Podcasts

Podcasts
Wednesday, January 31, 201801/31/2018
The World Is A Little Bit Under The Weather
In Bill Newman
1/30: WNEU law prof. Sudha Setty on secrecy, surveillance and national security –previewing her talk this evening at the Jones Library; Alexandra Golikov and Mark Hart, members of the Northampton-Amherst chapter of the Citizens Climate Change Lobby, on pending legislative proposals that could change our world; UMass. prof and PHENOM founder Max Page on the Governor’s State of the State message; and Alanna Mitchell, author of “The Spinning Magnet: the Electromagnetic Force that Created the Modern World and Could Destroy It.”
Tuesday, January 30, 201801/30/2018
Newman Returns!
In Bill Newman
1/29: Nationally acclaimed community organizer, attorney, and author Gordon Whitman—his new book is “Stand Up! How to Get Involved, Speak Out, and Win in a World on Fire;” then, Josh Silver, CEO of Represent US on this weekend’s Unrig the System Summit.
Saturday, January 27, 201801/27/2018
Western Mass Business Show 1.24.18
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Ira talks with intellectual property attorney, Hugh Pfabe.
Saturday, January 27, 201801/27/2018
Vaya Con Muñoz 1.26.18
Westside City Councilor Daniel OÕBrien refers to the increasing numbers of Puerto Ricans entering the West Springfield school system as a ÒburdenÓ and a Òtsunami.Ó The reason that his city has many families entering the school system is because the city has the most hotels in the Western Mass., which is where people from Puerto Rico are temporarily being placed by area Family Resource Centers. Someone please tell him that people are not a burden or a tsunami.
Iconic independentista Oscar L—pez Rivera is asking Americans in Puerto Rico to leave because we Òdo not need anything from them.Ó Yes we do!! A lot of help in reconstructing Puerto Rico, which was knocked to its knees by political corruption. Hurricane Mar’a was the final nail is all.
Floremce Filmmaker Larry Hott review ÒArthur Miller: Writer,Ó a documentary by his daughter Rebecca Miller. Trailer here: youtube.com/watch?v=f0SY4c-c_xc
Matt Szanfranski offers his perspective on whatÕs going on with recreational marijuana in Springfield after the City Council voted to postpone the moratorium, tasking its subcommittee on Economic Development to delve deeper into what the impending legalization of recreational marijuana starting on July 1 could mean for the city.
La cr’tica de cine Ariadna Goenaga rese–a ÒThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,Ó dirigida por Martin McDonough y con Frances McDormand. Corto aqu’: youtube.com/watch?v=Jit3YhGx5pU
Mercedes Sosa nos canta ÒLas manos de mi madre.Ó
Westside City Councilor Daniel OÕBrien refers to the increasing numbers of Puerto Ricans entering the West Springfield school system as a ÒburdenÓ and a Òtsunami.Ó The reason that his city has many families entering the school system is because the city has the most hotels in the Western Mass., which is where people from Puerto Rico are temporarily being placed by area Family Resource Centers. Someone please tell him that people are not a burden or a tsunami.
Iconic independentista Oscar L—pez Rivera is asking Americans in Puerto Rico to leave because we Òdo not need anything from them.Ó Yes we do!! A lot of help in reconstructing Puerto Rico, which was knocked to its knees by political corruption. Hurricane Mar’a was the final nail is all.
Floremce Filmmaker Larry Hott review ÒArthur Miller: Writer,Ó a documentary by his daughter Rebecca Miller. Trailer here: youtube.com/watch?v=f0SY4c-c_xc
Matt Szanfranski offers his perspective on whatÕs going on with recreational marijuana in Springfield after the City Council voted to postpone the moratorium, tasking its subcommittee on Economic Development to delve deeper into what the impending legalization of recreational marijuana starting on July 1 could mean for the city.
La cr’tica de cine Ariadna Goenaga rese–a ÒThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,Ó dirigida por Martin McDonough y con Frances McDormand. Corto aqu’: youtube.com/watch?v=Jit3YhGx5pU
Mercedes Sosa nos canta ÒLas manos de mi madre.Ó
Westside City Councilor Daniel OÕBrien refers to the increasing numbers of Puerto Ricans entering the West Springfield school system as a ÒburdenÓ and a Òtsunami.Ó The reason that his city has many families entering the school system is because the city has the most hotels in the Western Mass., which is where people from Puerto Rico are temporarily being placed by area Family Resource Centers. Someone please tell him that people are not a burden or a tsunami. Iconic independentista Oscar L—pez Rivera is asking Americans in Puerto Rico to leave because we Òdo not need anything from them.Ó Yes we do!! A lot of help in reconstructing Puerto Rico, which was knocked to its knees by political corruption. Hurricane Mar’a was the final nail is all. Floremce Filmmaker Larry Hott review ÒArthur Miller: Writer,Ó a documentary by his daughter Rebecca Miller. Trailer here: youtube.com/watch?v=f0SY4c-c_xc Matt Szanfranski offers his perspective on whatÕs going on with recreational marijuana in Springfield after the City Council voted to postpone the moratorium, tasking its subcommittee on Economic Development to delve deeper into what the impending legalization of recreational marijuana starting on July 1 could mean for the city. La cr’tica de cine Ariadna Goenaga rese–a ÒThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,Ó dirigida por Martin McDonough y con Frances McDormand. Corto aqu’: youtube.com/watch?v=Jit3YhGx5pU Mercedes Sosa nos canta ÒLas manos de mi madre.Ó
Friday, January 26, 201801/26/2018
We Interrupt This Podcast…
In Bill Newman
1.26.18 Larry Hott guest hosts and talks with Maxine Stein from Jewish Family Services, Evan Goodchild from Educational Resources for Children about kid produced podcasts and Steve and Peter from the Northampton Arts Council about 21/2 Sundays in February
Thursday, January 25, 201801/25/2018
Niberd Abdalla Is Freed
In Bill Newman
1.25 The Rev. Peter Ives guest hosts and talks with Attorney Buz Eisenberg and the wife of Niberd Abdalla, Ellen McShane, on his impending release from ICE detention. Plus a conversation with Lucio Perez and the Pioneer Valley Workers Center’s Rose Bookbinder and Margaret Sawyer and Jenn Derringer from Community Legal Aid.
Thursday, January 25, 201801/25/2018
“It Won’t Happen To Me” A WHMP Community Forum
No doctors, no police or prosecutors, no experts…just real people who have been affected by opioid addiction. Join us for a special WHMP Community Forum. Recorded live at The Parlor Room Wed. 1/24/18
With Khadijah Tuitt, Kali Baba McConnell, Deb Wyand & Henry Brown, who’s son Patrick, 28, died from a heroin overdose in 2016. Henry, who wrote a courageous column in the Gazette after Pat’s death, is the inspiration for this forum & gave people like me, who’ve come perilously CLOSE to losing a child to this scourge, the guts to come out & get real.
Wednesday, January 24, 201801/24/2018
Take Me To The Mill River
In Bill Newman
1.24.18 Florence based filmmaker and member of the Academy, Larry Hott, guests hosts and talks film (of course) but also about The Mill River and the International Language Institute
Wednesday, January 24, 201801/24/2018
The Health of Mass Workers
In Bill Newman
1.23.18 Max Paige guest hosts but cedes control to women leaders around the Valley, including Mass Teachers Association President Barbara Madeloni
Monday, January 22, 201801/22/2018
The Women’s March Part II
In Bill Newman
1.22.18 Jeff Napolitano guest hosts and recaps the Women’s March in Northampton and talks immigration protection and opera all with the same guest.