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06/20/2025

6/20/25: MTA Pres Max Page: Gov Healey retracts anti-Fair Share comments. Lindsay Sabadosa, State Representative, 1st Hampshire District: the federal budget v state obligations. Amherst College Prof Austin Sarat: political violence, social security & No Kings. FCCPR’s Susan Triolo: Tristate Overpasses for Democracy & other acts of resistance. Donnabelle Casis w/ Common Murals Ex Dir Britt Ruhe: “Paint the Town.” .

6/20/25: MTA Pres Max Page: Gov Healey retracts anti-Fair Share comments. Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: the federal budget v state obligations. Amherst Prof Austin Sarat: political violence, social security & No Kings. FCCPR’s Susan Triolo: Tristate Overpasses for Democracy & other acts of resista...

06/20/2025

6/19/25: Transgender SCOTUS decision with attys Bill & Buz. Talking Red Sox with sportscaster Scott Coen. Daily Hampshire Gazette Managing Editor Chad Cain the news fit to print. Rabbi David Seidenberg: Israel/Iran, Gaza, & Juneteenth. Ruth Griggs w/ cellist Jeremy Harman: New Directions Cello Fest at Bombyx.

6/19/25: Transgender SCOTUS decision with attys Bill & Buz. Talking Red Sox with sportscaster Scott Coen. Daily Hampshire Gazette Managing Editor Chad Cain the news fit to print. Rabbi David Seidenberg: Israel/Iran, Gaza, & Juneteenth. Ruth Griggs w/ cellist Jeremy Harman: New Directions Cel...

06/18/2025

6/18/25: Al Simon & Meg Robbins of Northampton’s Support Our Schools: the volume & tone of debates over schools. Silverthorne Theater Company’s Bd Pres Ezekiel Baskin, director Gina Kaufmann & actor Sabine Denise Jacques: “The Amateurs” & “Comeuppance.” Brian Adams w/ UMass Amherst Dr Zoe Getman-Pickering & Prof Matt Lackner: ELEVATE’s mission -renewable energy- & federal funding rescinded. Florentine Films/Hott Productions w/ Larry Hott; “Deaf President Now” and “Through Deaf Eyes.”

6/18/25: Al Simon & Meg Robbins of Northampton's Support Our Schools: the volume & tone of debates over schools. Silverthorne Theater's Bd Pres Ezekiel Baskin, director Gina Kaufmann & actor Sabine Denise Jacques: "The Amateurs" & "Comeuppance." Brian Adams w/ UMass Dr Zoe Getman-Pic...

06/18/2025

6/17/25: Rep Aaron Saunders: Minnesota, Farmworkers, Cannabis Comm. David Leaf, author of “SMiLE: The Rise, Fall & Resurrection of Brian Wilson.” Comedy Quiz w/ Maddy Benjamin, Scott Braidman & Mo McElligott. Matteo Pangallo of Valley Players on “A Walk in the Woods.” ED Marianne Winters of Safe Passage on their suit to protect victims of domestic violence from Trump threat to funding.

6/17/25: Rep Aaron Saunders: Minnesota, Farmworkers, Cannabis Comm. David Leaf, author of “SMiLE: The Rise, Fall & Resurrection of Brian Wilson.” Comedy Quiz w/ Maddy Benjamin, Scott Braidman & Mo McElligott. Matteo Pangallo of Valley Players on "A Walk in the Woods." ED Marianne Winters...

06/18/2025

6/16 Atty Maya McCann, co-leader of Fairness for Farmworkers Coalition: the subminimum wage. Hampshire College Prof Emeritus of Peace & World Securities Studies, Michael Klare: the Israel-Iran War. Ehmptn Mayor Nicole LaChapelle: “No Kings” protest & antisemitism in the schools. Peace Development Fund’s Lora Wondolowski & Jessa McCormack w/ Seeing Rainbow’s Nuri.

Atty Maya McCann, co-leader of Fairness for Farmworkers Coalition: the subminimum wage. Hampshire Prof Emeritus of Peace & World Securities Studies, Michael Klare: the Israel-Iran War. Ehmptn Mayor Nicole LaChapelle: “No Kings” protest & antisemitism in the schools. Peace Development Fun...

06/11/2025

6/11/25: Amherst Council Pres Lynn Griesemer: ICE in Amherst, school budgets, Juneteenth. Alex Osterman & Victoria Worth: the ACLU of Massachusetts in Ashfield. Filmmakers Larry Hott, Andy Kolker & Paul Stekler: political films—past present & is there a future? Greenfield Community College science prof Brian Adams w/ UMass Amherst Ph D candidate neuroethologist & Jumping Spider expert, Alex Winsor.

6/11/25: Amherst Council Pres Lynn Griesemer: ICE in Amherst, school budgets, Juneteenth. Alex Osterman & Victoria Worth: the ACLU in Ashfield. Filmmakers Larry Hott, Andy Kolker & Paul Stekler: political films—past present & is there a future? GCC science prof Brian Adams w/ UMass Ph ...

06/11/2025

6/10/25: Northampton Ed Foundation’s Dale Melcher & Joy Hermansen: the upcoming Showcase. Ed Collab’s Todd Gazda w/ Hadley Super & MA Assoc School Super Ex Comm mem Anne McKenzie: one tough job. Smith College Prof Carrie Baker w/ PVPA’s Gary Hugget & his former, now Smith Collegel, student Talia Villalobos-Sharone: saving DEI. Duke Goldman: THE AMAZING Catch, Yankees & Sox.

6/10/25: Northampton Ed Foundation’s Dale Melcher & Joy Hermansen: the upcoming Showcase. Ed Collab’s Todd Gazda w/ Hadley Super & MA Assoc School Super Ex Comm mem Anne McKenzie: one tough job. Smith Coll Prof Carrie Baker w/ PVPA’s Gary Hugget & his former, now Smith Coll, studen...

06/11/2025

6/9/25: Bill and Buz on Trump’s authoritarianism and the need to resist it. Megan Zinn w/ Carolyn Zaikowski, new poet laureate of Easthampton. Amherst College Prof Austin Sarat on Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in spite of Gov Newsom’s condemnation as the Guard’s Commander-in-Chief. UMass Amherst Prof Amilcar Shabazz outlines local Juneteenth commemorations.

6/9/25: Bill and Buz on Trump's authoritarianism and the need to resist it. Megan Zinn w/ Carolyn Zaikowski, new poet laureate of Easthampton. Amherst Prof Austin Sarat on Trump's deployment of the National Guard in spite of Gov Newsom's condemnation as the Guard's Commander-in-Chief. UMass Prof Ami...

06/06/2025

6/6/25: Fritz: Saturday’s Franklin County Pride in Greenfield. Timmon Wallis: “Nuclear Abolition: A Scenario.” Jody Rosenbloom and JoEllen Mackenzie: Forbes Library Garden Tour on 6/14. Hampshire College Prof Michael Klare: Putin’s retaliation, drone warfare, & atrocities in Gaza. Donnabelle Casis w/ Andrae Green: “Peripheral Visions” at OOO Gallery in Easthampton.

6/6/25: Fritz: Saturday's Franklin County Pride in Greenfield. Timmon Wallis: "Nuclear Abolition: A Scenario." Jody Rosenbloom and JoEllen Mackenzie: Forbes Library Garden Tour on 6/14. Hamp Coll Prof Michael Klare: Putin's retaliation, drone warfare, & atrocities in Gaza. Donnabelle Casis w/ An...

06/06/2025

6/5/25: Ashfield human rights atty Laura Pitter & Freedom Now Ex Dir Andrea Prasow: jailed journalists. Susanne Personette & Lois Barber: Amherst Plein Air Society’s show at Forbes Library. Congressman Jim McGovern: democracy in peril. ABA Human Rights Hero Maria Foscarinis: “And Housing for All: The Fight to End Homelessness in America.”

06/04/2025

6/4/25: Northwestern District Attorney David E. Sullivan: ICE arrests here & Deerfield Academy’s s*x abuse victims. Serious Play Director Sheryl Stoodley, John Feffer (ISP) & actor David Keohane: “Lungs.” Brian Adams w/ Smith College astronomer Kimberly Ward-Duong: life on other planets. Florentine Films/Hott Productions Documentary filmmakers Larry Hott & Lous Alvarez: “American Tongues” & politics.

6/4/25: DA David Sullivan: ICE arrests here & Deerfield Academy's s*x abuse victims. Serious Play Director Sheryl Stoodley, John Feffer (ISP) & actor David Keohane: “Lungs.” Brian Adams w/ Smith Coll astronomer Kimberly Ward-Duong: life on other planets. Documentary filmmakers Larry Hott...

06/04/2025

6/3/25: Sen Paul Mark: his invitation from Pres Trump. James Kitchen: his HUGE sculpture, from recycled 19th century metal girders & tools, here. Jade Jump & Nate Clifford, owners of Cornucopia Natural Wellness Market: moving on. Harley Erdman, Eric Sawyer & Barry Werth: “The Garden of Martyrs” & “The Scarlet Professor” at Historic Northampton.

6/3/25: Sen Paul Mark: his invitation from Pres Trump. James Kitchen: his HUGE sculpture, from recycled 19th century metal girders & tools, here. Jade Jump & Nate Clifford, owners of Cornucopia: moving on. Harley Erdman, Eric Sawyer & Barry Werth: “The Garden of Martyrs” & “The...