Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Friday, July 7, 201707/07/2017

Finding Your Voice at 50

In Bill Newman

7/7: ROCK VOICES rock the studio. Vivienne Simon explain the protests and court cases of the Sugar Shack Alliance protesters (including 98 years- old Francis Crowe) arrested for protesting the pipeline being constructed and the forest being felled by Kinder-Morgan in Otis State Forest. Then, professor and astronomer Salman Hameed with breaking news from outer space—new threats to earth in addition to Donald Trump.

Thursday, July 6, 201707/06/2017

Standing Up To Sexual Harrassment in MIDDLE SCHOOL!

 

Thursday, July 6, 201707/06/2017

Students Against Sexual Harrassment

In Bill Newman

7/6: SASH: Students Against Sexual Harassment explain their recent walk-out and sit -down at the Middle School in Northampton and their upcoming protest in Northampton. (These teenagers are amazing — you just have to listen.) Then, previews of the Ko Festival and New Century Theater.

Wednesday, July 5, 201707/05/2017

We’re Off To See The Wizard

In Bill Newman

7/5: The Wizard of Oz visits the studio with minions and witches. Them the wizard of UMass and higher education, Max Page. And then the wizardry of Donald Trump with Natalia Munoz.

Saturday, July 1, 201707/01/2017

Vaya Con Muñoz 7.1.17

In Vaya Con Muñoz

The Rant: The police officer who arrested Sandra Bland has been absolved even of perjury even though he lied about the circumstances surroundng why he arested her in the first place.
The Conversations: Filmmaker Larry Hott recommends “Cries from Syiria,” a documentary on the war there. Trailer: criesfromsyria.com/the-film
Matt Szafranski, founder and editor in chief of the best local blog on what’s happening in our region, Western Mass. Politics and Insight, (wmasspi.com) on Springfield Mayor Dominic Sarno and the particularly hostile language he’s been using lately in relation to undocumented immigrants and the new casino going on in East Windsor, CT.
Gricel Martínez Ocasio and Nicole Lashomb, founders and editors of The Rainbow Times (therainbowtimesmass.com), New England’s largest LGBTQ monthly and online news outlet.
Final rant about Trump and his tweets about the media.
We are sung out by Estrella Morente, “Coquinas.”

Saturday, July 1, 201707/01/2017

Western Mass Business Show 7.1.17

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Amy from the Downtown Northampton Association talks with the folks behind Sticks & Bricks and Assemble.

Friday, June 30, 201706/30/2017

Are We Doing “College” All Wrong?

6/30: Professor Jacques Berlinerblau, author of “Campus Confidential: How College Works, or Doesn’t, for Professors, Parents, and Students.” Then “Leaves of Grass” with poet and Paris Press founder Jan Freeman.

Thursday, June 29, 201706/29/2017

Don’t Bogart That Joint Legislation

In Bill Newman

6/29: State Senate President Stan Rosenberg takes the high road on marijuana and also discusses the effect of Trumpcare on Massachusetts.

Wednesday, June 28, 201706/28/2017

Is This Music Making Me Fat?

In Bill Newman

6/28: Charles Spence, author and researcher –head of the Crossmodal Research Laboratory at the University of Oxford– on “Gastrophysics: the New Science of Eating.” Also, we fishwrap with Natalia Munoz.

Tuesday, June 27, 201706/27/2017

The Forgotten Men in Guantanamo

In Bill Newman

6/27: Sherrill Hogen from Wintess against Torture and Paki Wieland from No More Guantanamos speak about the prisoners at GTMO still detained indefinitely and without trial and the demonstrations in the Valley tomorrow to remember them. Then, astronomer Salman Hameed on the universe and Wilco

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