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WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives

Community Radio WERU FM 89.9 Blue Hill and 102.9 Bangor, Maine

Audio archives of spoken word programming on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine and 102.9 Bangor, Maine (weru.org)

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57:30

Wabanaki Windows 11/25/25: Robert Talbot Civil Rights...

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/25

Host: Donna Loring Other credits: Technical assistance for the show was provided by Joel Mann of WERU, and Jessica Lockhart. Music by Ralph Richter, a track called little eagles from his CD Dream Walk. Wabanaki Windows is a monthly show featuring topics of interest from a Wabanaki perspective. This month: Paper Chains How Treaties, Laws and policy on Paper have deep abiding affects on Tribal Nations and Communities of Color for generations. Keynote address by Donna Loring. About the host: Donna M

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5:44

Outside the Box 11/25/25: “Chazerei”

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/25

Producer/Host: Larry Dansinger About the host: Larry Dansinger (no pronouns) of Bangor came to Maine in 1974 and has been here ever since. Some of Larry’s activities since then: Done community organizing on numerous issues through INVERT and then Resources for Organizing and Social Change (ROSC), committed civil disobedience several times, grown a garden yearly since 1977, joined various food cooperatives and two men’s groups, refused to pay federal income taxes for war, lived on a community land

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5:22

Around Town 11/25/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/25

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine DHHS Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) info UnitedHealth’s former chief tops US managed care CEO pay list in 2024, Tyler Hammel and Jason Woleben, S&P Global, 20 Aug, 2025 About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since

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5:06

Around Town 11/24/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/24

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Unprecedented Number of Apprehensions by the U.S. Border Patrol in Maine. Follow them on facebook @ US Border Patrol Houlton Sector Maine ICE Watch Resource Hub & hotline: (207) 544-9989 The Conscious Café, in conjunction with Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry, will offer a free community Thanksgiving meal on Thursday, November 27 from 11 to 4 PM at the cafe, 50 Church Street in Ellsworth. About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public

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59:40

Democracy Forum 11/21/25: Constitutional Crisis: The...

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/21

Host: Ann Luther, League of Women Voters of Maine Production Assistance: Linda Washburn, Joel Mann Democracy Forum: Participatory Democracy, encouraging citizens to take an active role in government and politics. This month: We’ll talk about the continuing concentration of executive power in the office of the President of the United States. What has been the historical precedent? How unusual is this moment? What is the unitary executive theory, its origins and implications, and how it’s

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4:29

Around Town 11/21/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/21

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Flash in the Pans Accepting Applications for 2026 Summer’s Monday Night Benefit Pan Dances. Seasons of Maine, produced by Sullivan resident Evan Procko, a young, amateur filmmaker, is playing at The Grand Theater in Ellsworth, Saturday, 11/22 at 7pm. All ticket proceeds will benefit research for a cure of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Artivism in Maine (AIMe) Artist Reception on Saturday, November 22 at 4 PM, celebrating artists featured in AIMe’s 3rd Freedom &

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3:57

Around Town 11/20/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/20

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Forever Ours: PFAS and Plastics Opening Reception “The Shaw Institute is proud to host Forever Ours: PFAS and Plastics, a thought-provoking art exhibition exploring humanity’s complex relationship with persistent materials like microplastics and PFAS. The exhibit, which runs through summer of 2026, opens with a public reception on Saturday, November 22, from 4:00pm – 6:00pm at the Shaw Institute’s Environmental Education Center in downtown Blue Hill, Maine.”

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4:09

Around Town 11/19/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/19

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Beloved Children’s Author’s Family Torches DHS for Using Book Title in Immigration Raids Tom Latchem, Daily Beast, Nov. 17 2025 Granddaughter of ‘Charlotte’s Web’ author criticizes use of book title in DHS immigration crackdown operation, Cindy Von Quednow and Chris Boyette, CNN, Nov 16, 2025 The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF) announces the launch of the Maine Food Access Map For questions about the map or to request an update to a

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6:38

Outside the Box 11/18/25: “Soft Secession”

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/18

Producer/Host: Larry Dansinger About the host: Larry Dansinger (no pronouns) of Bangor came to Maine in 1974 and has been here ever since. Some of Larry’s activities since then: Done community organizing on numerous issues through INVERT and then Resources for Organizing and Social Change (ROSC), committed civil disobedience several times, grown a garden yearly since 1977, joined various food cooperatives and two men’s groups, refused to pay federal income taxes for war, lived on a community land

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3:37

Around Town 11/18/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/18

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Stress Reduction for the Holidays Workshop, Beth C. Wright Cancer Resource Center (in person or via zoom) Friday, November 22, 2025 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Free and open to the public (registration encouraged) To learn more, register, or request the Zoom link, please call 207-664-0339, email info@bethwrightcancercenter.org, Please place “HOLIDAY” in the subject line of the email. Acadia National Park, Park Loop Road closures A Place at the Table: Holding Grief through the

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3:57

Around Town 11/17/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/17

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Opera House Arts is looking for people who would like to take part in a community reading of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at the Stonington Opera House next month. Cause IQ Activate Maine has launched a community-powered statewide database connecting people with food resources (and vice versa) About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco

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3:28

Around Town 11/14/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/14

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Severine Welcome joins us to talk about a new way to connect the downeast food producers with people looking for local food FMI: Eat Downeast About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive,

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3:15

Around Town 11/13/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/13

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Indivisible Bangor is looking for volunteers to help with their Saturday protests at Home Depot. Contact Indivisible Bangor for more information and/or to volunteer FMI/background: Home Depot keeps quiet on immigration raids outside its doors (8/19) NPR As ICE Targets Home Depot Stores, Advocates Say Company Is Failing To Protect Day Laborers (10/31) Block Club Chicago (non-profit local news) US: ICE Abuses in Los Angeles Set Stage for Other Cities (11/4) Human Rights Watch

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4:33

Around Town 11/12/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/12

Host/Producer: Amy Browne U.S. Geological Survey issues alert for downeast and northern Maine, as they start, this month, to use low-flying planes to conduct an “Earth MRI”. About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to

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6:08

Outside the Box 11/11/25: “Secession (Again)”

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/11

Producer/Host: Larry Dansinger About the host: Larry Dansinger (no pronouns) of Bangor came to Maine in 1974 and has been here ever since. Some of Larry’s activities since then: Done community organizing on numerous issues through INVERT and then Resources for Organizing and Social Change (ROSC), committed civil disobedience several times, grown a garden yearly since 1977, joined various food cooperatives and two men’s groups, refused to pay federal income taxes for war, lived on a community land

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5:56

Around Town 11/11/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/11

Host/Producer: Amy Browne U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner reacts to news Monday afternoon that an agreement had been reached to reopen the federal government, by a small number of Democrats who joined the Republicans. About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager

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4:36

Around Town 11/10/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/10

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine Equal Justice update on the SNAP crisis (Part 2 of 2. Part 1 aired on 11/7/25) About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy

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4:56

Around Town 11/7/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/07

Host/Producer: Amy Browne “Standing in Solidarity: Educating for Justice in Palestine,” forums in Orono (Friday, November 7, 6:30-8 PM, Wilson Center) and Bangor (Saturday, November 8, 3-4:30 PM Public Library), sponsored by the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine and UMaine Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Maine Equal Justice update on the SNAP crisis (more on Monday’s AT) Ellsworth Clean-upE-Waste Disposal Day About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a

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57:41

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour 11/6/25

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/06

Host: Stephanie McFeeters, Interim Editor at The Maine Monitor. The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting. This month: We hear from Report for America corps member Daniel O’Connor about his reporting on the budget crisis in Washington County and the Maine school districts that have voted to change policies around transgender students

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Around Town 11/6/25: Local News, Culture and Events

WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives ·

2025/11/06

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, Senator Angus King, and at least 70 other members of Congress have issued a letter in opposition the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) recently announced interim final rule ending the automatic extension of employment authorization documents (EAD) for individuals who have filed timely renewal applications. You may submit comments on the entirety of this IFR, identified by DHS Docket No. USCIS-2025-0271, through the

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