the legislative hearings, offering testimony at them, and has studied the impacts of the E/W proposal on the community

Organizer Chris Buchanan of “Defending Water for Life in Maine”, and journalist Lance Tapley, who has been covering this issue, also join us by phone.

We also invited proposal’s most vocal proponent, Cianbo CEO Peter Vigue to either join us or send someone in his place today, but he declined to do so. We’ll feature excerpts from an interview we recorded with him in early May.

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Healthy Options Special 5/29/12

Host: Cynthia Swan
Engineer: Amy Browne

Issue: Healing Lyme: Natural Healing & Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis & Its Co-infections

Program Topic: Lyme Disease
Key Discussion Points:
a) What is Lyme disease, how may it effect a person & how do people get this disease?
b) What is CD57 and why is it important people know about this?
c) What is necessary to successfully treat lyme disease and how is herbal medicine helpful?
d) What is your Herbal & Supplemental Core Protocol for treating Lyme and is it effective on its own to treat lyme ?

Guests:

STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER

Stephen Buhner is an Earth poet and an award-winning author who has written fifteen books on nature, indigenous cultures, the environment, and herbal medicine including the acclaimed book Healing Lyme: Natural Healing & Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis & Its Co-infections. Also a master herbalist and psychotherapist, Stephen resides in Vermont and New Mexico. His work has been profiled in The New York Times, CNN, Good Morning America and other media throughout North America and Europe. Since October 2006, Stephen has tirelessly answered hundreds of questions from those following his herbal protocol through his Q & A column.

His websites: gaianstudies.org –

Stephen Harrod Buhner ~ Healing Lyme herbal protocol

Q & A column with Stephen Harrod Buhner for his Healing Lyme: Natural Healing And Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis And Its Coinfections herbal protocol.

buhnerhealinglyme.com

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Noel Stookey on Saturday Morning Coffeehouse 5/26/12

Host: Jim Bahoosh
This hour of the “Saturday Morning Coffeehouse” featured a very special guest: Noel Stookey. Often referred to as the “Godfather of WERU”, Noel has been a great friend of Community Radio for over 24 years, even before the station began broadcasting. Noel talked about his soon to be released new CD and performed live in the studio.

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