Podcasts
Podcasts
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
Friday, September 20, 202409/20/2024
Panorama — Episode 87 — Joy Baglio and Melenie Freedom Flynn, Pioner Valley Writers’ Workshop
In Panorama
Originally aired on September 7, 2024. Host Dan interviews Joy Baglio, fiction writer & founder/director of Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop (PVWW), and Melenie Freedom Flynn, a local award-winning writer and regular PVWW instructor.
They discuss the creation of the Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop and how COVID-19 transformed the organization. Joy and Melanie share their stories as writers, read passages from their books, and tell us why we should all be writing.
You can learn about PVWW, Joy, and Melanie at
www.pioneervalleywriters.org/our-team
www.joybaglio.com/
www.meleniefreedomflynn.com/
Friday, September 20, 202409/20/2024
The Hustler Files Ep 78
MAKING A ‘WHAT IF’ A REALITY, Part 2
This episode is the second of a two-parter featuring Eva Hamilton, MBE, CEO and Founder of the very successful re-entry program, Key4Life. There was still so much to cover, including a very revealing conversation with Aaron White, a Senior Case Worker on the Key4Life program and a formerly incarcerated individual. If you’re wondering about Eva’s Key4Life blended program, well it’s seven steps and involves Equine Therapy, Behavioral Support, Music Therapy, Non-physical Football and Boxing, an introduction to Mentors, Mock-Interviews, and a Final Action Plan but there’s so much more to learn about Eva Hamilton, MBE with her 39 years in impacting the incarceral system.
Friday, September 20, 202409/20/2024
The Politics of Magic?
9/20/24: Rep Lindsay Sabadosa on NC GOP candidate’s nazi leanings, & affordable housing. MTA Pres Max Page on Teamsters Pres Sean O’Brien’s refusal to endorse. Betsy Stone w/ LOCULUS, Madison Palffy and Olana Flynn. Author Orenda Fink: “The Witch’s Daughter.” EMK CEO Adam Hinds on election integrity.
Thursday, September 19, 202409/19/2024
“You Can’t Handle the Truth” Or can you?
9/19/24: Exec Editor Dan Crowley on the importance of local news & thorough sourcing. Reverend Michael McSherry: speaking the lie until it becomes familiar does not make it the truth. Former MA Senate Pres Stan Rosenberg on the responsibility that comes with the political soapbox. Ruth Griggs w/ Argentine Saxophonist Julieta Eugenio, coming to Northampton Jazz Festival.
