Archives for Specials

WERU Special 10/24/06: Dahr Jamail speaking in Maine

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/

WERU Special 8/31/06 Pesticides

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

Talking Furniture Greatest Hits, VII (Part 3, Tracks 27-31)

by Dave Piszcz, aka Radio Jones

“The indigenous satirist must make use of the materials at hand within the immediate environment. In some places in the world, people build houses of sticks plastered with muck or even cow dung. Fortunately, the vast American socio-political landscape provides a wealth of manure which can be sculpted into the wattle-and-daub audio artwork contained herein”

“Thanks for your ears. Your hearts and minds remain under your own guidance at all times. ILLEGITIMATI NON CARBORUNDUM!” –Radio Jones
Talking Furniture’s Greatest Hits, V. II. written, produced, directed and performed at Talking Furniture Studios, Searsmont, Maine, USA, PO Box 71, 04973

WERU Special 8/22/06 Peter Raven at COA

Peter Raven at College of the Atlantic
Producer: John Greenman

Time Magazine has called him a “Hero of the Planet” for his championing of conservation and biodiversity. But Dr. Peter Raven is a controversial figure among some conservationists. The long-time director of the Missouri Botanical Garden makes no excuses for the millions of dollars in grants he’s received from Monsanto for his biotechnology research. But none of this came up at a recent speech Dr. Raven gave to an invited audience at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor. Dr. Raven spoke eloquently and passionately about the need for humans, especially Americans, to use less, to be more conscious of the effects of their actions. Only at the very end of the hour-long power-point presentation, in a question and answer period, did the subject of genetically modified plants come up briefly.
For more information about Dr. Peter Raven, biodiversity, Genetic Modification and the Missouri Botanical Garden, go to www.mobot.org. And for an independent profile of Dr. Raven, you can visit gmwatch.org.

WERU Special: Bruce Gagnon’s Keynote at the Full Circle Fair on 7/23/06

Producer: Amy Browne
Topic: Bruce Gagnon is the Coordinator and co-founder of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, a long time activist, author and film maker. He organized the largest peace protest in Florida history in 1987 at the first test flight of the Trident II nuclear missile. 10 years later he organized the Cancel Cassini Campaign. Project Censored has twice named his stories among the most censored of the year (1999 and 2005). In 2005 his book Come Together Right Now: Organizing Stories from a Fading Empire was published. Gagnon’s work has been published in Earth Island Journal, National Catholic Reporter, CounterPunch, Z Magazine, Space News, and many others, nationally and internationally. He is a member of the National Writers Union and a former farm workers union organizer. His videos include 2003’s Arsenal of Hypocrisy and The Battle for America’s Soul (2005) which have been shown extensively on Free Speech TV. Gagnon also hosts a local cable show and publishes a newsletter.
For more information: www.space4peace.org or 207-729-0517
This speech was recorded at the WERU Full Circle Fair in Blue Hill, Maine on 7/23/06
Aired on WERU-FM on 7/27/06
Features music by Tom Neilson and Ethan Miller and Kate Boverman

WERU Special: Interview with Roshi Kobutsu Malone

WERU Special: Interview with Roshi Kobutsu Malone, Executive Director of “The Engaged Zen Foundation” in Sedgwick, Maine (www.engaged-zen.org)

Host/Producer: S.A. Feite Topic: Engaged Zen and Buddha-dharma; Death-penalty abolition; Socially engaged Buddhism What is the role of Buddhism in our prisons? How socially engaged is modern Buddhism? What is enlightenment? Features a song (with permission) by Zenji Stuart Davis, “Ladder” (www.stuartdavis.com)

Aired: 07/25/06