RadioActive 08/31/06

Hosts/Producers: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

An interview with Derrick Jensen, award winning, best selling author of several books, most recently Endgame Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization and Endgame Volume 2: Resistance
www.derrickjensen.org

Derrick Jensen and musician Dana Lyons will be in Rockport, Maine on September 9, 2006 at a benefit for the Audubon Expedition Institute (FMI: Jasper Montgomery, 207-338-5859)

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WERU Special 8/31/06 Pesticides

Producer/host: Meredith DeFrancesco
Interviews with several people concerned that the chemicals sprayed on Maine’s blueberries pose a public health risk
Guest: Bob Jones, Maine Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides ([email protected], 207-664-6190); Shelly Davis, Farm Worker Justice, one of the litigants in the United Farmworker lawsuit against the EPA; Dr. Mike Roland, Medical Director of the Maine Migrant Health program and a participant in the EPAs Migrant Clinician Network; Jody Spear, activist with Citizens for Reform of Pesticide Spraying (CROPS) ([email protected]); Jane Lynch, organic blueberry grower

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 08/31/06

Producer/host: Jim Campbell
Topic: Do you rely on the news from established news organizations like Reuters? Maybe you go to U.S. Government sites to seek objective information that your tax dollars have paid for. Alas, these days it’s difficult to really trust either source of information. Reuters just discovered photos it had put on the web from the battlefront in Lebanon had been doctored in Photoshop, and the U.S. Government has been classifying an increasing amount of information as secret, and doctoring or removing from its web sites information that isn’t classified. What’s a citizen to do?

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Talking Furniture Greatest Hits, VII (Part 3, Tracks 27-31)

by Dave Piszcz, aka Radio Jones

“The indigenous satirist must make use of the materials at hand within the immediate environment. In some places in the world, people build houses of sticks plastered with muck or even cow dung. Fortunately, the vast American socio-political landscape provides a wealth of manure which can be sculpted into the wattle-and-daub audio artwork contained herein”

“Thanks for your ears. Your hearts and minds remain under your own guidance at all times. ILLEGITIMATI NON CARBORUNDUM!” –Radio Jones
Talking Furniture’s Greatest Hits, V. II. written, produced, directed and performed at Talking Furniture Studios, Searsmont, Maine, USA, PO Box 71, 04973

Talk of the Towns 08/25/06

Host: Jill Goldthwait
Topic: Home Grown. Good Eating. (Local farms, fresh food)
What are small local farms like in Maine? The markets – consumers, CSA, WIC, restaurants, farm stands, farmer’s markets. Obstacles – regulations
Guests: Kerri Sands, Director, Farms for the Future; Jo Barrett, King Hill Farm; Chip Angell, The Brooklin Inn; Diane Lokocm, Beech Hill Farm
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RadioActive 08/24/06

Producers/Hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
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Valerie Cartonio of the Maine Native Prison Project joins us to talk about the work her group and others around the state are doing to support prisoners and their families and keep them connected with the community.
Also, a rebroadcast of a segment that originally aired on WERU on “Voices” in February 2006: Dave Piszcz interviewed Jim Robbins of Robbins Lumber in Searsmont (Maine). Robbins had just returned from Cuba where he was part of a contingent of Maine business people who traveled with Governor Baldacci to explore trade possibilities.

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 08/24/06

Producer/host: Jim Campbell
Topic: It’s tough to lose a part of your community under any circumstances. When that loss is of a 24 karat gold crap detector, radio maestro, and ace reporter who is only 54 years old, the loss stings all the more. But Dave Piszcz lives on, and his life challenges us to take up the tasks he accomplished so well but has now left behind for others to continue.

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