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Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
The illusion that the Internet is a free space outside of government control has been laid to rest by the actions of governments in the Middle East and North Africa in recent days. And maybe by the actions of our own government
as well. See what you think.
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Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributor: Meaghan LaSala
A recorded panel discussion, “LIVING DOWNSTREAM: THE OLD TOWN DUMP AND UNIVERSITY OF MAINE” –one of the discussions in Spring 2011 Socialist and Marxist Studies Lecture Series at the University of Maine. It was recorded Feb. 3rd, 2011, and has been edited for length.
The panel members were John Banks of the Juniper Ridge Landfill Advisory Committee and Director of the Natural Resources Department, Penobscot Nation; Paul Schroeder, Orono resident and member of Trash Trackers Network; Old Town resident Ed Spencer, and Panel Chair: Darren Ranco, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Coordinator of Native American Research
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Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco
Topics: Today we follow up with members of the Joint Committee on Regulatory Fairness and Reform,as they contemplate what to include in LD 1, including the governor’s proposed environmental and health rollbacks. And we talk more about the drastic cuts Congress is poised to make to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) funds -which community radio stations, like WERU, rely on.
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Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
The recent shutdown of the Internet in Egypt as a way to try to quell demonstrations there has caused some observers to jump in and say that such a thing couldn’t happen here. But it could. Here’s why.
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