March 25, 2006 Welcome to Making Waves: Independent Voices for Peace & Justice, your local connection to the world on WSCA LP 106.1FM Portsmouth Community Radio! This is Amy Antonucci and I am happy to introduce our show to you today, March 25, 2006. Our Focus today is on Women Changing the World for our last show of womenâ??s history month. Hereâ??s what we have coming up Coverage of the Concord NH protest of the War & Occupation in Iraq last Saturday comes to us from WSCAâ??s own Tim Stone. Seacoast NH resident Andrea LeBlanc of 9/11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows tells us about the upcoming exhibition sheâ??s worked to bring to NH entitled The F Word: Images of Forgiveness. Steve Diamond talks with Anne Miller of NH Peace Action about her upcoming peace delegation to Palestine and Israel. We end with Between the Lines â?? independent radio out of Bridgeport CT. Weâ??ll also have music, announcements and more, so stay with us. News â??10 min -Coverage of the Concord NH protest of the War & Occupation in Iraq last Saturday comes to us from WSCAâ??s own Tim Stone. SONG: Bring Them Back â?? Mona Abboud â?? 2:17 mins -Andrea LeBlanc â?? 9/11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows & The Forgiveness Project â?? 19:45 mins SONG: Planet Called Home - Holly Near â?? 3:18 mins -Changing History is NOT a Spectator Sport â?? Sunsara Taylor, co-initiator of World Canâ??t Wait Drive Out the Bush Regime Campaign and writer for The Revolution spoke in September 2005 â?? 2:46 mins SONG: One By One â?? Emmaâ??s Revolution â?? 2:44 mins SONG: The World is not Your Toy â?? Bonnie Raitt â?? 3:23 mins To hear our previous shows, please visit our archive online www.freewebs.com/sprav/audio.htm. Please email nhmakingwaves@yahoo.com and let us know what you think of our show! And feel free to call the station in the next hour for more information â?? 430-9722. (59 min) --- Break â?? disclaimer, station & show id, underwriters, weather--- LIVE: Announcements â?? 5-10 minutes -Anne Miller - upcoming trip she's taking to Palestine â?? 23 mins SONG: Peopleâ??s History Section: we bring you some people's history, our history, to look back on, remember & be inspired by. L.A. Sound Posse: Michael Parenti- Radio Truth - Demons of Imperialism - Rhetorical technique of imperialists and colonizers, still used, as in Iraq and Palestine â?? 5 mins And now for Between the Lines â?? independent radio out of Bridgeport CT. Ending: Thanks for listening to Making Waves: Independent Voices for Peace and Justice! The Making Waves crew is: Amy Antonucci, Steve Capron, Steve Diamond, Tom Jackson, Stanley Longstaff, Jo Ann Paradis, & Damon Thomas. We welcome â?? and need! - your participation, too! Please email nhmakingwaves@yahoo.com to get involved! Our theme music is by NH womenâ??s drum group, Tabbalat, and our mid-show music is Evening Stars by Alice Gomez. You can live stream our show on Saturdays 2-4 if you are not in range of the station by going to www.wirenh.com. Remember that WSCA is growing and hoping for your membership and your participation! Go to www.wscafm.org to join and learn more. Tune in next Saturday from 2-4 for our next Making Waves program. As we leave womenâ??s history month and enter into April, the month of Earth Day, weâ??ll be exploring connections between women and the environment. We leave you with this quote from Margaret Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science: "Even our seemingly modest actions make a difference: In a web, the potential impact of local actions bears no relationship to their size. When we choose to act locally, we may be wanting to influence the entire system... We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. I have learned that in this exquisitely connected world, it's never a question of 'critical mass.' It's always about critical connections." --- NEWS 1,000 more sailors expected to join ground forces in Iraq Seattle Times Three years after Baghdad fell, the Navy is poised to dramatically increase the number of sailors in Iraq and Afghanistan, filling gaps in Army and Marine Corps units. The seamen, called "individual augmentees," support ground operations thousands of miles from the nearest port, in deployments that can be far different from the Navy's traditional role. Last year, about 400 sailors from naval bases at Everett, Whidbey Island, Bangor and Bremerton were called to fill specific jobs ashore. Most involved security, communications, construction and administrative duties, on yearlong deployments. For example, some helped staff prisons and others drove trucks. New requests for Navy personnel in the Middle East and Afghanistan are coming in weekly. There are 4,000 sailors in Iraq â?? a number that is expected to increase to 5,000 in the next few months. It is unclear how many more sailors will be called to serve ashore by the end of the year. The sailors do not perform raids or attack enemy positions. But some of their missions, particularly defusing homemade bombs, can be dangerous. Though most sailors sent to Iraq and Afghanistan volunteer, Navy officials say everyone should be prepared to serve. "If you're wearing a uniform, you're a volunteer for whatever the military needs from you," said Lt. Trey Brown, a Navy spokesman. "We want to take the people who are more eager, but everybody has got to be ready to go." Not all sailors are enthusiastic about the Navy's support role. A Naval Academy graduate based in San Diego received orders on Wednesday to report to another base in 12 days and ship out to Iraq, even after he specifically turned down a request to volunteer. "Rumsfeld says the Army is not stretched too thin, but you have sailors relieving the Army," said the officer, who wished to remain anonymous. "A little straightforwardness goes a long way. We'd like the same from the folks on high." War protesters target Collins speech Bangor Daily News Anti-war protesters targeted a speech by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins at the University of Maine, asking her to denounce the Bush administration for its handling of the Iraq war. "We â?¦ cannot understand how you can make claim to either ethics or conscience unless you repudiate this administration," said Robert Shetterly of Brooksville, one of about 100 protesters at the event, while standing to read a statement near the end of Collinsâ?? appearance. "Otherwise you are complicit in their crimes against humanity." Shetterlyâ??s brief comments were a reference to the title of Collinsâ?? lecture, "The Ethics of Conscience: Continuing the Legacy of Margaret Chase Smith." Collins, a Republican, was the featured speaker at the afternoon event presented by UMâ??s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, named for the stateâ??s first woman senator. Collinsâ?? speech itself did not address the war, instead focusing on the need for lobbying reform and ethics requirements for lawmakers. "Integrity is not about being perfect. It is, however, about accepting responsibility and striving to learn from mistakes," Collins told the crowd of about 500 people who packed into Hauck Auditorium. "Integrity in public office then is about making ethical decisions, standing tall for oneâ??s principles and always striving to do better." But most of the buzz before Collinsâ?? speech was about the carefully planned demonstration, which featured protesters dressed in black wearing on their backs the number "2,319," the latest tally of Americans killed in the conflict. Collins, noting that she has met with many groups opposed to the war, at times has been skeptical of the situation in Iraq. Earlier this month, she co-wrote a letter to the president calling on him to step up pressure on the new Iraqi government to reach a political compromise "in the midst of the spiral of violence," with the goals of preventing civil war and expediting the exit of U.S. troops. That letter, however, meant little to Shetterly. He and the other protesters lined the hallway outside the auditorium after the speech, holding signs that read, "Whereâ??s the ethics in torture?" and "Whereâ??s the Ethics in Killing Children?" During that demonstration, protester Carole Whelan of Hope repeated her groupâ??s request for a public forum with the senators. "They need to show as much courage as they have demanded from our soldiers," she said. http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=131062