Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Saturday, October 7, 201710/07/2017

Western Mass Business Show 10.7.17

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Amy Cahillane from the DNA talks with Janet and Donald about the 30th Anniversary of the Northampton Brewery

Thursday, October 5, 201710/05/2017

Holy Water for Puerto Rico

In Bill Newman

10/5: Blaine Harden, author of “ King of Spies: The Dark Reign of America’s Spymaster in Korea;” Newman’s commentary on prospects for sensible gun control legislation after Las Vegas; “The Reverend and the Rabbi” with Rev. Peter Ives, Beit Ahavah rabbi, Riqi Kosovske, and Florence Congregational Church pastor, Irven Gammon, on their interfaith effort to bring fresh and safe water to Puerto Rico.

Thursday, October 5, 201710/05/2017

Are We Ready To Impeach Yet?

In Bill Newman

10/4: Free Speech for People with that organization’s President, Amherst-based attorney John Bonifaz, on the Arpaio pardon, the prospects for impeachment, and undoing Citizens United.

Tuesday, October 3, 201710/03/2017

Is Hate Speech The Cost of Free Speech?

In Bill Newman

10/3: Springfield-based attorney and political activist with deep ties to Puerto Rico, Raphael Rodriguez Cruz, on the island’s plight and Trump’s response.

Monday, October 2, 201710/02/2017

Reflections On A Century of Life

In Bill Newman

10/2: An amazing edition of “Black in the Valley” follows civil rights and criminal defense attorney Dana Goldblatt on the police-proposed surveillance cameras in Northampton and “Cool films with Larry Hott.”

Saturday, September 30, 201709/30/2017

Western Mass Business Show 9.30.17

In The Western Mass. Business Show

9.30.17 Ira talks with Lori Brogle of Aquarium Pro discusses what goes into cleaning hundreds of tanks per month and the life and times of aquarium fish

Saturday, September 30, 201709/30/2017

Vaya Con Muñoz 9.30.17

In Vaya Con Muñoz

Hurricane Corruption joined forces with Hurricane María in Puerto Rico. The manmade storm began in the 1990s, when US Attorney for Puerto Rico Guillermo Gil summarized the jaw-dropping theft of untold millions of public dollars by the Gov. Rosselló Administration this way: “Corruption has a name and it’s called the New Progressive Party.” The debt was compounded because of illegal multi-billion loans and spending on poorly concieved projects that resulted in the complete abandonment of the island’s infrastructure in order to pay back the loans with interest rates of 75 cents on the dollar. Gil sent many from the administration to prison, but the island’s health, education , publoc works and electrical grid was already in shambles.
Now Trump is going on Tuesday. Ay Dios mío. How many storms must Puerto Rico take?
Filmmaker Larry Hott reviews “Whose Streets,” about the street responses to the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson MO in 2014. Trailer here: whosestreets.com/
Matt Szafranski unpacks the primaries in Holyoke and Springfield, where the political landscape is changing.
Lillian Torres, la ponceña, y yo hablamos sobre María.
Bruce Springsteen sings us out with “Devils and Dust,” for all of the Caribbean.
Image of what Puerto Rican (aka Boricua) hope and humor looks like.

Friday, September 29, 201709/29/2017

Truth To Power

In Bill Newman

9/29: “Disarming the Nuclear Argument: The Truth About Nuclear Weapons” with author Timmon Milne Wallis and anti-nuclear weapons activist Vicky Elson; political activist poets and authors Martin Espada and Doug Anderson
on speaking truth to power; curator Eva Fierst joins Betsy Stone.

Thursday, September 28, 201709/28/2017

Alumnae

In Bill Newman

9/28: Five College Alumnae of Color present; then, torture and heroism in Syria when the Valley Syrian Relief Committee joins The Reverend and the Rabbi.

Wednesday, September 27, 201709/27/2017

Northampton Goes Hollywood (Sort of)

In Bill Newman

9/ 27: The Northampton Film festival presents; Authors Mira Bartok, Jane Yolen, and Heidi Stemple on “The Wonderling;” Natalia Munoz on the crisis in Puerto Rico.

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