RadioActive 7/22/10

Producers/Hosts: Amy Browne, Carolyn Coe, Meredith DeFrancesco

Carolyn Coe reports on Palestinian nonviolent resistance in Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem.   Speakers: Mazin Qumsiyeh, Prof. at Bethelehem and Birzeit Universities; Abdel Fattah Adelsour, Director and Founder of Alrowwad Cultural and Theater Training Centre in Aida Camp  They describe camp conditions and ways Palestinians have taken nonviolent action to preserve their cultural heritage and to challenge the Israeli occupation.

FMI: www.alrowwad-arts.ps  www.ashoka.org

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Special: Shetterly & Crowther 7/22/10

Producer/Host/Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

Award-winning artist and activist Robert Shetterly continues his series of conversations with the subjects of his portrait series “Americans Who Tell the Truth”,    This morning he’s here at the WERU studios with journalist and essayist Hal Crowther—a man with some very strong opinions about the Tea Party Movement (among other things).

FMI; www.americanswhotellthetruth.org

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 7/22/10

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Do you use the Internet a good bit? If so, you’re not alone – North American adults spend about 20 hours a week on the Internet. We all know that might not be the best thing for our waistlines but what about for our brains? Does Internet use affect our physical brains? Nicholas Carr, in his new book “TheShallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains,” takes a look at that question, and so do we in this edition.

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Wabanaki Windows 7/20/10

Producer/Host: Donna Loring

Guest Co-host: Maria Girouard

Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

Topic: “Henry David Thoreau, Ktaadn, America and the Future”

What are some native perspectives of Henry David Thoreau?  What were some beliefs of Thoreau’s that brought him to seek out the Native Americans?  What can we learn in the history for the future?

Guest: Connie Baxter Marlow

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RadioActive 7/15/10

Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco

Topics: EPA formulates Clean Water Act Permits required for pesticide applications;  Calais LNG is granted postponement of BEP permitting hearings

What are some of the concerns of Canada concerning LNG tankers in Passamaquoddy Bay?  What is Calais LNG’s connection to Goldman Sachs?  What are some of the areas EPA is still solidifying in it’s NPDES permitting requirements for pesticide applicators?

Guests: Sylvia Broude, Toxics Action Center; Elizabeth Martin-Craig, Pesticides Watch;  Bob Godfrey, Save Passamaquoddy Bay 3-Nation Alliance

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