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RadioActive 4/24/08

Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco

Topic: Immigration and it’s Roots in  Free Trade Policy and Inequality in El Salvador
The Peace Accords did not result in the slated economic forum to address inequalities in the country. Instead the government adopted structural adjustment measures, leading to privatization measure and increasing free trade.
The rate of poverty is great in El Salvador.   Free trade policy has increased the crush on small farmers and others. It is difficult for people to migrate to the US, but their impetus is poverty. Ironically, this is perpetuated by neo liberal policies directed and implemented by the United States.

Guests: Lorena Martinez, CRIPDES, the Association for the Development of El Salvador
Pedro Juan Hernandez,  Popular Resistance Movement  of October 12th, (MPR-12)
Katie Sharar, Annunciation  House, El Paso, TX; Casa Marianella, Austin, TX
Lilian- Cabanas, El Salvador

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RadioActive 1/31/08

Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Suchitoto 13 “terrorism” charges update from El Salvador. Next court date is scheduled for February 8th. We get a report back from a human rights delegation visiting the country (including co-host Meredith DeFrancesco and WERU web techie Adam Lacher)

FMI: www.elsalvadorsolidarity.org and WERU links/webpage on Radio Sumpul and El Salvador at www.weru.org

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RadioActive Special: Criminalization of Dissent 8/28/07

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

Guests: Storm Waters and Mark Rosenthal

Topic: A call in show on the criminalization of dissent through use of “anti-terrorism” laws and other oppressive tactics. Discussion focused on recent events in the U.S. and El Salvador. Includes an excerpt from a previous program on the “Greenscare”, featuring Maureen Block and Logan Perkins, produced by Carolyn Coe.

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RadioActive 4/12/07

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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RadioActive 06/15/06

Hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
Topics: The National Lawyer’s Guild (NLG) and the Maine Chapter of the NLG have issued statements in response to the green scare. A press conference was held in Augusta June 14th with NLG attorneys and activists speaking out about the issue. Also an update on gold mining impacting Bangor’s sister city and WERU’s sister radio station’s communities in El Salvador
What is “green scare”?
How are communities in Maine continuing to organize to protect the right to dissent?
How can we help our sister communities in El Salvador as they face environmental degradation from mining? What is the U.S. connection?

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