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Friday, August 18, 201708/18/2017

Francis Crowe-Private Eye

In Bill Newman

8/18: The indomitable peace activist Francis Crowe and the Raging Granny, psychologist and novelist Dusty Miller team up again; “Zero Hour” is here and also at the Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center — with the Clementine Collective.

Thursday, August 17, 201708/17/2017

The Pedagogy of Anti-Racism

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8/17: Dr. Ira Helfand, Co-President of Int’l Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War, on Trump, Korea, and the possibility of nuclear war; Sam Rush, Producing Director of New Century Theater, on this week’s “39 Steps;” a special mash-up of the “Reverend and the Rabbi” and “Your State U” with Rabbi Justin David, Professor Max Page, UCC Minister Vanessa Cardinale, and MTA President candidate Merrie Najimy.

Wednesday, August 16, 201708/16/2017

Will Greenfield Become a Safe City?

In Bill Newman

8.16.17 Monte pinch hits for Newman and talks with the Amy Proietti about Safe Cities Greenfield, folks from the Institute for Musical Arts in Goshen and Word Nerd Emily Brewster from Merriam Webster. Plus Vaya Con Muñoz.

Tuesday, August 15, 201708/15/2017

Fotos de Havana

In Bill Newman

8.15 Larry Hott guest hosts and talks with Jackie Hayden about her many years of photographing Old Havana, Cuba for Hampshire College. Plus the Comedy Quiz: Shakespeare Edition.

Monday, August 14, 201708/14/2017

The Eclipse

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8.14.17 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks the impending eclipse. Also Buz’s treatise on the circumstantial evidence surround Trump and white supremacists.

Saturday, August 12, 201708/12/2017

Western Mass Business Show 8.12.17

In The Western Mass. Business Show

8.12.17 Ira talks with Janet Callahan of Palmer Paving, a WMass family business building roads since 1955

Saturday, August 12, 201708/12/2017

Vaya Con Muñoz 8.12.17

In Vaya Con Muñoz

The Rant: Wish there were many, many, many more people at the protest on Tuesday to show Gov. Baker that he should not make the terror that undocumented immigrants live under greater by pushing to have local police departments detain them.
On the street interviews with protesters and one of the organizers, Rose Bookbinder of the Pioneer Valley Worker’s Center, which has taken a lead role in helping immigrants.
Filmmaker Larry Hott brings longtime television newsmagazine producer Jeffrey Diamond to talk about the state of the media and Diamond’s new book.
Lillian Torres, la ponceña por excelencia y yo hablamos sobre inmigración.
Juanes sings us out with “No Siento Penas.”
Photo by Natalia Muñoz

Friday, August 11, 201708/11/2017

Looking for Lights At The End of Tunnels

In Bill Newman

8.11.17 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and talks with Monte about immigration and the NFL, plus the arts report and a closer look at the situation in Puerto Rico.

Thursday, August 10, 201708/10/2017

The Daily Devotion of Motherhood

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8.10.17 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and talks with Martha Fleming-Ives and her father The Reverend Peter Ives about Martha’s new photo exhibit in Downtown Northampton.

Wednesday, August 9, 201708/09/2017

ABC, NBC, CBS-The Fate of The MSM

In Bill Newman

8.9.17 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and talk with Larry Hott and former ABC Senior Producer Jeffrey Diamond

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