Here Comes The Sunrise Movement

8.6.19 The Sunrise Movement in Western Massachusetts with movement leaders from ARHS Allison Brau and See-Ho Lee and former gubernatorial candidate and Democratic activist Bob Massie; Wendy Sawyer, from the Easthampton-based Prison Policy Initiative on PPI’s new study on women being freed from prison — the numbers and information is astounding.

Is This Who We Are Now?

8/5: State Senator Jo Comerford on the recent gun violence; Black in the Valley with special guest Anika Lopes.

A Convict or an Addict?

8/2: Section 35: Massachusetts Prisoners Legal Services attorney Bonnie Tenneriello on committing people who have committed no crime to jail for treatment; Northampton Association of School Employees President Sadie Cora on yesterday’s contract agreement with the City; MTA Veep Max Page on the Massachusetts legislature’s action and inaction on education; ArtBeat with Donnabelle Casis.

Monte & A Constitutional Quiz Crisis

8/1:  The mess we’re in—take the quiz (this is fun!) along with Monte and Judges Cynthia and Sanford Levinson, co-authors of “Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws that

Affect Us Today;”  then, Rev. Peter Ives and Pastor Laura Dalton on Northampton’s First Churches (plural, one church).

This Is Your Brain on Sex

7/31: First “How Dinosaurs Go to School” the theatrical adaptation of Jane Yolen’s fabulous kids book —G rated—with the always wonderful Paint Box Theater players and director; then, G-string rated “Sex Matters” with Dr. Jane Fleishman –what your brain is doing while you are canoodling.

Lessons of Humanity

7/30: Lessons of Humanity with amazing musician Samite, originally from Uganda, coming to perform in Amherst; “The Making of a Democratic Economy: Building Prosperity for the Many, Not Just the Few” with Ted Howard, cofounder and president of the Democracy Collaborative.

A Movement and Some Movies

7/29: Cool Films with Larry Hott and Billy Wimsatt, Movement Voter Project founder and Executive Director.

The Good News/Bad News Budget

7/26: Representative Mindy Domb is joined by MTA Vice President Max Page; Art Beat with Eva Fierst.

Alex Morse v Richie Neal

7/25: Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse on his race against Congressman Richard Neal; the Chaplain and the Pastor: Smith College chaplain Matilda Cantwell and Haydenville Church pastor Dawn Orluske.

Because Internet

7/24: Gretchen McCulloch, author of “Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language;” from the KO Festival Debo’rah Eliezer, author of and actor in “(dis)place]d], the story of her father—
an Iraqi Jew, member of the Zionist underground, refugee, spy, and immigrant.