Berkshire Media Artists presents the BMA Audio Blast covering Community, Culture and Politics.
Latest episodes
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53 min
Mobilizing Bike Safety in the Berkshires
Why are people walking and biking along the narrow shoulders of Routes 7, 23 and 41, and what would it take to give them a safe place to go? In this episode, we sit down with James…
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10 min
Hegel in Gaza and Iran
What would Hegel make of the current conflict in the Middle East? This episode reads two intertwined catastrophes — America's war with Iran and the devastation of Gaza — through th…
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10 min
The Genocide was livestreamed...and denied.
This episode examines how mainstream American media didn’t just fail to cover the destruction of Gaza accurately, but actively participated in obscuring it. Drawing on two works re…
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53 min
How to Keep up with the News and not Despair
In this podcast we explore the psychological toll of consuming distressing news, particularly coverage of the war in Gaza. Jason Brown and deputy editor of Consortium News Corinna…
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42 min
From Cuba and Iran to Chicopee with US Congressional Candidate Nadia Milleron
Nadia Milleron, who is running as an Independent to represent the first congressional district of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives, speaks with her neighbors and co…
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10 min
Unhinged U.S. Militarism
In this podcast Jason Brown and Corinna Barnard discuss the vast and ever expanding US military budget and the proliferation of US military bases and facilities — beginning right h…
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15 min
Earth's Greatest Enemy - exploring Abby Martin's epic film about the toxic fallout of U.S. aggression.
Welcome to another episode of Culture Shift, where we explore an eye-opening documentary that reveals the concealed threats associated with the U.S. military-industrial complex. Ti…
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28 min
From Ground Zero: A discussion and reaction to the film with Nadia Milleron, Christine Fulton, Corinna Barnard…
An official selection of the Academy Awards, From Ground Zero confronts the shattered realities of the people of Gaza and shows the challenges of rebuilding. The characters in thes…
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9 min
Patrick Lawrence - Imperial Boomerang
The footage of an overzealous ICE agent killing Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis reveals the violence of the American empire turning inward to protect itself.
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10 min
Culture Shift: The Tearing Down of the Posters
Cafe Palestina is a venue that screens films about Palestine to create awareness of the effects of occupational genocide there. Yet posters promoting the event are being torn down…
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59 min
Sea Shanty aficionado Alex Harvey discusses the anachronistic culture of maritime music.
In this episode dynamic impresario and performer Alex Harvey shares his experience collecting and performing anachronistic maritime music known as Sea Shanties. Alex is a popular t…
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1 h 12
Teach-in with Hazem Jamjoum discussion
Berkshires In Solidarity with Palestine (BISP) members Christine Fulton and Jason Brown discuss the upcoming event on 9/16 at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Pittsfield 175 We…
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11 min
Kerouac: A Talk with poet, musician and jazz critic Clark Coolidge.
Clark discusses Kerouac's writing style and the jazz music that influenced it.
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21 min
The Culture Shift podcast presents: The Cafe Palestina film festival reboots.
After a ten year hiatus the film festival reboots showing films made in and about Palestine.
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7 min
At The Theatre 2 Camino Real, Not About Nightingales, Get It Right
Camino Real by Tennessee Williams at the Williamstown Theatre FestivalNot About Nightingales by Tennessee Williams at the Williamstown Theatre FestivalGet It Right by Randolyn Zinn…
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9 min
At The Theatre with Emily Edelman
We discuss A Bronx Tale-The Musical (Mac-Haydn Theater), The Bookclub Play (Dorset Theatre Festival), Fuzzy (Barrington Stage Company).
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14 min
David Rothstein Remembers The Music Inn.
This is the first episode of David Rothstein talking about the origins of the Music Inn in Lenox Massachusetts. The MI, an offshoot of Woodstock, showcased giants of Folk, Rock and…