Podcasts
Podcasts
Saturday, December 9, 201712/09/2017
Vaya Con Muñoz 12.9.17
Kudos to Time magazine for spotlighting the women and men who called out sexual harassment and assault by powerful men. Link to “The Silence Breakers” story here: time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2017-silence-breakers/
Kudos to Emma Thompson for calling for societal change to end sexual harassment. We hear a snippet from her conversation with the BBC.
Lillian Torres y yo hablamos sobre el hostigamiento sexual y cómo es posible que aun exista a pesar de que la mayoría de los hombres son criados por mujeres.
Part 2 of our conversation with Betty Medina, executive director of Enlace de Familias en Holyoke. She breaks down how FEMA and MEMA works — or doesn’t — in helping Puerto Rican families arriving to our region. Lots of compassionate people but also lots of bureaucratic challenges hobble the process.
The governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rosselló, gets a lot of things wrong in my view but when it came to calling for the resignation of a lawmaker accused of gender-based violence, he gets it right.
We are sung out by Lucecita, “Amanecer Borincano.”
Friday, December 8, 201712/08/2017
I Spy Denied
In Bill Newman
12/8: City Councilor-at-large Ryan O’Donnell pans the Mayor’s worst idea ever—24/7 surveillance cameras in downtown Northampton; from the Massachusetts Fair Housing Center: Executive Director, attorney Meris Berquist, and Legal Director, attorney Ashley Grant, on the just-settled discrimination complaints against the Northampton Housing Authority and three other western Massachusetts cities.
Thursday, December 7, 201712/07/2017
They Blinded Me With Science
In Bill Newman
12/7: Click here for Pastiche with Cher Willems and Alison Klejna; enter the 4th and 5th dimensions with Sci-tech Café’s Smith College prof Gary Felder and MHC prof Kathy Aidala; get grounded & take a deep breath with the Revered Peter Ives, CBI Rabbi Justin David & the Executive Director of the Zen Peacemakers, Rami Efal.
Thursday, December 7, 201712/07/2017
The 11th Dimension?
12/7: Click here for Pastiche with Cher Willems and Alison Klejna; enter the 4th and 5th dimensions with Sci-tech Café’s Smith College prof Gary Felder and MHC prof Kathy Aidala; get grounded & take a deep breath with the Revered Peter Ives, CBI Rabbi Justin David & the Executive Director of the Zen Peacemakers, Rami Efal.
Wednesday, December 6, 201712/06/2017
The Wounds Of White Supremacy
In Bill Newman
12/6: “Black in the Valley” with Professor Carlie Tartakov, Rev.-Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks, and Chair of UMass. African-American Studies Dept., Amilcar Shabazz; Dr. Marty Wohl on free dental services in the Valley for those in need this weekend; plus the “Dear Santa” letters.
Tuesday, December 5, 201712/05/2017
This Little Light Of Mine
In Bill Newman
12/5: Eveline MacDougall, founder of Amandla Chorus and Fire Pond (with Douglas Reid), and Northfield resident Magda Ponce-Castro preview Sunday’s double-bill concert to benefit Maricao, Puerto Rico; Max Page discusses the travails of State Senate President Stan Rosenberg; Jeremy Lent, author of “The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning.”
Monday, December 4, 201712/04/2017
The Next Governor of Massachusetts?
In Bill Newman
12/4: Bob Massie, candidate for Democratic nomination for Governor; MIT professor and labor expert Tom Kochan, author of “Shaping the Future of Work: A Handbook for Action and a New Social Contract.”
Saturday, December 2, 201712/02/2017
Western Mass Business Show 12.2.17
In The Western Mass. Business Show
12.2.17 Ira talks with Skip Matthews from Lewis and Clark Drug
Saturday, December 2, 201712/02/2017
Vaya Con Muñoz 12.2.17
We hear a recording of Koko Taylor’s “I;m a Woman,” apt for this new era of sexual harassment finally being part of the public conversation about women and respect.
Florence-based filmmaker Larry reviews “Tickling Giants,” which Larry sums up as a compelling statement on “humor to power.” Trailer here: http://www.ticklinggiants.com/
Matt Szafranski, founder and edtor of Western Mass. Politics and Insight online, draws one of the most interesting political threads when he interwines MGM, Las Vegas, Nevada Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, Unions and Springfield. Whoaaaa!
We hear a snippet from Stephen Colbert’s interview with San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz this week. She lists some organizations that are helping Puyerto Ricans, half of whom still do not have electricty 2+ months after Hurricane María ripped through the island.
Shakira sings us out with “Hips Don’t Lie.”
