Podcasts

Podcasts
Saturday, June 5, 202106/05/2021
Vaya Con Muñoz 6.5.21
This week we are joined by our rebular pannelists, Kate Albright-Hanna, Tanisha Arena, Matt Szafranski, and Nathaniel Waring, to discuss the recent article about the NFL blocking black players from accessing traumatic brain injury setttlement funds because of their race, and how it plays into the greater systemic racism in America; Lord Jeffrey Amherst, and his legacy of destruction; the 215 bodies of indigenous children found under a Canadian school, and how those schools were an integral part of the cultural genocide perpetuated against the Native Americans; East West rail, and what the Baker administration does – or doesn’t – have to do with it taking forever to materialize; And how reparations would work, and what the underlying message it would send about the history of our country;
Saturday, June 5, 202106/05/2021
The Last (Unicorn) Picture Show?
In The Western Mass. Business Show
6.5.21 Tara Brewster talks with the new Executive Director of Amherst Cinema, Yasmin Eisenhauer, about the Amherst Cinematic Universe and also The Last Unicorn. As well as what the movie business looks like post-COVID.
Saturday, June 5, 202106/05/2021
Panorama – Episode 21 – Pioneer Valley Workers Center
In Panorama
Originally aired on June 5, 2021. Stefan and Dan talk to Margaret Sawyer, Claudia Rosales, Hodaliz Borraye, and Leninn Torres…
Friday, June 4, 202106/04/2021
Is the “For The People” Act our last hope?
In Bill Newman
6/4: Josh Silver, CEO of Represent US, on the urgent need, perhaps our last chance, to protect voting in the United States; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Tom Vacanti — on “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” — the return of live performances in the Valley.
Thursday, June 3, 202106/03/2021
The Secret Life of Flies
In Bill Newman
6/3: John Balcombe, author of “Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World’s Most Successful Insects;” and Zachary Karabell, author of “Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power.”
Wednesday, June 2, 202106/02/2021
Financial Fitness With The Money Doctor-Buying A House In A Seller’s Market
In Financial Fitness with the Money Doctor
The Money Doctor, Dr. Frances Rahaim of Hug Your Student Debt, has tips on buying a house in a seller’s market
Wednesday, June 2, 202106/02/2021
In Search of Our National Bookshelf…
In Bill Newman
6/2: Jess McHugh on “Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books;” “A Time for Mercy:” attorney Patty Garin explains how and why clemency has died in Massachusetts and what you can do to breathe life back into this criminal justice safeguard; Natalia Munoz on white male privilege.
Tuesday, June 1, 202106/01/2021
Financial Fitness With the Money Doctor-Develop a Healthy Money Mindset
In Financial Fitness with the Money Doctor
The Money Doctor, Dr. Frances Rahaim of Hug Your Student Debt, offers advice on how to have a healthy mindset about your finances
Saturday, May 29, 202105/29/2021
Go on an adventure here in The Valley!
In The Western Mass. Business Show
5.29.21 Tara Brewster talks with world traveler and Valley travel entrepreneur Brian Pearson from the new venture-Adventure East
Saturday, May 29, 202105/29/2021
Vaya Con Muñoz 5.29.21
This week our panelists, Tanisha Arena, Dan Torres, Matt Szafranski, and Nathaniel join Natalia is discussing the upcoming election in Springfield, and what’s going to happen to Adam Gomez’s old council seat; how Springfields voter turnout efforts of late have played out, and what we can except for turnout this fall; Canada’s prime minister’s recent appology to Italian Canadians who were interned durring World War II, and how that relates to other internments that the US and others have imposed on different groups; what we can learn from oral tradition around the world, and why we should pay more attention to the women throughout history; former Springfield diocese priest Lavigne’s recent death, and why it took 50 years for law enforcement to formally accuse him of the murder of a 13 year old altar boy, Danny Croteau; how we can draw parallels between what is happening in Palestine with other conflicts worldwide and through history; how the media protrays looting accross racial lines, and how it’s part of systemic racism; the recent international incident in Belarus, and how it plays into the other conflicts happening around the world; and the intermin Mayor of Holyoke’s recent decision to recind former mayor Morse’s racism declaration, and why he felt like he needed to do so.