Archives for Specials

Producer/host: Sonia Turanski

Topic: “Women in World Religions: Discrimination, Liberation & Backlash”, a recorded speech by Professor Rosemary Radford Ruether, Feminist Theologian

Differing treatment of women in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. Comparitive areas of discrimination for women in the world religions.
Comparitive areas of advancement for women in the world religions.

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Producer: Eric Olson
Recorded at the Good Life Center in Harborside, Maine, June 2006

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Candidates Debate, part 2 (aired on Women’s Window 11/5/06)

U.S. Senate candidates debate held at Colby College in October 2006 and recorded by Marge May. (Part 1 aired on Weekend Voices 11/5/06)

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Brooksville artist Robert Shetterly interviews journalist Hal Crowther, one of the “Americans Who Tell the Truth” in Shetterly’s portrait series (FMI about the portrait series: www.americanswhotellthetruth.org)

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Elections Call In
Host: Jill Goldthwait
An open forum for all candidates and their supporters and/or opponents to call in live and express their opinions.

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Dahr Jamail speaking in Maine
Producer: Carolyn Coe

From www.dahrjamailiraq.com:

In late 2003, weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people and US soldiers, Dahr Jamail went to Iraq to report on the war himself.His dispatches were quickly recognized as an important media resource. He is now writing for the Inter Press Service, The Asia Times and many other outlets. His reports have also been published with The Nation, The Sunday Herald, Islam Online, the Guardian and the Independent to name just a few. Dahr’s dispatches and hard news stories have been translated into French, Polish, German, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic and Turkish. On radio as well as television, Dahr reports for Democracy Now!, the BBC, and numerous other stations around the globe. Dahr is also special correspondent for Flashpoints.

Dahr has spent a total of 8 months in occupied Iraq as one of only a few independent US journalists in the country. In the MidEast, Dahr has also has reported from Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.
For more information, and for Dahr Jamail’s MidEast Dispatches:
www.dahrjamailiraq.com/

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Host: Jill Goldthwait
Candidates and supporters called in to share their messages

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Producer/host: Meredith DeFrancesco
Interviews with several people concerned that the chemicals sprayed on Maine’s blueberries pose a public health risk
Guest: Bob Jones, Maine Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides ([email protected], 207-664-6190); Shelly Davis, Farm Worker Justice, one of the litigants in the United Farmworker lawsuit against the EPA; Dr. Mike Roland, Medical Director of the Maine Migrant Health program and a participant in the EPAs Migrant Clinician Network; Jody Spear, activist with Citizens for Reform of Pesticide Spraying (CROPS) ([email protected]); Jane Lynch, organic blueberry grower

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