Podcasts
Podcasts
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.
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.”
Monday, March 1, 202103/01/2021
Holding The Governor accountable for the vaccine rollout
In Bill Newman
3/1: State Senator Jo Comerford on covid-19, vaccines, and the Governor;
Monte Belmonte on his going to bed for the Cancer Connection.
