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Tide Mill Farm

Published on November 26, 2009 in Food and agriculture and Podcasts. 2 Comments

Update: Here is a direct link for the MOOMilk organization in addition to the Facebook link below:

http://www.moomilkco.com./

Welcome WERU listeners who heard the Thanksgiving Day special featuring Aaron Bell and Carly DelSignore of Tide Mill Farm in Edmunds. You may listen here or download the program for your iPod or other audio listening device using the link below (yep, for free).

For more information on Tide Mill Farm, please visit HERE.

MOOMilk is beginning to become available. Click HERE for the MOOMilk page. The most up-to-date information probably is on FaceBook.

 
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David Swanson in Bangor

Published on November 7, 2009 in Podcasts and politics. Closed Tags: , , , , , .

David Swanson at the Peace Center in Bangor 11-5-2009Please click above for the full-length video version.

This post is the audio podcast featuring the second of two appearances by David Swanson in the Bangor-Orono area on Thursday November 5, 2009.

David Swanson is author of Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union, among the current top-ten Amazon best-sellers. He is founder of After Downing Street, a non-partisan coalition seeking to hold members of the Bush Administration accountable for crimes and abuses of power. David Swanson is introduced by U Maine Professor of History, Alex Grab.

The audio includes the complete 7pm event at the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine on Park Street in Bangor. Play it here using the Flash player button or use the download link to save an mp3 file. Full-program video also is available for this event by clicking the above image. An audio-only podcast of the David Swanson noontime talk on Undoing the Imperial Presidency given at the Memorial Union on the University of Maine campus in Orono is available HERE in the previous post.

Please see the links below right for iTunes and RSS site feeds. And please leave us a comment with your reaction to these remarkable programs. Thank you to David Swanson for being on top of his game during our stop on his grueling tour.

 
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David Swanson at U Maine

Published on November 6, 2009 in Podcasts. Closed Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .

David Swanson at U Maine, Nov. 5, 2009UNDOING THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY

David Swanson is author of Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union, among the current top-ten Amazon best-sellers. He is founder of After Downing Street, a non-partisan coalition seeking to hold members of the Bush Administration accountable for crimes and abuses of power.

This audio podcast features one of two appearances by David Swanson in the Bangor-Orono area on Thursday November 5, 2009. It is the talk given at the Memorial Union on the University of Maine campus as part of the Thursday series sponsored by Marxist and Socialist Studies and the Maine Peace Action Committee.

David Swanson is introduced by U Maine Professor of History, Alex Grab.

Update Saturday 11/7: Audio and video of David Swanson’s 7pm program at the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine in Bangor has posted at those links.

 
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Doug Allen on Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj

Published on October 10, 2009 in Gandhi and Podcasts. Closed Tags: , , , , , , .

This audio podcast features Professor Doug Allen of the Department of Philosophy, University of Maine, speaking about THE CENTENARY OF GANDHI’S MOST IMPORTANT BOOK, HIND SWARAJ: ITS RELEVANCE TO VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM TODAY.

Doug Allen has served on the faculty in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Maine since 1974. He is a scholar of the phenomenology of religion, and has written and spoken extensively on the application of Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy to today’s struggles of violence, war, and peace. Doug is a founding member of the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine.

Doug spoke October 1, 2009 at the Memorial Union on the University of Maine campus in Orono during the Fall 2009 Socialist and Marxist Studies Thursday series. The program runs about 75 minutes.

 
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Jerry Call on Medicare for all

Published on September 18, 2009 in Health and Podcasts. Closed Tags: , , , , , .

This audio podcast is a talk by health activist Jerry Call given at the University of Maine on Thursday September 17, 2009. The full title is CAN MEDICARE FOR ALL SOLVE THE HEALTHCARE CRISIS? Jerry Call is a cancer survivor and co-founder of the grassroots organization Maine Health Care Reform. Jerry is one of the key statewide single-payer advocates in Maine. He was one of the “Baucus 13″, arrested for disrupting Congress during an industry-heavy Senate Committee hearing last May (see the incident by playing the video HERE, and also the May news conference at the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine.) He is a tireless campaigner for the Medicare for All bill, HR 676.

 
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Hiroshima/Nagasaki commemoration (audio)

Published on August 15, 2009 in Podcasts and nuclear. Closed

This audio-only podcast is the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine event commemorating the 64th anniversary of the two nuclear bombings of civilian populations. This program including readings and prayer took place outside the Bangor Public Library in Peirce Park at noon Thursday August 6th, 2009. A full description of the event may be found HERE.

 
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Dr. Diane Balser: Two-state solution

Published on August 8, 2009 in Israel/Palestine and Podcasts. Closed

Dr. Diane Balser, co-chair of  the Advocacy and Public Policy Committee of Brit Tzedek v’Shalom, discusses and promotes a two-state solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict July 28, 2009 at Congregation Beth El in Bangor, Maine. This program  broadcast on WERU Community Radio Weekend Voices, August 8, 2009. From the website:

Brit Tzedek v’Shalom is America’s largest grassroots Jewish organization dedicated to promoting a negotiated two-state resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This means promoting a U.S. foreign policy which supports Israel, the Palestinians, and the Arab states in making the difficult compromises that are needed for a negotiated solution.

Diane Balser is,

the former Executive Director of Brit Tzedek v’Shalom …. She is currently a professor of Women’s Studies at Boston University. From 1983-1994, Balser founded, built and directed the Women’s Legislative Network of Massachusetts and served as the lobbyist in the State House for the network’s sister organization, the Women’s Lobby.

Brit Tzedek v’Shalom is conducting a campaign to support the Obama Administration called “We’ve Got Your Back as You Stand with Israel, Mr. President.” Diane Balser discusses this effort in it’s full context in the talk.

A companion program broadcast earlier this summer and is archived at WERU, HERE:

Aziz Abu Sarah, a Palestinian now living in the U.S., speaking in Bangor, Maine on 6/24/09 on the topic of Palestinians and Israelis working together for peace.

For more information about the local chapter of Brit Tzedek v’Shalom, contact Barbara Kates at bkates50@hotmail.com or 207-947-6858.

 
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Health care rally in Bangor 6-27-2009

Published on June 29, 2009 in Health and Podcasts. Closed

Link to Bangor health care rally June 27, 2009 VIDEOOn Saturday a vocal group of nearly 100 gathered at Pickering Square in Bangor to demand health insurance reform in America. The target of the demonstration was the harm done to the American people because insurance companies cruelly are organized with insistence for high financial return and callous disregard for health outcomes. Anthem was singled out for quite strident criticism. The quality of the speakers and the compelling stories told along those lines make this event very worthwhile. A link to my 24-minute video of the full program along with additional commentary is above right. This post has the audio-only podcast.

WLBZ/WCSH television provided statewide coverage, story HERE. The Bangor Daily News also has a story up on the web, HERE.

Locally the Maine People’s Alliance (MPA) and labor-oriented Food AND Medicine supported this event. The related national organizing effort is under the flag of Health Care for America Now, a broad coalition of labor, economic justice, and other social change groups that promotes “10 principles for reform that have been endorsed by President Obama and more than 190 members of Congress.”

This is the list of speakers in order of first appearance:

  • Don Todd, activist from Etna, Maine
  • Dr. Elizabeth Weiss, Bangor physician
  • Leslie Mansfield, Bangor business owner
  • Dr. Benjamin Schaefer, Bangor cardiologist
  • Alice Knapp, Esq., Attorney in Richmond
 
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Doug Allen: Gandhi in Times of Terror

Published on April 15, 2009 in Podcasts. Closed Tags: , , , , , , .

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.

 
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Maine Fair Trade Campaign’s Sarah Bigney

Published on April 12, 2009 in Economy, Food and agriculture, Podcasts and Workers/unions. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , , .

What does "fair trade" in coffee really mean

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.

 
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