Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Thursday, July 20, 201707/20/2017

Pot & Potpourri with Stan Rosenberg

In Bill Newman

Wednesday, July 19, 201707/19/2017

Why Do We Care So Much About Famous People?

In Bill Newman

Tuesday, July 18, 201707/18/2017

Paintbox Pirates

In Bill Newman

Monday, July 17, 201707/17/2017

Trouble Maker

In Bill Newman

7/16: 98 year-old political activist Frances Crowe –in court again for civil disobedience; Josh Silver, CEO of Represent US; Black in the Valley.

Friday, July 14, 201707/14/2017

Vaya Con Muñoz 7.115.17

In Vaya Con Muñoz

Felicia Lunquist, director of Multicultural Affairs at Springfield College, on helping students in this age of Trump, the role of social justice as part of college education and environmental justice also means affordable fresh produce.
Filmmaker Larry Hott on being an insider who becomes the outsider and how he brought marginlaized people into his films. His films, “Through Deaf Eyes,” and “Rising Voices” [risingvoicesfilm.com/] are solid examples of what happens when people with access invite people who are the centerof the story to be part of its telling.
Lillian Torres sobre el referendum que el partido pro-estadid celebró en Puerto Rico, y que cuyo resultado apuntada a que el boicoteo del mismo habla por sí solo.
We are sung out in Italian! For my birthday, I dedicate “Non e la pioggia,” sung by Claudiio Villa – who I think she had a crush on — and one of my mother’s favorite songs to my mother.
Image from “Rising Voices, a film by Lawrence Hott. With premission.

Friday, July 14, 201707/14/2017

The Continuing Buz on Niberd

In Bill Newman

7.14.17 Attorney Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and fills us in on where he is at with Niberd Abdalla, the Valley resident originally from Iraq set to be deported. Plus, Amy Proietti on Women Rising in Greenfield, Northampton City Solicitor Alan Seewald and an arts report from the Northampton Arts Council.

Thursday, July 13, 201707/13/2017

Theatre In Resistance

In Bill Newman

7/13: The Chester Theater Company presents; Pam Victor of the Ha Has on women’s improv; The Revered and The Deacon.

Wednesday, July 12, 201707/12/2017

What’s The Buz On Neiberd Abdalla?

In Bill Newman

7/12: Stewart (Buz) Eisenberg on his client– ICE detainee from Florence and Easthampton– Niberd Abdalla and yesterday’s rally in support of Niberd; Forbes Library Chair of Bd. of Trustees, Russ Carrier, and Library Director Lisa Downing on the settlement this week of the law suit between the Library and the City; Brittany Wood Nickerson– her new book is “Recipes from the Herbalist’s Kitchen.”

Tuesday, July 11, 201707/11/2017

Newman IS The Fishwrap

In Bill Newman

7/11: Newman and cohorts on the front page of the Daily Hampshire Gazette—Monte interrogates; Pulitzer Price-winning author Madeleine Blais on her new book “To the New Owners;” PHENOM founder Max Page on financial foibles of UMass and the legislature; then “Tense Vagina: An Actual Diagnosis” with actor Sara Juli and Ko Festival’s Artistic Director Sabrina Hamilton

Monday, July 10, 201707/10/2017

As Sudan Slips Away

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7/10: Professor Eric Reeves on the Trump administration lifting sanctions against Sudan and the unfolding human rights tragedy; Dr. Ira Helfand, co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, on the nuclear weapons pact ratified by the United Nations last week (guess which countries are not included); Dr. Lea Waters, author of “The Strength Switch: How the New Science of Strength-Based Parenting Can Help Your Child and Your Teen to Flourish.”

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