Podcasts
Podcasts
Saturday, May 28, 201605/28/2016
Vaya Con Muñoz 5.28.16
This week Puerto Rico is on the table, almost literally, as the House Committee on National Resources voted to create a seven-member fiscal control board. Its sole mission is to pay back Wall Street $72 billion in debt. That means lowering the minimum wage to $4.25, closing more schools, reducing health and safety services. It means chaos and destruction so that greedy hedge funders get 35 cebts on every dollar they lent. There’s a better way to pay back debt. It’s called, responsibly. But the US Congress is not interested.
Also on the program, filmmaker and critic Larry Hott looks at “Last Days in Vietnam,” an extraordinary documentary by Rory Kennedy. Great timing. President Obama was just there.
Here’s a link to watch a preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTWX-BB4aAA
Olga Tañon’s fitting mega hit, “Que se vaya” marches us out of the show. It is dedicated to the proposed fiscal control board.
Friday, May 27, 201605/27/2016
Will The Commonwealth Have A “Bathroom Bill” Problem?
In Bill Newman
5/27: Attorney and professor Erin Buzuvis on sexual assault by football players at colleges and universities; LGBT activist JM Sorrell on transgender rights in Massachusetts and conversion therapy; Let there be lights—or not—in Northampton with Smith College professor James Lowenthal; poet Daniela Gioseffi in Ashfield.
Wednesday, May 25, 201605/25/2016
The Legacy of Sojourner Truth
In Bill Newman
5/25: Sojourner Truth’s truth lives on in a special edition of “Black in the Valley” with Terry O’Toole, Rev.-Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks and Prof. Carlie Tartakov; then, Springfield City councilor Adam Gomez (on Puerto Rican-focused resolutions) and Arrivals Project architect Joseph Krupczinski join Natalia Munoz.
Tuesday, May 24, 201605/24/2016
On The Money (5/25/16)
One of the biggest mistakes people make with their 401(k) A different take on when to take your Social Security…
Tuesday, May 24, 201605/24/2016
NED is Dead.
In Bill Newman
5/24: Katy Eisman, CEO of PLAN NE,The PipeLine Awareness Network for the Northeast, on the death of Kinder Morgan’s proposed pipeline. Then we preview “The Quick-Change Room” at Ashfield Town Hall with Chris Rohmann, Sue Davis, and Barbara Friend.
Tuesday, May 24, 201605/24/2016
2 Scars. 1000 Miles. No Shirt.
In Bill Newman
5/23: A topless 1,000 mile trek to fight breast cancer — Paulette Leaphart tells Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks why; Thad Carhart, author of “Finding Fontainebleau: An American Boy in France;” then, Political Gold with Josh Silver.
Saturday, May 21, 201605/21/2016
Vaya Con Muñoz 5.21.16
Sanders in Puerto Rico: A Special Report from our far flung correspondent, my Aunt Melo, who loves him. We stay on the theme of politics with film critix Larry Hott, who reviews two documentaries about Democratic primaries, one on the national level and the other that took place in Newark. And we say farewell with “Volver,” an iconic song by the Argentinian Carlos Gardel.
In the picture, my fabulous aunts: Carmen, left, and Melo, right.
Here are links to film clips:
“Primary” by Robert Drew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK5e6bTCC54
“Street Fight” by Marshall Curry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_1086493761&feature=iv&src_vid=R8jtAASYdLw&v=u6EkpsYtrsE
Friday, May 20, 201605/20/2016
A Sad Story For Pregnant Women in Massachusetts
In Bill Newman
5/20 Bill Newman Show: Rep. Ellen Story joins the Hadley non-profit MotherWoman as they push for the state legislature to pass protections for pregnant workers. Plus, NCIS, Northampton Criminal Investigative Service with attorney Harry Miles and what to do in the Valley this weekend.
Thursday, May 19, 201605/19/2016
Benedict Arnold: Hero?
In Bill Newman
5/19: Nathaniel Philbrick, author of “Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold and the Fate of the American Revolution.” Plus, a special edition of “The Reverend and the Rabbi.”
