Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topics: Interviews with Daryl DeJoy and Cecil Gray about the proposed ban on bear trapping in Maine (the last state that allows the practice), and with Jack McKay of Food and Medicine, about the impact of recent Circuit City firings on local employees, the Employee Free Choice Act, and the organization’s annual May Day celebration.

FMI:

www.wildlifealliancemaine.org

www.foodandmedicine.org

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Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Contributor: Carolyn Coe

Topics: Project Occupation was back in Bangor today urging Senator Susan Collins to stop funding the occupation of Iraq. Meanwhile in the nearby courthouse, arraignments were taking place for some of the activists arrested at the March protest at the Senator’s office. Also, an update on impeachment efforts. FMI: www.maineimpeach.org
Also, an interview with Julie Beckford of Rebel Hill Farm–grower of the plants sold in the annual PICA (Peace thru InterAmerican Community Action) fund-raiser, taking place now. FMI: www.pica.ws

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Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Topics: Final segment of the Don Pablo Alvarenga series.  Don Pablo Alvarenga is a historian in the town of Cinquera, Cabañas, El Salvador.  In this final segment he talks about some of the issues facing El Salvador’s people today.  Recorded January 2007.  Translated by Jesse Dyer Stewart
Also, Cathy Mink of Waldo County gives an update on efforts to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney (www.maineimpeach.org)

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