Talk of the Towns 10/12/12

Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Engineer: Amy Browne

Issue: Community concerns and opportunities
Program Topic: Maine Sea Coast Mission and Musings on the Future of Downeast Maine
Key Discussion Points:
1. What is Maine Sea Coast Mission— thumbnail sketch of history and current mission
2. What was your path and what attracted you about Maine Sea Coast Mission?
3. What are the core programs and activities of Maine Sea Coast Mission
Outreach to Islands—health and ministry, role of the Sunbeam
Youth development – EdGE
Meeting immediate needs
4. How is this work staffed and funded?
5. This is philanthropic work… what resonates with donors?
6. What did your experience in Western Maine… similarities and differences to what you are finding here?
7. Robin Alden’s TED talk (Pre-Recorded 13 minutes)
8. What inspires you about that talk, and how have you made use of Robin’s vision in your own work?
9. Robin describes well the fisheries side, and how they are engaging fishermen… what else needs to happen for this vision to be realized? How might others (people, organizations)
10. work on these opportunities and concerns
11. Share contact information and a favorite story which speaks to the spirit of the people you are finding through your work with Maine Sea Coast Mission

Guests by name and affiliation:
Scott Planting, Maine Sea Coast Mission, Bar Harbor
Robin Alden, Penobscot East Fisheries Resource Center, Stonington

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RadioActive 10/11/12

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Issue: Envronmental and Social Justice News

Program Topic: UM Professor Robert Glover on Immigration, part 2, at the University of Maine’s Socialist & Marxist Studies lecture series (Part 1 aired on the News Report on 10/10/12). Recorded by John Greenman

Key Discussion Points:
a) immigration
b) academic theories on the topic
c) democracy

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 10/11/12

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Passwords: we all have them but who else knows them? If the answer if no one, it could make big problems for our heirs once we head for the next world.

And in this world, it could soon be much more difficult to loan or sell copyrighted objects which we’ve bought and paid for if the Supreme Court upholds a lower court decision on the first sale doctrine. Here’s why…

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Democracy Forum 10/8/12

Host: Ann Luther, League of Women Voters
Engineer: Joel Mann
Issue: Participatory Democracy

Program Topic: Political Advertising and Its Effect on Voters and Elections

Key Discussion Points:
a) How important is political advertising in helping people learn about candidates?
b) How does political advertising work and why is it worth the many millions of dollars being spent on it.
c) Is it good for democracy?
d) What can citizens do?

Guests by name and affiliation:
A) Richard R. Lau, Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, fas-polisci.rutgers.edu/lau/.
B) Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, www.asc.upenn.edu/faculty/Faculty-Bio.aspx?id=129.

Call In Program: No

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