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Civil Disobedience: Police Respecting Protesters Can, Does And Has Happened

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook

Civil Disobedience means maintaining civility- a new lesson from Peace activists protesting at a Naval Destroyer christening and the Police Who Ar...

In the Department of Poetic Justice: All They Want Is Their Bonus Checks

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

From the Great American Wrongbook, in the Department of Poetic Justice, a musical tribute to the Maine Legislature's recent corporate welfare givin...

The Indifference Diaries: The Opposite of Love is Indifference: How to be a Good Neighbor and Warship Builder

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

As Bath Iron Works ships become more sophisticated in their use of sonar devices, we recall the 40 million dollar Maine Legislature approved tax br...

The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: What's Wrong With the Many Chimneys, One Smokestack Approach to Legislating

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Elected representatives have taken a new approach to legislating. Only their own district or cell or voting area can receive information from there...

Meeting An American Conscience in the Clothing Store: Made in Vietnam

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: After watching "The Vietnam War" we all know more about conscience...

Freud never quite cornered the market on Conscience. After two weeks spent with the Burns/Novick film ‘The Vietnam War”, the complexity of conscie...

Thinking About Denuclearization- What Children Know

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Children's art is an eyeglass into their view. , Credit: Susan Cook

'Chuzo Tamotzu, Children’s Drawings and the Art of Resolution’ is an exhibit hosted by the Bowdoin Art Museum which presents the artwork of childr...

We Do Not See the Faces of War Anymore

From: Donna Granata

Nick Ut is one of the Associated Press’ most renowned photographers. As he celebrates 50 years with AP, there is one image from his days in Vietnam...

Who Rules Public Radio and Who Really Matters: A Bigger Ruler

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "I don't hate the press, none of them. As a matter of fact, I feel sorry for them.'', Credit: Szep, Boston Globe, July 18, 1974

Maine Public Broadcasting Network has made the perplexing decision to segregate music and poetry to a separate pay-to-hear HD radio service called ...