WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives

Producer/Host: Amy Browne Audio recorded by: John Greenman From the 2012 Socialist and Marxist Studies weekly lecture series, held each year at the University of Maine, with a focus on controversial issues, this is an excerpt from the October 11th presentation by Professors Deborah Hawkins and Michael Howard. The topic is “Cooperative Economy And Capitalist Crisis”. Audio recorded by John Greenman. Also included with the archive, is the full-length presentation

Producer/Host: Amy Browne Audio recorded by: John Greenman Program Topic: Artist/Activist Robert Shetterly Receives 2012 “Hands of Peace” Award from Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine. FMI: www.americanswhotellthetruth.org and www.peacectr.org

Host: Michael Donahue Engineer: Amy Browne Issue: Arts Program Topic: Past, Present and Future of The Grand a) How did The Grand come about? b) What role does The Grand play in the greater Ellsworth community? c) What are the plans for the future for The Grand? Guests: A) Zoe Alexis Scott, Executive Director, The Grand, Ellsworth, Maine B) Charles Alexander, Board President, The Grand, Ellsworth, Maine Call-In Program: yes

Producer/Host: Larry Dansinger “What’s in a Name?”

Producer/Host: Meaghan LaSala This week, A People’s Almanac features the NAACP’s “Appeal to the World,” a 1947 petition to the UN to address the human rights violations committed by the US against African Americans and all people of color. This week also features the 1892 general strike in New Orleans.

Producer/Host: R.W. Estela Engineer: Allison Watters

Host: Adam Lacher, Director, Communications and Community Engagement for United Way of Eastern Maine . Guest: Sally Tardiff, Executive Director at the Shaw House in Bangor. Issue: Youth Development, Homelessness, Transitional Housing, Broken Maine Families 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: Sarah O’Malley Microbes Part 6: The Carbon Cycle

Producers/Hosts: Host: John Zavodny & Sara Trunzo Studio Engineer: Amy Browne Issue: people, events, and ideas in Mid-Coast, Maine Program Topic: The social and political activism of Rob Shetterly and Kenny Cole. Key Discussion Points: 1. What is “American’s Who Tell the Truth?” 2. How can art help make political and social change? 3. Where can people see the works of Kenny Cole and Rob Shetterly for themselves? Guests: 1. Robert Shetterly´s paintings and prints are in collections all over the U.S. and Europe. A collection of his drawings & etchings, Speaking Fire at Stones, was published in 1993. He is well known for his series of 70 painted etchings based on William Blake’s “Proverbs of Hell”, and for another series of 50 painted etchings reflecting on the metaphor of the Annunciation. For more than ten years he has been painting the series of portraits Americans Who Tell the Truth. The exhibit has been traveling around the country since 2003. Venues have included everything from university museums and grade school libraries to sandwich shops, the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City, and the Superior Court in San Francisco. To date, the exhibits have visited 26 states. In 2005, Dutton published a book of the portraits by the same name. In 2006, the book won the top award of the International Reading Association for Intermediate non-fiction. 2. Kenny Cole may be the “hardest working man in the Maine art world.” His artist’s resume includes literally hundreds of entries, including recent solo shows at the Meg Perry Center and Space Gallery in Portland. And until the end of October, “Even Now the Reaper Draws His Wages” is on display at the Leonard R. Craig Gallery at the Unity College Center for the Performing Arts. Recent group shows include the Bridge Gallery in Chicago, and the Brooklyn Art Gallery in Brooklyn NY. Kenny is currently in The Biennial Show at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art Until December 2. Kenny has been the recipient of multiple grants including grants from the Maine Arts Commission, Maine Community Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. Portland critic Nicholas Schroeder writes: “for work so unapologetically political, so dedicated to finding new ways of revealing dark secrets, there sure are a lot of pretty colors.” 3. Martha Piscuskas (589.4339 OR 338.2222) | is the Programming Director at Waterfall Arts in Montville and Belfast. Martha is an artist herself making interactive installations and community performances, including JUMP: War, a performance on November 3 in Belfast. She holds a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Wesleyan University, and a BFA from the Maine College of Art. For More Information: http://kennycole.com/home.html http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/ http://www.waterfallarts.org Call In Program: YES

Producer/Host: Jim Bahoosh “Mold”

Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco Topic: Industry pushes to increase mining and transport of tar sands oil, including in pipeline from Montreal to Portland, ME and through East Texas, where construction is being me by civil disobedience resistance *We look again at the aggressive push across North America to increase the mining and pipeline transport of t highly polluting tar sands oil. Studies show tar sands oil creates 20% more climate changing pollution then even conventional oil. *We look at the proposed tar sands pipeline from Montreal to Portland, ME and what companies would profit. Recent research shows Exxon Mobil to be a majority owner of the current and proposed line. *We, again, talk with a representative of the Tar Sands Blockade in Eastern Texas. A high profile campaign of civil disobedience has been active there since August,as construction is started on the southern segment of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Guests: Dylan Voorhes, Clean Energy Project Director, Natural Resources Council of Maine, www.nrcm.org Ron Seifert, www.tarsandsblockade.org

Host: Amy Browne Engineer: Joel Mann An open-mic style call-in show

Producer/Host: Amy Browne Topic: Representatives from the group “Thanks But No Tanks” spoke to a standing-room-only crowd at the Stockton Springs Town Office last night, about their opposition to the liquid propane tank facility proposal in neighboring Searsport. Audio from the meeting, FMI: www.tbnt.org

Producer/Host: Donna Loring Studio Engineer: Amy Browne Issue: Wabanaki/ State Truth and Reconciliation Commission appointments Program Topic: Duties of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissioners Key Discussion Points: a) Historic background b) Application process/how the commissioners will be chosen c) The commissioners Qualifications/ job description and expectations Guests: A) Esther Attean B) Arla Patch Call In Program: No

Producer/Host: Larry Dansinger “Justice for All”