Podcasts
Podcasts
Thursday, November 7, 202411/07/2024
Resist!
11/7/24: Rep Jim McGovern: the election & the resistance. Revs Andrea Ayvazian & Terrlyn Curry Avery: keeping faith, keeping on. Labor lawyer Seth Goldstein: the Smith College unions, Trader Joe’s & Trump’s plans to eradicate unions. Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin & activist Paki Wieland: Ukraine, Gaza & Iran, Biden &Trump.
Wednesday, November 6, 202411/06/2024
Mourning Morning
11/6/24: DA David Sullivan: Trump’s judiciary — for generations. Larry Hott: support the Movement Voter Project, watch “A Public Defender()…Representing the Jan 6th Rioters.” Brian Adams w/ Markelle Smith, Dir, CT River Watershed P’ship: our environmental future & the $25M land conservation grant. Bill Dwight: an election post-mortem.
Monday, November 4, 202411/04/2024
Putting Out Fires
11/5/24: Sen Jo Comerford celebrates progressive activism this election, thanks poll workers, & explains her Q2 advocacy. Northampton Mayor GL Sciarra: the city’s 52-acre brush fire & robust early voting. Bill & Buz on the 5 ballot questions (MTA Pres Max Page joins them.) Book banning: Megan Zinn w/ director Kate Way, former NHS teacher: her documentary, “Banned Together.”
Friday, November 1, 202411/01/2024
Financial Fitness on 11.2.24
In Financial Fitness with the Money Doctor
Jess Tyler and the Money Doctor on Financial Fitness
Friday, November 1, 202411/01/2024
The Hustler Files Ep 84
SENTENCED TO LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE, BUT SHE DIDN’T DO THE CRIME
Unfortunately the cycle of domestic abuse can be handed down, from generation to generation, and it is an inheritance that can prove deadly. Such was the case for Kelly Savage-Rodriguez. Kelly grew up in an abusive family, and her mother was constantly, in the criminal justice system. Kelly herself was in a domestic violence situation when sadly she lost her 4 year old son, at the hands of her then husband. While Kelly’s husband was sentenced to LWOP – Life Without Parole, Kelly herself was charged, at the time, with the California failure to protect law. Kelly served 23 years behind the wall and she also lost her baby daughter to her ex-husbands family. But Kelly wasn’t going to quit fighting for her release, and in November of 2018 had her LWOP sentence commuted by then California Governor Brown. Through all of Kelly’s pain, she used her time in prison to not only improve herself, but help others, including taking on a role with the California Coalition of Women Prisoners, as a Drop LWOP Coordinator. Kelly is still in that role today, but fortunately outside the wall.
Friday, November 1, 202411/01/2024
Questions & Ramifications
11/1/24: Ballot Q 1: Auditor Diana DiZoglio backs her ballot question. Q 2: MTA Pres Max Page & VP Deb McCarthy: YES to eliminate MCAS as.grad reqmt. Donnabelle Casis w/ prof Sarah Stefana Smiith: her amazing exhibit at Hampshire College. Community Action E.D. Clare Higgins: kids are on the ballot. Amherst prof Austin Sarat: the election & democracy.
Thursday, October 31, 202410/31/2024
SCARY STUFF
10/31/24: Political expert Josh Silver: everything you wanted to know about the upcoming election. Michael Harbron on his “Interview with the Devil.” Filmmaker Christopher Seward (“Music for Mushrooms”) & Jamie Morey, advocate for ballot question 4.
Wednesday, October 30, 202410/30/2024
Vote
10/30/24: Nate Clifford and Jamie Morey: vote “Yes” on Q4!” Larry Hott w/ Exec Producer Dan Lombardo & screenwriter/actor Brenda Mary Withers of “Dindin.” Brian Adams w/ MA Audubon ecologist Tom Lautzenheiser: scary Halloween creatures bats, spiders & snakes, oh my! UMass Prof Jasmine Kerissey & Jeannette Wicks-Lim
Tuesday, October 29, 202410/29/2024
Goals & Galaxies
10/29/24: Spgfld Republican Exec Ed Larry Parnass: crisis in the media. MHC Prof of Physics Kerstin Nordstrom w/ Amherst Prof of Astronomy Mia de Los Reyes: the loneliest galaxies. Ariel Brooks & Nan Parati: saving Ashfield’s Elmer’s & reviving community — good news! Happier Valley Comedy stars Scott Braidman & Pam Victor: the Dream Theater Campaign.
Monday, October 28, 202410/28/2024
Panorama — Episode 91 — Ballot Question 2 Debate — Vote Yes or No?
In Panorama
Originally aired on November 2, 2024. Dan Torres hosts a debate if the MCAS test should be repealed as a high-school graduation requirement (Ballot Question 2). Team No is Roni Gold, Springfield public school teacher and former Northampton school committee member; Team Yes is Deb McCarthy 25-year educator and MTA Vice-President; and Jack Schneider UMass professor and director of the Center for Education Policy at UMass Amherst (who will vote Yes to repeal MCAS as a graduation requirement).
