Maine Owl

Update: The program has aired. The podcast and additional information is at peacecast.us.

This post is a copy of Maine Owl Newsletter No. 12, sent to the regular mailing list this afternoon

Hello Friends of Maine Owl & peacecast.us,

At 3pm THIS AFTERNOON (in 1 hour!), a WERU Weekend Voices/peacecast.us Special will air featuring our Active Community Teach-in on New Strategies for Organizing in the Obama Era. This was the event held Saturday March 21, 2009 in Bangor at the Unitarian Universalist Church.

There is more information HERE and there are download/rss/iTunes links at peacecast.us. The podcast of the full-length keynote is posted in those places, as will be this WERU broadcast after it airs.

The first half of the broadcast is part of the keynote given by Joseph Gerson of AFSC in New England. He is introduced first by Ilze Pertersons of the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine, 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 also will be able to listen to the show later 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.

HOPE Festival APRIL 25
Click below for exciting information about the upcoming HOPE Festival in poster form, including download links for the flyer and poster in pdf format!

Saturday, April 25th • 11 A.M.-4 P.M.
Student Recreation and Fitness Center, University of Maine, Orono

We'd really like to hear from you, even if it's only just to say you listened to the WERU program. Please use the "comment" link below. Thanks!