Podcasts: Bill Newman
Bill Newman
The Bill Newman Show. Weekdays at 9AM. Join Bill & Monte Belmonte as they talk with news-makers, elected officials, authors, artists, poets, and ‘fish wrap’ about the day’s headlines.
Recent guests include authors Senator Elizabeth Warren (Persist); Larry Tye (Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy); Daniel James Brown (Facing the Mountain); Chuck Collins (The Wealth Hoarders and Born on Third Base).
Chelsea Kline on The Senate and Sexism
5/24: Chelsea Kline, candidate for Stan Rosenberg’s State Senate seat.
Comerford Comes Forth
5/23: Jo Comerford, candidate for Stan Rosenberg’s State Senate seat; Julie Akeret, filmmaker, “G is for Gun.”
G Is For Gun: The Arming of Teachers In America
5/22: “G is for Gun” –the movie and the debate around arming teachers in schools—filmmaker Kate Way is our guest. Then teachers and students from the Mt. Tom Academy on personalized high school learning
Truth!
5/21: “Black in the Valley” with Professor Carlie Tartakov, Rev.-Dr Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks and Marcus Ware, Chair of the Sojourner Truth Memorial Committee; Howard Ross, bestselling author of “Everyday Bias” on his new book, “Our Search for Belonging: How Our Need to Connect is Tearing Us Apart;” Representative John Scibak on gun safety laws in Massachusetts and the House and Senate races;
If Fought The Law
5/18: Law professor Howard Goldman on minimum standards for the police in theoretically progressive Massachusetts; Netfa Freeman, from the Institute for Policy Studies, and Rev. Andrea Ayvazian on organizing civilian control of law enforcement.
What a Difference a D.A. Makes
5/17: Andrea Harrington, candidate for Berkshire County District Attorney, on her fight and her platform for smart justice; then, the votes are counted and the result is MAX! Newly- elected progressive Vice President of the Massachusetts Teachers Ass’n., Max Page on the fight for the Fair Share Amendment; followed by, The BEIT AHAVERSARY! Rev. Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin David, and Rabbi Riqi Kosovske celebrate the 20th anniversary of Northampton’s reform Jewish congregation Beit Ahavah and share their perspectives on religious institutions leading the fight for social justice in the Valley
Is St. Mary’s The Bishop’s Pawn?
5/16: The fight –and the committee — to save St. Mary’s: Michele Atkinson, Janice Ruszczyk, and Thomas McGee with architect Tris Metcalfe; then our celebration of Bike Week at the Bike Commute Breakfast—this was really fun!
A Look At Their Work In The World
5/15: Hillary Clinton for President (and previously, President Obama’s) Communications Director and author of “ Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World” Jennifer Palmieri; from the Polus Center Steven Petegorsky, photographer and Board member, and Michael Lundquist, Executive Director on coffee, calamity and prosthetics; and then the Comedy Quiz with contestants from the Ha Has improv group Laura Patrick and Pam Victor and from the studio Monte Belmonte and from UMass, Quizmaster Laura Fattaruso –the subject is local geology—oh the things we don’t know!
Jewish Voices For Peace
5/14: Attorney and western Massachusetts Jewish Voice for Peace organizer Rachel Weber on Nakba and the recent shootings and killings in Gaza; “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds”– four NHS students give us a preview of the play and a magnificent performance on this segment; Paul Ehrlich, author of “The Population Bomb” on this, the 50th, anniversary of the publication of that seminal book and his new one.
This Whole Thing Is Gonna Blow!
5/11: From the Northampton Survival Center: Diane Drochon, Volunteer Coordinator and Bill Mullen, Pantry Coordinator, on the Post Office Food Drive;
Hampshire College professor and scientist Salman Hameed on dangerous orange things exploding—one in Hawaii, the other in Washington, D.C.
