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).

Does the ACLU Represent.Us?

1.25- Bill speaks with ACLU Massachusetts Legal Director, Matt Segal and Director of Northampton and D.C. based Represent.Us Josh Silver.

Bring Us Your Tired, Your Poor…

1.22- Author Roberto Gonzalez on his new book on immigration, “Lives in Limbo.” Mount Holyoke Physics Professor and founder of the Sci-Tech Cafe Kathy Aidala. A Boogie for Bernie and Art in the Valley this weekend.

Can Architecture Be Inclusive?

UMass professors Max Page and Joseph Krupcynski; NYT best-selling author Jacqueline Sheehan on her new book “The Center of the World;”
The Reverend and the Rabbi with Rev. Peter Ives and Greenfield ‘s new rabbi, Andrea Cohen-Kiener.

Women On The Vanguard

1.20- Cool Films with Larry Hott on the Academy Award nominees; Vaya Con Muñoz with Natalia Muñoz and Women Of The Vanguard.

Is There Really A Rising Tide Against Immigrants In This Country?

1/19: Susan Eaton, UMass grad., former newspaper reporter in the Valley, now a professor at Brandeis and author of “Integration Nation, Immigrants, Refugees and America at its Best;” then The Comedy Quiz Show with the Ha Has Laura Patrick & Pam Victor quizmaster Jasper Lieber.

Smith Sudan Scholar & Black in the Valley

1.18.16- Bill Newman speaks with Smith College Professor and Sudan scholar Eric Reeves; Black in the Valley with Rev. Doctor Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks and Doctor Carlie Tartakov honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day and five years of their weekly segment on the Bill Newman Show.

Mt Tom Academy & Newsweek

1.15- Barbara Chaney, Matt Rigney, and students from the Mount Tom Academy—individualized and cooperative learning in high school; Nina Burleigh, National Politics Correspondent from Newsweek on the rebirth of the magazine and her recent exploration of the melting ice sheets of Antarctica. Also, arts in the Valley this weekend.

Guns, State Politics, Climate Film, & MLK

R. Douglas Fields, author of “Why We Snap: Understanding the Rage Circuit in Your Brain;” Massachusetts State Senate President Stan Rosenberg on marijuana policy, charter schools, criminal justice reform; and that fracking pipeline; then Sigrid Schmalzer, UMass history prof and Director of STPEC (Social Thought and Political Economy) program on “Merchants of Doubt” (the climate change deniers fraud)-the film at Forbes this weekend; Reverend Peter Ives, W.Mass. AFSC Director Jeff Napolitano and Dr. Peter Titelman on MLK Day observances, lessons and celebrations and Black Lives Matter.

Your State U, Music for Change, & Vaya Con Muñoz

Bill speaks with PHENOM (Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts)founder and former MSP (Massachusetts Society of Professors) President Max Page, singer-songwriters and political activists Peter Blood and Annie Patterson –don’t miss their show this weekend!, and Vaya Con Muñoz with Natalia Muñoz: Dr. Marty Nathan and Milta Franco talk about the Cliniquita program.

Recent Headlines

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Jasmine Crockett on Wednesday conceded the Democratic primary in the Texas Senate race to James Talarico. The congresswoman called on the party to unify behind the state representative, who clinched the nomination overnight.

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