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RadioActive (Maine)
RadioActive is a grassroots environmental and social justice news radio journal hosted by Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco and heard Thursdays from 4:00 - 4:30 pm on WERU FM 89.9 and 102.9 Bangor, Maine in the United States.
Food Aid vs. Food
Sovereignty
Originally broadcast October 27, 2005
An interview with Aburadha Mittal founder of the progressive think tank, the
Oakland Institute. Representatives from the Oakland Institue are heading
to the WTO ministerials in Hong Kong next monrth with a message about food sovereignty.
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LNG / Passamaquoddy
Update
Originally broadcast October 20, 2005
An interview with Linda Godfrey from the group, Save
Passamaquoddy Bay on the fight to stop the building of an Liqufied Natural
Gas (LNG) terminal along the coast in northern Maine.
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Effects of Hurricane
Katrina and Rita on Native Tribes
Originally broadcast October 13, 2005
An interview with Randy Verdun of the Biloxi-Chitimacha
Confederation of Muskogees and Patty Ferguson, member of the Pointe-au-Chien
tribe and the tribe's attorney on the effects of Hurricane Katrina and Rita
on native americans in Louisiana.
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Genetically Engineered
Trees
Originally broadcast October 6, 2005
The group GE Free Maine has issued a call for a ban on the release of genetically
engineered trees into the environment. Today we'll be talking to 2 longtime
activists who have been working on the issue internationally - and are coming
to Maine next week as part of GE Free Maine's education Campaign.
Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle are the co-founders and co-directors of the
Global Justice Ecology Project.
They were among the first activists to raise alarms about dangers associated
with genetic engineer and have researched and spoke extensively on the topic.
They be making several stops in Maine next week, talking about GE trees and
showing the new film "A Silent Forest: The Growing Threat of Genetically
Engineered Trees".
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Anti-War Protests in
Washington DC
Originally broadcast September 29, 2005
Hundreds of people against the war in Iraq were arrested at the White House,
Monday September 26, 2005. Many were veterans or family members of veterans.
Some were family members of veterans recently killed in Iraq.
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Call in from Wash. DC
Anti-War Protest
Originally broadcast September 26, 2005
A cell phone call-in from Washington DC to WERU that took place while an anti-war
protest was taking place in Washington DC.
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Peace Activist Kathy
Kelly
Originally broadcast September 22, 2005
Peace activist Kathy Kelly speaks out at the Blue Angels airshow that took
place Sept 10th at that Brunswick Naval Airstation in Maine.
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Reverend Billy on Sweatshop
Labor
Originally broadcast September 15, 2005
Today we hear some words on sweatshop labor from New York city based performance
artist, Reverend Billy and the choir of
the Church of Stop Shopping, recorded at the Fair Trade Fest in Bangor, Maine.
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