Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Friday, January 13, 201701/13/2017

Driving Around A Divided America

In Bill Newman

1/13: Sarah Van Gelder, author of “The Revolution where You Live;” Jeff Napolitano, Director of the Western Massachusetts Office of the American Friends Service Committee.

Thursday, January 12, 201701/12/2017

Remembering MLK

In Bill Newman

1/12: Reverends Peter Ives, Jacquelyne Smith-Crooks, and Barbara Headley, and Rabbi, Justin David reflect on the legacy and importance today of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Sai Suryanarayanan, author of “Vanishing Bees: Science, Politics, and Honeybee Health.”

Wednesday, January 11, 201701/11/2017

Race in America

In Bill Newman

1/11: We preview “After Orlando” with Egg Tooth Productions producer Linda McInerney, director Josh Platt, & actors Kent Alexander and Rachel Katz; filmmaker Larry Hott on the O.J. Simpson trial documentary; Natalia Munoz on Obama and Puerto Rico.

Tuesday, January 10, 201701/10/2017

On The Money (1/11/17)

Dow 30k or Dow 3k? Who are you supposed to believe? Who makes the financial decisions in the house? The…

Tuesday, January 10, 201701/10/2017

In It Together

In Bill Newman

1/10: Paul Newlin and Dr. Martha Nathan on the Markham-Nathan Fund and the upcoming Watermelon Wednesdays confab and fundraiser at the Academy of Music; Max Page, founder of PHENOM, Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts on Trump and DeVos and the threat to public education.

Monday, January 9, 201701/09/2017

The President of College Presidents

In Bill Newman

1/9: Lynn Pasquerella, President of the Association of American Colleges and Universities; Josh Silver, founder and CEO of Represent.US.

Saturday, January 7, 201701/07/2017

Vaya Con Mu1oz 1.7.16

In Vaya Con Muñoz

We speak with author Ginetta Candelario, co-author of “Cien Años de Feminismos Dominicanos,” (“100 years of Dominican Feminisms”) with Elizabeth Manley and April Mayes.
Candelario, also professor of sociology at Smith College, and her her co-authors amassed a treasure trove of documents about feminism’s rise in the Dominican Republic beginning in 1865.
Also, filmmaker Larry Hott reviews “Witness,” a documentary about a brother’s search for the truth about the circumstances surrounding the rape and murder of his sister in New York City in 1966. Were there, in fact, 38 witnesses who heard her pleas and did nothing? Trailer here: http://www.thewitness-film.com/
And we are sung out by Haciendo Punto en Otro Son with, “En La Vida Todo es Ir” (Everything Comes and Goes in Life).
In the photo from left, Mayes, Manley and Candelario. Photo courtesy of Archivo General de La Nacion.

Saturday, January 7, 201701/07/2017

Western Mass Business Show 1.7.17

In The Western Mass. Business Show

1.7.17 Ira once again talks with Terra Missildine from Beloved Earth Cleaning who started a new venture-Cultivate and Nest

Friday, January 6, 201701/06/2017

Before You Say “I Do”

In Bill Newman

1/6: Leading American LGBTQ rights lawyer Elizabeth Schwartz, author of “Before I Do: A Legal Guide to Marriage, Gay and Otherwise.”

Thursday, January 5, 201701/05/2017

Will We Make America Unamerican Again?

In Bill Newman

1/5: Richard Cahan, author of “UN- AMERICAN: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II.” Rev. Peter Ives, Rev. Andrea Ayvazian, & Rabbi Justin David on climate change and the new community effort to help save the world.

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