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Thursday, February 27, 202502/27/2025

A Really Big Show

In Talk The Talk

2/27/25: ACLUM Ex Dir Carol Rose: the threat to sanctuary cities and town. Rev Carole Bull: a personal relationship with the Higher Power. Jessi Kirley, Pres of Ehmtn-based J Kirley Collective & Common Capital Pres Raymond Lanza-Weil: small loans, big dreams & his testimony at US Senate yesterday. All That Jazz w/ John Anz, Mark Gionfriddo & Brian Lapis—olde time radio show.

John Pucci

Wednesday, February 26, 202502/26/2025

Heat & Soul

In Talk The Talk

2/26/25: John Pucci: Trump’s corruption of the DoJ. Indivisible mbr Bill Feinstein: Friday’s 24-hour economic blackout. Larry Hott on “Porcelain War” & “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” Chris Appy & Brian Adams w/ Sunrise Movement Co-Fndr Varshini Praskash. Natl Heart Month w/ CDH Cardiologist Jim Arcoleo & Interventional Radiologist Greg Blackman.

Physics Kerstin Nordstrom

Tuesday, February 25, 202502/25/2025

Music to Our Ears

In Talk The Talk

2/25/25: Scott Coen: the 2025 Red Sox are for real. Steve Sanderson & Megan Tady: remembering Roberta Flack. Scitech Cafe w/ Professors Kerstin Nordstrom & Shivon Robinson: your brain on drugs. Luke Ryan & Bill Tuman: River Valley Taekwondo. Patrick Gabridge (Plays in Place): “Blood on the Snow.”

Monday, February 24, 202502/24/2025

Western Mass Business Show on 2.22.25 — Orice Jenkins, Executive Director of Musica Franklin in Greenfield

In The Western Mass. Business Show

Orice Jenkins is a man of many talents and not one to brag. He is the Executive Director of Musica Franklin in Greenfield, a program teaching kids about music and beyond for FREE. The ways that the staff teach playing instruments and working together is the effort of many years of hard work and he is not alone in MF’s success. Gloria Matlock is also a teacher there, along with others, who has been on the show with some of the same kids who are part of both Musica and Twice As Smart. These kids are some of the best ones that I know, and it is a testament to the programs and these amazing adult humans that are involved. Additionally, Orice is an accomplished musician in his own right and has toured the country with some of the greatest artists in the world. He is also an author of The Early County Massacre: The Goolsby vs. The State of Georgia which has ties to his family history. To add to this great work, he is also a genealogy researcher and educator, he is humble and worth spending time with. For more information about Musica Franklin and Orice Jenkins please go to:
www.musicafranklin.org
www.oricejenkins.com

Lisa Wong, Tim Nelson, Paul Bockelman

Monday, February 24, 202502/24/2025

The Fire This Time

In Talk The Talk

2/24/25: Duke Goldman: Trump’s discrimination against women and trans athletes.
Prof Amilcar Shabazz: reparations in Amherst & Northampton. Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman: a house fire & frozen hydrants, CRESS, DEI & Trump threats. Megan Zinn & Developmental Editor Pat Dobie: making your good book great—and publishable.

Saturday, February 22, 202502/22/2025

Panorama — Episode 100 — “Obstruct”

In Panorama

Originally aired on February 22nd, 2025. “Obstruct.” That’s the message from David Fenton, author of The Activist Media Handbook. Fenton’s recommendations to progressives and the Democrats — simplify the message and REPEAT.

Friday, February 21, 202502/21/2025

The Hustler Files Ep 100

In The Hustler Files

THIS CALL IS BEING RECORDED, SAN QUENTIN PART 1

In March of 2023, Governor Newsom of California announced that the infamous San Quentin State Prison would have its name changed to the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. Since the mid-1800s San Quentin has housed some of the most notorious criminals, but times are changing and that includes the use of tablet technology for the incarcerated population. California, like Massachusetts and other states offers free calling on the tablets but texting is still a feature that the incarcerated population must pay for. Because of tablet telecommunications, we can speak with Chan Park directly from his cell inside San Quentin in this milestone episode. Chan has served a total of 32 years in the California corrections system, with this last decade at San Quentin. Chan’s transparency and honesty about his past, his incarceration at the age of 26, his evolution to take responsibility for his actions, and under the new rehabilitation moniker be more involved in helping create change for his San Quentin community, is inspiring. Tune-in for Episode #101 when we continue our conversation with Chan and learn about his bid for parole.

Friday, February 21, 202502/21/2025

It Takes Chutzpah

In Talk The Talk

2/21/25: Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: a threatening morass in DC. MTA Pres Max Page: inappropriate links, $10M NIH cut at UMass, & DEI. Donnabelle Casis w/ Xuan Pham: “Wherefrom” at Hampshire Coll Art Gallery. Ellsberg Initiative Dir Chris Appy & Sunrise Co-founder Varshini Prakash: environmental justice. Oregon Sen Ron Wyden: “It Takes Chutzpah: Fearlessly Fighting for Progressive Change.”

Thursday, February 20, 202502/20/2025

All We Are Saying

In Talk The Talk

2/20/25: DHG & Recorder Ex Ed Dan Crowley: honest coverage in the era of Trump -plus local eggs. Activist Paki Wieland: Sunday’s anti-militarism rally at Barnes USAF base. Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia: the city as a green manuf’g center, alternative police responses & his re-election campaign. Ruth Griggs w/ world class trumpeter Joe Magnarelli.

Wednesday, February 19, 202502/19/2025

Admitting Our Mistakes…

In Talk The Talk

2/19/25: Oumane Power-Green on Reparations in Northampton & Bill talk about the historic racist covenants in Northampton deeds and mortgages. Appellate Atty Joe Schneiderman reflects on the MA Appeals Court rules against Greenfield in police racial discrimination case. Brian Adams w/ Mass Audubon’s owl expert Doug Lowry. Prof Michael Klare: Trump turns our back on allies & imperils world order.

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