RadioActive 11/12/09

Producers/Hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Audio Contributed by: Adam Lacher
Segment 1: The struggles and violent repression of Honduran civil society during their work for constitutional reform and the restoration of President Zelaya are being supported internationally at the civil society level. A place of particular support is from the social movement in neighboring El Salvador. Rosa Centeno Valle, the national director of CRIPDES, a network of over 350 organized communities in El Salvador, speaks about the need for international solidarity. FMI: www.CRIPDES.net www.elsalavdorsolidarity.org
Disaster Relief Website: www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/doc106?openForm&rc=2&cc=slv&po=0&so=63
Segment 2: The Maine Green Independent Party held an Issues Forum in Belfast on October 25th, featuring their candidate for Governor, Lynne Williams. Today we bring you an excerpt of her talk in which she focused on the issue of who owns Maine’s water

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 11/12/09

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Back in July of 2004, in response to some listener requests, we took a look at a couple of books that are both good reads and very helpful in leading to a better understanding of the electronic world we live in. Those books are just as relevant today as the Electronic Cottage approaches it’s tenth anniversary as they were back in the summer of 2004.

“Linked” by Albert Lazlo-Barabasi
“Code” by Larry Lessig (an updated version, “Code 2.0” is available in bookstores or as a free download at codev2.cc)

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 11/5/09

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Another rebroadcast from the first ten years of the Electronic Cottage.

If you fly from time to time, you are by now familiar with the security drill – take of your coat, take off your shoes, everything metal out of your pockets, and so forth. Some of these particular procedures are new but they are a continuation of additional screening initiatives that began in the wake of 9-11. This “sky is falling” rhetoric and new regulations and erosion of traditional privacy rights began very soon after September 2001 as this rebroadcast from February of 2002 indicates, and they’re still with us today.

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