Podcasts
Podcasts
Saturday, March 27, 202103/27/2021
Vaya Con Muñoz 3.27.21
This week Natalia is joined by Nathaniel Waring, Dan Torres, Tanisha Arena, and Matt Szafranski to discuss the recent mass shooting in Colorado, and what it says about our country that these events have become so commonplace; our country’s addiction to guns, and why we can not seem to pass meaningful gun control; what colorism is, how it relates to racism, and what that means in the context of the United States, but also in Brazil, Puerto Rico, South Africa, and around the world; The end of the Morse era in Holyoke, and why Mayor Sarno of Springfield isn’t going anywhere anytime soon; and the trouble at the Social Security office in getting data to the IRS for the latest round of relief checks, and what that has to do with how power changes hands between administrations, and over the decades.
Friday, March 26, 202103/26/2021
A smaller footprint for Northampton Police?
In Bill Newman
3/26: Vira Douangmany Cage on the upcoming protest and remembrance for the Atlanta shooting victims. MTA VP, Max Page, on school reopenings, learning loss, and higher ed funding. Smith College Professor Nnamdi Pole, Dr. Booker Bush and attorney David Hoose — members of the Northampton Police Review Commission — on their findings, conclusions and recommendations. ArtBeat with host Donnabelle Casis and Johnny Moranda and Jeanette Rivera, co-owners of La Dispora in Chicopee.
Thursday, March 25, 202103/25/2021
The Death of The Death Penalty
In Bill Newman
3/25: Guantanamo detainee habeas lawyer Buz Eisenberg on conditions in GTMO today and the upcoming film and his talk at the Garden Cinema in Greenfield. Yasmin Eisenhauer, Executive Director, and Salman Hameed, Chair of the Board on the reopening of the Amherst Cinema. Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David on the recent killings in Atlanta.
Wednesday, March 24, 202103/24/2021
Breaking down the Northampton Police Commission Report
In Bill Newman
3/24: Kimberly Nicholas, author of “Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World.” Dan Cannity, Co-Chair of the Northampton Police Review Commission, and David Hoose, member of the Commission, on the Commission’s findings and conclusions about “Reimagining Safety.” Vaya con Munoz with Natalia Munoz.
Tuesday, March 23, 202103/23/2021
GL 4 MAYOR?
In Bill Newman
3/23: Gina Louise (“G.L.”) Sciarra, Northampton City Council President and candidate for Mayor, on the Police Review Commission Report, schools, the future of downtown, her candidacy, her vision for the city and her accomplishments on the Council.
Monday, March 22, 202103/22/2021
The Dirt Roads of Franklin County
In Bill Newman
3/22: State Representative Natalie Blais on covid and schools, the Climate Bill and the bio-mass plant threat, the unemployment legislation and dirt roads, too. NPR-Northampton Poetry Radio- with Rich Michelson and Diane Seuss. Black in the Valley with special guests Andrea Battle and Marcie Sclove, and hosts, Carlie Tartakov and Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks, on the upcoming anti-racism forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters.
Saturday, March 20, 202103/20/2021
Vaya Con Muñoz 3.20.21
This week our regular panelists – Tanisha Arena, Kate Albright Hanna, Dan Torres, Matt Szafranski, and Nathaniel Waring – are joined by the legendary documentarian and member of the academy of motion picture arts, Larry Hott. We discuss Gumersindo Gomez’s selection to replace his son Adam Gozem who recently was elected to the state senate, and why the Springfield City council’s membership were less than happy to have to cast the vote; the extreme polization in the US House and Senate, and how ‘bipartisan’ can mean passing legistlation that is widely popular among the voters of both parties, even if no republicans in either chamber will vote for it; Larry Hott introduces to the documentary Boy’s State, and we discuss how the film shows us a world that paralells the work of fiction Lord of the Flies; We discuss ALL IN The Fight for Democracy, and how Stacy Abrams being a producer leaves some of us with questions about how much creative control she had over the film; We learn about a third documentary Time, in which a mother of twins records home videos surrounding her raising her children alone while her husband serves a 60 year jail term for bank robbery; and Kate expresses bemoans that the filmmakers who made Boy’s State beat her to an idea she had years ago to make a film inspired by her own experiences at a similar camp, Junior Statesmen of America.
Friday, March 19, 202103/19/2021
Too Soon For School?
In Bill Newman
3/19: State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa on the vaccine roll-out, in-person education, the Climate Bill and more; MTA V.P. Max Page on covid, return to in-person schools, $ available to school districts and MCAS; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis and Steve Theberge.
