Podcasts
Podcasts
Monday, August 19, 202408/19/2024
Protests
8/19/24: Dem Convention delegate, Easth’n Mayor, Nicole LaChapelle: Chicago & the campaign. Margaret Larson & Ellen Koteen: Riverside Ind. evicting the artists community. Timmon Wallis, Nat’l Coord, Warheads to Windmills: the Nuclear Ban. Megan Zinn & GenZ rocker & reader Tommy Hart – Watcha Readin’?
Friday, August 16, 202408/16/2024
The Hustler Files Ep 74
AT THE INTERSECTION OF FAITH, JUSTICE & INCARCERATION
Prison Fellowship is approaching their 50th anniversary, but when Founder, Chuck Colson, President Nixon’s ‘hatchet man’ launched Prison Fellowship, he himself had just served 7 months for his involvement in Watergate. While incarcerated, Colson was inspired to help restore lives and families broken by crime and incarceration. He thought Prison Fellowship would only last 5 years. So, who is Prison Fellowship? It’s a National Ministry established on the biblical belief that all people are made in God’s image with inherent dignity and potential. From Warden Exchange Programs to the Angel Tree Program for children with incarcerated parents, Prison Fellowship can reach thousands of incarcerated individuals through local churches and their volunteers who are managed by a Prison Fellowship Church Mobilization team. While there are other ministries across the U.S., Prison Fellowship is the largest, and like President and CEO, Heather Rice-Minus says, “..once you’ve experienced a Prison Fellowship behind bars, you’ll forever be changed…”.
Friday, August 16, 202408/16/2024
Stayin’ Alive
8/16/24: Hot Films w/Larry Hott & Maggie Mailer: “How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer.” ArtBeat w/ Betsy Stone, Rebecca Muller & Maria Timina: “Impermanence” @ Gallery 3. Gfld former mayor Roxann Wedegartner: lessons from the pandemic. Kennedy Inst. CEO Adam Hinds: off to the races.
Thursday, August 15, 202408/15/2024
From the Horse’s Mouth
8/15/24: Garrick Perry and Neal Robinson: the Iron Horse is back! Smith prof Carrie Baker w/ Sam Sharf, who fled New College of Florida & has been welcomed at Hampshire. UMass Prof Nancy Folbre: recipient of a $2.7 million grant to study the need for childcare & elder care.
Wednesday, August 14, 202408/14/2024
Don’t Look Back?
8/14/24: Bestselling & acclaimed author Peter Heller: “BURN.” Larry Hott & Jonathan Harr: “Ripley” & “The Imposter.” Brian Adams w/ Gardening the Community activists Ramon Elliston, Liarexmy, and Jhaneil Ramirez. Former Mass Senate Pres Stan Rosenberg: the race for president and musings on Harris-Walz.
Tuesday, August 13, 202408/13/2024
Western Mass Business Show on 8.10.24 — Leslie Gould-Barkman of Ladybug Body Mind Healing
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Leslie Gould-Barkman is a lifelong learner. Drawing on many years of education and practice she has created a practice of soul centered somatic caretaking. With an MSW, hypnotherapy, bodywork, and arts background, Leslie has created her own approach to healing. Her work is body focused through the musculoskeletal system which helps patients with mental health, PTSD, depression, and anxiety. She addresses what’s the root cause of one’s problems and goes after what’s stuck in the body and energy field. Join us as we discuss her experience and unique approach to healing people through energy work.
www.ladybugbodymindhealing.com
Tuesday, August 13, 202408/13/2024
Building the Plane While Flying It
8/13/24: Rep Pat Duffy: school receivership & economic development & climate bills still not passed. Northampton Arts Council’s Steve Sanderson & Peter McQuillan: PERFORMANCE 34! Educ Collab Dir Todd Gazda: Covid’s impact. Amherst Coll music prof Eric Sawyer & theater prof Ron Bashford: “The Onion”– their new opera.
Monday, August 12, 202408/12/2024
Our PILOTS, Ourselves
8/12/24: Holyoke Mayor Joshus Garcia: a PILOT, the police chief, schools & receivership. UMass Afro-Am Prof Amilcar Shabazz: racism & the presidential. Sen Paul Mark: climate & economic development bills — now what? Nation Mag Defense Corr & Prof Emeritus Michael Klare: two major wars on the brink.
Friday, August 9, 202408/09/2024
The Hustler Files Ep 73
REIMAGINING REENTRY SO IT FEELS LIKE A WARM HUG
Launching a social entrepreneurial venture is no easy task, and for Founder, President, and CEO of EDWINS Leadership & Restaurant Institute it was not an overnight success. Brandon conceived the EDWINS concept in 2004, with a three-fold mission: teach a skilled and in-demand trade in the culinary arts, empower willing minds through a passion for hospitality management, and prepare students for a successful transition home. The students who participate in this mission are all justice involved looking for a new life back in the community. But Rome wasn’t built in a day, and it took another three years for Brandon, a formally trained chef and sommelier, to build out the social enterprise model and then another four years before Brandon could launch the Culinary Club classes at the Grafton Correctional Institution. Brandon opened EDWINS restaurant in 2013 and here in 2024 EDWINS has a French Restaurant, Butcher Shop, Bakery, and a Second Chance Life Skills Center which itself is a campus with housing, childcare, library, fitness center, computer lab and more! 600+ have graduated from the EDWINS culinary programs and can boast that only 1% of students have recidivated. Like Brandon says, when asked, how he accomplished so much, his response, “just knock down one problem at a time”.
Friday, August 9, 202408/09/2024
Ticking Us Off
8/9/24: Investigative reporter Dusty Christensen: UMass seeking felony riot charges against protesters. MTA Pres Max Page: Walz’s record on education & Mass legislature’s failures. Smith Gov’t Prof Howard Gold: misogyny in the presidential. UMass Microbiology prof Stephen Rich: serious threats from ticks.
