8/4/26 Co-Host Amilcar Shabazz.

FishWrap: unionizing the Eric Carle Museum; the First Franklin race debate; Nhmptn City Councilor Laurie Loisel on trans rights—her piece in today’s Gazette.

Black in the Valley w/ the founders– Professors Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks & Carlie Tartakov — & Amilcar Shabazz on Frederick Douglass’ “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will” — applying that statement here and now.

Hannah Rechtshaffen, Ex Dir, Greenfield Business Ass’n, on the new Passport Program, downtown grocery stores, foot traffic, venues, the creative economy & housing.

Lisa Wong, South Hadley Town Administrator: the town’s cannabis ban, food trucks, agricultural entertainment zones, Mount Holyoke College and the PILOT, and the Override vote on Sept 1.