Wednesday, May 23, 201805/23/2018

Comerford Comes Forth

In Bill Newman

5/23: Jo Comerford, candidate for Stan Rosenberg’s State Senate seat; Julie Akeret, filmmaker, “G is for Gun.”

Tuesday, May 22, 201805/22/2018

G Is For Gun: The Arming of Teachers In America

In Bill Newman

5/22: “G is for Gun” –the movie and the debate around arming teachers in schools—filmmaker Kate Way is our guest. Then teachers and students from the Mt. Tom Academy on personalized high school learning

Monday, May 21, 201805/21/2018

Truth!

In Bill Newman

5/21: “Black in the Valley” with Professor Carlie Tartakov, Rev.-Dr Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks and Marcus Ware, Chair of the Sojourner Truth Memorial Committee; Howard Ross, bestselling author of “Everyday Bias” on his new book, “Our Search for Belonging: How Our Need to Connect is Tearing Us Apart;” Representative John Scibak on gun safety laws in Massachusetts and the House and Senate races;

Saturday, May 19, 201805/19/2018

Vaya Con Muñoz 5.19.18

In Vaya Con Muñoz

Suzanne Parker, executive director of Girls Inc. in Holyoke, on what her organization does to strengthen girls.
Emma Febo de Vega Baja y Lillian Torres de Ponce. El tema es: ¡Cómo bajar los niveles!
Diosdado López, organizer of the Hispanic Family Festival in Holyoke for 30+ years, on what’s happening this year. El festival de 4 días comienza el 31 de mayo en el Parque Springdale de Holyoke. Más info aquí: lafamiliahispana.org/
Entre los invitados, la gran Victoria Sanabria.

Saturday, May 19, 201805/19/2018

Western Mass Business Show 5.19.18

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Ira speaks with Wendell Davis and Oreste Varala of the Small Business Administration, discovering how the SBA can provide support and a loan guarantee for the 90% of US businesses that are “small,” and/or run by women, minorities, or in rural areas, as well as veterans, and companies that are new or ongoing. Among many other benefits, they can help you get a yes from a bank, because of the many ways they have your back

Friday, May 18, 201805/18/2018

If Fought The Law

In Bill Newman

5/18: Law professor Howard Goldman on minimum standards for the police in theoretically progressive Massachusetts; Netfa Freeman, from the Institute for Policy Studies, and Rev. Andrea Ayvazian on organizing civilian control of law enforcement.

Thursday, May 17, 201805/17/2018

What a Difference a D.A. Makes

In Bill Newman

5/17: Andrea Harrington, candidate for Berkshire County District Attorney, on her fight and her platform for smart justice; then, the votes are counted and the result is MAX! Newly- elected progressive Vice President of the Massachusetts Teachers Ass’n., Max Page on the fight for the Fair Share Amendment; followed by, The BEIT AHAVERSARY! Rev. Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin David, and Rabbi Riqi Kosovske celebrate the 20th anniversary of Northampton’s reform Jewish congregation Beit Ahavah and share their perspectives on religious institutions leading the fight for social justice in the Valley

Wednesday, May 16, 201805/16/2018

Is St. Mary’s The Bishop’s Pawn?

In Bill Newman

5/16: The fight –and the committee — to save St. Mary’s: Michele Atkinson, Janice Ruszczyk, and Thomas McGee with architect Tris Metcalfe; then our celebration of Bike Week at the Bike Commute Breakfast—this was really fun!

Tuesday, May 15, 201805/15/2018

A Look At Their Work In The World

In Bill Newman

5/15: Hillary Clinton for President (and previously, President Obama’s) Communications Director and author of “ Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World” Jennifer Palmieri; from the Polus Center Steven Petegorsky, photographer and Board member, and Michael Lundquist, Executive Director on coffee, calamity and prosthetics; and then the Comedy Quiz with contestants from the Ha Has improv group Laura Patrick and Pam Victor and from the studio Monte Belmonte and from UMass, Quizmaster Laura Fattaruso –the subject is local geology—oh the things we don’t know!

Monday, May 14, 201805/14/2018

Jewish Voices For Peace

In Bill Newman

5/14: Attorney and western Massachusetts Jewish Voice for Peace organizer Rachel Weber on Nakba and the recent shootings and killings in Gaza; “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds”– four NHS students give us a preview of the play and a magnificent performance on this segment; Paul Ehrlich, author of “The Population Bomb” on this, the 50th, anniversary of the publication of that seminal book and his new one.