Talk of the Towns 6/22/12

Host: Natalie Springuel, University of Maine Sea Grant and Cooperative Extension
Engineer: Amy Browne
Issue: Community concerns and opportunities
Program Topic: Fisheries Heritage and Downeast Fisheries Trail
Key Discussion Points:
a) What are some of the most significant changes you have seen in your lifetime or before in our fisheries? For example: salmon, lobster, herring, cod, alewives, clams etc…
b)Why should we care about these changes? What has been the impact of these changes on our communities?
c)Why should visitors care about fisheries heritage?
d)Tell us a little bit more about the Downeast Fisheries Trail, what are some of the sites on the Trail, what fisheries do they highlight (past and present) and why?
e)What do you expect will be some of the tangible and intangible benefits of the DFT for communities? For fishermen and their families? For visitors?
f) Where can listeners learn more about your organizations and about the Downeast Fisheries Trail?
o www.DowneastFisheriesTrail.org (and on Facebook)
o www.lobsterinstitute.org/
o www.mainesalmonrivers.org/
o www.penobscoteast.org/

Guests:
A) Dwayne Shaw, Downeast Salmon Federation
B)Cathy Billlings, Lobster Institute
C)Senator Dennis Damon, Trenton Maine

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RadioActive 6/21/12

Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco
Issue: Environmental and Social Justice
Program Topic: Citizen Initiative for Regulatory Action on BPA in Food Packaging Intended for Babies and Toddlers and a Report from the Demonstrations at the Rio 20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development

Key Discussion Points (list at least 3):
a) Maine citizens delivered a petition to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection that legally requires the state to consider a rule to ban the use of Bisphonel-A in the containers of food and beverages marketed to babies and small children. Maine law recently went into effect that bans BPA in reusable plastic containers, such as baby bottles and “sippy “cups.
b) Indigenous communities and environmental and social justice organizations at the Rio 20 UN Conference on Sustainable have been amplifying their resistance to destructive projects promoted as part of the so called “green economy”, stressing the negative impacts of commodifying the natural world.
c) One example is the REDD Initiative (“Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation”). Indigenous communities say, now that their forest lands are considered monetarily lucrative as carbon off sets, their often politically marginalized communities are vulnerable to land grabs.
Guests by name and affiliation:
A) Mike Belliveau, executive director, Environmental Health Strategy Center www.preventharm.org
B) Anne Petermann, executive director, Global Justice Ecology Project climate-connections.org/
C) Margaret Prescott, producer of “Sojourner Truth”, KPFK FM
D)Jeff Conant, Global Justice Ecology Project reporting
E) Alberto Saldamdo, Indigenous Environmental Network www.ienearth.org/

Indigenous deliver Kari-Oca II Declaration to Rio+20, as military halts hundreds

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 6/21/12

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
It’s been a big week in the world of information technology what with big new product announcements from Apple and Microsoft, and a 10 million dollar mea culpa from Facebook. But there have been some other announcements, too, and those are pretty concerning for those of us who live partly in cyberspace and go about important parts of our lives there. Listen up.

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Wabanaki Windows 6/19/12

Producer/Host: Donna Loring
Engineer: Amy Browne

Issue: Wabanaki Youth writers

Program Topic: Wabanaki Youth Writers Project

Key Discussion Points:
a) History Reading Group’s writings and lessons learned
b) Poetry readings of Youth’s work
c) Suggestions to teachers of Wabanaki Youth

Guests:
gkisedtanamiook, Adjunct faculty member University of Maine
One of the Program mentors and advisers
Paul Frost Retired University of Maine faculty member
Mentor and advisor

For more information about the project contact: [email protected]

Resource article:
www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3147 This URL should take you to an article titled Indian Education for All: Grounded in Place and Culture, published on the National Writing Project website. If the link fails, Google will not.

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Democracy Forum 6/18/12

Producer/Host: Ann Luther, League of Women Voters
Engineer: Amy Browne

Issue: Participatory Democracy

Program Topic: Wealth and income inequality in the U.S. and why it matters for democracy
Key Discussion Points:
a) What are the trends in wealth and income disparity? Who is affected?
b) What structural or public policy factors are contributing to this trend?
c) What are the consequences for democracy and the general well-being?
d) What can citizens do?

Guests:

A) Professor Susan Feiner, Professor of Economics and Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of Southern Maine, www.usm.maine.edu/eco/susan-feiner.
B) Dr. Richard Freeman, Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University and director of the National Bureau of Economic Research, www.nber.org/~freeman/.

Call In Program: Yes
Political Broadcast: No

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