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).
No Human Is Illegal
1/22: J.J. Mulligan Sepulveda, author of “No Human Is Illegal: An Attorney on the Front Lines of the Immigration War” – we delve into issues facing immigrants and farmworkers here in the Valley and across the country; then, Sports Man! — WHMP’s Scott Coen on the Patriots’ win on Sunday and the team’s prospects in the Super Bowl.
The Arc of The Moral Universe: MLK Day 2019
1/21: Black in the Valley segment hosts, Rev. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks and professor Carlie Tartakov, with students Hosea Shabazz (from PVPA) and Monica Cage (from ARHS); Jeff Napolitano, Director of the Resistance Center for Peace and Justice; and Harvard Professor Steven Pinker, best-selling author of “Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress.”
Why We Still Need The Women’s March
1/18: Rachel Maiore, member of the Pioneer Valley Women’s March Steering Committee on tomorrow’s demonstration and celebration; First Hampshire District State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa on today’s front page news about her; Jeff Napolitano, Director of the Northampton-based Resistance Center, on Monday’s MLK Day observances; and ArtBeat with host Donnabelle Casis and guests Sarah Lanzilotta, Hannah Brookman, and Paul LeBrecque on creative spaces in the Valley.
The Reverend & The Rabbi Meets Black In The Valley
1/17: “The Reverend and the Rabbi” – the co-hosts are the Rev. Peter Ives and Rabbi Justin David –and “Black in the Valley” co-hosts, Rev.-Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks and Professor Carlie Tartakov on what MLK meant to their lives; Jason Berry, author of “City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300;” Marty Klein updates us on the anti-Semitic and racist vandalism of –spray-painted graffiti on — trees in a local conservation area.
Talking Race In South Carolina
1/16: Vaya con Munoz: UMass grad student Jonathan Jenner joins Natalia Munoz to relate his recent experience on the Mexican side of the Southern border with asylum seekers; Jorge Renaud from the Easthampton-based Prison Policy Initiative on the Governor’s Council’s decision today, crucial to the future of parole in Massachusetts; Paula Green, founder of the Amherst-based Karuna Center for Peace Building, and UMass. Professor Amilcar Shabazz on their upcoming foray to South Carolina to talk about race.
Food Trend Comedy Quiz
1/15: Our month “Comedy Quiz” —just too funny –listen to this! Also, Daniel Pink, best-selling author of “When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing.” We ask about the government shutdown.
How Are Holyoke Schools Holding Up?
1/14: Mayor of Holyoke Alex Morse with V-P of Massachusetts Teachers Ass’n, Max Page; “Shut Up, Emily Dickinson,” coming to the Academy of Music — with playwright and actor Tanya O’Debra.
The future of education and taxes in Massachusetts. Plus a giant inflatable whale.
1/11: State Senator from the Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester District, Jo Comerford, and Mass. Teachers Ass’n Vice President, Max Page, on the Senator’s proposed education and tax legislation; Annabelle Casis, Art Beat segment host, on the enormous inflatable whale in downtown Northampton–TONIGHT.
Bill Newman Show with: Margaret Sawyer; WHMP roundtable on gov’t shutdown and Elizabeth Warren
1/10: Rev. Margaret Sawyer, Lead Organizer at the Pioneer Valley Workers Center, on the effort to free Eduardo Samaniego from ICE custody; a roundtable of
WHMP’s (and The River’s) Joan Holliday, Bob Flaherty and Bill Newman on the government shutdown and Newman’s column in Saturday’s Daily Hampshire Gazette about Elizabeth Warren’s candidacy.
Bill Newman Show with Natalia Munoz; Megan Kludt; Julie Lichtenberg and Mark Guglielmo
1/9: Natalia Munoz on the Northampton police controversy; Northampton-based immigration law specialist Megan Kludt on President Trump’s speech; Julie Lichtenberg, founder and Artistic Director of the Performance Project, on the upcoming amazing musical performance at the Parlor Room; photographer Mark Guglielmo on his exhibit on Cuba at Deerfield Academy.
