Making Room For Everybody

Getting Closer to Exonerating Ethel

12/8: Robert Meeropol, founder of the Easthampton-based Rosenberg Fund for Children, discusses his visit to the White House and the petition to President Obama to exonerate his mother Ethel Rosenberg, who was wrongly executed by the United States government in 1953; Evee Litwok on her incarceration and the criminal injustice system on the Reverend and the Rabbi; then Rabbi Justin David, Rabbi Riqi Kosovske, & Rev. Peter Ives discuss the new onslaught of hate-speech and hate crimes.

Activism @ Hampshire and Beyond

12/7: A special edition of Black in the Valley with co-hosts Professor Carlie Tartakov, Rev-Dr. Jacquelyn Crooks-Smith and a Hampshire College political activist; Dava Sobel—after three years in Northampton and research at Smith, this best-selling author talks with us about “The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars; ”The Valley’s own Peter Blood and Annie Patterson, creators of “Rise Up Singing” and “Rise Again,” preview this Friday’s performance in Northampton.

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

12/6: A Trump Fishwrap; NPR -Northampton Poetry Radio with Rich Michelson and award-winning poet Ross Gay; Salman Hameed’s Universe with Hampshire College professor and astronomer Salman Hameed.

HCOG’s Legislative Summit

12/9: Live from the Western Massachusetts Legislative Summit, The Legislative Roundtable with State Senate President Stan Rosenberg, Rep. Peter Kocot and Senator Anne Gobi.

Bill & Buz

12/6: Freedom! – Victories for Clemency with GCC professor, attorney Buz Eisenberg; truly, Friends of Children – CASA program director Debi Belkin and Zephyr Rugs owners Victoria and Tahir Sheikh; Eileen Claveloux, Easthampton High school teacher and author of “Klausland: The Life and Work of Klaus Postler;” The Sci-Tech Café with Mount Holyoke College Professor Kathy Aidala; & Inside/Out with Arts Correspondent Betsy Stone and Pasqualina Azzarello, Arts Coordinator in Easthampton.

Newman Live from The WHMP Hot Chocothon

12/1: The $500,000 question: the Hot Chocolate Run for Safe Passage with WHMP News Director Denise Vozella and from Safe Passage, Marianne Winters, Executive Director, Lynne Marie Wanamaker, Deputy Director, Laura Penney, Director of Community Engagement and the Say Something Initiative; Raising Change team captain Kathy LeMay and Western Mass Distance Project team captain Kate Queeney; and Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David.

The Rich & Righteous History Here In Western Mass

11/30: Professors Max Page and Bruce Laurie on Laurie’s new findings and book on Hampshire County patriots in the Civil War; co-authors Corinne Demas and Artemis Roehrig on “Are Pirates Polite ?” and “Does a Fiddle Crab Fiddle?” (Answers not always obvious!)

Superheroes

11/29: Daily Hampshire Gazette reporter Amanda Drane on covering the flag protest at Hampshire College; children book authors/ stars Jane Yolen, Heidi Stemple and Lisa Yee on girl super heroes; baseball star author Jim Kaplan – his new book is “ Clearing the Bases: A Veteran Sportswriter on the National Pastime.”

A Positive Place

11/28: Betsy Shally-Jensen, Director of A Positive Place, and Reed Ide, founder of Aids Care/Hampshire County, on the organization’s 25th anniversary and how the world has changed, and hasn’t; then Chuck Collins, author of “Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good.”