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Downeast & Bangor, a voice of many voices! Donate to WERU Today! WERU Community Radio WERU Community Radio 89.9 FM - diverse and grassroots radio serving Midcoast, Downeast & Bangor, a voice of many voices! Serving Midcoast, Downeast & Central Maine A Voice of Many Voices Listen to the Live Stream in pop-up window On Air NowSchedule Weekly Schedule (in flux due to pandemic) Alphabetical List of Shows News & Public Affairs Short Features Playlists Archives On-demand Calendar Community Calendar Submit an Event About Mission & Values Board of Directors Staff Committees Community Advisory Board Code of Conduct FCC, IRS & CPB History Radio Sumpul WERU in the Press Improving Radio Reception Radio Links Site Map Support Membership Donation Planned Giving Donate Your Car Underwriting Underwriters List Contact Station News Spring Donations to WERU! May 11, 2021 Our Spring Membership Drive will take place from Monday morning, May 17 to Saturday morning, May 23. Listeners provide over half of our annual budget and your generosity makes the station possible. Think of all the programming that you enjoy and value, whether you listen on the radio, website or phone app. Is it worth supporting the station with a donation, perhaps even your first donation ? We think so and hope that you do too! Thanks in advance! DONATE HERE! Read More … RIP Patrick Ruhle May 11, 2021 WERU volunteer Patrick Ruhle passed away on May 2 after a lengthy illness. Patrick was a long-time, behind-the-scenes volunteer who was especially noteworthy for doing so much off-air work, from carpentry to membership drive phone answering to outreach tabling at various community events. Patrick loved music, dancing and people and chatting. He was a great friend to many at WERU and we will miss him very much! Listen in our on-demand replay section to recent programs dedicated to Patrick: Jazz Alchemy, May 4 Blues Station, May 5 New Short Features on WERU May 5, 2021 Mornings on WERU feature a variety of short spoken-word features covering a wide range of topics. Here’s two locally-produced new features for your listening pleasure! The Technoptomist (Wednesdays, 7:30 a.m.): Teresa Carey produces a weekly newscast that covers recent breakthroughs of technology that aim to solve today’s problems. Teresa is a senior writer for the online magazine Freethink . Your Cosmic Curator (Saturdays, 7:30 a.m.): new volunteer Tom Yaroschuk is Your Cosmic Curator , presenting information and insights on astrology. Produced in the tradition of Boston’s iconic FM station WBCN and the Cosmic Muffin. There is ALWAYS something happening in the stars! Read More … Divided We Stand: Can Diversity be Our Strength? April 23, 2021 Check out the April 16 edition of The Democracy Forum (produced in partnership between the League of Women Voters of Maine and WERU) for a program all about diversity. Is this is one of the most divided moments in American history? How have these fractured moments come up in our prior history? What role is the emergence of multiracial democracy playing in this current divisive moment? What role has race played in the divisions of the past? Can a polity come back from such serious fragmentation? How have we gotten past it before, or have we? Check out our archive and tune in Read More … Indian Child Welfare Act on Dawnland Signals April 23, 2021 Join us on Dawnland Signals , for a critical conversation of truth, healing, and change in the Dawnland, on this April 14 edition, honoring the Indian Child Welfare Act: Maine’s efforts to fully comply with the ICWA. Learn about the Truth Commission’s third recommendation for Maine to improve staff ICWA training, and the importance of educating about the history that led to the ICWA. Finally, what can citizens can do to support the ICWA? Hosted and produced by Maria Girouard and Esther Anne, and engineered by Jeffrey Hotchkiss. Read More … Coronavirus News Updates January 26, 2021 Following Maine CDC press briefings*, at 3:50 p.m. (just before afternoon public affairs), WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager, Amy Browne, will give a live Maine Coronavirus Report.” We invite you to tune in live, read the transcripts below. State & Federal COVID-19 Information: Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Read More … We Love Our Foundations! January 26, 2021 During the past year, WERU Community Radio has received grant funding from several foundations located in the state of Maine and nationally. These foundations include the Maine Arts Commission, Maine Community Foundation, Maine Association of Broadcasters, the Mattina R. Proctor Foundation of Boston, MA and The Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation of New York, NY. WERU is grateful for the support of these foundations, which has helped greatly during this time of uncertainty! WERU also receives support from several anonymous private foundations, as well as ongoing support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. We thank them all! Listen on Your Phone with Our Smartphone App! October 21, 2019 Thanks to WERU’s Smartphone App you can easily listen to WERU to live and recorded shows from your phone! Just search for WERU in your favorite app store ( App Store for iPhones and Google Play for Android phones). Give it a try – w e hope you enjoy it! Read More … FCC Regulatory Documents October 21, 2019 The following links document WERU compliance with FCC Regulations: Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Form Public Inspection File For assistance accessing our FCC Public Inspection File, persons with disabilities or special needs may contact Matt Murphy ( matt@weru.org ), WERU General Manager. Featured Artist of the Week Morning Maine” Featured Artist of the Week: RANDOM IDEAS Random Ideas is our Featured Artist of the Week”! Tune in each morning (Monday through Friday) at 7:45 AM (EDT) to hear our volunteer disc jockey play a cut from their new record We Met In The Womb. DJ Denis will interview the trio live via telephone on Friday, May 14th at 8:30 AM. Recent Archives Public Affairs (Friday) – January 12, 2018 RadioActive – January 11, 2018 Public Affairs (Thursday) – January 11, 2018 Public Affairs (Wednesday) – January 10, 2018 Maine Currents – January 9, 2018 Public Affairs (Tuesday) – January 9, 2018 Public Affairs (Friday) – January 5, 2018 RadioActive – January 4, 2018 Public Affairs (Thursday) – January 4, 2018 Public Affairs (Wednesday) – January 3, 2018 Democracy Now! Headlines "Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors": Play Tells Story of 2017 London Apartment Fire That Killed 72 Playwright Gillian Slovo: I Grew Up in Apartheid South Africa. I Saw the Same Thing in Palestine Senate Candidate Larry Hamm on ’70s Anti-Apartheid Protests at Princeton and Voting "Uncommitted" in NJ "We Feel Unheard": Hunger-Striking Princeton Students Vow to Fast Until Divestment Demands Are Met 12 Arrested Outside NYC’s New School as First Faculty-Led Gaza Solidarity Encampment Continues Headlines for May 10, 2024 Donate Listen Schedule Volunteer e-Newsletter App Top Albums of the Week Top Albums 5/11/2021 1 LORETTA LYNN Still Woman Enough 2 PETER CASE The Midnight Broadcast 3 THE PINK STONES Introducing… Previous Weeks website underwritten by WERU Receives Support From: Find Us Community Radio WERU FM P.O. 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