This approximately 30-minute program was broadcast on WERU Voices for March 18, 2008. Shenna and I discuss Real ID (Maine is leading national dissent from Homeland Security policy), and the Military Commissions for Terror War detainees. Click HERE for recent posts in the Maine Owl blog giving some background on rights and justice issues, along with links to news stories about William Haynes and Col. Morris Davis, who are discussed in the program (these are February 2008 posts).
This approximately 30-minute program was broadcast on WERU Voices for March 11, 2008. Shenna and I discuss government surveillance, telecom. company immunity, and the so-called “Protect America Act.” Click HERE for all recent posts in the Maine Owl blog giving some background on the surveillance state, government snooping, and telecom. immunity.
12th Annual Greater Bangor NAACP and University of Maine Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast
This rocks!
This outstanding podcast and video features a speech given by University of Maine Professor of Philosophy, Doug Allen. Doug’s complete bio appears below the fold.
Doug covers Dr. King’s philosophy, methods, and the lessons we must learn from his true legacy. Unfortunately, a “fake” King is the image typically in use today. Doug also reads the not-enough-read King texts. And he calls us out to disrupt our normal compliance with injustices we see around us everywhere in plain site–as King would. Ending our acquiescence to the litany of war, multi-faceted violence, and economic horrors that especially affect the most vulnerable is the major theme in King’s life and the one that Doug helps us understand is the lesson we should learn when we honor that life today.
The downloadable audio-only attached podcast is basically the same as the video, except included are an introduction by emcee Angel Loredo and additional concluding remarks.
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Professor Bhikhu Parekh is one of the most distinguished scholars and remarkable public figures to have visited the University of Maine in 2007. He was the Philosophy Distinguished Visiting Scholar and gave several sessions on April 12, 2007. This post contains the evening speech as broadcast on WERU Community Radio, and the extended question & answer session that accompanied that speech.
Educated in India and an influential figure in the United Kingdom, he is world-renowned author of numerous books. A member of the House of Lords, he is also an influential public figure working on issues of multi-ethnic relations, violence, and mutual understanding.
Please check back for the additional program on Gandhi and Marx…
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Arjun Makhijani, Founder and President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in Tacoma Park, Maryland spoke on “Achieving a Carbon-Free Society Without Nuclear Energy” on November 8, 2007.
Makhijani, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He was the principal author of the first study (1971) ever done on energy conservation potential for the U.S. economy. This study was even more remarkable as it was published two years before the 1973 oil embargo which was pivotal in our understanding of our dependence on fossil fuels. He has also written or edited four books on energy and the environment.
An edited 26-minute version of this talk broadcast on WERU on January 1, 2008. The full version is approximately 72 minutes.
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Scary Middle Class crises
Shot at the Labor Temple in Brewer, Maine, this video is a trip through the Underworld featuring job stress, pension loss, health care failure, & crushing debt. Worker solidarity is the only way to slay these monsters. Created by William Rice for the Eastern Maine Labor Council & Food AND Medicine, October 2007.
This special podcast features Maine attorney and civil liberties champion Phil Worden. Phil Worden, along with his colleague, attorney Lynne Williams, received the 2007 Hands of Peace award from the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine. This program is Phil Worden’s short but powerful acceptance speech given at the Center’s annual Harvest Supper event at the Unitarian Universalist church on Park Street in Bangor, Maine on Saturday October 13, 2007.
Update 12/28/2007: The shameless reactionary Jonah Goldberg has published a book called “Liberal Fascism.” Sheesh, what passes for conservative intellectualism these days! The blog Sadly, No! explains the folly here. Phil Worden would find the musings of Goldberg and the insufferable Glenn Reynolds beyond the pale in ignorance about the nature of real fascism. Orcinus explains that Goldberg merely repeats propaganda the Nazis created about themselves beginning eight decades ago.
“It is because of us that the Euphrates River runs thick with red blood” –Mary Alice Horrigan
Incredible coverage in the October 1, 2007 edition of The Bangor Daily News, please click image for newspaper’s website
Re-raising Lady Liberty
Below is the order of events at the rally with the beginning time of each segment in the 53-minute-long mp3 file. Audio of the eight-minute speech by Gold Star mother Mary Alice Horrigan (discussed in the incredible Bangor Daily News article linked to above) begins at 23:12 with her introduction by Doug Allen.
End the War – Build the Peace
Rally & demonstration, Saturday September 29, 2007 at the “Paul Bunyan” park on Main Street in Bangor
Drumming — Peter Baldwin and Friends Tolling of Bells by area churches (audio not included here)
0:00 Introduction—Doug Allen, Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine, Maine Peace Action Committee (MPAC)
10:12 The Economic Costs of War—U Maine Students of Maine Peace Action Committee
17:46 “The Circle is Broken”—David McLean, singer, song-writer with Maria Irrera
23:12 Mourning the Iraq War Dead—Mary Alice Horrigan, Gold Star Mother
31:02 Reading of Names of Iraq War Dead—Members of Military Families Speak Out and Veterans for Peace (participants lie down to represent war dead or stand silently as mourners).
Bagpipe tribute—Peter Beckford, Simon Beckford and Ursa Beckford (audio not included here)
37:23 Mourning the loss of civil liberties—Lady Liberty in State—Peter Baldwin Responsive reading of parts of the Declaration of Independence
42:05 Rise up with signs and symbols of alternatives to war and sing along “Women’s Peace Prayer,” “We are One” “Peace, Salaam, Shalom” Voices for Peace and Women with Wings (end of audio file)
Chain of Concern—line up along Main Street with signs and symbols
Hepting v. AT&T; FISA revision; Military Commissions and torture
My interview with Maine Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Shenna Bellows (recorded Thursday August 30) is available below for direct listening or download. This is a 128 kbit/44 kHz file (53 MB, mp3). The entire program runs about 1 hour.
This program broadcasts on WERU Community Radio, Blue Hill, Maine on the Weekend Voices program for Saturday September 1, 3pm.
Below the fold are additional notes and links for clips and news stories heard or referenced during the interview.
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