Stuart Acuff at EMLC July 4 event

Published on June 30, 2007 in Podcasts and Video. Closed

Fiery union speech!

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Recorded at Brewer, Maine on July 4, 2006

With the annual 4th of July celebration at the Eastern Maine Labor Council rapidly approaching, it’s a good time to re-watch the video of the incredible oratory AFL-CIO organizer Stuart Acuff gave at this event in 2006. You’ll just have to listen to it to get the full effect!

“…lies like none of us have expected since Richard Nixon…
they lied to get us into an un-necessary war,
they lied about torture,
they lied about extraordinary renditions,
and they have lied to deface and defame the honor of the United States of America…

“Bush trade policy has cost us 3 million good manufacturing jobs.”

–Stuart Acuff

This 10-minute video is edited slightly to fit into YouTube. The audio-only file, accessible below, plays as delivered.

 
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Dennis Kucinich at 2004 Maine Democratic State Convention

Published on June 29, 2007 in Video. 2 Comments

 
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Recorded in Portland, Maine May 22, 2004

This post is a test of the Podpress media player plugin. Dennis had and has it righter than any other Democrat.

Friday nature blogging

Published on June 29, 2007 in Nature photography. Closed

Petit Manan Point

A new feature of peacecast.us will be Friday posts with images of peace and serenity from the natural world. Today’s image is of the rocky coast of Maine from Petit Manan Point in Steuben. We saw no other human there during our day trip on Monday.

Most often these posts will include an image from Maine taken during the previous week. Sometimes one from the archives will post. If you enjoy these, please let me know.

Building the site

Published on June 28, 2007 in Site news. Closed

This is just a short note to let visitors know that restoration of peacecast.us is continuing. One hang-up has been getting images to sit properly. But I think I have a handle on that, except I can’t get captions to work like I’d like them to. Please give this process another week or so before expecting the site to be up-to-date.

Meanwhile, it’s good to go through the archive programs and re-listen to some. Today I have played back Medea Benjamin and the Hiroshima Day event. These are terrific programs to have available. Stan Goff too, as I have that program from almost 20 months ago featured. I’d say it’s clairvoyant about what has happened in Iraq during that time, except it really did not take a genius to understand that Goff was right about everything he said.

March 18 demonstration in Bangor

Published on June 28, 2007 in Video. Closed

The March 18 peace symbol event in Bangor, Maine was a strong anti-war statement given by 500 area people. Peacecast.us recorded the event and produced a video that placed March 18 in context of anti-war activism in Bangor over the last four years:

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This video also is posted at From Every Village Green.

Now, additional media is available. The podcast presented here includes audio of the entire event. Community radio WERU broadcast a short excerpt of this file along with other audio from peace events around the state on the March 24, 2006 Weekend Voices program. Below the fold is an archive image of the extraordinary newspaper coverage the event received.

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Counterpunch website of the weekend

Published on June 27, 2007 in Site news. Closed

For the weekend of March 25/26, 2006, Counterpunch chose peacecast.us as its Site of the Weekend. This is about the greatest recognition and honor I can imagine this little effort could have received. There is still traffic from that link, the latest a few hours ago from this Counterpunch page. Thank you Alex and Jeffrey for the amazing resource that is Counterpunch. And thanks to all Counterpunch readers who have given this site a try.

I hope that with this new design, what you’ll see–and hear–here is evidence that we in eastern Maine are busy day in, day out, building a community of peacemakers with analysis, arguments, influence, and power.

New peacecast.us

Published on June 27, 2007 in Site news. 1 Comment

Even though Deep Blade Journal has ended, podcast production and posting will continue here at peacecast.us. There will be a time period now when most of the archives will be off line. Not all archive posts and accompanying podcasts will be restored. But, several podcasts that have been in the can since October 2006 (some of which have already broadcast on WERU Community Radio, 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine and 102.9 FM Bangor, Maine). A full list of these programs will appear in a subsequent post.

Please email me at info at peacecast.us if you have any questions.

Comment policy

Published on June 26, 2007 in Uncategorized. Closed

  • You now can post an anonymous or pseudonymous comment without registering.
  • Your first comment briefly will be held for moderation. After that, your comments will post to the site immediately.
  • There are spam filters erected. We’ll see how they work.
  • The comment forms are now open for 45 days, or for 10 days past the last posting, whichever is later.
  • Http links are limited to two per comment.
  • I am pretty open to any opinions being posted here, even ones that I find utterly abhorent (and I’ll tell you so, but I won’t delete you).
  • I will delete spam, ugly personal attacks, and serious threats
  • I will not delete racist remarks, except for reasons given above. So be careful, what you write will live a long time here.
  • It’s been pretty rare to have contentious debates at Deep Blade, too rare. I’d like to have more. I do not encourage flame wars and have never had one on the site, even amongst people with whom I have strongly disagreed.
  • Please jump in and have fun!

About

Published on June 26, 2007 in Uncategorized. Closed

Peacecast.us is a project of Eric & Tammy Perry Olson. It is associated with the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine through our volunteer activities. Many of the programs found here are those sponsored by the Center in one way or another.  All programs on this site are always free downloads.Occasionally you can hear broadcast versions of our programs on WERU Community Radio 89.9 MHz FM, Blue Hill, Maine.

The main intent of this site is to distribute original, locally-produce media that offer insights or reporting of events with implications for the peace movement and issues of war and peace in the world.

While our ongoing costs to produce this site are quite low, it does take a lot of time. And getting to places in order to record can be very time consuming and often can generate additional costs. Equipment is our major cost. We have tons of drives and over a terabyte of available storage. We built a new ultra-quiet computer this year at a cost of over $1200. That’s not bad considering it has so much power to develop the programs you hear, but it does bite our resources. The really big thing, however, is that we have invested nearly $3000 in mikes, cables, stands, a small video camera, recording boxes, and software we use for producing the programs you download without charge. Now that’s pretty serious. But we believe in this little thing, so we do it.

How about you? Do you like what you hear when you download? Do you believe in quality, alternative media? Don’t you think it’s worth making a small donation to help us maintain this site and improve our production capabilities? $5 to $25 per user is the appropriate range, but any amount is welcome. Please help. Please click the PayPal “Donate” button at right and follow the instructions. You may use your PayPal account, or just supply a credit card number if you do not have PayPal. It’s fast and easy. Please help. Thank you!

Chris Hedges on war

Published on April 3, 2007 in Podcasts and Uncategorized. Closed

This is a very special podcast featuring internationally recognized journalist and author Chris Hedges. Chris Hedges gave a major address in Orono, Maine on the 3rd of April as the 2007 John M. Rezendes Visiting Scholar in Ethics at the University of Maine Honors College.

Before discussing his seminal book, War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Chris Hedges reminded the audience of our responsibilities as citizens to hold our own government accountable to domestic and international law with respect to its relations with the State of Iran.

According to the handbill distributed to the large April 3, 2007 audience in Corbett Hall on the University of Maine campus, Chris Hedges was a foreign correspondent for nearly 20 years, working as the bureau chief in the Middle East and the Balkans, as well as in other assignments, for The New York Times from 1990 to 2005. He previously worked for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and National Public Radio. Chris was a member of the New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty international Global Award for Human Rights Journalism, he is the author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and his latest book, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America, was published this year.

Professor Burt Hatlen of the University of Maine Department of English introduces the speaker, calling War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning a book that is “a useful tonic for an America that had in many ways gone mad.”

 
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