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Tuesday, April 17, 201804/17/2018

“This is Not A Moment, It’s A Movement.”

In Bill Newman

4/17: Laura Reed, Visiting Professor at UMass Honors College, on the U.S. air strikes in Syria; then, amazing students and their amazing director on “Natural Shocks,” being presented in Northampton this Friday evening—a national day of artistic and theatrical performances about gun violence in America; Lucius Couloute, policy analyst with the Prison Policy Initiative, on unchecking the box, the recent Target settlement and how persons with a criminal record can secure a good job.

Monday, April 16, 201804/16/2018

Tax (Resister) Day

In Bill Newman

4.16.18 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with author T.R. Reid about his new book “A Fine Mess” about the broken tax system in the U.S. Plus a local war tax resister from Sunderland and Black In The Valley.

Monday, April 16, 201804/16/2018

Roz Turns 100

In Bill Newman

4/13: Jules Feiffer!!!! And Roz Cilman -Happy 100th birthday, Roz.

Saturday, April 14, 201804/14/2018

Western Mass Business Show 4.14.18

In The Western Mass. Business Show

4.14.18 Ira talks with Nick Jones from Noble & Cooley-making drums since before and for Abraham Lincoln.

Thursday, April 12, 201804/12/2018

Is Attorney Client Privilege REALLY Dead or Is Trump in Big Trouble?

In Bill Newman

4/12: John Pucci, former head of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in western Massachusetts, explains the FBI search of the office of Donald Trump’s lawyer; Corinne Demas and Artemis Roehrig reveal the truth to the age-old question “Do Doodlebugs Doodle? Amazing Insect Facts;” Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David on why Justin became a rabbi—part of his new book.

Wednesday, April 11, 201804/11/2018

Reclaiming Mary Magdalene

In Bill Newman

4/11: “NPR –Northampton Poetry Radio” with Rich Michelson and former NY State Poet Laureate Marie Howe; writer Jeff Olmstead and Director Chris Rohmann preview Silverthorne Theater’s upcoming world premiere of “Tar2F: An Irreverent Musical Comedy.“

Tuesday, April 10, 201804/10/2018

Full Disclosure: A Festival and What Trump’s Lawyer is About To Be Facing

In Bill Newman

4/10: PHENOM (Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts) founder Max Page on UMass Amherst buying a college in eastern Mass. at great expense; Linda McInerney, Artistic Director of Egg Tooth Productions, on the Full Disclosure Festival coming to (taking over?) Turners Falls

Monday, April 9, 201804/09/2018

Will Sinclair Television Take Over Our ‘Compass Roads’ In The Valley?

In Bill Newman

4/9: President and CEO of Free Press, Craig Aaron, explains the menace that Sinclair Broadcasting (have you seen the video that has gone viral?) poses to freedom in America; then, “Compass Roads”–some of the greatest poets in the Valley grace our studio.

Saturday, April 7, 201804/07/2018

Vaya Con Muñoz 4.7.18

In Vaya Con Muñoz

Larry Hott invites Lisa Ades, the producer and director of “GI Jews,” which will be on PBS on April 11. Trailer here: Youtube.com/watch?v=sl8XoAPNsxA
Esmeralda Santiago, author of “When I was Pueeto Rican” and other memoirs and novels, was at Holyoke Community College recently. We have audio from her presentation, about what we become when we leave our homeland.
En español, Ariadna Goenaga reseña “Lady Bird.”

Saturday, April 7, 201804/07/2018

Western Mass Business Show 4.7.18

In The Western Mass. Business Show

4.7.18 Ira talks with Charlie Epstein about “Killing Retirement”

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