Notes from the Electronic Cottage 8/01/07

Producer/host: Jim Campbell

Should civil liberties – in cyberspace or anywhere else – diminish to provide increased security? What does the Constitution say, or is it mute on such a question, in a technologically dangerous world the founders could never have contemplated? Eminent jurist Richard A. Posner takes on those very questions in “Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency.” Whether you agree with his conclusions or not, the questions he raises are ones we all need to answer for ourselves in the post 9-11 world we all live in now.

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A Word in Edgewise

Producer/host: R.W. Estela

R.W. Estela is a pilot, contractor, and teacher of English and aikido who has written and aired national and international essays for WERU since 1991.

Every week for the past sixteen years wherever he might be in North America, Central America, or Europe, R.W. Estela continues to explore the meaning of late-20th-century and early-21st-century existence — etymologically, metaphorically, literally with his most recent A Word in Edgewise on Monday mornings at 7:30 A.M.

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Talk of the Towns 7/27/07

Producer/host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension

Topic: Healthy Boating and Healthy Beaches

Why are we concerned? What are the human health aspects of swim beaches? What sorts of contaminants are common and how/where do they originate?

Guests: Esperanza Stancioff, University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Sea Grant Coordinator, Maine Healthy Beaches Program; Pamela Parker, Maine Department of Environmental Protection; Jane Disney, Mount Desert Island Water Quality Coalition; Bill Gawley, Water Quality Specialist, Acadia National Park

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RadioActive 7/26/07

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topic: An interview with Bo Lozoff, author and co-director of the Prison-Ashram Project and co-founder, with his wife Sita, of the Human Kindness Foundation. Some of his books include: We’re All Doing Time, now in it’s thirteenth printing, and the recent It’s A Meaningful Life—It Just Takes Practice He will be speaking at several locations in this area in upcoming days.

FMI: www.humankindness.org Direct link to schedule of appearances: www.humankindness.org/events.html

Also: Volunteers for Hancock (County) Jail Residents, www.jailvolunteers.org

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