Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topic: The State and Local Government Sweat Free Consortium. In March 2007, at a meeting in Harrisburg, PA, state and local governments came closers to consolidating their purchasing power to prevent tax dollars from support sweatshop labor in the garment industry. Today we bring you some of the speakers from that meeting: Representatives from the state of PA, the city of San Francisco, a union garment worker, and Maine’s own Bjorn Skorpen Claeson, the Director of Sweatfree Communities

FMI: www.sweatfree.org or 207-262-7277

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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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