Conference Highlights Crime Prevention Strategy
Law enforcement officials and community leaders from the greater Springfield Massachusetts area met Monday to consider ways to deter crime. WAMC”s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill reports...
View ArticleTwo Dead after Ten Shootings in Hartford
Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra plans to meet with the city's acting police chief to discuss a weekend of violence in which 10 people were shot and two of them killed.Police say a 16-year-old from Windsor...
View ArticleBerkshire Group Organizes Violence Reduction Forum
A group of concerned citizens is organizing an event this week to address the subject of reducing violent crime in Berkshire County.The group called Berkshire Citizens for Peace and Justice this week...
View ArticleDaniel Gordon, UMass Amherst - The Fatal Truth: the Cult of Violence in...
Mahatma Gandhi once said, “…truth cannot be found by violent means.” That idea is currently the topic of the course Ideas that Changed the World at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Tonight,...
View Article"Shelter" at Bard College's Fisher Center
On June 2 at 7pm, singer Natalie Merchant and the Kalmia String Quartet share the stage of The Bard Fisher Center with local women singers Amy Helm, Simi Stone, Elizabeth Mitchell, and Yungchen...
View ArticleOne Billion Rising Ulster County - Shelter: A Concert Film to Benefit Victims...
Friday February 14th at 9:30 am as part of One Billion Rising Ulster County, Natalie Merchant will introduce the premiere public screening of: Shelter: A Concert Film to Benefit Victims of Domestic...
View ArticleEve Ensler And One Billion Rising
A few weeks ago, we were in Manchester Center, VT taping an episode of The Book Show with Eve Ensler - Tony Award winning playwright, performer, and activist, and the author of The Vagina Monologues....
View ArticlePresident Jimmy Carter On "A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and...
Former President Jimmy Carter has written his 28th book: A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence and Power.He writes about his concern that for political or religious reasons, more females have...
View Article'Behind The Gates Of Gomorrah: A Year With The Criminally Insane' By Stephen...
Psychiatrist Stephen Seager was no stranger to locked psych wards when he accepted a job at California’s Gorman State hospital, known locally as “Gomorrah,” but nothing could have prepared him for...
View Article'All Our Names' By Dinaw Mengestu
Dinaw Mengestu’s work, including his first two novels, have earned him incredible critical acclaim as well as a MacArthur Foundation genius grant and selection by the New Yorker as one of their “20...
View ArticleThe Book Show #1390 - Joyce Carol Oates
In a remarkable 50 year literary career, Joyce Carol Oates has given readers incisive explorations of violence, race, class, sex, and gender in America.Her new novel, The Sacrifice, examines the...
View ArticleAmerica's Radical Underground, The FBI, And The Forgotten Age Of...
Bryan Burrough is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair and the author of five previous books, including The Big Rich and Public Enemies. His new book is Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground,...
View ArticleRobots And Germs, Hackers And Drones - Confronting A New Age Of Threat
From drone warfare in the Middle East to digital spying by the National Security Agency, the U.S. government has harnessed the power of cutting-edge technology to awesome effect. But what happens...
View ArticleThe Book Show #1400 - T. C. Boyle
T. C. Boyle has been called by the New York Times - "one of the most inventive and verbally exuberant writers of his generation." Boyle is the bestselling author of fourteen novels and nine short...
View ArticleCrime Series: Domestic Violence Is Common But Often Hidden
It’s often an unseen or unrecognized form of violence. But it’s also one of the most common crimes and among the most dangerous to emergency responders. Weapons can be anything from guns to hands to...
View ArticleEarly Morning Shooting In Schenectady Occured At Same Location As...
An early morning shooting in Schenectady occurred at the same location as an anti-violence rally held on Friday afternoon.The Daily Gazette reports a 27-year-old male was shot multiple times on...
View ArticleCall For An End To Violence In Newburgh
Residents of Newburgh Friday evening gathered at the site of the city’s latest murder, its fourth this year, to call for an end to the violence in the city.
View Article2 Police Officers Shot In Troy, Suspect Dead
Update: 1:02 p.m.Two Troy police officers were shot Saturday night in the Capital Region city's Lansingburgh neighborhood.
View Article'Police State: How America's Cops Get Away With Murder'
In his 60-plus years as a trial lawyer, Gerry Spence has never represented a person accused of a crime in which the police hadn't themselves violated the law. The police and prosecutors won't charge...
View ArticleThe Book Show #1425 - Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. Previously he worked at The Washington Post.He is the author of three New York Times best-sellers: The Tipping Point, Blink,...
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