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).

Out of The Mouths of Babes…

12/12: Jen Pollin and Melle Lowenthal on Hatchery’s performance this weekend; Rabbi Justin David about BDS and the Trump administration’s recent edict; then the Reverend, Peter Ives, and the Rabbi speak with students ages 8 and 9 about climate change; also, Sex Matters with the show’s resident sexologist, Dr. Jane Fleishman.

Dissecting The Gazette

12/11: Hear all about it!! Our first guest is Daily Hampshire Gazette editor-in-chief, Brooke Hauser; then, Joshua Rubin on bearing witness to children in immigration prisons.

A Crisis of Conscience & Constitution?

12/10: UMass professor and Director the Labor Center, Cedric DeLeon, author of “Crisis! When Political Parties Lose the Consent to Rule.” Then, M-W’s word of the year: “they” (Monte does a fabulous interview.)

From Hate to Love

12/9: Bernice Hausman, author of “Anti-Vax: Reframing the Vaccination Controversy;” Tony McAleer, author of “The Cure for Hate: A Former White Supremacist’s Journey from Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion;” a very special Black in the Valley.

Sunrise Over Springfield

12/6: Western Mass. Sunrise Movement students highlight their protest today as part of a national movement on climate change; MTA Veep Max Page; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis.

Why Don’t Americans Take To The Streets?

12.4.19 Hampshire College’s Salman Hameed guest hosts and talks with Vijay Prashad from the Tri-Continental Institute about organizing and protesting globally and why it is lacking in the US (except Puerto Rico!). Also Smith College’s James Lowenthal on the disastrous potential of Elon Musk’s Skylink.

Snow Day/Jo Day

12.2.19 State Senator Jo Comerford joins Buz Eisenberg and gives us an update on her work on the Hill. Plus Mary Witt of The O-Tones on her upcoming shows.

The Huge Victories For Massachusetts Schools

11.22.19 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts and talks with State Rep. Mindy Domb about the overwhelming support from Beacon Hill to make our public school systems better and healthier

Getting A Handle On Panhandling in Northampton

11.21.19 Buz Eisenberg guest hosts with a special Reverend and The Rabbi segment addressing the recent panhandling report and community meeting. Plus Sut Jhaly on the reemerging Francis Crowe Community Room and Max Page with good news on higher ed.

#OKBOOMER

11.20.09 Natalia Muñoz guest hosts and welcomes her regular contributors Kate-Albright Hanna and Nathaniel Waring to talk #okboomer. And former and future candidate for mayor of Springfield, Yolanda Cancel

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