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Reseña de la película 1917, dirigida por Sam Mendes

La ponceña Lillian Torres comparte su perspectiva sobre el impacto de Huracán María, y la corrupción y mal manejo de ayuda.

Lillian Torres y el Huracan Maria

Filmmaker Larry Hott reviews “Whose Streets,” about the street responses to the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson MO in 2014. Trailer here: whosestreets.com

Larry Hott Reviews Whose Streets

Hurricane Corruption joined forces with Hurricane María in Puerto Rico. The manmade storm began in the 1990s, when US Attorney for Puerto Rico Guillermo Gil summarized the jaw-dropping theft of untold millions of public dollars by the Gov. Rosselló Administration this way: “Corruption has a name and it’s called the New Progressive Party.” The debt was compounded because of illegal multi-billion loans and spending on poorly concieved projects that resulted in the complete abandonment of the island’s infrastructure in order to pay back the loans with interest rates of 75 cents on the dollar. Gil sent many from the administration to prison, but the island’s health, education , publoc works and electrical grid was already in shambles. Now Trump is going on Tuesday. Ay Dios mío. How many storms must Puerto Rico take?

Hurricanes Corruption And Maria

Vice President Pence was scheduled to go to Puerto Rico as well. As if Hurricane María and Trump weren’t already horrible. As if the pro-statehood party hadn't already done catastrophic damage to Puerto Rico with decades-old corruption that weakened the electric power grid.

Trump In Puerto Rico

Ariadna Goenaga reseña a “Detriot”, dirigida por Kathryn Bigelow, sobre los disturbios raciales hace 50 años. ¿Qué ha cambiado?

DETROIT Reseña Por Ariadna Goenaga

A heart divided by two. A Guatemalan mother and daughter share their experiences about going back for the first time (daughter, 19 years old, born in USA) and mother (who had not been back since she was an adolescent more than 20 years ago). In English and en español.

Familia Vuelve a Guatemala, Por Unos Días

Filmmaker Larry Hott reviews “The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography ” a documentary by Errol Morris. Trailer here: http://bsidefilm.com

Larry Hott Review The B - Side

Laura Lovett, U.S. women’s history professor at UMass, and Maurianne Adams, retired social justice professor at UMass, and journalist Marla Goldberg (amherstspectator.com) on the push to create a new historic district in Amherst based the people who lived in the North Prospect-Lincoln-Sunset area.

New Historic District For Amhert Mass

Filmmaker Larry Hott recommends a podcast called “S-Town”.Link here: stownpodcast.org. Listening to it, you will see a magnificent film created by your imagination based the true story of an Alabama man who thinks he knows who committed a murder.

Larry Hott Reviews NPR Podcast STown

la curadora Waleska Santiago comparte su perspectiva sobre la pintura “Ataúd abierto”, por la pintora blanca Dana Shutz, de Emmett Till, un muchacho negro de 14 años que fue golpeado y ahorcado en 1955 por racistas en Mississippi.

Waleska Santiago y La Licencia Artistica, Emmett Till y Dana Schutz

Filmmaker Larry Hott on filmmaking in the age of Trump, Part 2. It gets worse...

Filmmaking In The Age Of Trump Part 2

We check in with state Rep. José Tosado of Springfield on some of the projects he has been working on to benefit his community.

State Rep. Jose Tosado Of Springfield On Public Service

For a still mysterious reason, UMass-Boston was about to award the Chancellor’s Medal to Puerto Rico former Gov. Pedro Rosselló, whose administration is considered by historians and political observers as the most corrupt in the island’s history. Dozens of his administrators and Cabinet secretaries were imprisoned for stealing millions of dollars from the departments of health, education, public works and others. More than 1,400 academics from UMass, many of them Puerto Rican, denounced the award. Under pressure by its own community and in social media, UMass-Boston rescinded the award. But they haven’t answered why Rosselló was considered in the first place — and for a second award.

UMass Rescinds Award To Corrupt Puerto Rico Governor Rossello

Liz Roberts, CEO of Valley Venture Mentors, says the first step to developing your awesome idea is to get out of the house and come to the monthly meeting, held the second Wednesday of the month (this month it’s on May 10) at 5 pm on the first floor of Tower Square next to Champions Sports Bar. Whether you have a kernel of an idea or want to mentor an entrepreneur, Liz wants to meet you! And yes, there’s free food and drink here, as well as free parking and child care. OMG! Ramón Lorenzi says he showed up with an idea and VVM guided him to fully develop it into a now functioning company. Here is the link to Valley Ventures Mentors: valleyventurementors.org/participate/

Valley Ventures Mentors

Natalia Muñoz is a multimedia journalist from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Interviews and rants and raves about Puerto Rico and the US on politics, culture, media and movies for WHMP Progressive Talk Radio out of Northampton MA, in English and en español.

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