WERU Special 4/25/11

Producer/Host: Meaghan LaSala

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Segment1: Interview with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, about their art collaborations, upcoming performances in Maine, sex positivity, and their role in creating the ecosexual movement. What is sex positivity? What does it mean to be ecosexual? FMI: www.loveartlab.org/

Segment 2: Audio from a panel “Journalism and Democacy: Rebuilding Media for Our Communities,” from the National Conference for Media Reform. Is journalism finding new models in the age of the internet, as newspapers continue to fold? Is American journalism supporting democracy? NCMR website (for the full panel and more audio from the conference):
conference.freepress.net/

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RadioActive 4/21/11

Producers/Hosts: Amy Browne, Meredith DeFrancesco, John Greenman

How do we maintain “Hope in Times of Fear”? Local peace and justice activists spoke about that issue earlier this month at the University of Maine. Ilze Petersons, the director of the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine, and Libby Norton, Laura Nobel, Josephine Bright and Evan Livonius are members of a group that has been reading and discussing a collection of essays called “The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear” edited by Paul Rogat Loeb. Here is what they had to say, starting with Ilze Petersons:

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