Podcasts
Podcasts
Monday, July 17, 201707/17/2017
Trouble Maker
In Bill Newman
7/16: 98 year-old political activist Frances Crowe –in court again for civil disobedience; Josh Silver, CEO of Represent US; Black in the Valley.
Friday, July 14, 201707/14/2017
Vaya Con Muñoz 7.115.17
Felicia Lunquist, director of Multicultural Affairs at Springfield College, on helping students in this age of Trump, the role of social justice as part of college education and environmental justice also means affordable fresh produce.
Filmmaker Larry Hott on being an insider who becomes the outsider and how he brought marginlaized people into his films. His films, “Through Deaf Eyes,” and “Rising Voices” [risingvoicesfilm.com/] are solid examples of what happens when people with access invite people who are the centerof the story to be part of its telling.
Lillian Torres sobre el referendum que el partido pro-estadid celebró en Puerto Rico, y que cuyo resultado apuntada a que el boicoteo del mismo habla por sí solo.
We are sung out in Italian! For my birthday, I dedicate “Non e la pioggia,” sung by Claudiio Villa – who I think she had a crush on — and one of my mother’s favorite songs to my mother.
Image from “Rising Voices, a film by Lawrence Hott. With premission.
Friday, July 14, 201707/14/2017
The Continuing Buz on Niberd
In Bill Newman
7.14.17 Attorney Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and fills us in on where he is at with Niberd Abdalla, the Valley resident originally from Iraq set to be deported. Plus, Amy Proietti on Women Rising in Greenfield, Northampton City Solicitor Alan Seewald and an arts report from the Northampton Arts Council.
Thursday, July 13, 201707/13/2017
Theatre In Resistance
In Bill Newman
7/13: The Chester Theater Company presents; Pam Victor of the Ha Has on women’s improv; The Revered and The Deacon.
Wednesday, July 12, 201707/12/2017
What’s The Buz On Neiberd Abdalla?
In Bill Newman
7/12: Stewart (Buz) Eisenberg on his client– ICE detainee from Florence and Easthampton– Niberd Abdalla and yesterday’s rally in support of Niberd; Forbes Library Chair of Bd. of Trustees, Russ Carrier, and Library Director Lisa Downing on the settlement this week of the law suit between the Library and the City; Brittany Wood Nickerson– her new book is “Recipes from the Herbalist’s Kitchen.”
Tuesday, July 11, 201707/11/2017
Newman IS The Fishwrap
In Bill Newman
7/11: Newman and cohorts on the front page of the Daily Hampshire Gazette—Monte interrogates; Pulitzer Price-winning author Madeleine Blais on her new book “To the New Owners;” PHENOM founder Max Page on financial foibles of UMass and the legislature; then “Tense Vagina: An Actual Diagnosis” with actor Sara Juli and Ko Festival’s Artistic Director Sabrina Hamilton
Monday, July 10, 201707/10/2017
As Sudan Slips Away
In Bill Newman
7/10: Professor Eric Reeves on the Trump administration lifting sanctions against Sudan and the unfolding human rights tragedy; Dr. Ira Helfand, co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, on the nuclear weapons pact ratified by the United Nations last week (guess which countries are not included); Dr. Lea Waters, author of “The Strength Switch: How the New Science of Strength-Based Parenting Can Help Your Child and Your Teen to Flourish.”
Saturday, July 8, 201707/08/2017
Vaya Con Muñoz 7.8.17
Fillmaker Larry Hott reviews “Shot: The Pscyho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock,” about the rock (not geologist!) photographer Mick Rock. Trailer here: youtube.com/watch?v=ws8zPuCnb2o
Journalist Marie Grady analizes how Trump has influenced the media and the public’s perception of reality. “The right wing won the messaging war, not with news, but with opinion,” she says. So what is the circular firing squad aka liberals to do?
Multimedia artist Shirley Whitaker talks about her paintings, many a visual reconstruction of her experiences as a black girl and woman from southern Georgia. Her website: ShirleyWhitaker.com
We are sung out by Juan Luis Guerra, “Ojalá que llueva café.”
Image of painting by Shirely Whitaker, “Usher Board.” With permission.
Saturday, July 8, 201707/08/2017
Western Mass Business Show 7.8.17
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Ira talks with Kim Wheeler from Agawam Cinema.
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.
