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Wednesday, May 24, 201705/24/2017

A More Massive Mass MoCA

In Bill Newman

5.24.17 Monte pinch hits as Newman nurses his vocal chords and talks about the expansion of Mass MoCA, plus Emmy-Award winning filmmaker Larry Hott with Barton Byg on the importance of East German films and Vaya Con Muñoz with Natalia Muñoz on the complicated history of Oscar Lopez Rivera.

Tuesday, May 23, 201705/23/2017

Madeloni Gets Mad

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5/23: Massachusetts Teachers Ass’n President Barbara Madeloni and PHENOM, Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts founder Max Page. Then, Pam Victor –comedy star.

Monday, May 22, 201705/22/2017

Bridges Not Walls

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5/22: Professor and former political prisoner Mohammed Sawalha, founder and Director of the Palestinian House of Friendship.

Saturday, May 20, 201705/20/2017

Vaya Con Muñoz 5.20.17

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Filmmaker Larry Hott recommends a podcast called “S-Town”.Link here: stownpodcast.org/. Listening to it, you will see a maginifent film created by your imagination based the true story of an Alabama man.
En español, la curadora Waleska Santiago comparte su perspectiva sobre la pintura “Ataúd abierto”, por la pintora blanca alemana Dana Shutz, de Emmett Till, un muchacho negro de 14 años que fue golpeado y ahorcado en 1955 por racistas en Mississippi.
Laura Lovett, U.S. women’s history professor at UMass, and Maurianne Adams, retired social justice professor at UMass, and journalist Marla Goldberg (amherstspectator.com) on the push to create a new historic dsitrict in Amherst based the people who lived in the North Prospect-Lincoln-Sunset area.
Santana sings us out with “Everything’s Going Our Way.”
Image by Natalia Muñoz Google Maps

Saturday, May 20, 201705/20/2017

Western Mass Business Show 5.20.17

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Ira talks with Dr. Lynn Charles about her chiropractic practice and how she helps to heal naturally.

Friday, May 19, 201705/19/2017

Impeach Donald Trump…When?

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5/19: Impeach Trump? Impeach Trump! with attorney John Bonifaz; then, Mikey Sweet and “Bad Dog Gospel.”

Thursday, May 18, 201705/18/2017

Passing On The Torch

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5/18: The People Win! Smith College professor Andrew Zimbalist, author of “No Boston Olympics: How and Why Smart Cities are Passing on the Torch.”

Wednesday, May 17, 201705/17/2017

I Want To Ride My Bicycle

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5/17: The Big Bicycle Breakfast! Live from the Court House lawn with Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz, Weatherperson Brian Lapis, Smith College professor James Lowenthal and other bike luminaries.

Tuesday, May 16, 201705/16/2017

Scibak In The U.S.S.R.

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5/16: Representative John Scibak on Your State U. with host Max Page; our monthly “Comedy Quiz” with contestants Pam Victor and Laura Patrick of the Ha Has and Monte Belmonte and Quiz Master Kevin McVeigh. This is about either capitals or capitols. Newman keeps score—sort of.

Monday, May 15, 201705/15/2017

Sen. Warren & Newman in Amherst

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5/15: Sen Elizabeth Warren on Republicans and Donald Trump; best-selling author Dennis Lehane on ”Since We Fell;” Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution with Paul Jablon, Doug Selwyn and David Greenberg; “Black in the Valley” with Professor Carlie Tartakov, Rev.-Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks, and Dr. Marcus Ware, Chair, Sojourner Truth Memorial Committee.

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