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2nd Quarter WERU Funathon-Membership-Pledge Drive UPDATE:
UPDATE: Thanks to everyone’s positive work (on-air and on the phones, plus pre and post-drive mailings) we’ve raised $39,314 towards our 2nd quarter goal of $58,000, which leaves $18,686 to go to keep up with the station budget. (We are approximately $5,000 behind where we were after last year’s June drive.) We also recruited 85 new members during the drive (including over 20 from the “new” signal areas and 12 from online listeners). Thanks to all for your terrific pledge drive work!
So, how will we close the $18,686 gap to keep pace with our already lean station budget? Lapsed member renewal letters have gone out and are already starting to bring in funds. We’ll also do some phone banking to a few larger donors. Plus, WERU just received word this week from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that we will soon receive a bonus grant for $19,500 that we can use for anything we want (operating budget, special projects, whatever) which will really help in closing the current budget gap. (The CPB awarded us the grant because of our successful effort last fall to expand our signal area and serve more people. It is a bonus on top of the $90,000+ we receive each year from the CPB.) -Matt Murphy, WERU General Manager
Thanks from our Office & Volunteer Coordinator (on behalf of the entire staff): "Thank you for helping out on the pledge drive. We had 54 volunteer phone answerers, about 75 hosts and 45 co-hosts). There were about a dozen folks who also brought food with their shift that either they made, purchased, or asked a good cookin’ “significant other” to make. For sure, there was a lot of overlap with programmers and producers being co-hosts or phone answerers. And, as always, additional gifts were often from the volunteer pool supporting community radio every way possible. The pitching was really great during the drive. In summary, there were about 150 volunteers working together in a wonderful spirit of appreciation." -Chris Stark, WERU Office & Volunteer Coordinator
Dog Wants Out Famers' Market Music Tour.
Hi nice folks at WERU,
I hope that you’ve heard something of the Dog Wants Out Farmer’s Market Tour that’s going on this summer in partnership with WERU Community Radio, the Unity Barn Raisers, and the Maine Community Music Project.
In a nutshell, our band is playing hum along songs for the farmer’s market crowd at local food events this growing season. WERU is the promotional partner for the band and tour.
The website is www.dogwantsout.org.
Thanks for your help.
-John Zavodny
Dog Wants Out is: Rob Constantine on folk keyboards (more on that later), Anna McGalliard, originally from Hickory North Carolina on banjo, Sara Trunzo singing and playing the mandolin, and John Zavodny on guitar and vocal.
The Featured ARTIST of the Week:
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 WERU invites you to tune in every weekday morning during our Morning Maine's eclectic mix of Americana at 7:45 to catch The Featured Artist of the Week. This segment is intended to help promote and highlight the wonderful gigs and performances of local, obscure & world renown artists. Morning hosts will discuss the artist and announce CD & ticket giveaways.
June 29th - July 3rdh: Bruce "Utah" Phillips...
Songwriter, Storyteller, Humorist, Philosopher, 1935–2008
“Kids don’t have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don’t have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that. That’s why I sing these songs. That’s why I tell these stories, dammit. No root, no fruit!”
When Bruce Phillips was released from the U.S. Army in 1959, after the Korean War, he felt angry, used, and lost. He lived as a hobo for several years, hopping trains and listening to tales from people who had been “spit out” by industrial society. From them, he says, “I got a vision of who I really was and where I came from, something I never got in school.”
 But Phillips found more than that: In his home state of Utah, he met Ammon Hennacy, who introduced him to the Catholic Worker movement and to the principles of both nonviolence and anarchy. As a result, Phillips vowed to lay down “the weapons of privilege” and to take personal responsibility each day for making the world a better place. And in Saratoga Springs, New York, he claimed his place in what he calls “the great folk music scare of the 1960s,” adopting “Utah” as his stage name.
Four decades later, slightly slowed by heart disease, Utah Phillips packs cross-generational audiences into venues across the United States. His songs and stories, edgy with pain and piercing humor, tell of working-class and homeless folk, of war and peace. His recordings include I’ve Got to Know (1991); the four-CD Starlight on the Rails: A Songbook (2005); and, in collaboration with Ani DiFranco, The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere (1996), and Fellow Worker (1999), nominated for a Grammy Award. A renowned raconteur, Phillips hosted a weekly National Public Radio program, Loafer’s Glory: The Hobo Jungle of the Mind, until 2002.
Committed to taking individual responsibility instead of assigning it to elected officials, Phillips reluctantly voted for the first time in 2004—“to stand in for one of the victims of the kind of brutality that Washington brings to the world.” Then he returned to his own mission: offering levity to lift our souls, compassion to join our hands, and honesty to help us see how we must act.
Check out his website: http://www.utahphillips.org/
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Weekly WERU Public Affairs Roundup for 6/29/09 - 7/4/09:
This is WERU's News and Public Affairs Manager Amy Browne with a look ahead to the locally produced news and public affairs you can hear this week on YOUR community radio station:
Weekday mornings at 6:00 find "National Native News", at 7:00 find "Workers Independent News", at 8:00 catch "Democracy Now! Headlines" and at 8:30 listen to the "Hightower Report".
Weekday mornings at 6:30 and 7:30, and weekend mornings at 6:30 and 7:30, we have short features on a variety of topics, produced by WERU volunteers. Monday mornings at 6:30 it's "World Ocean Radio", and at 7:30 "A Word in Edgewise". Tuesdays at 6:30 the feature is "Esoterica" and at 7:30 it's "Outside the Box ". Wednesday mornings at 6:30 it's "Ask W.A.M." (the Wildlife Alliance of Maine) and at 7:30 EarthSense. On Thursday mornings at 6:30 it's "Natural Remedies " and at 7:30 "Notes from the Electronic Cottage". Friday mornings at 6:30 the feature is "Peak Oil Check In " and the 7:30 feature is "Awanadjo Almanac".
On Weekend mornings we air "Isla Earth" (Sat. & Sun. at 6:30), "Mindful Parenting" (Sat. at 7:30), "TBA" (Sun. at 7:30), "Café des Artistes", a roundup of Maine art news, openings and shows (Sat. at 8:30), "Awanadjo Almanac" repeated from Friday (Sun. at 8:30) and we run "The US/El Salvador Report" (Sat at 11:30 AM) followed by "Radio Bilingue News" (Sat. at 12 noon).
The short weekly feature "Peacetime" has moved to Monday afternoons. It will be airing during "Earthtones" between 2 and 4 o'clock.
Monday morning 6/29/09 at 10 o'clock am: "Alternative Radio". Check out their excellent website at: http://www.alternativeradio.org/
Tuesday morning 6/30/09 at 10 o'clock am: tune in for the next in host Magnus Johnstone’s series of "WERU Specials on Millennialism”. This month he’ll be getting the Mormon’s take on the subject.
Tuesday afternoon 6/30/09 at 4 o'clock pm:be sure to catch "Voices", the community audio magazine, produced here at WERU.
Wednesday morning 7/1/09 at 10 o'clock am: next health related show is the locally produced "Healthy Options" with host Cynthia Swan. The topic this month will be "Chronic Pain? Some Healthy Options"
Thursday morning 7/2/09 at 10 o'clock am: join host Jane Haskell for the monthly call in show, "Doing Business". The topic this month will be “Smoking & Quitting: How Does It Affect Small Businesses?”
Thursday afternoon 7/2/09 at 4 o'clock p m: join us for “RadioActive”, a grassroots environmental and social justice news journal produced by Meredith DeFrancesco and myself.
Friday morning 7/3/09 at 10 o'clock am... we’ll have another call-in show, "Renewable Radio", hosted by Dave Evans.
Saturday morning 7/4/09 at 10 o'clock am: join us for “Weekend Voices”, the community audio magazine produced hereat the station. We’ll have the next in Carolyn Coe’s series of reports back from her recent trip to Gaza, as well as Dave Evan’s profile of the Deer Isle Hostel
PODCASTS: As always, if you miss something, be sure to check them out at  . Almost all of our locally produced news and public affairs programs can be found there, and you can listen, free of charge, whenever it's convenient for YOU.
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