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).
The Body Politics
2/6: Irvine Sobelman , member of the Sugar Shack Alliance and Steering Committee member of Climate Action Now, on today’s Kinder-Morgan pipeline-induced and judicially-approved funeral (the death, not the funeral) of the Otis State Forest; JM Sorrell, the LGBTQ JP, on Trump’s effect on the community; Liz Friedman, co-chair of Our Bodies/Our Justice, and Amaad Rivera, former Springfield City Councilor and former aide to Sen Ed Markey, on the upcoming Our Bodies/Our Justice rally; Black in the Valley with special guest Hip-Hop producer Demany Gordon.
Shay’s Rebellion & Yoga Farts
1/3: Newman on Trump; Daniel Bullen on Daniel Shays; Brain Leaf on yoga; Steve Sanderson on the arts scene; Scott Coen on Brady and the Patriots.
Kick It Acapella!
2/2: LIVE in the studio, The Northamptones -WOW!! Steve Sanderson, Event Producer at the Northampton Arts Council, on the upcoming “Four Sundays in February” program; Reverend Peter Ives, Rabbi Justin David and Rev. Todd Weir on sanctuary.
#OscarsNotSOWhite
2/1: We fishwrap President’s SCOTUS nominee; then, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott reviews this year’s Academy Award documentary film nominees; and Natalia Munoz interviews Masslive and El Pueblo Latino reporter Liz Roman on Springfield’s distancing itself from the designation “Sanctuary City.”
It Can’t Happen Here
1/31: PHENOM (Public Higher Education Network of Mass.) founder Max Page on Trump cabinet nominee Betsy DeVos, the Amherst Town Meeting rejection of the proposal for new schools, and Gov. Baker’s allegedly successful program for higher ed; then, “It Can’t Happen Here” (or can it?) The topic is fascism coming to America; our guest is Professor Sally Parry, Executive Director of the Sinclair Lewis Society,
No Refuge For The Refugee
1/30: Valley Immigration attorney Billy Peard on Trump’s Executive Orders and the legal response; then JM Sorrell, the LGBT JP on Trump and the LGBTQ community
Eleanor & Hick
1/27: Susan Quinn, author of “Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady;” Center for Constitutional Rights attorney Rachel Meeropol on her argument at the Supreme Court last week on holding government officials accountable for their illegal and unconstitutional actions; immigration attorney Billy Peard And UCC Minister Margaret Sawyer on Trump’s Executive Orders on immigration and local resistance –rally today in Springfield !; Ben Grosscup and Dave Dersham from the People’s Music Network—concert tonight in Greenfield.
“And the one that mother gives you, don’t do anything at all.”
1/26: Nancy Jo Sales, author of “American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers;” Ayelet Waldman, author of “A Really Good Day,” the story of her microdosing LSD; the Reverend and the Rabbi with Peter Ives, Justin David, Yael Petretti, and Carole Bull.
Viva The Revolution
1/25: CPR –the Continuing the Political Revolution with Susan Triolo and Ferd Wulkan; Natalia Munoz and Holyoke City Councilor Nelson Roman join our political mashup; first, the struggle for civil rights with Jon Else, author of “True South: Henry Hampton and ‘Eyes on the Prize’, the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement.”
Climate Action NOW!
1/24: Rachel Maddow with Monte Belmonte; Climate Change in a Time of Crisis with Brit Albritton, Professor Nat Fortune, & Lilly Lombard; Smith College Professor of History Elizabeth Pryor, author of “Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War;” Max Page on the Obama education legacy.
