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Tuesday, August 26, 202508/26/2025

Wake Up!!

In Talk The Talk

8/26/25: Josh Silver: Wake up! We live under an authoritarian regime. Bill fishwraps the N”hmptn Council debate. UMass prof Bridgette Davis: Trump administration v financial aid. Duke Goldman: racism in baseball, the Red Sox and Yankees.

Lisa Wong, Tim Nelson, Paul Bockelman

Monday, August 25, 202508/25/2025

Resolutions

In Talk The Talk

8/25/25: Atty Joel Feldman: rent stabilization now! Megan Zinn w/ Jill Bialosky: “The End is the Beginning,” remembering her mom. Prof Amilcar Shabazz w/ artist Kay Douglas: “Antebellum” at Ctr for Peace through Culture. Amherst Town Mgr. Paul Bockelman & Health Dir Kiko Malin: opioids settlement funds & potholes.

Monday, August 25, 202508/25/2025

Resistance

In Talk The Talk

8/22/25: Mass Teacher Ass’n Pres Max Page: Labor Day & fighting for education. Rep Mindy Domb: ameliorating federal cutbacks. Ray Levasseur: “Coming Home—Radicalized by War & Incarceration.” Donnabelle Casis w/ Holyoke Art’s Kathy McKean: the Storefront Gallery Project.

Dan Crowley

Monday, August 25, 202508/25/2025

Opponents

In Talk The Talk

8/21/25: Dr. Jonathan Bayuk: RFK Jr & insur industry v. children. DHG & Recorder Ex Ed Dan Crowley: Jeromie Whalen v Richie Neal. Rabbi Amita Jarmon: Israelis opposed to Netanyahu’s horrifying policies. Ruth Griggs w/ saxophonist Harry Allen-coming to the Drake.

Monday, August 25, 202508/25/2025

Piloting the Future

In Talk The Talk

8/19/25: Rep Aaron Saunders: Our PILOTS, roads & bridges. Three County Fair Ex Dir Taylor Haas – opening Friday! Comedy Quiz w/ Maddy Benjamin, Holly Ruderman & Pam Victor: let there be light houses. Smith’s Carrie Baker w/ Feminist Gen Co-Dirs., Amherst H.S. students, Inanna Balkin & Olive Paradis

Monday, August 25, 202508/25/2025

Summits and Nadirs

In Talk The Talk

8/18/25: Diane Chamberlain, new principal of Amherst-Pelham’s Summit Academy: special ed success. Megan Zinn w/ Libby Buck, author of “Port Anna.” “Rat******” author David Daley: gerrymandering destroying democracy. Dr. James Garner of UMass Environmental Conservation Dept: hydro relicensing & endangered species in the CT River.

Saturday, August 23, 202508/23/2025

The Hustler Files Ep 125

In The Hustler Files

HOME GROWN HOPE BEHIND THE WALL 

Mark McBrine grew up on a farm and expected that to be his lifelong calling, but God had another plan. When his father became ill and his family needed help running the farms, Mark, at the age of 49, became a Correctional Officer with the Maine Department of Corrections. From there, it didn’t take long for Mark to become the Food Service Manager at the Mountain View Correctional Facility. When then Warden, Randy Liberty, was interested in reducing the waste inside the prison kitchens, Mark stepped up and created an Organic Fruit and Vegetable Production Program. This Farm to Table program within the Maine Department of Corrections forever changed how food can be grown, harvested, and consumed behind the wall! Mark’s inspiring work in enhancing food quality and providing vocational training to incarcerated individuals across eight state prisons and is now a model for other prisons and jails across the United States. Mark and his team have helped many incarcerated individuals gain skills and knowledge in gardening, harvesting, cooking, and even baking 100% of the prison’s own breads and desserts. The discovery of how innovative agricultural practices and a commitment to scratch cooking continue to change lives and foster responsibility. Much of this can be seen in the documentary Seeds of Change, Breaking Free from the Prison Food Machine. Don’t miss this enlightening discussion that challenges perceptions and highlights the power of compassion and second chances, through food.

Saturday, August 23, 202508/23/2025

Panorama — Episode 118 — Gwen Nabad, running for Ward 1 Northampton City Council

In Panorama

Originally aired on August 22, 2025. Housing. Schools. Climate change and equity. These three issues is why Gwen Nabad is running to be the next Ward 1 representative on the Northampton City Council.

Gwen’s campaign website:
Gwennabad.com

Saturday, August 23, 202508/23/2025

Panorama — Episode 117 — Jillian Duclos is running for mayor of Northampton

In Panorama

Originally aired on August 23, 2025. Jillian Duclos is running for mayor of Northampton. She explains why she got the endorsement from Save Our Schools (SOS) Northampton and how being executive director of the Downtown Northampton Association will help her if she’s elected mayor of Northampton. She shares her vision for downtown Northampton and housing affordability.

Her campaign’s website is
www.jillianfornorthampton.com/

Friday, August 22, 202508/22/2025

WMBS-REBELLE 8.24

In The Western Mass. Business Show

ReBelle and TapRoots and Bomba De Aqui Perform at the Academy Of Music Saturday August 23rd, 2025, at 7:30PM as a Global Groove Festival-Join Us!!!

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