Podcasts
Podcasts
Wednesday, April 27, 202204/27/2022
Are diverse democracies doomed to die?
In Bill Newman
4/27: Professor Yascha Mounk, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, on “The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure.” Caroline Heller on her parents surviving the Holocaust, including Auschwitz, and her family’s new life in the United States–the book is titled “Reading Claudius: A Dual Memoir.”
Tuesday, April 26, 202204/26/2022
The Afternoon Buzz 4.26.22
ADL Deputy Regional Director Peggy Shukur discusses the recent rise in antisemitism. Claudia Quintero, a staff attorney for The Migrant & Seasonal Farmworkers’ Project at Central West Justice explains The Fairness for Farmworkers Bill.
Tuesday, April 26, 202204/26/2022
The First Kennedys
In Bill Newman
4/26: Neal Thompson, author of “The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty;” Sex Matters! With Dr. Jane Fleishman; NPR—Northampton Poetry Radio — with erstwhile poets laureate Martin Espada and Rich Michelson.
Monday, April 25, 202204/25/2022
The Afternoon Buzz 4.25.22 – Jake Krain & Jessye Kass
Jake Krain of Red Gate Educational Farm talks about the farm’s mission, the summer camp program, and its capital campaign. Cabin Fever Roundtable with Megan Zinn and guest Jessye Kass, talking about living through the pandemic as someone in her late 20s/early 30 trying to launch a career.
Monday, April 25, 202204/25/2022
The Shot Not Heard ‘Round The World
In Bill Newman
4/25: Dr. Norbert Goldsmith and Ben Levenson, Deputy Director of Justice is Global, on the fight—
this week in Cambridge at the shareholders meeting—for Moderna to allow the covid vaccine to be distributed to countries where it is desperately needed.
Monday, April 25, 202204/25/2022
The Cambridge Connection Ep 31
United Way of Pioneer Valley is 100 Years Strong
Becoming an octogenarian as an organization is a BIG DEAL! But if you’re the United Way of Pioneer Valley turning 100 isn’t the half of it. Paul Mina, President and CEO of United Way of Pioneer Valley joins Gordy and Executive Producer, Lisa Reilly for a candid conversation about the innovative programs that United Way of Pioneer Valley offers, like the 211 Program that allows for free and confidential counseling services and assistance programs that help with a wide range of needs with a focus on education, health, and financial stability
Saturday, April 23, 202204/23/2022
Human in Common
In The Western Mass. Business Show
4.23.22 Tara Brewster talks with Nialena Ali from Human In Common about all the ways they are working to help us be upstanders in support of diverstiy.
Saturday, April 23, 202204/23/2022
Vaya con Muñoz – 4.23.22
This week on the show we are joined by Kate Albright-Hanna, Dan Torres, Matt Szafranski, Larry Hott, and Nathaniel Waring in discussing the state of Covid, both domestically and in China; The upcoming LGBTQ pride parade in Springfield, and why Northampton has traditionally outshone Springfield; The Springfield school committee’s decision to add a financial literacy class as an elective, and how that will help recent grads adjust to adult life; the situation in France, how how the French people are having to choose between bad and worse; and Larry talks about Billie Eilish winning, Woody Allen, and separating art from the artist.
Friday, April 22, 202204/22/2022
The Afternoon Buzz 4.22.22 – The Good Work & Voting Rights
The Good Work with Jeff Napolitano discussing foreclosures and evictions with Rose Webster-Smith of Springfield. Aditi Juneja promotes Movement Voter Project’s event: ‘Voting Rights: New Solutions. Unprecedented Challenges.’
Friday, April 22, 202204/22/2022
The Budget, the Schools, and the Arts
In Bill Newman
4/22: State Representative Mindy Domb on budgets and beneficence; Underfunded, Unaffordable and Unfair- Dr. Bahar Akman Imboden, author of this report on Massachusetts Higher Ed from the Hildreth Institute, is Max Page’s guest on “Your State U.” ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Laurie Devine and Vitek Kruta, co-creators of Gateway City Arts.
