Category: Podcasts

#ClimateMarch-Sister Rally in Greenfield

Scenes from the local rally in conjunction with the DC march and Trump’s first 100 days. https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/climatemarch-sister-rally-in-greenfield

Mr. Universe: Diving Through The Rings of Saturn

Mr Universe, Hampshire College’s Dr. Salman Hameed on NASA’s dangerous maneuvers, driving a space craft hundreds of millions of miles…

Wine Snob: Where In The World Is Carménère (Not San Diego)

One of the only grapes America didn’t rescue: Carménère. https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/wine-snob-where-in-the-world-is-carminerenot-san-diego

May Day!

The Pioneer Valley Worker’s Center has more on their mind for May Day than baskets, and maypoles and outdoor coitus.…

WORD NERD: Ways To Tell The Future Part I

Fancy “mancy.” Emily Brewster, resident wordster, from Merriam-Webster on words that people have used to describe how they pretend to…

“You Don’t Need To Be Wealthy To Eat Healthy”

Neftali Duran from Nuestra Comida, part of Nuestras Raices in Holyoke, on their first food justice conference. https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/holyoke-food-justice-conference  

Heavy Petting: That’s Some (Privileged) Pig

Happy pigs makes them more optimistic! https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/heavy-petting-privledged-pigs

Ilan Stavans on The Rise of Anti-Semitism

A series of 3 lectures with Amherst College’s Ilan Stavans on the rise of anti-semitism on the right AND the…

Mr Universe: Is There Life On Saturn’s Enceladus?

Astronomers have found the best place to look for life apart from Earth and it’s right outside the rings of…

The Blessing of The Bikes

Monte Belmonte & ACLU Attorney and radio host Bill Newman bless the bicycles of the travelers from Northampton to the…

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