Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Wednesday, March 10, 202103/10/2021

The Guiding Light of Francis Crowe

In Bill Newman

3/10: Carrying on the legacy of the late Frances Crowe – we preview the upcoming demonstration on her birthday at L3Harris with Miranda Groux, organizer with the Resistance Center for Peace and Justice, and Claudia Lefko, Founder and Director of the Iraqi Children’s Art Exchange and close colleague and friend of Frances. Then, the state of MCAS in Massachusetts today and the upcoming presentations on resistance to MCAS with Lisa Guisbond, Exec. Dir. of Citizens for Public Schools, Ricardo Rosa, UMass. Dartmouth Professor of Public Policy, and Doug Selwyn, former professor and public-school teacher and anti-high stakes testing advocate.

Wednesday, March 10, 202103/10/2021

Financial Fitness With the Money Doctor-End of Year Financial Tips

In Financial Fitness with the Money Doctor

The Money Doctor, Dr. Frances Rahaim of “Hug Your Student Debt” offers year-end money tips to improve your financial fitness

Tuesday, March 9, 202103/09/2021

Current Revolution

In Bill Newman

Monday, March 8, 202103/08/2021

Will their be justice for George Floyd?

In Bill Newman

Saturday, March 6, 202103/06/2021

Vaya Con Muñoz 3.6.21

This week our panel, Kate Albright-Hanna, Matt Szafranski, Tanisha Arena, Dan Torres, and Nathaniel Waring discuss the Springfield City Council’s process to replace Adam Gomez’s vacated council seat, and how the lack of voter buy-in affects the optics; the upcoming mayoral election in Northampton following Mayor Narkewicz’s announcement that he will not run again, and the potential upcoming; Mayor Morse’s acceptance of a job as the Providence town manager, and how the city council plans to manag e the rest of his term; The George Floyd bill that recently passed through the US House of Representatives, and whether a sweeping police reform bill like it will make enough of an effect if there isn’t accountability to it’s provisions; the partisanship in the senate, and whether anything can be done to break through it; address historical revisionism and how it prevents the truth from being told; the lack of violent left wing domestic terrorism when compared to right wing violence, and why white supremacists feel like they can act with impunity; how members of the republican caucus, and former vice president Mike Pence, could ignore the threats on their own lives; and how education – not liberal conspiracies – makes people more liberal, not through indocturnation, but through learning the truth about the world.

Friday, March 5, 202103/05/2021

Nothing basic about Baczek

In Bill Newman

Thursday, March 4, 202103/04/2021

The Bed-In: Day Two

In Bill Newman

3/4: Day 2, the final day, of Monte’s “first and only” Bed-In for the Cancer Connection with Kenzie MacDonald and Rose Mroczka from the Amherst College Women Hockey Team; Noel Paul Stookey from Peter Paul and Mary; Jeff Tweedy from Wilco; Rabbi Justin David from Congregation B’nai Israel and Cindy Tarail from the Cancer Connection.

Wednesday, March 3, 202103/03/2021

The Bed-In: Day One

In Bill Newman

3/3: Day 1 of Monte Belmonte’s Bed-In for the Cancer Connection, featuring Monte in bed with The Cancer Connection’s Executive Director Rev. Beverly Herbert, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott and Holyoke Media News Director Natalia Munoz.

Tuesday, March 2, 202103/02/2021

A Springfield cop on trial

In Bill Newman

3/2: Crime and Punishment with attorney John Pucci on prosecuting police; Carey Gillam, author of “The Monsanto Papers: Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man’s Search for Justice.”

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