Podcasts
Podcasts
Friday, June 20, 202506/20/2025
Paint the Town Red. And Blue.
6/20/25: MTA Pres Max Page: Gov Healey retracts anti-Fair Share comments. Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: the federal budget v state obligations. Amherst Prof Austin Sarat: political violence, social security & No Kings. FCCPR’s Susan Triolo: Tristate Overpasses for Democracy & other acts of resistance. Donnabelle Casis w/ Common Murals Ex Dir Britt Ruhe: “Paint the Town.”
Thursday, June 19, 202506/19/2025
News Directions
6/19/25: Transgender SCOTUS decision with attys Bill & Buz. Talking Red Sox with sportscaster Scott Coen. Daily Hampshire Gazette Managing Editor Chad Cain the news fit to print. Rabbi David Seidenberg: Israel/Iran, Gaza, & Juneteenth. Ruth Griggs w/ cellist Jeremy Harman: New Directions Cello Fest at Bombyx.
Wednesday, June 18, 202506/18/2025
Elevating Conversations
6/18/25: Al Simon & Meg Robbins of Northampton’s Support Our Schools: the volume & tone of debates over schools. Silverthorne Theater’s Bd Pres Ezekiel Baskin, director Gina Kaufmann & actor Sabine Denise Jacques: “The Amateurs” & “Comeuppance.” Brian Adams w/ UMass Dr Zoe Getman-Pickering & Prof Matt Lackner: ELEVATE’s mission -renewable energy- & federal funding rescinded. Cool Films w/ Larry Hott; “Deaf President Now” and “Through Deaf Eyes.”
Tuesday, June 17, 202506/17/2025
Fighting to Live
6/17/25: Rep Aaron Saunders: Minnesota, Farmworkers, Cannabis Comm. David Leaf, author of “SMiLE: The Rise, Fall & Resurrection of Brian Wilson.” Comedy Quiz w/ Maddy Benjamin, Scott Braidman & Mo McElligott. Matteo Pangallo of Valley Players on “A Walk in the Woods.” ED Marianne Winters of Safe Passage on their suit to protect victims of dom viol from Trump threat to funding.
Monday, June 16, 202506/16/2025
So Many Fights
Atty Maya McCann, co-leader of Fairness for Farmworkers Coalition: the subminimum wage. Hampshire Prof Emeritus of Peace & World Securities Studies, Michael Klare: the Israel-Iran War. Ehmptn Mayor Nicole LaChapelle: “No Kings” protest & antisemitism in the schools. Peace Development Fund’s Lora Wondolowski & Jessa McCormack w/ Seeing Rainbow’s Nuri.
Friday, June 13, 202506/13/2025
The Hustler Files Ep 116
FROM A WHITE COLLAR CRIME TO BECOMING A WHITE KNIGHT
There aren’t many people who can go from the incarceration of a white collar crime to CEO of an established educational non-profit, but then again Jeff Abramowitz is unlike most people you’ll ever meet. As CEO of the critically acclaimed Petey Green Program, Jeff discusses the transformative power of education for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals, a first hand education he experienced when going from a successful trial lawyer to incarceration for a white collar crime. It was that experience, behind the wall, that shaped his commitment, upon his release, to helping others overcome the challenges of reentry into society. Tune in to hear Jeff talk about the importance of understanding choices, the impact of educational programs, and how to break the cycle of poverty and incarceration.
Friday, June 13, 202506/13/2025
Most Unkindest Cuts of All
6/13/25: MTA Pres Max Page w/ UMass Profs Krista Harper & Michael Ash: critical grants gutted. Founder Andrew Lawrence w/ guitarists Joscho Stephan, & Sven Jungbeck on DJANGO IN JUNE! Prof Salman Hameed: cuts to NASA budget threaten science. Young Feminist Party’s Marisol Bonifaz & activist Alice Jenkins on Saturday’s NO KINGS Rally.
Thursday, June 12, 202506/12/2025
Young People
6/12/25: Journalist Craig Johnson: “How to Talk to Your Son About Fascism.” Ruth Griggs w/ Koan Collective musicians Ian Behrstock & Jahain Cooper-Monize. Rep. Natalie Blais: HIP, SNAP, POTpourri, Pride, & students’ testimony. EHS educators Kelley Brown & Jeff Sealander, w/ students Oscar, Leia & Michael – a cross-generational book club: founding fathers & “The Pursuit of Happiness.”
Wednesday, June 11, 202506/11/2025
Untangling Webs
6/11/25: Amherst Council Pres Lynn Griesemer: ICE in Amherst, school budgets, Juneteenth. Alex Osterman & Victoria Worth: the ACLU in Ashfield. Filmmakers Larry Hott, Andy Kolker & Paul Stekler: political films—past present & is there a future? GCC science prof Brian Adams w/ UMass Ph D candidate neuroethologist & Jumping Spider expert, Alex Winsor.
Tuesday, June 10, 202506/10/2025
Teaching
6/10/25: Northampton Ed Foundation’s Dale Melcher & Joy Hermansen: the upcoming Showcase. Ed Collab’s Todd Gazda w/ Hadley Super & MA Assoc School Super Ex Comm mem Anne McKenzie: one tough job. Smith Coll Prof Carrie Baker w/ PVPA’s Gary Hugget & his former, now Smith Coll, student Talia Villalobos-Sharone: saving DEI. Duke Goldman: THE AMAZING Catch, Yankees & Sox.
