Podcasts
Podcasts
Saturday, June 16, 201806/16/2018
Vaya Con Muñoz 6.16.18
Christina Royal, president of Holyoke Community College, on addressing the gap between white students and students of color, the ever-shrinking state investment in community colleges, creating a diverse administration and faculty, and more, in this extended conversation.
Puerto Rican photographer Pablo Delano, on his upcoming installation called “The Musuem of The Old Colony,” which will be presented at the Hampshire College Art Gallery this fall. He gave a talk recently at the college about the exhibit of black and white photographs that depict how the US saw Puerto Ricans in the 20th Century when it became an American territory as a result of the 1898 Spanish American War.
Saturday, June 9, 201806/09/2018
Vaya Con Muñoz 6.9.18
Los políticos electos en Puerto Rico are killing a law that protects workers in the event they are injustly fired. It removes severance pay. At the same time, the fiscal control board apointed by former President Barack Obama to manage the island’s economy pays its executive director $600,000 a year — and she has a provision in her contact that if she is unjustly fired, she will receive up to 6 months severance. Uh-huh.
The misdeeds of politicians far and wide cause people to turn away from voting, from the democratic process.
We talk with Heshima Moja on activism even when every fiber of our bodies wants to disconnect from the overwhelming daily dose of Trumpism.
Ariadna Goenaga reseña “THe Good Fight” con Chrintine Baranski.
Saturday, June 9, 201806/09/2018
The Western Mass Business Show 6.9.18
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Ira talks with JEANNE YOCUM author of the Self-Employment Survival Guide: Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss. Jeanne has been a self-employed public relations consultant and ghostwriter since 1989, and so knows much about working from home, managing time, balancing your eggs and baskets, managing difficult clients, fluctuating workloads, and all the rest. Listen and learn!
Thursday, June 7, 201806/07/2018
Keeping The Fast
6/7: Rabbi Justin David, Rev. Peter Ives and Critical Connections Executive Director Mehlaqa Samdani on Ramadan and being Muslim in western Massachusetts; Al Williams, Executive Director of NCTV, and animator Luke Jaeger on tomorrow evening’s CartOOn SchOOl.
Wednesday, June 6, 201806/06/2018
Auditioning The Finger Puppets
In Bill Newman
6/6: Sexologist Dr Jane Fleishman reviews May as National Masturbation Month; Northampton Education Foundation board members Lisa Papademetriou and Marty Wohl preview this Friday’s Showcase at the Arts Trust Building.
Tuesday, June 5, 201806/05/2018
Is MA Here for Tahirah?
In Bill Newman
6/5: Tahirah Amatul-Wadud, who is challenging Richard Neal for his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives; Paul Newlin on Watermelon Wednesdays; Max Page on more out-of-state students –who are less qualified than Massachusetts
residents — being admitted to UMass.
Monday, June 4, 201806/04/2018
The One-Eyed Judge
In Bill Newman
6/4: Federal District Court judge for western Massachusetts, Michael Ponsor on his judicial perspective, his novels and his future; The Vegan Brothers, Matt & Phil Letten, authors of “Vodka is Vegan.
Saturday, June 2, 201806/02/2018
Western Mass Business Show 6.2.18
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Kevin Quinn of Legacy Counsellors about working with business families to heighten their awareness, not only about their literal wealth, but intellectual, emotional, financial and spiritual capital that makes a family truly rich; and also helping them establish priorities, grow independent and capable people, learn from failure, redeploy underutilized assets, and much more!
Saturday, June 2, 201806/02/2018
Vaya Con Muñoz June 2 2018
Charlie LeDuff, Pulitzer Prize winning-journalist and author of “S-SHOW!” The Country’s Collapsing . . . and the Ratings are Great. Dr. Shirley Jackson Whitaker, presenter of the multimedia talk, “Still Standing: Stories from the African American Community Navigating the Turbulent Terrain on Thursday, June 7 at 4:30 pm at the Mason Square Library, 765 State St., Springfield.
Yanina Vargas Arriaga, vice president of student affairs at Holyoke Community College, on the college being desgnited a Hispanic Serving Institution – what does that mean? And, as a Puerto Rican, on Puerto Rico
Friday, June 1, 201806/01/2018
The STEAM Show
In Bill Newman
6.1.18 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks about geology with the folks from Sci-Tech Cafe. The Moon with Salman Hameed and art with the director of The Mead.
