Maine Owl

A number of great audio podcasts are available at peacecast.us. Here is a list. They all are available for free listening off the web or free downloading to your iPod or other device that can play mp3 audio files (iTunes and rss feeds are available).

Cheri Honkala: Economic Human Rights
Cheri Honkala of the Poor People?s Economic Human Rights Campaign spoke on the University of Maine campus Thursday April 2. The podcast is her 61-minute program and extensive question and answer session. Honkala just left Maine after an extensive tour.

"Organizing in the Obama Era" Teach-In (was on WERU)
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. This program broadcast Saturday April 4, 2009 on Community Radio WERU. The event was held Saturday March 21, 2009 in Bangor at the Unitarian Universalist Church.

David Roediger: Writing Socialist History
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. Professor Roediger's main focus is 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.

Doug Allen: Gandhi in Times of Terror
Just after returning from India, Doug gave a talk "Recent Reflections from India: the November 26, 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai and Gandhi in times of terror." An article related to this topic appears in the new Spring 2009 issue of the Maine Peace Action Committee Newsletter. (The newsletter is print only and not on line. If you'd like to contact me to receive a copy, please log in--first use Create Account if you don't have one--then use the Contact Form to send a message.)

Sarah Bigney: The Two Fair Trade Movements
This podcast features a talk University of Maine graduate Sarah Bigney gave at the U Maine campus last fall, "The Two Fair Trade Movements: Bridging the Divide Between Buying Coffee and Repealing NAFTA." She 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.

Do they hate us for our freedoms?
This is a great presentation from this Spring's Thursday Controvery Series at the University of Maine. It features professor of philosophy Shane Ralston on "Do They Hate Us for Our Freedoms? A Deweyan Analysis of the Bush Doctrine." The audio podcast runs about 56 minutes. Professor Doug Allen of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Maine introduces the program.