Podcasts
Podcasts
Tuesday, August 29, 201708/29/2017
How Diverse Is UMass Amherst?
In Bill Newman
8/29: PHENOM (Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts) founder Professor Max Page discusses the new report on how and why affirmative action has failed to make the grade — at UMass and across the country.
Monday, August 28, 201708/28/2017
How Bad Will Trumps Trans-Ban Get?
In Bill Newman
8/28: The LGBTJPJM Sorrell analyzes Trump’s trans ban; author Joan Brady, discusses “Alger Hiss: Framed: A New Look at the Case That Made Nixon Famous” and draws disturbing parallels to propaganda from Washington today.
Friday, August 25, 201708/25/2017
Vaya Con Muñoz 8.25.17
The rants: On Hillary Clinton haters, Mexican-American history in Tucson’s public schools, having fun at the air show in Westfield and what happens when your name is Robert Lee means and you are a sports announcer.
Filmmaker Larry Hott reviews “Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press,” about the Hulk Hogan lawsuit that closed down Gawker.com for showing a sex tape. Trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=PHow1B32WZw
Ariadna Goenaga reviews en español “Get Me Roger Stone.” Corto aquí: youtube.com/watch?v=5IPyv4KgTAA
Rosemary Woods, director of Art for the Soul Gallery, and Dean Nimmer, one of the artists featured inthe exhibit “Coming Togeher: An Artist Collective” that runs through the end of October. Gallery is on second floor of Tower Square, Main Street, Springfield.
Sung out by “The Fight Song,” Clinton’s campaign song.
Image of Art for The Soul Gallery in Springfield.
Friday, August 25, 201708/25/2017
Potholes, The Planet & Plutocracy
In Bill Newman
8.25.17 Represent.US CEO Josh Silver guest hosts and talks with Hamp Councilor Ryan O’Donnell, UMass Climate Researcher Michael Rollins, and author Matt Stoler on the problem of monopoly. Plus Inside/Out with Betsy Stone.
Thursday, August 24, 201708/24/2017
Will Stan Stand For Prison Reform in MA?
In Bill Newman
8/24: State Senate President Stan Rosenberg discusses the possibility of comprehensive criminal justice reform.
Thursday, August 24, 201708/24/2017
The End of Alzheimer’s?
In Bill Newman
8/23: Dr. Dale Bredesen, author of “The End of Alzheimer’s: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline;” Cassandra Holden and Sophia Dawson on “Art & Activism” and the extraordinary show upcoming at Millpond Live, which includes Sweet Honey In the Rock; Vaya con (Natalia) Munoz; Sports, Man! Scott Coen on the Red Sox’ race.
Tuesday, August 22, 201708/22/2017
Folk!
In Bill Newman
Eclipse review with Hampshire College’s Dr. Salman Hameed, a preview of the Chester Theater Company’s presentation of “Folk”, and UMass Prof Max Page on tearing down monuments
Monday, August 21, 201708/21/2017
Boston Responds To White Supremacy
In Bill Newman
8/21: Newman and the CEO of Represent.US, Josh Silver, take on Trump’s popularity, fake news, and the promise of the First Amendment; then a special edition of “Black in the Valley.”
Saturday, August 19, 201708/19/2017
Vaya Con Muñoz 8.19.17
The Rant: How about Republicans stop distancing themselves from Trump one day and then the next praising his policies?
Filmmaker Larry Hott reviews “LA 92,” a documetary about the 1992 uprising following the beating Rodney King, a black man, by white police officers in Los Angeles. There is a thick thread that connects that time to this time. Trailer here: youtube.com/watch?v=DcFuY_lPwh8
No tinc por: No tinc por is Catalan for I am not afraid. Our film critic, the Catalan Ariadna Goenaga of Barcelona, tells us about how the country is responding to the terrorists attacks this week in Las Ramblas promenade in dowbtown Barcelona. More than 130,000 people marched against terrorism in Barcelona on Friday. En español.
We are sung out by Ariadna’s compatriot singer/composer Joan Manuel Serrta, singing a poem by Puerto Rican poet Juan Antonio Corretjer, “En la Vida Todo es Ir.”
Image from “LA 92.”
Friday, August 18, 201708/18/2017
Francis Crowe-Private Eye
In Bill Newman
8/18: The indomitable peace activist Francis Crowe and the Raging Granny, psychologist and novelist Dusty Miller team up again; “Zero Hour” is here and also at the Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center — with the Clementine Collective.
