WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
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Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, ME 99.9 Bangor (weru.org)

  1. 1 DAY AGO

    Outside the Box 9/24/24: “Bad Choices”

    Producer/Host: Larry Dansinger About the host: Larry Dansinger (no pronouns) of Bangor came to Maine in 1974 and has been here ever since. Some of Larry’s activities since then: Done community organizing on numerous issues through INVERT and then Resources for Organizing and Social Change (ROSC), committed civil disobedience several times, grown a garden yearly since 1977, joined various food cooperatives and two men’s groups, refused to pay federal income taxes for war, lived on a community land trust for 23 years, and met a wonderful partner whom Larry has loved for over 40 years. Larry has produced Outside the Box features on WERU since 2007 and continues to look for unique ways of seeing almost any problem or situation.

    5 min

  2. 5 DAYS AGO

    Democracy Forum 9/20/24: Propaganda: Is This For Real?

    Host: Ann Luther, League of Women Voters of Maine Production Assistance: Joel Mann Democracy Forum: Participatory Democracy, encouraging citizens to take an active role in government and politics. This month: We want to talk about propaganda: its manifestations in U.S. history and currently, its hallmarks, its sponsors, its uses and effects. Guest/s: Michael Franz, Professor of Government and Legal Studies at Bowdoin College, and co-director of the Wesleyan Media Project. www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/mfranz/index.html Jason Stanley, the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy, Yale University, and author of the new book, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future. campuspress.yale.edu/jasonstanley/ To learn more about this topic: Visit LWVME.org About the host: Ann Luther currently serves as Treasurer of the League of Women Voters of Maine and leads the LWVME Advocacy Team. She served as President of LWVME from 2003 to 2007 and as co-president from 2007-2009.

    58 min

  3. 6 DAYS AGO

    Around Town 9/19/24: Local News, Culture and Events

    Host/Producer: Amy Browne -Department of Environmental Protect is issuing a draft Public Benefit Determination for the expansion of the Juniper Ridge Landfill.  Public comment period ends tomorrow (Friday) at 5pm. -Rebecca Goldfine, the creator of the Maine by Foot online trail guide, will be talking about her work tonight at an event sponsored by the Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust,  at Half-Mile Field in The Wildlands.  FMI:  www.greatpondtrust.org/ www.facebook.com/events/3154902604651896/ -The Walden Woods Project and RESTORE: The Maine Woods presentation by wilderness activist and author Jamie Sayen via zoom tonight from 7-8.  FMI and to register for the zoom link, go to: www.walden.org/events/ -Bangor Historical Society’s “Ghostly Bangor Tours” in October. FMI and tickets: www.bangorhistoricalsociety.org About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021. Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License

    5 min

  4. 18 SEPT

    Around Town 9/18/24: Local News, Culture and Events

    Host/Producer: Amy Browne Independent Senate Candidate Jason Cherry. About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021. Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License

    5 min

  5. 17 SEPT

    Relationship Rewind 9/17/24: Priscilla

    Host: Carrie Clark (she, hers) Youth Educator and Advocate at NextStep Domestic Violence Project. NextStep 24/7 Helpline: 1(800) 315-5579 Music credit: Theme Music – “Baby Don’t” – donated by local artists Megan Light and Nathan Spears. Relationship Rewind: Rewinding relationships in popular media and breaking down behaviors based in power, control, and abuse. This episode: Discussing unhealthy behaviors in the film Priscilla. Discussing how media normalizes these behaviors. Discussing the impacts of these messages about these relationships and people, on young people in real life. Guest/s: Emma (she/her) Youth Development Professional on MDI. About the hosts: Alli Williamson (she, her) is the youth educator and advocate for NextStep Domestic Violence Project based in Hancock and Washington County, ME. She teaches young people from Kindergarten to College about what power and control looks like in friendships and relationships, what resources are available to support those experiencing this, and how we can work to make our schools and communities safer and more equal spaces where abuse may be less likely to happen.

    27 min

  6. 17 SEPT

    Outside the Box 9/17/24: “Disinformation”

    Producer/Host: Larry Dansinger About the host: Larry Dansinger (no pronouns) of Bangor came to Maine in 1974 and has been here ever since. Some of Larry’s activities since then: Done community organizing on numerous issues through INVERT and then Resources for Organizing and Social Change (ROSC), committed civil disobedience several times, grown a garden yearly since 1977, joined various food cooperatives and two men’s groups, refused to pay federal income taxes for war, lived on a community land trust for 23 years, and met a wonderful partner whom Larry has loved for over 40 years. Larry has produced Outside the Box features on WERU since 2007 and continues to look for unique ways of seeing almost any problem or situation.

    6 min

  7. 17 SEPT

    Around Town 9/17/24: Local News, Culture and Events

    Host/Producer: Amy Browne Sarah Trunzo joins us to talk about the next Songwriters’ Round, coming up on Thursday in Searsport. FMI:  saratrunzo.com heysailorhey.com About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021. Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License

    4 min

  8. 16 SEPT

    Around Town 9/16/24: Local News, Culture and Events

    Host/Producer: Amy Browne Upcoming events and Maine news from 100 years ago today. About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021. Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License

    4 min
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Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, ME 99.9 Bangor (weru.org)

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