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).
Any Good News?
10.10.17 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and tries to find some silver linings with PHENOM founder, Max Page. And finds some silver linings with Judith Roberts and Maria DuPriest from The Literacy Project.
Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count
10.9.17 Josh Silver guest hosts and talks with David Daley author of “Ratf**ked” about Jerry Mandering. Plus Lisa Papademetriou on Athena classes for young women and Amanda Herman on this year’s edition of Live Art Magazine
Holy Water for Puerto Rico
10/5: Blaine Harden, author of “ King of Spies: The Dark Reign of America’s Spymaster in Korea;” Newman’s commentary on prospects for sensible gun control legislation after Las Vegas; “The Reverend and the Rabbi” with Rev. Peter Ives, Beit Ahavah rabbi, Riqi Kosovske, and Florence Congregational Church pastor, Irven Gammon, on their interfaith effort to bring fresh and safe water to Puerto Rico.
Are We Ready To Impeach Yet?
10/4: Free Speech for People with that organization’s President, Amherst-based attorney John Bonifaz, on the Arpaio pardon, the prospects for impeachment, and undoing Citizens United.
Is Hate Speech The Cost of Free Speech?
10/3: Springfield-based attorney and political activist with deep ties to Puerto Rico, Raphael Rodriguez Cruz, on the island’s plight and Trump’s response.
Reflections On A Century of Life
10/2: An amazing edition of “Black in the Valley” follows civil rights and criminal defense attorney Dana Goldblatt on the police-proposed surveillance cameras in Northampton and “Cool films with Larry Hott.”
Truth To Power
9/29: “Disarming the Nuclear Argument: The Truth About Nuclear Weapons” with author Timmon Milne Wallis and anti-nuclear weapons activist Vicky Elson; political activist poets and authors Martin Espada and Doug Anderson
on speaking truth to power; curator Eva Fierst joins Betsy Stone.
Alumnae
9/28: Five College Alumnae of Color present; then, torture and heroism in Syria when the Valley Syrian Relief Committee joins The Reverend and the Rabbi.
Northampton Goes Hollywood (Sort of)
9/ 27: The Northampton Film festival presents; Authors Mira Bartok, Jane Yolen, and Heidi Stemple on “The Wonderling;” Natalia Munoz on the crisis in Puerto Rico.
Video Noho
9/25: Northampton City Council President Bill Dwight on police-proposed downtown surveillance cameras; beat poet and Human Error publisher Paul Richmond on the upcoming spoken word festival; then, live in the studio! singer-songwriter Pamela Means—a preview of her upcoming CLICK performance.
