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The Hustler Files Ep 170 by WHMP Radio

7/10/26, Co-Host-Josh Silver MTA President, about to become rank & file member, Max Page: a touching, feel-good story -- the Tartan Army, school buses, the World Cup, a magnificent contribution, & Good Morning America; MTA accomplishments during his Presidency & his return to UMass; the labor movement’s recent past and immediate future. Community Action’s Lev Ben-Ezra (Exec Dir) & Lisa LaPierre (D...

7/10/26, Co-Host-Josh Silver MTA President, about to become rank & file member, Max Page: a touching, feel-good story -- the Tartan Army, school buses, the World Cup, a magnificent contribution, & Good Morning America; MTA accomplishments during his Presidency & his return to UMass; the labor movement’s recent past and immediate future. Community Action’s Lev Ben-Ezra (Exec Dir) & Lisa LaPierre (D...

7/10/26, Co-Host-Josh Silver MTA President, about to become rank & file member, Max Page: a touching, feel-good story -- the Tartan Army, school buses, the World Cup, a magnificent contribution, & Good Morning America; MTA accomplishments during his Presidency & his return to UMass; the labor movement’s recent past and immediate future. Community Action’s Lev Ben-Ezra (Exec Dir) & Lisa LaPierre (D...

7/10/26, Co-Host-Josh Silver MTA President, about to become rank & file member, Max Page: a touching, feel-good story -- the Tartan Army, school buses, the World Cup, a magnificent contribution, & Good Morning America; MTA accomplishments during his Presidency & his return to UMass; the labor movement’s recent past and immediate future. Community Action’s Lev Ben-Ezra (Exec Dir) & Lisa LaPierre (D...

7/10/26, Co-Host-Josh Silver MTA President, about to become rank & file member, Max Page: a touching, feel-good story -- the Tartan Army, school buses, the World Cup, a magnificent contribution, & Good Morning America; MTA accomplishments during his Presidency & his return to UMass; the labor movement’s recent past and immediate future. Community Action’s Lev Ben-Ezra (Exec Dir) & Lisa LaPierre (D...

7/9/26, Co-Host- Andy Bukowski Karen Giuliano, UMass Prof & Co-Director of the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation: her just-published break-through study at UMass that will make hospitals safer and improve patient care, using eye-tracking technology. Rep Aaron Saunders: the ayes have it --approved by the legislature --money for UMass & research, the Bright Act, the Protect...

7/9/26, Co-Host- Andy Bukowski Karen Giuliano, UMass Prof & Co-Director of the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation: her just-published break-through study at UMass that will make hospitals safer and improve patient care, using eye-tracking technology. Rep Aaron Saunders: the ayes have it --approved by the legislature --money for UMass & research, the Bright Act, the Protect...

7/9/26, Co-Host- Andy Bukowski Karen Giuliano, UMass Prof & Co-Director of the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation: her just-published break-through study at UMass that will make hospitals safer and improve patient care, using eye-tracking technology. Rep Aaron Saunders: the ayes have it --approved by the legislature --money for UMass & research, the Bright Act, the Protect...

7/9/26, Co-Host- Andy Bukowski Karen Giuliano, UMass Prof & Co-Director of the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation: her just-published break-through study at UMass that will make hospitals safer and improve patient care, using eye-tracking technology. Rep Aaron Saunders: the ayes have it --approved by the legislature --money for UMass & research, the Bright Act, the Protect...

July 8, 2026, Co-Host Brian Adams Lynn Griesimer, Amherst Town Councilor: new schools, new library, new h.s. principal, a new school superintendent on the horizon. Welcome to Amherst, pop 17,000 (summer) 40,000 (when student are back). Hillary Caws-Elwitt, Nature and Environment Book Group Coordinator at Forbes Library: we start with “Total Garbage” and go from there. Richard Joyce, Conservation B...

July 8, 2026, Co-Host Brian Adams Lynn Griesimer, Amherst Town Councilor: new schools, new library, new h.s. principal, a new school superintendent on the horizon. Welcome to Amherst, pop 17,000 (summer) 40,000 (when student are back). Hillary Caws-Elwitt, Nature and Environment Book Group Coordinator at Forbes Library: we start with “Total Garbage” and go from there. Richard Joyce, Conservation B...

July 8, 2026, Co-Host Brian Adams Lynn Griesimer, Amherst Town Councilor: new schools, new library, new h.s. principal, a new school superintendent on the horizon. Welcome to Amherst, pop 17,000 (summer) 40,000 (when student are back). Hillary Caws-Elwitt, Nature and Environment Book Group Coordinator at Forbes Library: we start with “Total Garbage” and go from there. Richard Joyce, Conservation B...

July 8, 2026, Co-Host Brian Adams Lynn Griesimer, Amherst Town Councilor: new schools, new library, new h.s. principal, a new school superintendent on the horizon. Welcome to Amherst, pop 17,000 (summer) 40,000 (when student are back). Hillary Caws-Elwitt, Nature and Environment Book Group Coordinator at Forbes Library: we start with “Total Garbage” and go from there. Richard Joyce, Conservation B...

7/7/26, Co-Host Amilcar Shabazz Sen Paul Mark, Commission Chair of America 250 in Mass, on how and why we are celebrating the Declaration of Independence; also, freeing children from social media exploiters. Amilcar Shabazz on freedom in our history, celebrating Juneteenth, & “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Tom Weiner on “In Defiance: 20 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught in School.” M...

7/7/26, Co-Host Amilcar Shabazz Sen Paul Mark, Commission Chair of America 250 in Mass, on how and why we are celebrating the Declaration of Independence; also, freeing children from social media exploiters. Amilcar Shabazz on freedom in our history, celebrating Juneteenth, & “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Tom Weiner on “In Defiance: 20 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught in School.” M...

7/7/26, Co-Host Amilcar Shabazz Sen Paul Mark, Commission Chair of America 250 in Mass, on how and why we are celebrating the Declaration of Independence; also, freeing children from social media exploiters. Amilcar Shabazz on freedom in our history, celebrating Juneteenth, & “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Tom Weiner on “In Defiance: 20 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught in School.” M...

7/7/26, Co-Host Amilcar Shabazz Sen Paul Mark, Commission Chair of America 250 in Mass, on how and why we are celebrating the Declaration of Independence; also, freeing children from social media exploiters. Amilcar Shabazz on freedom in our history, celebrating Juneteenth, & “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Tom Weiner on “In Defiance: 20 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught in School.” M...

7/7/26, Co-Host Amilcar Shabazz Sen Paul Mark, Commission Chair of America 250 in Mass, on how and why we are celebrating the Declaration of Independence; also, freeing children from social media exploiters. Amilcar Shabazz on freedom in our history, celebrating Juneteenth, & “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Tom Weiner on “In Defiance: 20 Abolitionists You Were Never Taught in School.” M...

7/6/26, Co-Host Megan Zinn Sen. Jo Comerford: Reading Frederick Douglass Together, recent Supreme Court decisions, the legislature’s approval of bonds for our future. Writers Block -- Megan Zinn interviews Cara Benson on “An Armsfull of Birds: A Personal Field Guide to Love, Loss, and Commitment” -- at Broadside Bookshop this Wednesday. Dr. Xiomara Herman, Amherst, Pelham & Amherst Regional School...

7/6/26, Co-Host Megan Zinn Sen. Jo Comerford: Reading Frederick Douglass Together, recent Supreme Court decisions, the legislature’s approval of bonds for our future. Writers Block -- Megan Zinn interviews Cara Benson on “An Armsfull of Birds: A Personal Field Guide to Love, Loss, and Commitment” -- at Broadside Bookshop this Wednesday. Dr. Xiomara Herman, Amherst, Pelham & Amherst Regional School...

7/6/26, Co-Host Megan Zinn Sen. Jo Comerford: Reading Frederick Douglass Together, recent Supreme Court decisions, the legislature’s approval of bonds for our future. Writers Block -- Megan Zinn interviews Cara Benson on “An Armsfull of Birds: A Personal Field Guide to Love, Loss, and Commitment” -- at Broadside Bookshop this Wednesday. Dr. Xiomara Herman, Amherst, Pelham & Amherst Regional School...

7/6/26, Co-Host Megan Zinn Sen. Jo Comerford: Reading Frederick Douglass Together, recent Supreme Court decisions, the legislature’s approval of bonds for our future. Writers Block -- Megan Zinn interviews Cara Benson on “An Armsfull of Birds: A Personal Field Guide to Love, Loss, and Commitment” -- at Broadside Bookshop this Wednesday. Dr. Xiomara Herman, Amherst, Pelham & Amherst Regional School...

In this episode we return to Oregon to continue the story of CREW (Connecting Resources to Empower Women) and meet Client Services Specialist Kyle Black. Once incarcerated herself for almost three decades at Coffee Creek Correctional, Kyle now spends her days driving newly released women, from the same prison, to probation appointments, safe housing, treatment programs, and the first chapter of a...

7/2/26, Co-Host Andy Bukowski. Award-winning poet Martín Espada on “Shame” – the story of, his poem on, Alligator Alcatraz, featured in this month’s special edition of the Nation Magazine along with pieces by Jane Fonda, Bill McKibben, Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders and other progressive luminaries. Max Page, Pres of Mass Teachers Ass’n: ballot questions on taxes and rent control stuck from Novemb...