Let’s Talk About It 6/12/20: Isolation and the Importance of Friends

Producer/Host: Patrisha McLean
Technical assistance: Alex Wilder
Music: “Just A Bully” co-written with Patrisha McLean and Nora Willauer in a collaboration with DocSong. Performed by Willauer.

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

Guests:
Courtney Billings and Jess Harriman Courtney and Jess discuss how Jess grew alarmed as Courtney’s new boyfriend slowly turned her into a shell of herself, and how she helped to rescue her.

Topics include:
Emotional abuse, financial abuse, sexual 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 6/11/20: Homesteading in Maine

-Growing your own food
-Homesteading in urban areas
-Homestead community building

Guests:
Karen Marysdaughter, Bangor, ME
Rhonda Welcome, Lubec, ME

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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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 6/11/20: Demonstrations and Tech 2

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Demonstrators are taking to the streets in the wake of George Floyd’s death across the country, and, with variations to suit their local situations, across the world. While tech like cell phones and social media can help to organize those events, and while cameras on smart phones can help record what happens at them, there is another side to tech, as there often is. Authorities are using cell phone tracing tech, facial recognition, and other tech tools to identify protestors, to populate databases, occasionally, even to follow them home or call them at home later. Thus, people who wish to exercise their Constitutional rights without opening themselves up to unconstitutional wrongs should make some key choices before they hit the streets. Below are some sites that, along with today’s program, can help people prepare if they wish to demonstrate anonymously in today’s digital world.

Surveillance Self-Defense

Vox: The police want your phone data. Here’s what they can get — and what they can’t

Gizmodo: Your Phone Is a Goldmine of Hidden Data for Cops. Here’s How to Fight Back

India Times: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says download Signal as US protests gain steam

Tom’s Guide: Signal is adding automatic face blurring to help protesters

Consumer Reports: How to Protect Phone Privacy and Security During a Protest

Wired: How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance

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Talk of the Towns 6/10/20: Conservation of the Narraguagus River watershed

Producer/Host: Ron Beard

Program Topic: Conservation of the Narraguagus River watershed and improving passage for salmon and other fish

Background on the river and the watershed… what is significant, including salmon habitat and human uses of the river (economic and recreational) and its related resources
Jacob describes how MCHT’s Whole Place initiative relates
Background on Cherryfield (a bit of history, its past and present economy, relationship to the Narraguagus, salmon fishing legacy)
What are the various interests of the organizations in conserving the Narraguagus River and its habitat
Among the issues to be addressed is improving aquatic habitat and connectivity… why is this important to both the fish and people? How do the fresh water and saltwater connect and why is that important? Which fish use the watershed?
A major concern is fish passage at the Cherryfield Ice Dam… what is the history of this dam… what is its present status and how are you working towards improved fish passage?
What are some of the other threats and how are you and your organizations working on them (water quality–oxygen, temperature, etc., impact of road crossings, loss of mature forests along the river, agriculture and other uses of riparian areas, tidal restrictions in lower portion of river)
What is the likely future for the Narragaugus River watershed

Guests:
Jacob van de Sande, Maine Coast Heritage Trust, Land Protection Project Manager
Chris Federico, Habitat Restoration Project Manager, SHARE
Dwayne Shaw, Executive Director, Downeast Salmon Federation
Paul Anderson, Executive Director, Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries
Art Tatangelo, Selectman, Town of Cherryfield

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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BoatTalk 6/9/20: loopers end, local boatyard news, interview with greg latimer, author

Producers/Hosts: Mike Joyce & Alan Sprague

a) dave and stacey end their great loop trip and recount the experience
b) interview with greg latimer, author of a new book on maine pirates
d) jon johnansen has been carefully visiting a few boatyards

guests:
Dave Rowe by zoom
Greg Latimer by zoom
Jon Johansen roving reporter

About the hosts:

Alan Sprague a.k.a. Flounder of the Soul Show, has been a programmer at WERU since the glaciers receded. For thirty years at community radio he has worked his way from being an unpaid volunteer to being an unpaid volunteer today, and he says he’s worth every cent of it. In 2003 he and Mike Joyce started the monthly call-in show Boattalk which has become a boating related show without piers (pi). Mike and Alan met many years ago while both were working at the Hinckley Company. Alan was the head service carpenter at the Hinckley skunkworks called Bass Harbor Marine or sometimes Kibbee’s Kennels. He worked there for nearly thirty years and saw yachts of stories to tell yawl. As part of Boattalk they organize the annual WERU Boattalk Cruise in late June for a fun pot-luck trip up Somes Sound, America’s former fiord. Quite cunning Mike and Alan are to work a free scenic boat trip with fine food for themselves.

Mike Joyce bio to follow

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