WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives

Producer/Host:Meredith DeFrancesco Issue: Environmental and Social Justice Program Topic: Transition Towns, Greater Rockland Area; and a mandate is signed for the Maine Wabanaki- State Child Welfare Commission Key Discussion Points: a) Over 1000 communities globally are establishing “Transition Towns”. This movement recognizes that the supply limits, as well as the health and environmental impacts of burning fossil fuels, needs to be addressed at the local level, strengthening community ties and local interdependence. b) On July 1st, the Greater Rockland Area Transition Towns initiative will host and Open Space Event. c) On June 29th, the Wabanaki chiefs of the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Mic Mac and Maliseet tribes in Maine and the state’s governor will sign the mandate for the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission Guests by name and affiliation: A) Jesse Watson, Greater Rockland Area Transition Towns B) ,Greater Rockland Area Transition Towns C) ,Greater Rockland Area Transition Towns D) Penobscot Chief , Kirk Francis E) Esther Attean Altivator, Passamaquoddy tribal member and member of convening group for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. www.mainetribaltrc.org, info@mainetribaltrc.org To listen to May 26, 2011 program on this topic: http://archives.weru.org/radioactive/radioactive-52611 Call In Program: no

Producer/Host: Jon E Ford Engineer: Amy Browne Program Topic: Safety and First Aid for the summer Key Discussion Points: a) Keeping your dogs safe through the Summer b) Keeping your dog alive in a HOT parked car c) Breaking the glass to save a dog who is in the process of dying in a parked car! Guests: A) Helen Kozura Hancock Co Emergency Animal Response Team b] Dianna De Los Santos Hancock Co Emergency Response Team and HCSPCA Call In Program: yes

Producer/Host: Amy Browne Issue: Independent Local News Program Topics: DCP attempts to limit public input on the LPG tank plan; ACLU of Maine on the AZ immigration law ruling; and a review of Medea Benjamin’s new book on Drone Warfare Key Discussion Points: a) DCP Midstream, the company that wants to build a massive liquid propane tank facility in Searsport, is attempting to limit public participation at Searsport Planning Board meetings. They also outline several other complaints in a recent letter from their lawyer to the town. Features audio recorded by Ron Huber at the June 11th meeting, and interviews with Ron Huber, Executive Director of Penobscot Bay Watch and Astrig Tanguay, Searsport resident and owner of Searsport Shores Campground. FMI: www.penbay.org ; www.tbnt.org , www.dcpmidstream.com b) Shenna Bellows, Executive Director of ACLU of Maine, responds to the Supreme Court ruling on the Arizona immigration law and discusses status of similar legislation in Maine FMI: www.aclumaine.org c) Lisa Savage, CODEPINK Maine coordinator, reviews Medea Benjamin’s new book, Drone Warfare: Killing By Remote Control FMI: www.codepink.org Call In Program: no

Producer/Host: Jed Curtis

Producer/Host: Larry Dansinger “Dekanawidah”

United Way of Eastern Maine Presents 6/23/12 Host: Adam Lacher, Director, Communications and Community Engagement for United Way of Eastern Maine . Guest: Marie Cota, Childcare Director of the Sharing Place for the Housing Foundation in Orono Issue: Childcare, Early Childhood Development About: United Way of Eastern Maine Presents is a weekly radio program featuring the the voices of Maine community organizations from Piscataquis, Penobscot, Washington, Hancock and Waldo counties. More info at: www.unitedwayem.org

Producer/Host: Rob McCall Engineer: Denis Howard “Lawn Mowing”

Producer/Host: Jim Bahoosh “Stuff”

Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco Issue: Environmental and Social Justice Program Topic: Citizen Initiative for Regulatory Action on BPA in Food Packaging Intended for Babies and Toddlers and a Report from the Demonstrations at the Rio 20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development Key Discussion Points (list at least 3): a) Maine citizens delivered a petition to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection that legally requires the state to consider a rule to ban the use of Bisphonel-A in the containers of food and beverages marketed to babies and small children. Maine law recently went into effect that bans BPA in reusable plastic containers, such as baby bottles and “sippy “cups. b) Indigenous communities and environmental and social justice organizations at the Rio 20 UN Conference on Sustainable have been amplifying their resistance to destructive projects promoted as part of the so called “green economy”, stressing the negative impacts of commodifying the natural world. c) One example is the REDD Initiative (“Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation”). Indigenous communities say, now that their forest lands are considered monetarily lucrative as carbon off sets, their often politically marginalized communities are vulnerable to land grabs. Guests by name and affiliation: A) Mike Belliveau, executive director, Environmental Health Strategy Center www.preventharm.org B) Anne Petermann, executive director, Global Justice Ecology Project http://climate-connections.org/ C) Margaret Prescott, producer of “Sojourner Truth”, KPFK FM D)Jeff Conant, Global Justice Ecology Project reporting E) Alberto Saldamdo, Indigenous Environmental Network www.ienearth.org/ http://climate-connections.org/2012/06/22/indigenous-deliver-kari-oca-ii-declaration-to-rio20-as-military-halts-hundreds/ Call In Program: no

Producer/Host: Amy Browne Program Topics: Maine Initiatives Awards, Mabel Wadsworth Women’s Health Center, Local Peace & Justice Activists, Making Local Food Accessible for Low-Income Community Members Guests: Recorded audio from Maine Initiatives Awards (www.maineinitiatives.org) (recorded by Matt Murphy); Interview with Jack McKay, Director of Food AND Medicine (www.foodANDmedicine.org) Call In Program: no

Producer/Host: Jim Fisher Engineer: Amy Browne Program Topic: Looking Ahead: Writing a Regional Public Health Plan Key Discussion Points): a) What are some of the big public health challenges confronting eastern Maine? b) What priority issues will be included in the Healthy Acadia Strategic Plan? c) What are the prospects for reversing some of our unhealthy lifestyle trends? Guests: A) Elsie Fleming, Community Relations & Development Director Healthy Acadia, PO Box 962, Bar Harbor, ME 04609 (207) 288-5331 elsie@healthyacadia.org B) Milja Brecher-DeMuro, Social Worker and Substance Abuse Prevention Instructor Acadia Family Center, 1 Fernald Point Road, PO Box 807, Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679, (207) 244-4012 milja@acadiafamilycenter.org Call In Program: Yes

Producer/Host: Amy Browne Program Topics: Segment 1: Environmentalists Issue New Report on Tar Sands Pipeline in Maine; Segment 2: Penobscot Nation Receives Maine Initiatives Award Key Discussion Points: a) Portland-Montreal pipeline b) Tar sands c) Penobscot Nation Guests: Dylan Voorhees, Clean Energy & Global Warming Project Director, Natural Resources Council of Maine (www.nrcm.org) Recorded audio from Maine Initiatives Awards, featuring John Dieffenbacher-Krall, Penobscot Nation Chief Kirk Francis and Natural Resources Director John Banks (www.penobscotnation.org, www.maineinitiatives.org) (Audio recorded by: Matt Murphy) Call In Program: no

Producer/Host: Donna Loring Engineer: Amy Browne Issue: Wabanaki Youth writers Program Topic: Wabanaki Youth Writers Project Key Discussion Points: a) History Reading Group’s writings and lessons learned b) Poetry readings of Youth’s work c) Suggestions to teachers of Wabanaki Youth Guests: gkisedtanamiook, Adjunct faculty member University of Maine One of the Program mentors and advisers Paul Frost Retired University of Maine faculty member Mentor and advisor For more information about the project contact: gkisedtanamoogk@umit.maine.edu Resource article: http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3147 This URL should take you to an article titled Indian Education for All: Grounded in Place and Culture, published on the National Writing Project website. If the link fails, Google will not.

Producer/Host: Larry Dansinger “What to do about Syria”

Producer/Host: Ann Luther, League of Women Voters Engineer: Amy Browne Issue: Participatory Democracy Program Topic: Wealth and income inequality in the U.S. and why it matters for democracy Key Discussion Points: a) What are the trends in wealth and income disparity? Who is affected? b) What structural or public policy factors are contributing to this trend? c) What are the consequences for democracy and the general well-being? d) What can citizens do? Guests: A) Professor Susan Feiner, Professor of Economics and Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of Southern Maine, http://www.usm.maine.edu/eco/susan-feiner. B) Dr. Richard Freeman, Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University and director of the National Bureau of Economic Research, http://www.nber.org/~freeman/. Call In Program: Yes Political Broadcast: No