Let’s Talk About It 3/12/21: Emotional Abuse

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Production assistance: Tammy Oropesa
Music: Jackie Lee McLean

Let’s Talk About It: Conversations with Survivors of Domestic Abuse

Guests:
Dr. Kerry Roarke talks about how she was the breadwinner yet he controlled the money.
Elizabeth Garber reads her poem about her abusive father.

Topics include: 
Financial abuse, coercive control, parental abuse.

About the host:
Patrisha McLean is the founder/president of Finding Our Voices, the grass roots survivor-powered non profit organization breaking the silence of domestic abuse one conversation and community at a time all across Maine.

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Common Ground Radio 3/11/21: Drawing Strength from the Pandemic

Producer/Host: C.J. Walke, MOFGA

Organic Food and Farming in Maine: Power to the People: Drawing Strength from the Pandemic

-Common Ground Country Fair, Keynote Address, Sept 26, 2020
-Home gardening and self sufficiency
-Building community during crisis

Guests:
Barbara Damrosch, Four Season Farm, Harborside, ME
Chrissy Fowler, Moderator, Belfast, ME
Bonnie Rukin, Moderator, Slow Money Maine

About the host:
C.J. Walke, host of Common Ground Radio, has been involved in Maine agriculture for over 20 years and has worked in numerous capacities for the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) starting in 2006. Since 2012, C.J. has worked as farm manager for College of the Atlantic’s Peggy Rockefeller Farms in Bar Harbor, Maine, where he works with students to grow organic fruits, vegetables and livestock products. He holds degrees in park management/environment education and library science. Common Ground Radio debuted in June of 2010 and C.J. has been the show’s host since 2014.

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Talk of the Towns 3/10/21: Climate Change at the Local Level

Producer/Host: Ron Beard

In the face of a changing climate, Maine communities are working to help families, businesses and local governments take steps, both to reduce green-house gasses and to adapt to the consequences. Citizens are listening to one another, devising plans and enacting policies that are grounded locally, but connected across the state.

Guests Tony Ferrara, of Climate Action Net on the Blue Hill Peninsula, Martha Dickinson of the Ellsworth Green Action Team, Hank Reisner of the Belfast Climate Crisis Committee, Lawson Wulsin, of A Climate to Thrive, on Mount Desert Island and Ania Wright, from the Maine Climate Council talk about what inspires them and what projects are making a difference locally.

About the host:
Ron Beard is producer and host of Talk of the Towns, which first aired on WERU in 1993 as part of his community building work as an Extension professor with University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Sea Grant. He took all the journalism courses he could fit in while an undergraduate student in wildlife management and served as an intern with Maine Public Television nightly newscast in the early 1970s. Ron is an adjunct faculty member at College of the Atlantic, teaching courses on community development. Ron served on the Bar Harbor Town Council for six years and is currently board chair for the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor, where he has lived since 1975. Look for him on the Allagash River in June, and whenever he can get away, in the highlands of Scotland where he was fortunate to spend two sabbaticals.

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