The podcast features Professor Doug Allen on “Recent Reflections from India: the November 26, 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai and Gandhi in times of terror.” Doug spoke on February 19, 2009 at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine just after returning from a trip to India. He describes this recent time in India as one where there is great interest in the nonviolent message of the Mahatma—considering that the 26-11 terror attacks on Mumbai have shaken India to the core.
His talk covers material that also appears in his article for the new Spring 2009 issue of the Maine Peace Action Committee Newsletter, “Is Nonviolence Relevant when Dealing with Terrorism?” Welcome to visitors coming here to find the podcast mentioned in the Newsletter.
Published on
April 12, 2009 in
Economy, Food and agriculture, Podcasts and Workers/unions.
Tags: Central America, coffee, Maine, Maine Fair Trade Campaign, Mexico, NAFTA, Sarah Bigney, trade, unions.
This podcast features a talk University of Maine graduate Sarah Bigney gave on Thursday September 25, 2008:
“The Two Fair Trade Movements: Bridging the Divide Between Buying Coffee and Repealing NAFTA”
Sarah Bigney is organizer at the Maine Fair Trade Campaign, a statewide coalition of 50 organizations for building a just, sustainable, and democratic economy. (Check out their site for information on current campaigns, including the one to oppose the Panama Free Trade Agreement.)
This talk was part of the Fall 2008 Thursday controversy series sponsored by the Marxist-Socialist Studies Interdisciplinary Minor, and co-sponsored by the Maine Peace Action Committee (MPAC) and Campus Activities and Events, with support of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University.
Additional photos (described in the talk) are posted below the fold.
Sarah Bigney [71:35m]:
Play Now |
Play in Popup |
Download
Continue reading ‘Maine Fair Trade Campaign’s Sarah Bigney’
This podcast features a talk by Professor David Roediger, Kendrick Babcock Chair of History and Afro-American Studes at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. A long-time scholar-activist, his books include The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class and How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon.
Roediger is introduced by Professor Nathan Godfried of the Department of History at the University of Maine.
Today’s talk focuses on Professor Roediger’s study of the life and work of his late friend and colleague, the labor activist and historian for the Industrial Workers of the World, Fred Thompson. Thompson died in 1987.
I found the discussion of Thompson’s years as a professor at Work People’s College in Duluth, Minnesota personally quite interesting. This was a labor school founded by radical Finns and operated for about fifty years from the 1920s to 1970.
David Roediger [53:32m]:
Play Now |
Play in Popup |
Download
Published on
April 4, 2009 in
Economy, Podcasts and Workers/unions.
Tags: Barack Obama, Bath Iron Works, Bruce Gagnon, Doug Allen, environment, Joseph Gerson, labor, nuclear weapons, organizing, Penobscot Nation.
This is the podcast for the WERU Weekend Voices/peacecast.us Special featuring our Active Community Teach-in on New Strategies for Organizing in the Obama Era that broadcast on Saturday April 4, 2009 at 3 pm. The event was held Saturday March 21, 2009 in Bangor at the Unitarian Universalist Church.
The previous post included the full-length keynote talk by Joseph Gerson. There is more information HERE.
Download, rss, and iTunes links are found at this site. The download links are directly below each post. Rss and iTunes links are below near the end of the righthand column.
The first half of this WERU-broadcast version is part of the keynote given by Joseph Gerson of AFSC in New England. He is introduced first by Ilze Pertersons of the , then by Bruce Gagnon of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.
Four additional speakers from the event then address a wide range of local activism on war & peace, environmental, labor, and foreign policy issues. They include:
- Mary Beth Sullivan of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space who discusses economic conversion of Bath Iron Works
- John Banks, Natural Resources Dir. of the Penobscot Nation on local environmental issues
- Steve Husson of Food AND Medicine in Brewer discussing Labor and the Employee Free Choice Act
- Professor Doug Allen of the University of Maine, who ties everything together.
Please also visit the marvelous audio archive site at WERU where you can listen to any WERU public affairs program in case you miss it over the air (or live outside the WERU signal range).
Two additional links that may be of interest are Bruce Gagnon’s excellent blog, Organizing Notes, and the Peace and Economic Security Program for the American Friends Service Committee in New England.
WERU special [58:40m]:
Play Now |
Play in Popup |
Download
Cheri Honkala of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign spoke in Orono, Maine on the University of Maine campus on Thursday April 2. This is the podcast of her 61-minute program and extensive question and answer session.
Cheri Honkala just left Maine after an extensive tour. Information about the tour is posted at the Maine Association of Independent Neighborhoods, HERE. Below is additional (pre-tour) information from local organizer, Larry Dansinger.
Continue reading ‘Cheri Honkala: Economic Human Rights’
Cheri Honkala [61:28m]:
Play Now |
Play in Popup |
Download
![[Valid RSS]](valid-rss.png "Validate my RSS feed")
