Podcasts
Podcasts
Monday, September 30, 202409/30/2024
Revelations
9/30/24: Robert Meeropol: the gov’t executed his mother Ethel Rosenberg, knowing she was innocent. Bill Scher & Bill Dwight: the upcoming election & the VP debate. Spgfld teacher Roni Gold: No on Q2. Megan Zinn w/ Fred Waitzkin, author of “Anything is Good.”
Friday, September 27, 202409/27/2024
The Hustler Files Ep 79
THE WOMEN OF THE WESTERN MASS REGIONAL JAIL
Behind the wall in Chicopee Massachusetts there are 150 women serving time. If you’re sentenced, you wear green prison garb. If you’re waiting to be sentenced then you’re wearing orange. The Women’s Western Mass Regional Correctional Center is under the watch of the Hampden County Sheriff, Nick Cocchi, and thus considered a jail. Just don’t make the mistake of calling it a prison. Prisons are either run by the state, the feds or private industry. Upon arriving at the jail, submitting to our CORI reports, and being escorted through the many sliding metal doors, we are ushered into a classroom where there are six incarcerated women sitting around a table and signing release forms for their interview. Assistant Superintendent, Colleen Stocks, who runs the jail, graciously hosted us and allowed us to chat with Maggie, Vanessa, Brenda, Auntie, Keys and Jay. Listen in as these women open up about life behind the wall, the daily challenges of incarceration and what they would tell their younger selves.
Friday, September 27, 202409/27/2024
Panorama — Episode 89 — Jill Norton, educator and mom and voting No on Question 2
In Panorama
Originally aired on October 5, 2024. Jill Norton is a long-time educator and a mom of a child with an IEP. She is voting NO on Question 2 that would eliminate the MCAS test as a graduation requirement. The MCAS showed her where her kid needed extra support. It was a tool that made a difference. The Massachusetts governor and the Secretary of Education publicly support No on Question 2. Listen and vote on November 5th.
Friday, September 27, 202409/27/2024
Good News Bad News
9/27/24: Rep. Mindy Domb: swearing oaths & winning elections. MTA Pres Max Page: the MCAS news. The ArtBeat Salon with Donnabelle Casis and UMCA Dir Amanda Herman. Green Energy for All! w/ Stephanie Ciccarello & Ben Weil. Not goodbye exactly—with Smith Prof of Music—the amazing Steve Waksman.
Thursday, September 26, 202409/26/2024
Panorama — Episode 88 — Josh Silver, former CEO of Free Press and Represent US
In Panorama
Originally aired on September 14, 2024: The One. The Only. Josh Silver. Northampton-based political consultant Josh Silver talks politics with Dan Torres. After college, Josh is shot and nearly dies in the Amazon Rainforest. After that experience, he goes on to start Free Press and Represent US, two local non-profits. Josh is now a political consultant, so he shares his insights on the upcoming presidential election.
Thursday, September 26, 202409/26/2024
All That Jazz
9/26/24: ACLU MA Exec Dir Carol Rose: free elections & abortion rights. Rev Carole Bull: patriarchy & the Bible. National Suicide Prevention Month with Nazar Yasin. Ruth Griggs w/ Arun Ramamurthy: Northampton JazzFest.
Wednesday, September 25, 202409/25/2024
Life
9/25/24: Mass Review editors Jim Hicks & Shailja Patel: poetry & self-immolation protests. Prof Michael Klare: the Israel/Lebanon/Hezbollah War & the U.S. role. Investigative reporter Dusty Christensen: campaign contributions to Reps Richie Neal & Jim McGovern. Get trained, save a life: Cooley Dickinson’s Mark Dion on the CPR class for all of us.
Tuesday, September 24, 202409/24/2024
As Goes Pennsylvania
9/24/24: Political expert Josh Silver: the polls today. MHC Physics Prof Kerstin Nordstrom & Amherst Geology Prof Nick Holschuh — the shrinking Antarctic Ice Sheet & rising sea levels. Duke Goldman w/ Melissa Ludtke: “Locker Room Talk— A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside.” Dr. John Berger: politics & the climate crisis.
Monday, September 23, 202409/23/2024
Imagine This
9/23/24: John Lennon’s lover, photographer May Pang: her exhibit at R. Michelson Galleries. UMass Prof Amilcar Shabazz: Youth Empowerment. Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman: police alternatives, $21million for water. Vanessa Chakour: “Earthly Bodies: Embracing Animal Nature.”
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Vanessa Chakour: “Earthly Bodies: Embracing Animal Nature.” is a ticketed dinner. Buy tickets at (8 tickets remain). Tickets include the cost of a family style dinner. www.vanessachakour.com/book-launch
Vannessa will be at Unnameable Books in Turners Falls (open to all!) at 4pm on October 5th.
Saturday, September 21, 202409/21/2024
Western Mass Business Show 9.21.24 — Kara McElhone, ED of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Hampshire County
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Join us as we hear about the state of children in Hampshire County. Kara McElhone, ED of the Children’s Advocacy Center of Hampshire County discusses her experience with children who have been abused or sexually exploited in our community. We are blessed to have a CAC in HC and their partnership with DA Sullivan and many other partners in this hard work. Having been in existence for 26 years the CAC is having a recent growth spurt and recently opened an office in Belchertown and is hiring new staff to keep up with community demand. In those years, they have helped over 3,000 kids but many never report and others take a long time to ever speak up about the abuse they experience. 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will be abused before they turn 18. This is not done by strangers but by people they know love and trust. Protect our children by being a trusted adult and when something doesn’t feel right to you, report it. Even if you are wrong, and that is for DCF to decide, you may save a child from present or future harm. Listen in so you too can have the information that will help a child from this horrible experience that shouldn’t happen to begin with.
www.cachampshire.org
