RadioActive 7/24/14

Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco

Issue: Environmental and Social Justice

Program Topic: The Maine Indian Tribal State Commissions’ Special Report on Passamaquoddy Fisheries Rights.

Key Discussion Points:

a) Today we look at the Maine Indian Tribal State Commissions’ Special Report on Passamaquoddy Fisheries Rights.
b) The Commission, per it’s charge examined the 1980 Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act and the Maine Implementing Act, has concluded the state has violated theses acts rather then adhere to them, when they passed laws effecting the Passamaquoddy Tribe and the saltwater fishery, without the participation and approval of the tribe.
c) Today we speak with the co-author of the report and chair of the Maine Indian Tribal State Commission, Jamie Bissonette Lewey.

Guest:
A) Jamie Bissonette Lewey, chair of the Maine Indian Tribal State Commission, co-author of the report : ” Assessment of the Intergovernmental Saltwater Fisheries Conflict Between Passamquoddy and the State of Maine”

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Maine Arts Alive 7/22/14

Host: Michael Donahue
Engineer: Amy Browne

Program Topic: The Arts in Celebration of History

Key Discussion Points:
Stonington Opera House Production of “The Last Ferryman” honoring the Deer Isle bridge anniversary
The Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, exhibiting work honoring the Deer Isle bridge anniversary
Arts organizations working in collaboration to honor area historic achievments.

Guests:
Judith Jerome, Artistic Director, Stonington Opera House, Stonington, Maine
Kate Mincer, Costume Designer, Stonington Opera House, Stonington, Maine
Amanda Larrabee, Staff member, The Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, Maine

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