Podcasts

Podcasts

Podcasts

Friday, October 21, 201610/21/2016

The Opiod Crisis Continues

In Bill Newman

10/21: Northwestern District Attorney Dave Sullivan; Kimball Taylor, author of “The Coyote’s Bicycle” on immigration and human trafficking; Robbie Leppzer on his new movie “Power Struggle” – about the fight to shut down the Vermont Yankee nuke.

Thursday, October 20, 201610/20/2016

Cooperation

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10/20: It’s Co-op Month, and today is our annual co-op show with Adam Trott from the Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives, Andy Toomajian from PV Squared, Rochelle Prunty, G.M. of River Valley Co-op; and Angie Facey, G.M. of Our Family Farms, including a special edition of “The Reverend and the Rabbi.”

Wednesday, October 19, 201610/19/2016

“Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome”

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10/19: Laurie Millman, Tommy Twilight, poets, teachers and students from the Center for New Americans; George Lakey, author of “Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right and How We Can, Too;” plus a special edition of “NPR—Northampton Poetry Radio.”

Wednesday, October 19, 201610/19/2016

Should Massachusetts Raise The Cap on Charter Schools? A Question 2 Forum

Should Massachusetts lift the cap on Charter Schools? WHMP, The Daily Hampshire Gazette, The Recorder and NCTV are teaming up…

Wednesday, October 19, 201610/19/2016

Gravity Waves

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10/18: The return of the Sci-tech café – breaking news from outer space (seriously!) with Smith professor Gary Felder and MHC professor Kathy Aidala; “Away with the Faeries” with NYT best-selling author Jane Yolen and fiddler Donna Hebert; the Comedy Quiz with the founders of the Has Has and Jedi grammarian and punctuation expert Joan Holliday! (or is it ? or both)

Tuesday, October 18, 201610/18/2016

On The Money (10/19/16)

Should we make changes in our allocations before the election? How do you protect your money in retirement, yet still…

Monday, October 17, 201610/17/2016

Don’t Call Us “Minorities”

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10.17.16 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and talks Trump, Amherst Schools and bringing diversity to academia.

Saturday, October 15, 201610/15/2016

Western Mass Business Show 10.15.16

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Ira Bryck talks with Michael Lyon from Lyon Aviation in Pittsfield.

Saturday, October 15, 201610/15/2016

Vaya Con Muñoz 10.15.16

In Vaya Con Muñoz

10.15.16 Vero González, a teacher at the Paulo Freire School of Social Justice, talks about how people like GOP presidential candidate still are suported by millions despite his bigotry, the most recent display being his boasts about his sexual predatory conduct. What needs to change how women and girls are treated? Better education is a start, she says.
Filmmaker Larry Hott review Miss Sharon Jones! a documentary by Barbara Kopple [trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7eNSgCQzCI] about a singer those of us who do not know her will be thrilled to know. Larry promises she will have you dancing. The movie is playing at the Amerst Cinema.
And we are sung out by the big bang star, Benny Moré, singing a rousing ballad, “Mucho Corazón.”

Friday, October 14, 201610/14/2016

Rad Women

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10.14.16 Kate Schatz with her-as of yet to be announced-NY Times best-seller “Rad Women Worldwide”. Plus, Baylen Linnekin, author of “Biting the Hands that Feed Us: How Fewer, Smarter Laws Would Make Out Food System More Sustainable;” Kim Loughlin, Director of Admissions at The Bement School on the upcoming Independent School Fair; Eva Fierst—what happening at OUR Museum.

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