Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Saturday, August 7, 202108/07/2021

Manna from Heaven

In The Western Mass. Business Show

8.7.21 Tara Brewster talks with Kate Cardoso and KB McConnell from Manna Soup Kitchen and Nothing But Kindness in Northampton

Friday, August 6, 202108/06/2021

The Afternoon Buzz 8.5.21

In The Afternoon Buzz

Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Managing Attorney Shane Kadidal phones in live from the Guantanamo Detention Camp Ashfield FilmFest organizers…

Friday, August 6, 202108/06/2021

The Afternoon Buzz 8.4.21

In The Afternoon Buzz

Traprock Center for Peace and Justice Communications Coordinator Anna Gyorgy discusses the plans to commemorate of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Rina…

Friday, August 6, 202108/06/2021

The Light Behind The Black Hole

In Bill Newman

8/6: Hampshire College professor and astronomer, Salman Hameed, with breaking news (just a few billion years old) from outer space. Then, ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Diane Dix of the Nolumbeka Project.

Thursday, August 5, 202108/05/2021

The Afternoon Buzz 8.3.21

In The Afternoon Buzz

Common Cause’s Sylvia Albert director of voting and elections and Aaron Scherb, director of legislative action discussed voting rights in…

Thursday, August 5, 202108/05/2021

The Afternoon Buzz 8.2.21

In The Afternoon Buzz

We spend the entire show with Greenfield School Committee Chair Amy Proietti.

Thursday, August 5, 202108/05/2021

The Brief Pause on an Eviction Crisis

In Bill Newman

8/5: The eviction moratorium–or not: we speak with attorney Jane Edmonstone, Senior Supervising Attorney of the Housing Unit of Community Legal Aid; then local author and Daily Hampshire Gazette columnist, John Scheirer, on “Stumbling Through Adulthood.”

Wednesday, August 4, 202108/04/2021

Remembering When The U.S. Dropped The Bomb

In Bill Newman

8/4: Myra Lam, a founding director of the Northampton-based Resistance Center for Peace and Justice, and anti-nuclear activist, Dr. Andrew Larkin, on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the commemorations this weekend in Easthampton and Greenfield, and the fight to try to end the threat of nuclear annihilation; then, Vaya con Munoz with Natalia Munoz.

Tuesday, August 3, 202108/03/2021

Cherry Tree v City of Northampton

In Bill Newman

8/3: No cherry-picking facts! “Crime and Punishment” with Attorney John who discusses the law, the injunction and the cherry trees on Warfield Place — and their demise.
Then, Northampton-based singer-songwriter and cardiologist Johnny Joelson pulls at our heart strings with his new album of original work “No Turning Back.”

Monday, August 2, 202108/02/2021

Biomassachusetts

In Bill Newman

8/2: State Senator Jo Comerford on voting rights, biomass in western Mass, prison construction, light pollution and stars: Jeremy Lent, author of “The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe.”

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