Podcasts
Podcasts
Monday, December 2, 202412/02/2024
Remembering & Projecting
12/2/24: Sen Jo Comerford: state revenue, federal $ for Mass. & a cigarette ban? Hamp Mayor GL Sciarra: City Hall closed, the Rail Trail open & the budget. Ruth Griggs, Buz & Bill remember Leah Kunkel. Larry Hott “Join or Die.” Megan Zinn w/ Megan Tady, author of “Bluebird Day.”
Saturday, November 30, 202411/30/2024
Hustler Files Ep 88
FEAR HAS NO END DATE
Sadly domestic violence is a 365-day-a-year issue, but the more survivors step forward, ask for help, and share their stories, the more aware society becomes of this ongoing epidemic. Liz Dineen, CEO of the Western Massachusetts YWCA, has been one of many organizations across the country to take up the protection sword to help women and men, of domestic violence. In conjunction with the Hampden County Sheriff’s Office, a recent media campaign drew hundreds of calls and walk-ins, to her YWCA facility. Every story of domestic violence is unacceptable, and many survivors wish to keep their stories secret out of fear of retaliation, but also out of embarrassment and shame. This was the case with Stephanie of Idaho. Her story is one of beatings, kidnapping, starvation, broken bones, and being stabbed repeatedly with a chisel, to within a literal fraction of her femoral artery. Stephanie’s story is chilling, but her bravery in sharing her abuse is to be applauded! For 13 1/2 years she has rebuilt her life while her abuser has been serving a 15-year prison sentence. But despite her new lease on life, and a 100-year protection order from the courts, Stephanie is terrified of what might lie ahead.
Wednesday, November 27, 202411/27/2024
Giving Thanks & Love
11/27/24: Immigration attys Claudia Quintero & Maya McCann w/ PV Workers Ctr Dir Claudia Rosales: Fairness for Farmworkers. Sex educator Jane Fleishman w/ Kate & Julie McGondel: the women-loving-women dating service “Willow.” Brian Adams w/ Trustees of Reservations ecologist Julie Richburg CDH’s Gail Orzechowski & Jennifer Margolis: “Trees of Love.”
Wednesday, November 27, 202411/27/2024
Panorama — Episode 93 — Nuclear Power Now?
In Panorama
Originally aired on November 30, 2024. UMass Researcher Joshua Goldstein discusses working with filmmaker Oliver Stone on creating the documentary Nuclear Now (2022). Professor Goldstein explains the limitations of renewable energy, and why nuclear power must be part of the solution. But is nuclear energy safe? Isn’t expensive? Where will the toxic waste go? Professor Goldstein answers these questions while offering a hopeful (nuclear) future in reducing carbon emissions.
Tuesday, November 26, 202411/26/2024
Speak Out!
11/26/24: Monte: The March for the Food Bank! Josh Silver on post-election PTSD. Ed Orzechowski: “Becoming Darlene: Belchertown Patient #4952.” Duke Goldman: speak out against MAGA’s politicization of sports & obsession with transgender athletes. Larry Spotted Crow Mann: Thanksgiving? Nat’l Day of Mourning.
Monday, November 25, 202411/25/2024
March for the Food Bank & Walking Out
11/25/24: Gfld City Councilor Marianne Bullock: mass resignations at city hall. Prof Amilcar Shabazz w/ Ayanna Crawford: Kwanzaa & Thanksgiving/ Day of Mourning. Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman: Trump & risk for Sanctuary Cities. Megan Zinn & local author Sarah Sawyer: “The Undercurrent.”
Saturday, November 23, 202411/23/2024
Western Mass Business Show on 11.23.24 — Mara Levi & Nova Wehman-Brown of the Queer Joy Collaborative
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Mara Levi, Executive Director, and Nova Wehman-Brown, BOD Chair of the Queer Joy Collaborative
Friday, November 22, 202411/22/2024
The Hustler Files Ep 87
EARN & LEARN APPRENTICESHIP AT CATALYST
Over the last couple of decades, tech companies and tech-minded entrepreneurs have been developing various ways to assist incarcerated and justice-involved individuals with job training both behind the wall and upon returning to the community. Checkr, a California-based background tech company, has been leading the charge for more employers, like those they work with, to become more socially responsible in the fair chance hiring movement by bridging the gap between employers, needing employees, and justice-involved individuals learning a trade and earning a living wage. To that means, Checkr has launched CATALYST, a 12-month, 2,000 hours, apprenticeship program to offer justice-involved individuals with real-life learning, in a variety of career pathways, and that includes a formal credential from the US Department of Labor, upon completion of their apprenticeship. CATALYST was piloted, in-house, at Checkr for a full year, before launching the roll-out with a handful of employers who believe in this valuable, often-overlooked talent pool. Checkr has committed o$1M over the next two years to expand CATALYST, and Christina Louie Dyer, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility has been tapped to oversee this life-changing initiative.
Friday, November 22, 202411/22/2024
Power
11/22/24: Dangerous recess appts. MTA Pres Max Page: strikes, no family medical leave & subminimum wage. Donnabelle Casis w/ Jason Montgomery, 50 Arrow Gallery: “Words” & art. Jillian Morgan: March for the Food Bank. Local human rts atty Laura Pitter: coming assault on rts.
Thursday, November 21, 202411/21/2024
Politics & All That Jazz
11/21/24: Dan Crowley, Ex Ed, Daily Hampshire Gazette & Gfld Recorder. Michael McSherry, Sr. Pastor, Edwards Church; Ex Dir ACLU of Mass: fighting back; “All that Jazz” with Jon Anz & saxophonist Kris Allen.
