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).

Hamp Heroes

5/10: Social activist heroes: Rabbi Justin David, Rev. Peter Ives, and homeless advocate Yvonne Freccero; Josh Zakim, candidate for Massachusetts Secretary of State; Jim Levy for SOS and the NEF.

The New President of Hampshire College

5/9: Miriam Nelson, incoming President of Hamsphire College, on her vision for the future of liberal arts education.

The End of An Era

5/8: Ryan O’Donnell, State Senate candidate; Ralph Nader, former presidential candidate; Peter Blanchette, Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra founder and maestro; Penny Burke, Director, Northampton Center for the Arts.

Black Mother’s Day

5.7.18 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with the folks from Hands Across The Hills, who just got back from a red state/blue state exchange program in Kentucky. And with Dr. Sonji Johnson-Anderson about the challenges of black motherhood this Mothers Day Week.

Trump, Empire, the Military Budget, the Draining of America

5/4: Ralph Nader on Donald Trump, empire and the military budget; then, Carol Rose, Exec. Director of the ACLU of Massachusetts on the fight for liberty in our Commonwealth.

Why Stan Rosenberg’s Work Has Mattered

5/3: We preview PRIDE on “The Reverend and the Rabbi” and with Pride Spokesperson JM Sorrell, the LGBTQJP.

The Poet’s Poet

5/2: Poets Laureate Martin Espada and Rich Michelson; David Tebaldi form Mass Humanities; Garth Stevenson, maestro of the movie “Chappaquiddick.”

Valley Gives Day Live From The Shea

5/1: VALLEY GIVES!! Live from the Shea.

Where Will The Budget Budge?

4/30: State Representative from Holyoke Aaron Vega on all things political in Massachusetts; state representative candidate for the First Hampshire District, Lindsay Sabadosa; a preview of the upcoming 16th Annual Anti-Racism Film Festival with Pam Kelly, Molly Chambers, and Carl McCargo.

Mind Games

4/27: Roy Eidelson, author of “ Political Mind Games: How the 1% manipulate our understanding of what’s happening, what’s right and what’s possible;” Bill Clement and Nancy Feldman from the Broadside and Joan Grenier from the Odyssey

preview Indie Day; singer-songwriter Ben Grosscup and Jeff Napolitano, Director of the Resistance Center for Peace and Justice, give us a peek at Shazam!, this Saturday’s confab.

Recent Headlines

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