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).

Swords In The Hands of Children

4/26: Jonathan Lerner, author of “Swords in the Hands of Children: Reflections of an American Revolutionary;” “The Reverend and the Rabbi” and the Workers Center; Jane Maloof, founder and director of the Old-Growth Forest Network, on her upcoming presentation at Smith College.

Jam For Bread

4/25: Live in the studio– The Northamptones with Director Beau Flahive and from the MANNA Soup Kitchen Board of Directors, Naomi Tannen.

Get Serious

Serious Play! The Fringe Festival and the Red Guitar with Sheryl Stoodley and John Sheldon; The Comedy Quiz with the Ha Has—take it! And Sex Matters with Dr. Jane Fleishman.

Is A Blue Wave Coming: Josh’s Colon

4/23: Political Gold with Josh Silver, CEO of the Northampton-based national organization Represent US, getting big money out of politics; Marion VanArsdell, author of “I Teached Him to Talk: Stories of Children with Autism.”

Is This The Future Leadership of the Mass Teachers Association?

4/19: Seeking to be the next President of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, Merrie Najimy, and Vice President, Max Page, join the current President, Barbara Madeloni with their pledge to continue her successful and inclusive tenure; then two reverends and one deacon share personal reflections on Northampton’s “Cathedral in the Night.”

When Bobby Became The Bobby We Know

4/18: Ellen Meacham, author of “Delta Epiphany: Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi;” Kip Fonsh and Jay Frost on Hands Across the Hills –they leave tomorrow with the delegation from Leverett, Massachusetts to Trump coal county, Letcher County, Kentucky; award-winning Northampton Poet Laureate, Amy Dryansky, and Amy Ben-Ezra from the International Language Institute on amazing poets with works on immigration coming to Northampton this weekend; Betty Medina Lichtenstein, Executive Director of Enlace de Familias, speaks to Natalia Muniz about FEMA benefits expiring this week for Puerto Ricans who fled to our Valley after Hurricane Maria.

“This is Not A Moment, It’s A Movement.”

4/17: Laura Reed, Visiting Professor at UMass Honors College, on the U.S. air strikes in Syria; then, amazing students and their amazing director on “Natural Shocks,” being presented in Northampton this Friday evening—a national day of artistic and theatrical performances about gun violence in America; Lucius Couloute, policy analyst with the Prison Policy Initiative, on unchecking the box, the recent Target settlement and how persons with a criminal record can secure a good job.

Tax (Resister) Day

4.16.18 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with author T.R. Reid about his new book “A Fine Mess” about the broken tax system in the U.S. Plus a local war tax resister from Sunderland and Black In The Valley.

Roz Turns 100

4/13: Jules Feiffer!!!! And Roz Cilman -Happy 100th birthday, Roz.

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