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10/24/25: MTA Pres Max Page: the shutdown & the future. Rep Mindy Domb: cuts to SNAP & fuel assistance and how to resist. Emily Serafy-Cox, candidate for N'ton School Committee. Michael Lawrence-Riddell & hip-hop artist Akrobatik on Self-Evident Education. Bombyx's Cassandra Holden: events, art & community.
10/17/25: Max Page w/ Auditor Diana DiZoglio: auditing the legislature & applying the Public Records Act. Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa: wisely follow the money. Amherst Prof Austin Sarat: the Justice Dep't is a dire threat to democracy. Prof Michael Hoberman on "Imagining Early American Jews." Donnabelle Casis w/ Rachel Buenaventura of the Wistariahurst Museum on "Identity in Ink: the Art of Tattooing.”
10/17/25: Max Page w/ Auditor Diana DiZoglio: auditing the legislature & applying the Public Records Act. Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa: wisely follow the money. Amherst Prof Austin Sarat: the Justice Dep't is a dire threat to democracy. Prof Michael Hoberman on "Imagining Early American Jews." Donnabelle Casis w/ Rachel Buenaventura of the Wistariahurst Museum on "Identity in Ink: the Art of Tattooing.”
10/17/25: Max Page w/ Auditor Diana DiZoglio: auditing the legislature & applying the Public Records Act. Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa: wisely follow the money. Amherst Prof Austin Sarat: the Justice Dep't is a dire threat to democracy. Prof Michael Hoberman on "Imagining Early American Jews." Donnabelle Casis w/ Rachel Buenaventura of the Wistariahurst Museum on "Identity in Ink: the Art of Tattooing.”
10/17/25: Max Page w/ Auditor Diana DiZoglio: auditing the legislature & applying the Public Records Act. Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa: wisely follow the money. Amherst Prof Austin Sarat: the Justice Dep't is a dire threat to democracy. Prof Michael Hoberman on "Imagining Early American Jews." Donnabelle Casis w/ Rachel Buenaventura of the Wistariahurst Museum on "Identity in Ink: the Art of Tattooing.”
10/17/25: Max Page w/ Auditor Diana DiZoglio: auditing the legislature & applying the Public Records Act. Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa: wisely follow the money. Amherst Prof Austin Sarat: the Justice Dep't is a dire threat to democracy. Prof Michael Hoberman on "Imagining Early American Jews." Donnabelle Casis w/ Rachel Buenaventura of the Wistariahurst Museum on "Identity in Ink: the Art of Tattooing.”
Max Page, President of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, joined the America's Work Force Union Podcast to discuss the Fair Share Amendment, its impact on public education funding and the ongoing fight for equitable taxation. Pat Gallagher, representing the North Coast Labor Federation, discussed the critical need for American shipbuilding, the impact of tariff uncertainty on industries and the importance of labor-friendly candidates in local elections.
10/10/25: Live from D.C.-- MTA Pres Max Page: health insur, rainy day funds & DOE. Live in studio -- Michael Stein, N'pton School Comm member & candidate for re-election. Historian & author Matthew Restall: “The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus.” Matteo Pangallo & Steve Poulin: new plays “Take Ten.” Donnabelle Casis w/ Christina White of Art for the Soul Gallery: "The Power of SHE."
10/3/25: MTA Pres Max Page: tax the multinationals & free speech for educators. Clare Higgins: her careers as Mayor & Ex Dir, Community Action Pioneer Valley. Jennifer Jacobson & Morgan Sheehan: Straw Dog Writer's Guild WriteAngles Conference. UMass Athletic Dir Ryan Bamford: the football program & $. Donnabelle Casis w/ Mischa Roy Bennett: the Great N'ton Haunt.
9/26/25: MTA Pres Max Page w/ Globe's Dan Shaughnessy: UMass football & much more. Rep. Mindy Domb: honoring Clare Higgins & the Source-to-Sea clean-up. Gfld Council Pres Lora Wondolowski: rats at the dump & the new Citizens Academy. Peggy Gillespie: meditation & mindfulness. Donnabelle Casis w/ Sunny Allis: "We're Riding the Same Wave” – come wear art!
9/19/25: UMass Pres Marty Meehan & MTA Pres Max Page on $, politics & the future. Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa: saving rural hospitals. Amherst Prof Austin Sarat: on freedom (?) of speech today. David Knowles, Jeannine Haas & Jean Koester: “Seeing Violet” in Ashfield. Donnabelle Casis w/ Siddhartha Shah: the Mead's amazing exhibit.
9/12/25: MTA Pres Max Page w/ Jason Wozniak, organizer at Debt Collective. Garrick Perry, incumbent & Northampton city councilor at-large candidate. OTones' Mary Witt & Forbes' Library Dir Lisa Downing: launching the Hess Performance Stage. Author Jeanne Birdsall on “The Library of Unruly Treasures.” Donnabelle Casis w/ Cima Khademi & Leila Rahnamaabadi, exhibitors at APE's "My Mind in Bloom."
9/5//25: Max Page w/ AAUP Pres Todd Wolfson who won lawsuit when court ruled Trump illegally froze research grants from Harvard. 1st Congressional District candidate Jeromie Whalen. Northampton at-large City Council candidate Meg Robbins. Paul Gulla of Michelson Gallery: A Month of Music (Art.) Donnabelle Casis w/ Dir Rachel Rushing of HCC's Taber Art Gallery.
9/5//25: Max Page w/ AAUP Pres Todd Wolfson who won lawsuit when court ruled Trump illegally froze research grants from Harvard. 1st Congressional District candidate Jeromie Whalen. Northampton at-large City Council candidate Meg Robbins. Paul Gulla of Michelson Gallery: A Month of Music (Art.) Donnabelle Casis w/ Dir Rachel Rushing of HCC's Taber Art Gallery.
9/5//25: Max Page w/ AAUP Pres Todd Wolfson who won lawsuit when court ruled Trump illegally froze research grants from Harvard. 1st Congressional District candidate Jeromie Whalen. Northampton at-large City Council candidate Meg Robbins. Paul Gulla of Michelson Gallery: A Month of Music (Art.) Donnabelle Casis w/ Dir Rachel Rushing of HCC's Taber Art Gallery.
9/5//25: Max Page w/ AAUP Pres Todd Wolfson who won lawsuit when court ruled Trump illegally froze research grants from Harvard. 1st Congressional District candidate Jeromie Whalen. Northampton at-large City Council candidate Meg Robbins. Paul Gulla of Michelson Gallery: A Month of Music (Art.) Donnabelle Casis w/ Dir Rachel Rushing of HCC's Taber Art Gallery.
9/5//25: Max Page w/ AAUP Pres Todd Wolfson who won lawsuit when court ruled Trump illegally froze research grants from Harvard. 1st Congressional District candidate Jeromie Whalen. Northampton at-large City Council candidate Meg Robbins. Paul Gulla of Michelson Gallery: A Month of Music (Art.) Donnabelle Casis w/ Dir Rachel Rushing of HCC's Taber Art Gallery.
8/22/25: Mass Teacher Ass'n Pres Max Page: Labor Day & fighting for education. Rep Mindy Domb: ameliorating federal cutbacks. Ray Levasseur: “Coming Home—Radicalized by War & Incarceration.” Donnabelle Casis w/ Holyoke Art's Kathy McKean: the Storefront Gallery Project.
8/15/25: UMass Profs Max Page & Sam Redman: Trump v. the Smithsonian – what dies? MTA Pres Max Page: Trump's cuts & UMass -- the legislature to the rescue? Amherst Prof Austin Sarat: gerrymandering, troops on the streets, & democracy's future? Caterpillars at the Carle. Donnabelle Casis w/ the renowned Grace Lin: her retrospective at the Carle.
8/15/25: UMass Profs Max Page & Sam Redman: Trump v. the Smithsonian – what dies? MTA Pres Max Page: Trump's cuts & UMass -- the legislature to the rescue? Amherst Prof Austin Sarat: gerrymandering, troops on the streets, & democracy's future? Caterpillars at the Carle. Donnabelle Casis w/ the renowned Grace Lin: her retrospective at the Carle.
8.8.25. MTA Max Page with Jonathan Hecht on reforming stipends. Atty James Winston impact cuts to SSI & SSDI. Nina Kleinberg on Casablanca at Amherst Cinema. Northampton Mayoral Candidate David Dombrowski.
8/1/25: MTA Pres Max Page: UMass, the feds, the state & $. Prof Kevin Young: UMass protest policy – unfree speech? Activist Ethan Flamand: Amherst rally & a new Decl of Independence. Salman Hameed's Universe: incredible sites & insights. Donnabelle Casis w/ Daniel Elihu Kramer: “The Case for the Existence of God.”
7/25/25: MTA Pres Max Page: religion determining K-12 curriculum? Rep Mindy Domb: the fight for food. Kennedy Inst CEO Adam Hinds: advice and consent. John Feffer: his play "The Wedding Jester." Donnabelle Casis w/ Sierra Myers & Christine White from Art for the Soul Gallery: "Where Light Speaks."
7/18/25: MTA Pres Max Page: Trump killing DOE. Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa: the new Mass Shield Law. Amherst Prof Austin Sarat: Trump's lawyer Emil Bove & an Epstein coverup? Silverthorne Theater Pres Ezekiel Baskin, Dir Cordelia Winter Dwyer & actors Donovan Stanfield & Sandra Blaney: “Comeuppance.”
6/26/25: MTA Pres Max Page: Holyoke's schools out of receivership -- mostly! Eric Reeves: the humanitarian disaster in Sudan. Rev Carole Bull on Mary Magdelene, organized religion & personal spirituality. Jon Anz w/ vocalist & trumpeter Bria Skonber – coming to Tanglewood.
6/20/25: MTA Pres Max Page: More support needed for educ from Gov. Rep Lindsay Sabadosa on marijuana. Prof Austin Sarat: political violence, social security, & No Kings. FCCPR's Susan Triolo reports on recent & upcoming protests, e.g. Tristate Overpasses for Democracy. Donnabelle Casis w/ Ex Dir Britt Ruhe of Comm Murals on "Paint the Town" fundraiser.
6/13/25: MTA Pres Max Page w/ UMass Profs Krista Harper & Michael Ash: critical grants gutted. Founder Andrew Lawrence w/ guitarists Joscho Stephan, & Sven Jungbeck on DJANGO IN JUNE! Prof Salman Hameed: cuts to NASA budget threaten science. Young Feminist Party's Marisol Bonifaz & activist Alice Jenkins on Saturday's NO KINGS Rally.
5/30/25: MTA Pres Max Page: Massachusetts legislation to save K-12 and higher ed. Hon. Mary Lou Rup & Ruth Griggs: celebrating Leah Kunkel's life, her music and advocacy. Elizabeth Minnich: "The Evil of Banality….” on Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt, Trump and ourselves
5/23/25: MTA Pres Max Page w/ labor expert Eric Blanc: "We are the Union…" today's rank & file leadership. Rep Mindy Domb: the fabulous, the horrible and the future. You can see the cosmos this weekend! with Arunah Hill's Ed Faits. Adam Hinds on Trump's bill in the US Senate. Donnabelle Casis w/ Spfld Museum ‘s Elizabeth Kapp: “Witch Panic! Massachusetts before Salem."
5/16/25: MTA Pres Max Page: federal cuts v our commonwealth. Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: education & health care. Amherst Prof Austin Sarat: SCOTUS, birthright citizenship & autocracy. Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra's Joe Ricker, Bob Fishman, & Rich Buckman: the Bombyx show. DNA's Kevin McAllister: tomorrow's BIG clean-up
5/9/25: MTA Pres Max Page: a Fair Share from billionaires. Human Rts atty Laura Pitter: birthright citizenship at SCOTUS next week. Northampton Bike Week w/ George Kohout, Pres of Nhmptn Trials, & Tom Draudt.
5/2/25: MTA Pres Max Page: May Day rally yesterday, MTA Annual Mtg tomorrow. Clare Higgins: Head Start & other Health & Human Services cuts. CEO Erika Kuester & Holly Mott: Treehouse Foundation 5K Fundraiser for kids/families in Foster Care. Salman Hameed: signs of life on a faraway planet? Donnabelle Casis w/ Sunny Allis & Alix Gerber: A.P.E exhibition "River Valley Radical Futures."
4/25/25: MTA Pres Max Page asks us to join him May Day (5/1) in celebrating labor, as well as May 3rd. Rep. Mindy Domb: share your story on how federal cuts impact you, your schools, your business. CEO of Ted Kennedy Inst Adam Hinds on civics education & the future of democracy. Francisco on neo-Nazi group NSC-131 planning demonstration in Northampton Sunday at 1:00. Donnabelle Casis w/ Linda McInerney of Eggtooth Productions' "Tony Montanaro: A Love Story."
MTA Pres Max Page: Higher Ed needs collective response to Trump's assault, May Day rally in Spgfld. Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: budget chaos. Prof Austin Sarat: Fist bumps to Harvard, to local democracy, and the courts. Richard Cahillane & Teresa Lorenzo - Big Yellow Taxi show at Shea Theater 4/19. Donnabelle Casis w/ Pasqualina Azzarello of Easthampton City Arts on Poetry Month.
4/11/25: MTA Pres Max Page & UMass Ed Prof Jack Schneider: DEI, lawsuits, & the Civics Summit. CT River Conservancy's Nina Gordon-Kirsch: the relicensing battle -- can we save the river? NYT best-selling graphic novelist Jarrett Krosoczka: the R.I.S.E Fest. Bombyx Exec Dir Cassandra Holden w/ Rachel Blackman, Coordinator of "Poetry and Pie."
4/4/25: MTA Pres Max Page: threats to education, some rays of sunshine. Comm Action PV Exec Dir Clare Higgins: the not-so-bad-yet effect of fed employee firings. Amy Fairchild & Lonesome Bros' Ray Mason w/ organizers Robert Markey & Pam Cote: musical benefit for CA wildfire victims tomorrow. Astronomer Salman Hameed: NASA, the moon, & Musk. Donnabelle Casis w/ Jennifer Polins, Founding Art Dir, School for Contemporary Dance & Thought.
3/28/25: MTA Pres Max Page w/ labor activist Stephen Lerner: light in dark times. Rep Mindy Domb: Trump rewriting history, leg transparency & priorities. EM Kennedy Inst CEO Adam Hinds: the constitution's survival. Amherst Survival Ctr Exec Dir BenEzra: the Empty Bowl Fundraiser. Donnabelle Casis w/ Sierra Myers, Dir, Art for the Soul Gallery: neon art.
3/21/25: MTA Pres Max Page: the damage from Dept of Ed's demise. Amherst Prof Austin Sarat: Trump's authoritarian attacks on free speech & universities. Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa: effect of Trump's cuts on health care & education. Donnabelle Casis w/ SCMA's Clara Ma: an amazing exhibit, solace for the soul.
3/14/25: MTA Pres Max Page: saving the Dept of Ed! Sarang Sekhavat of the MA Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition: the fed and state policies clash. Talkin' Baseball w/ Duke Goldman: the boys of spring. Donnabelle Casis w/ artist Kahli Hernandez: the world famous "artoonist's" "Art Heist."
3/7/25: MTA Pres Max Page: Trump dismantling DOE & DEI. Clare Higgins: Trump-induced chaos & an upcoming gov't shutdown? W Mass Code Pink activists Paki Wieland & Susan Triolo on Intl Women's Day. Astronomer Salman Hameed: planets aligning, Space X exploding, landers tipping over & the upcoming lunar eclipse. ArtBeat -- Donnabelle Casis w/ William Baczek: the Landscape Exhibition.
2/28/25: Rep. Mindy Domb—now Chair of Mental Health, Substance Abuse & Recovery. MTA Pres Max Page on Sen. Markey's bill to preserve ed funding. Filmmakers Larry Hott & Julia Mintz on her film “Four Winters” -- surviving and fighting Nazis. Hope for peace in Palestine & Israel with Roots Co-founders Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger & Khaled Abu Awwad. Dr. Kemar Brown, cardiologist & Am Heart Ass'n volunteer: heart transplants and saving yr loved ones with CPR.
2/14/25: Rep Aaron Saunders: sorting crises and confusion from D.C. & Gov's budget. MTA Max Page, from DC: the Linda McMahon hearings & her promise to abolish the Dept of Ed. Donnabelle Casis w/ Nima Nikakhlagh: Zamharir ("Torture for the Naked Eyes)"at GCC. Recorder's Anthony Cammalleri: Mass App Ct. affirms $1 million + verdict against Gfld Police. Amherst Town Council Pres Lynn Griesemeron BIG construction projects & Amherst Coll's payment in lieu of taxes.
2/7/25: Prof Salman Hameed on the consequences of NASA backing off its commitment to DEI in the face of administration's demands. MTA Pres Max Page on the administration's threats to education & the workers responsible for delivering it. Donnabelle Casis w/ Laylah on the UMass Museum of Contemporary Art: “Is anything the matter?" Community Action PV E.D. Clare Higgins on her plans to retire, on fuel assistance, and income tax filing assistance. Larry Hott w/ filmmaker Kate Way on her film "Banned Together" on book banning.
1/31/25: MTA Pres Max Page: Massachusetts #1 ! Co-Director Julie Lichtenberg: Performance Project's "Mother Tongue" at the Shea. Donnabelle Casis w/ Vanessa Query & Jan Maher of Gnfld's LAVA Ctr. UMass Prof Kevin Young & student Eric Strong respond to the encampment report finding the Chancellor justified in ordering arrests. Jess Tyler of The Valley This Morning signs off.
1/17/24: Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: her priorities & bill filing deadline - today! MTA's Max Page: the Gov's State of MA,” Youth Summit & Fair Share $. Donnabelle Casis w/ Marcia Gomes: the musical “Still Singing.” Frank. Co. Council of Gov's Kat Allen & Nick Hathaway: the Student Health Survey -- drugs, alcohol, tobacco, mental health & screens. Adam Hinds, CEO, Kennedy Inst. for U.S. Senate: the confirmation process
1/17/24: Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: her priorities & bill filing deadline - today! MTA's Max Page: the Gov's State of MA,” Youth Summit & Fair Share $. Donnabelle Casis w/ Marcia Gomes: the musical “Still Singing.” Frank. Co. Council of Gov's Kat Allen & Nick Hathaway: the Student Health Survey -- drugs, alcohol, tobacco, mental health & screens. Adam Hinds, CEO, Kennedy Inst. for U.S. Senate: the confirmation process
1/17/24: Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: her priorities & bill filing deadline - today! MTA's Max Page: the Gov's State of MA,” Youth Summit & Fair Share $. Donnabelle Casis w/ Marcia Gomes: the musical “Still Singing.” Frank. Co. Council of Gov's Kat Allen & Nick Hathaway: the Student Health Survey -- drugs, alcohol, tobacco, mental health & screens. Adam Hinds, CEO, Kennedy Inst. for U.S. Senate: the confirmation process
1/17/24: Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: her priorities & bill filing deadline - today! MTA's Max Page: the Gov's State of MA,” Youth Summit & Fair Share $. Donnabelle Casis w/ Marcia Gomes: the musical “Still Singing.” Frank. Co. Council of Gov's Kat Allen & Nick Hathaway: the Student Health Survey -- drugs, alcohol, tobacco, mental health & screens. Adam Hinds, CEO, Kennedy Inst. for U.S. Senate: the confirmation process
1/17/24: Rep Lindsay Sabadosa: her priorities & bill filing deadline - today! MTA's Max Page: the Gov's State of MA,” Youth Summit & Fair Share $. Donnabelle Casis w/ Marcia Gomes: the musical “Still Singing.” Frank. Co. Council of Gov's Kat Allen & Nick Hathaway: the Student Health Survey -- drugs, alcohol, tobacco, mental health & screens. Adam Hinds, CEO, Kennedy Inst. for U.S. Senate: the confirmation process