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).
America was founded in 1619?
8/20: The founding of America: Not July 4, 1776 but August 20, 1619. A commemoration on the 400th anniversary on “Black in the Valley” with segment hosts, Rev. Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks and Professor Carlie Tartakov, and special guest Kent Alexander. Then, a complete change of pace: our month Comedy Quiz with the Ha Has’ Laura Patrick and Pam Victor and Quizmaster, Steven Ellis—Animal Kingdom comes to Hampton Ave in Northampton. Contestant Joan Holliday does ok. Pam is a star.
Vietnam, Venezuela, and Black In The Valley
8/19: The crisis in Venezuela: previewing Tuesday evening’s presentation by Paki Wieland, who has just returned from Venezuela and meeting…
Hard Decisions and Bad Vibrations on New York’s MTA
8/14: Sex on the subways? We speak with Dame Products attorney Emma Freeman; then, Natalia Munoz on political upheaval in Puerto Rico; and from the People’s Music Network, singer-songwriter Ben Grosscup, previewing his upcoming concert.
The Eve of Nuclear Destruction
8/12: Ongoing protests, arrests and an imminent law suit: The Wendell State Forest Alliance takes on the Commonwealth—we speak with activists Bill Stubblefield, Miriam Kurland, and Priscilla Lynch; then, former Northampton Mayor and Massachusetts Democratic Party State Committee member, Mary Ford, on Saturday’s organizing, activism and victory in Easthampton; and Jeff Napolitano, Executive Director of the Resistance Center for Peace and Justice, on yesterday evening’s event commemorating Hiroshima and Nagasaki and –looking forward–peace planning.
A Shooting Star Is Not A Star
8/9: Hampshire College professor and astronomer Salman Hameed on shooting stars and massive protests; Max Page (MTA Veep) and Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts Executive Director, Zac Bears on the legislature’s report card; then and Kathy Lynch, Cassandra Holden of Laudable Productions & Linda Tardif of the Shea describe this amazing immersive experience you can have.
The Problem with Plastic
8/8: How our use of plastic is destroying the oceans and other waterways and much of life on earth. The crisis is real; the tipping point is now. We speak with Will McCallum, author of “How to Give Up Plastic.”
Then, Rabbi Justin David on the rise of anti-Semitism in America.
Newman Gets Fact-Checked by Editor-in-Chief
8/7: Brooke Hauser, editor-in-chief of the Daily Hampshire Gazette, on coverage and columns, what’s in, what’s out, and why. Then, Michael Kusek, publisher and editor-in chief, of the new quarterly, Different Leaf, a journal of cannabis culture.
