Podcasts
Podcasts
Monday, June 14, 202106/14/2021
Bloomsday & Juneteenth
In Bill Newman
6/14: Bloomsday with Judith Roberts and Joe Lubold from the Literacy Project; Black in the Valley with guests Amilcar Shabazz, Demetria Shabazz, and Anika Lopes on Juneteenth.
Saturday, June 12, 202106/12/2021
Vaya Con Muñoz 6.12.21
This week Natalia is joined by our regular pannellists Kate Albright-Hanna, Tanisha Arena, Matt Szafranski, and Nathaniel Waring to discuss Juneteenth, and how Massachusetts will be officially observing the holiday this year; Springfield police commissioner Clapproodt’s issues with racism, and why a group of springfield seniors have called for her resignation; why a recent judge’s decision to uphold the springfield city council’s decision to go back to a police commision, rather than a single commissioner , complicates the issue; The American Rescue Plan, and where the money that Springfield got from it is going to go; the recent appointment of the former head of the election commission for springfield Gladys Oyola-Lopez, and how Mayor Sarno made the process more complicated with his nomination; whether Democrats are experiencing burnout after the 2020 election, and what that will mean for the 2022 midterms; what redistricting will mean following the 2020 cencus, and what the gerrymandering will mean forfuture elections; Joe Manchin’s reluctance to end the fillibuster and support the For The People Act, and what can be done to influence him between now and 2022; how immigration policy and the concept of unskilled labor intersect, and what can be done to both make our immigration polcies more fair while also making wages more fair; why immigration is fundementally a part of the American experiment, and why it’s important for America in 2021 and beyond
Saturday, June 12, 202106/12/2021
The Battle of The Business Hosts
In The Western Mass. Business Show
6.12.21 Tara Brewster welcomes back Ira Bryck, former host of the Western Mass Business Show, and gives him the business about business in The Valley.
Thursday, June 10, 202106/10/2021
American Mythmaking
In Bill Newman
6/10: “Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of An American Myth” with co-author Chris Tomlinson; Rabbi Justin David and Rev. Peter Ives.
Wednesday, June 9, 202106/09/2021
Creating a Buz
In Bill Newman
6/9: Ben Downing, candidate for Democratic nomination for Governor; Buz Eisenberg on his new show on WHMP; Natalia Munoz on police reform efforts in the Valley.
Tuesday, June 8, 202106/08/2021
How ’bout them Yankees?
In Bill Newman
6/8: Elinor Cleghorn, author of “Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World;” Talkin Baseball with the Duke–Duke Goldman.
Monday, June 7, 202106/07/2021
Old School isn’t Cool
In Bill Newman
6/7: State Senator Jo Comerford and Mass. Teachers Ass’n VP Max Page on the need for new schools across the Commonwealth (and how they’ll be paid for); Main Street for All with Lilly Lombard, Jesse Hassinger, and Benjamin Weil.
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.
