Podcasts
Podcasts
Monday, March 4, 202403/04/2024
Hear Ye, Hear Ye
3/4/24: Northampton Mayor GL Sciarra: the lawsuit, Roman Catholic Bishop of Springfield v. Northampton; also, liquor licenses & the ABCC. Sen Jo Comerford: school funding. Democrats Catherine Kay, Jim Nash, and Sam Hopper on tomorrow’s elections.
Friday, March 1, 202403/01/2024
The Hustler Files Ep 51
EVEN BEHIND THE WALL, EDUCATION WITH AN ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET
Venturing Out is the antithesis of what most women behind the wall at MCI Framingham (Massachusetts) will ever be granted. Yet for Beth Goldstein and Elizabeth Swanson their in-prison initiative, Venturing Out, offers so much more than the literal description of their program. For Beth and Elizabeth, whose day job is as educators at Babson College, to go behind the wall to empower and educate the incarcerated female population with an entrepreneurial mindset in humanities and leadership is a way to have local and personal impact on these women’s lives.
Friday, March 1, 202403/01/2024
Before They Testify
3/1/24: Mass. Teachers Ass’n Pres Max Page on school funding. Astronomer Salman Hameed on the moon (so to speak). Donnabelle Casis w/ Tahmie Der, Human Agenda Theater. Community Action’s Clare Higgins on funding anti-poverty programs. UMass. prof Sanjay Arwade on offshore wind.
Thursday, February 29, 202402/29/2024
Opening Doors
2/29/2024: James Swanson on “The Deerfield Massacre”. Harvard’s atheist pastor, Greg Epstein, on life and death. GCC environmental science prof Brian Adams with UMass history prof Kevin Young on “Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements that Won”. Ruth Griggs & Jim Olsen on The Back Porch Festival.
Wednesday, February 28, 202402/28/2024
Words of Wisdom
2/28/24: NYT columnist John McWhorter w/ Amherst prof Ilan Stavans – Wow! Documentary filmmakers Larry Hott & Roger Sherman: “The Second Life of (63 y.o. trans woman) Jamie P”. UMass Prof Malcom Sen: racism & the environment N’hmptn Licensing Comm. Chair Natasha Yakovlvev: the liquor licenses mess.
Tuesday, February 27, 202402/27/2024
Back from the Brink
2/27/24: Josh Silver: the War in Gaza & the 2024 election. MHC Physics Prof Kerstin Nordstrom & UMass Engineering Prof Meghan Huber: robotics, AI & us. Duke Goldman: the NFL abusing players & families. Dr. Ira Helfand & UMass. Prof Chris Appy (Ellsberg Initiative Dir): nuclear threats & Back from the Brink.
Monday, February 26, 202402/26/2024
Not Your Usual Monday
2/26/24: Watermelon Wednesdays & Gypsy Jazz with founder & Director Paul Newlin. UMass Prof. Amilcar Shabazz & Amherst Councilor-at-large Elisha Walker on funding Reparations. Megan Zinn with author Rachel Lyon on “Fruit of the Dead.” Amherst poli-sci prof. Javier Corrales on “Autocracy Rising.”
Friday, February 23, 202402/23/2024
Woes & Whoas
2/23/24: MTA Pres Max Page with educator & Recorder columnist Doug Selwyn on equalizing education. Donnabelle Casis with Jaq Chartier on her show with Anne Lilly, & Laura Gurten at William Bazcek Fine Arts – painting without painting, science & art. Amherst Town Mgr Paul Bockelman on Amhest4Ceasefire, school layoffs, searching for a police chief & living with potholes. Plus a Fishwrap!
Friday, February 23, 202402/23/2024
The Hustler Files Ep 50
PAROLE, FACT VS. FICTION
For most adults in the U.S. their only exposure to the criminal justice proceeding, known as parole, is what they see on film. But the actual details behind parole hearings, those who qualify, and the process for those incarcerated to receive their freedom is not for the faint of heart. As Attorney Ryan Schiff says, “In a parole hearing, we as attorney’s must take a back seat and no longer be the Director of the proceeding, like we are with our clients, pre-incarceration”. Another fact, the knowledge of a parole hearing, for an incarcerated individual can be many years away. As Attorney Melissa Celli states, “You can walk into any prison in the United States and ask an incarcerated individual the date of their parole hearing, no matter how far in the future, and they will know it.” Join Melissa and Ryan as they open a door to the true facts behind parole.
Thursday, February 22, 202402/22/2024
You Are Being Tracked and the Data Is Being Sold
2/22/24: ACLU of Mass’ Carol Rose on the sale of location data and Trump’s prosecutions. Rev. Carole Bull on Alexei Navalny, nonviolence & inner fearlessness. Brian Adams w/ Paul’s Sugar Shack owner Paul Zononi — how the sap flows. The police chief is gone — with Gfld’s David Singer.
