Donate to WERU Today!Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Today, nearly 2 months after the insurrection in DC, we’re talking with Andy O’Brien and Nathan Bernard, reporters for Mainer covering far right extremism and hate groups in the state.
Some of the articles discussed in this program, include:
Anti-Maskers Waging “Spiritual War” Statewide
Maine White Nationalist Charged in Capitol Attack Shares Racist Views of State GOP Leaders
Chief of Maine’s Capitol Police Radicalized by Far-Right Conspiracies
Disgraced Capitol Chief Abused His Power to Police Protests
About the host:
Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices and Maine Currents, she also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and the First Place 2017 Radio News Award from the Maine Association of Broadcasters.
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