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Host/s: Rob Ruffner
Editor: Sarah Johnson
Music: Samuel James
Justice Radio is a WMPG production.
Justice Radio: Tackling the hard questions about our criminal legal system in Maine.
This week: Rob and Valerie talk about her work, as former defense attorney, prosecutor, and in immigrant law.
Guest: Valerie Adams
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Host/Producer: Amy Browne
Mary Ann Larson with the details about No Kings Day in Bangor (Saturday 3/28, 12-1 pm), and an Empty Chair Town Hall (Susan Collins has declined to attend), next Monday, 3/30, doors open at 5:30pm) at Jeff’s Catering in Brewer
FMI:
Indivisible Bangor
Maine People’s Alliance
No Kings info and event calendar
About the host:
Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021.
Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015
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Host: Peter Neill
Producer: Trisha Badger
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
This week Peter Neill is spending time with his library of books, sharing three titles that quietly evoke the emotion of loss, and the paradox of things lost. “An Exaltation of Larks”, by James Lipton; “A Calendar of Saints for Unbelievers”, by Glenway Wescott; and “The Atlas of Remote Islands” by Judith Shalansky each sit light in the hand, the mind, and the heart.
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5-minute weekly insights dive into ocean science, advocacy and education hosted by Peter Neill, lifelong ocean advocate and maritime expert. A catalog of more than 730 episodes offering perspectives on global ocean issues and solutions, and celebrating exemplary projects. Available for RSS feed and broadcast by college and community radio stations worldwide via Exchange.prx.org and Audioport.org. Visit WorldOceanObservatory.org for the full catalog, searchable by theme.
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Host/Producer: Amy Browne
“Youth Ask the Questions: Gubernatorial Primary Candidate Forum” tomorrow evening, 6-8pm, at the Portland Media Center, hosted by Community Organizing Alliance, Maine Youth Power, and Young People’s Caucus. Click here FMI and to register for link to watch remotely There will be a watch party in the basement stacks at the Jesup Library in Bar Harbor.
Points North, the nonprofit organization behind the Camden International Film Festival, is launching a monthly documentary screening series at the Strand Theatre in Rockland. The series kicks off tomorrow night at 7pm, and will continue on the fourth Thursday of April and May. Each screening will be followed by a Q&A session or facilitated discussion, often with the filmmaker in attendance
Tomorrow night’s inaugural film will be The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, 2026, directed by Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell – and will be offered free of charge.
Also tomorrow / Thursday night, at 7pm: the group RESTORE: The North Woods will continue their speakers series with a zoom presentation called Big Changes and Big Opportunities in the Maine Woods, by Jym St. Pierre, RESTORE’s Maine Director. Click here for more information and to register for the link
About the host:
Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021.
Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015
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Host: Donna Loring
Other credits: Technical assistance for the show was provided by Joel Mann of WERU, and Jessica Lockhart.
Music by Ralph Richter, a track called little eagles from his CD Dream Walk.
Wabanaki Windows is a monthly show featuring topics of interest from a Wabanaki perspective.
This month: Research conclusions by Evan Richert and Roger Milliken Jr. They find the Wabanaki Tribes understanding of the Maine Indian Land Claims is the correct one.
Guest/s:
Prof. Darren Ranco, a member of the Penobscot Nation, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Native American Studies at the University of Maine.
Prof. Harald Prins, emeritus at Kansas State University.
Evan Richert, former member of the Maine Indian Tribal State Commission.
Roger Milliken Jr., Chairs board of Baskahegan Company.
About the host:
Donna M Loring is a Penobscot Indian Nation Tribal Elder, and former Council Member. She represented the Penobscot Nation in the State Legislature for over a decade. She is a former Senior Advisor on Tribal Affairs to Governor Mills. She is the author of “In The Shadow of The Eagle A Tribal Representative In Maine”. Donna has an Annual lecture series in her name at the University of New England that addresses Social Justice and Human Rights issues. In 2017 She received an Honorary Doctoral Degree in Humane Letters from the University of Maine Orono and was given the Alumni Service Award. It is the most prestigious recognition given by the University of Maine Alumni Association. It is presented Annually to a University of Maine graduate whose life’s work is marked by outstanding achievements in professional, business, civic and/or Public service areas. Donna received a second Honorary Doctorate from Thomas College in May of 2022.
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Producer/Host: Larry Dansinger
About the host:
Larry Dansinger (no pronouns) of Bangor came to Maine in 1974 and has been here ever since. Some of Larry’s activities since then: Done community organizing on numerous issues through INVERT and then Resources for Organizing and Social Change (ROSC), committed civil disobedience several times, grown a garden yearly since 1977, joined various food cooperatives and two men’s groups, refused to pay federal income taxes for war, lived on a community land trust for 23 years, and met a wonderful partner whom Larry has loved for over 40 years. Larry has produced Outside the Box features on WERU since 2007 and continues to look for unique ways of seeing almost any problem or situation.
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Host/Producer: Amy Browne
A Maine Monitor investigation by reporter Josh Keefe has found that U.S. Customs and Border Protection has a new internal affairs office in Bangor, strike at BIW, EMMC nurses cancel strike and vote on new contract tomorrow, No Kings Day, “Empty Chair”/Susan Collins town hall
About the host:
Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021.
Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015
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Host/Producer: Amy Browne
Tomorrow evening, 6-7:30PM, the group “No Penobscot County Jail Expansion” is offering a virtual community presentation called Rethinking Incarceration: The Myth of Public Safety Register for zoom link
The 3rd No Kings Day is coming up on Saturday the 28th.
For more information and to find an event near you:
NoKings
Mobilize
Activate Maine
About the host:
Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021.
Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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