Notes from the Electronic Cottage 3/06/08

Producer/host: Jim Campbell

Cell phones are everywhere, and are becoming powerful enough to let people carry their “digital lives” in their pockets. Some are beginning to wonder if that’s such a great idea, especially if a person gets stopped for running a stop sign or not wearing a seat belt and gets arrested. At that point, all your personal information may be the police officer’s as well as your own.
Seems we live in a digital world with laws that were made for a physical world, and the consequences can be unsettling.

Healthy Options 3/05/08

Producer/host: Rhonda Feiman, Doctor of Asian Medicine, Licensed Acupuncturist

Guest: Eliezer Sobel, Author & Musician & Seeker, author of The 99th Monkey: A Spiritual Journalists Misadventures with Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics, and other Consciousness-Raising Experiments

What is a spiritual journey? How can living an authentic life help maintain health? How can the arts help you on your journey?

FMI: www.the99thmonkey.com

RadioActive 2/28/08

Executive Producers/Hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Contributing Producer: Carolyn Coe

Coverage February 19th’s Day of Action, held in Portland, Maine, in opposition to “the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act”  (S1959) introduced by  Maine’s Senator Susan Collins.  Includes speakers Maureen Block, one of the organizers of the event;  Shenna Bellows of the Maine Civil Liberties Union;  Logan Perkins, Native Forest Network; and Robert Shetterly, activist/artist,  creator of “Americans Who Tell the Truth”.  Recorded and produced by Carolyn Coe.

Co-sponsors of the event included:
Maine Civil Liberties Union
National Lawyers Guild, Maine chapter
Island Peace and Justice
Peninsula Peace and Justice
Maine Veterans for Peace (William Ladd Chapter)
RAW
Native Forest Network
Peace Action Maine

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 2/28/08

Producer/host: Jim Campbell

Do you fly regularly, even a few times a year? How do you like flying these days? If you are like most travelers, probably not very much. But in addition to the security hassles and delays that are part of many trips these days, there is also something else you might not like too much if you knew about. We refer, of course, to the information amassed in the PNR, or Passenger Name Record, that gets created or built upon every time you fly.

WERU Special 2/26/08

Producers/hosts: Marge May and Eric T. Olson

Segment 1:  Democracy and Grassroots activism
David Cobb, 2004 Presidential candidate for the Green Party and Pat Lamarche, 2004 Vice Presidential candidate for the Green Party, Maine activist and journalist, speaking at the University of Maine.  Produced by Marge May

Segment 2: Eric Olson interviews Rabbi Amita Jarmon of Adas Yoshuron in Rockland about what it will take peacefully to solve conflict in Israel & Palestine and opportunities coming up for Mainers to hear from a representative the largest national Jewish peace organization in America.