Archives for Specials

WERU Special: Appalshop 1/30/14

Producer/Host: Carolyn Coe

Issue: journalism and filmmaking

Program Topic: Appalshop and its Making Connections co-coordinator and filmmaker Mimi Pickering

Key Discussion Points:
a) origins of Appalshop and its role in the community
b) stories of economic transition as explored by the Making Connections project
c) Mimi Pickering’s documentary films

Guest:
A) Mimi Pickering, documentary filmmaker at Appalshop and volunteer DJ for WMMT

FMI:
www.appalshop.org
www.makingconnectionsnews.org
kftc.org/abf

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WERU News 10/15/13

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Studio Engineer: Joel Mann
Recorded by Matt Murphy for WERU Community Radio News & Public Affairs

Audio recorded at the annual meeting of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Maine and presentation of the Roger Baldwin Award to Ann M. Luther, October 10, 2013 at the University of Maine, Orono. Ann, a member of the League of Women Voters Maine, was honored for her volunteer work on public policy issues including voting rights, clean elections and ethics in government. Audio includes an introduction by then Secretary of State and former Baldwin Award winner, Matt Dunlap and acceptance speech by Ann Luther.

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Memorial Day Special: Shetterly & McGovern 5/27/13

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: Matt Murphy

Award-winning artist and activist Robert Shetterly talks with former CIA agent Ray McGovern, one of the subjects in Shetterly’s portrait series “Americans Who Tell the Truth” www.americanswhotellthetruth.org , www.raymcgovern.com/

From Ray McGovern’s website:
“Ray came from his native New York to Washington in the early Sixties as an Army infantry/intelligence officer and then served as a CIA analyst from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H. W. Bush. Ray’s
duties included chairing National Intelligence Estimates and preparing the President’s Daily Brief, which he
briefed one-on-one to President Ronald Reagan’s most senior national security advisers from 1981 to 1985.
In January 2003, Ray helped create Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) to expose the way
intelligence was being falsified to “justify” war on Iraq. On the afternoon of the day (Feb. 5, 2003) Secretary of State Colin Powell misled the UN Security Council on Iraq, VIPS sent an urgent memorandum to President George
W. Bush, in which we gave Powell a C minus for content. We ended the memo with this”

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WERU Special: US Navy Base on Jeju Island 2/28/13

Producer/Host: Carolyn Coe

Program Topic: Gangjeong Village Struggle against Naval Base

Key Discussion Points:
a) why villagers and others in South Korea and beyond are opposed to the construction of a naval base in Gangjeong, Jeju Island, South Korea
b) how base construction has already impacted villagers and local sea creatures
c) the use of violence by police against nonviolent protestors
Guests by name and affiliation:
A) Sung-Hee Choi, member of the Gangjeong village international team
B) Kang Dong-Kyun, mayor of Gangjeong
C ) Jane, peacekeeper

Sung-Hee Choi
Mayor Kang Dong-Kyun
Jane

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