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On Tuesday, May 10, 2022, the Hudson Mohawk Magazine Network Roaming Labor Correspondent Willie Terry attended the forum on "The Inheritance," a one-hour film on the dynamic history of the U.S. labor movement. In this part one labor segment, Willie recorded the panel discussion on the movie with panelists Shana Davis, Zach Stever, and Paul Cole with moderator Rev. Ibrahim Pedrinan. The Capital District Area Labor Federation and Albany County Central Federation of Labor co-sponsored...
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On Saturday, March 11, 2023, Hudson Mohawk Magazine Roaming Labor Correspondent Willie Terry attended the Somos Conference 2023, at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in downtown Albany. Willie participated in a workshop entitled "African Slavery's Influence on the Latino Culture." In this labor segment, Willie recorded excerpts from the presentation by Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute with Executive Director Melody Capote and Senior Program Associate...
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Apr 26, 2022
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Hudson Mohawk Magazine correspondent Steve Pierce speaks with Cymone Davis about her plans for a Black boarding school in Tullahassee, Oklahoma, the oldest all-Black town in Indian Territory. Can an All-Black Boarding School Bring an Education Revolution? www.ozy.com/the-new-and-the-next/can-an-all-black-boarding-school-bring-an-education-revolution/414375
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May 7, 2022
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Albany has been tense in recent weeks as the city deals with a case of police brutality and community rallies for greater awareness. In the midst of this came a town hall meeting on gun violence at the North Albany YMCA, to which the mayor and police chief refused to come. WOOC was there and at subsequent street rallies to get the mood of the city.
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Apr 25, 2022
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President of the Public Employees Federation of NY, Wayne Spence talks with Andrea Cunliffe from HMM about the social Implications and the unions response to the Covid vaccines and mandates. They speak of social changes, and the need for attention to workplace challenges.
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Apr 24, 2022
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Raven Halfmoon: Ancestors is currently on exhibit at Art Omi. It features six large-scale ceramic sculptures. Halfmoon’s monumental ceramic sculptures examine entanglements between past and present, sampling from an array of sources including graffiti, Caddo tattooing and mythology, and her own family history. HMM's Sina Basila Hickey traveled to Art Omi to speak with Halfmoon. See artomi.org/exhibitions/raven-halfmoon
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Feb 28, 2023
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Every year on March 1, the disability community mourns those lives tragically cut short by family members or caregivers of people with disabilities. In this report Blaise Bryant replays a conversation with Katy Carroll from the Association on Aging in NY and shares the details of this year's Disability Day of Mourning. You can find out more information, including registration here: www.facebook.com/NYAIndependentLiving/
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May 7, 2022
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In this report Hudson Mohawk Magazine Roaming Labor Correspondent Willie Terry attended a Black History Month screening and discussion of the film “The Hate U Give” sponsored by the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists on Tuesday, February 5, 2019, at the Albany Public Library. In this segment, you will hear some of that discussion on the importance of the film during Black History Month.
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Apr 24, 2022
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Micky Jimenez, Regional Director of the Capital Region Capital District Latinos, explains the importance of food pantries offering culturally familiar foods to those experiencing food insecurity with HMM's Aleeka Noble. She also spoke about working with potential funders to continue the food efforts in the community, offering cultural cooking classes and services, and her hopes of ending food insecurity in communities.
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Apr 25, 2022
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Learn what goes into distributing free food to thousands of people and other services provided by Catholic Charities. Brea Barthel interviewed Sister Betsy Van Deusen, CSJ, on site during an event in Troy on January 25th. Sr. Betsy, the Director of Community Partnerships, explains how two staff people and many volunteers get millions of pounds of food to thousands of people throughout the Capital Region and beyond. See www.ccrcda.org for info on upcoming events, and how to contribute to the...
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Colia Clark, a pillar of the American civil rights movement passed away on November 4 at the age of 82. She worked with the NAACP alongside Medgar Evers in Mississippi. Then, as a member of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), she played key roles in the effort to establish equal voting rights in Selma, Alabama and the Birmingham Campaign. Later she worked with Cynthia Mckinney in her Presidential Campaign and ran for the Senate from New York twice on the Green Party ballot...
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Apr 26, 2022
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In this conversation with Poet Jose Perez, he talks about the diversified development of his poetry with HMM’s Andrea Cunliffe. He connects his life experiences, influences on his work, and the support of a rehabilitative arts program, Making Art While Marking Time, while in prison. He is joining fellow artist John Zoccoli at the opening of his Art Exhibition “Out of Darkness” at Collar City Mushrooms along with musician Kenyatta Emmanuel Hughes. "Out of Darkness" Art Exhibition...
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May 3, 2022
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Peter Sergay Interviewed Tatiana Gjergji, founder of Noteworthy Resources Albany, about her organization and her role sponsoring the Roll with Black Lives skate-in on Juneteenth.
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Apr 11, 2023
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Taína Asili speaks with Sonny Singh, a Brooklyn-based musician who has brought his fiery trumpet & vocals to audiences around the world for the last decade . Sonny's first musical outlet as a child of immigrant parents in North Carolina was singing Sikh devotional music, later exploring many other musical genres. In 2003, Sonny co-founded the political rock band Outernational and recorded an album produced by Tom Morello. Since 2008, his vocals and trumpet have become central to the sound...
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May 1, 2022
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On Dec 24, 2020 Governor Andrew M. Cuomo granted clemency to 21 individuals who-- according to the state’s press release-- have demonstrated substantial evidence of remorse, rehabilitation, and a commitment to the community. As we have been covering on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine, clemency petitions can be granted at any time but are most often granted at the end of the year. In this segment we hear Kerry Gant talking about clemency for her husband Thomas Gant, COVID-19 conditions in Wende...
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May 4, 2023
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Isabella LaForte interviewed Kristen Kopper and JoLynn Bakes to discuss the safer bars program in Schenectady to spread awareness of what the program does and how it's affective in avoiding sexual violence in nightlife establishments.
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May 3, 2022
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Pyramids Crossgates has submitted its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for its project in rare Inland Pinebush ecosystem. The DEIS has been accepted by the lead agency, the Town of Guilderland. The Final Environmental Impact Statement must be prepared by July 10th. In the meantime, we speak with Dr. Cynthia Lane, who holds a PhD in Conservation Biology with a focus in forestry and entymology. Dr. Lane discusses the DEIS prepared by Pyramid Crossgates, including "several...
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Apr 26, 2022
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Art Omi is an arts center and sculpture park in Ghent, NY, and they recently hired Gavin Berger to join Ruth Adams as Co-Executive Director of the center. HMM’s Sina Basila Hickey went to speak with the co-executive directors about the evolution of Art Omi. ArtOmi.org
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May 1, 2022
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Cai Quirk, an active member of New York State's 3,200-person Quaker community, talks with HMM Correspondent Miles Mikofsky about how their religious practice has been affected by, and responded to, the COVID-19 pandemic. thumbnail photo credit: Cai Quirk
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May 7, 2022
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DiDi Delgado is currently leading a workshop series at the Albany Barn called Dismantling Racism and all the other isms. She sat down with Hudson Mohawk Magazine correspondent Elizabeth Press to talk about it. OUTRO: For more information on DiDi Delgado visit the didi delgado dot com.
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May 5, 2022
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Hudson Mohawk Magazine correspondent Elizabeth Press spoke to Jayette Lansbury about her advocacy work with the National Alliance on Mental Illness, forensic facilities, her son Allan Lansbury and clemency.
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Apr 26, 2022
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If you head to the Corning Preserve in Albany on Tuesday evenings, you are likely to find Albany Spin Jam: fire dancers, hula hoopers, jugglers, fire eaters and breathers showing their talents with music in the background. Albany Spin Jam takes place every Tuesday evening at Corning Preserve. If you're looking for more information, find Albany Spin Jam on Facebook. [Photo by Brett Hoffay]
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Apr 26, 2022
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Jen, Sharon, and Noeleen are the women who make up Triskele, the Capital Region's Premier All-Female Celtic Band. They spoke with Sina Basila Hickey about singing in Celtic, music therapy, and their upcoming Christmas album release events. www.reverbnation.com/Triskele
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Apr 11, 2023
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Dakota Access Pipeline protesters gathered at the Sacred Stone Camp on the Standing Rock Reservation in 2016 to stop the construction of a pipeline going through Standing Rock Sioux Tribe land. "On Sacred Ground," a film about this confrontation (focusing on the confrontation between a White journalist and oil company executive) will be showing at the earthshotproject in Albany. Alex Briggs, who joined the protests for 6 months, spoke with Hudson Mohawk Magazine's Sina Basila Hickey...
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May 4, 2023
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n Friday, April 28, 2023, Hudson Mohawk Magazine Roaming Labor Correspondent Willie Terry attended a press conference and rally by American Postal Workers Union, Local 390 in Albany at Central Avenue and Karner Road. The workers were protesting a toxic work environment and short staffing, leading to unsafe working conditions in post offices throughout the country. In this labor segment, Willie spoke to the President of the local rev: Ibrahím Pedriñán, and Doug Bullock of the Solidarity...
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Aug 2, 2022
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This is another episode of HMM's stem series S. T. R. E. A. M'D. We sat down with RPI's very own Professor Caleb White. Caleb is a visiting professor at RPI that teaches Studio. Caleb spoke with Dulcina Diggs about the true art of Architecture, what it takes to become one and how architecture affects our everyday lives.
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Apr 30, 2022
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HMM correspondent Steve Pierce spoke to Albany Times Union newspaper columnist Steve Barnes about the state of the local restaurant economy. This is the second in a series of interviews with Steve Barnes about food in a pandemic. And, if you're interested, here's the full interview: www.mediasanctuary.org/podcasts/steve-barnes-talks-food-in-a-pandemic-full-interview/
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Sep 8, 2022
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As our audience probably knows by now, one of our producers Meghan Marohn was reported missing from Lee, Massachusetts on March 29, 2022, This past weekend her body was found. Since today Meg would have turned 43, we decided to collect some memories from her people near and far. Hudson Mohawk Magazine producer Elizabeth Press put together this piece.
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Feb 21, 2023
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The Sanctuary for Independent Media is run on people power, and interns are an important part of that power. Lavender, an intern alum herself, is working on a series of interviews with past interns to honor the contributions that they made to the Sanctuary and to pass on advice to current and future interns. In this story, Lavender interviews Sanctuary intern alum Olivia Stalvey
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Apr 27, 2022
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Sanctuary intern Lizzy Kramer interviews Albany Center Gallery director Tony Iadicicco about the creation of Albany's mural program, the significance of public art, and how art starts within a community.
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Oct 20, 2022
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Pulitzer prize winner and war correspondent Chris Hedges is in conversation with Hudson Mohawk Magazines Andrea Cunliffe about his book "The Greatest Evil is War." They talk about the war in Ukraine, personal encounters with the victims of war, the meaning of truth in journalism, and his years in Central America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Chris Hedges: "The Greatest Evil is War" is on October 21 at 7:00 pm at The Sanctuary for Independent Media.
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Feb 1, 2023
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Hear January book recommendations, popular books, and more from Ian Houck, head of Adult Services and Reference Services for Troy Public Library. Recommended: "The Woman in The Library" (Gentill, 2022, mystery); All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners..." (Campbell, 2022, nonfiction); "My Wandering Warrior Existence" (Kabi, 2022, manga); and "Chainsaw Man, Vol. 1" (Fujimoto, 2020, 1st of 11-book (so far) manga series). Popular of late:...
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May 4, 2023
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As Code Pink Co-founder Medea Benjamin tours the Capital Region with Albany Women Against War to call for peace in Ukraine, the Ukraine Solidarity Capital District will distribute leaflets at the events to criticize what they view as Benjamin’s attempts to shift responsibility for the war away from Russian aggression and onto the U.S.. Anton Konev and Susan Dubois describe the group's positions with Mark Dunlea of Hudson Mohawk Magazine.
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Jul 12, 2022
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Retired meteorologist Hugh Johnson joins us to discuss the impact of heat waves on people and economics with Blaise Bryant and Brea Barthel.
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May 1, 2022
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HMM's Catherine Rafferty speaks to Zoeann Murphy, Washington Post Visual Journalist, about her and her team's coverage of the January 6th riot at the US Capitol and the inauguration of President Joe Biden.
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Nov 20, 2022
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Dr. DeCoster is a professor at Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, teaching Bioethics. HMM correspondent Eunice Jeong spoke with Dr. DeCoster about intersectionality in the medical field and microaggressions. What is intersectionality, and how are patients encountering barriers due to such?
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May 2, 2022
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In a recently published piece in the Nation magazine, author and scholar Barbara Smith proposes a a comprehensive racial justice program even more sweeping than the Marshall Plan to combat white supremacy and resulting systemic racism. Smith talks to HMM correspondent Corinne Carey about her proposal for a Hamer-Baker Plan, and what it would take to realize its goals.
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Apr 26, 2022
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Michael Trout is a living historian who portrays a loyalist soldier who fought as one of Butler's Rangers during the American War of Independence. Trout met with Brendan Maslauskas Dunn where the Battle of Newtown took place, 224 days to the day. He discusses the American War of Independence, Butler's Rangers, and the tragic plight of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) people as they fought for their survival.
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Feb 9, 2023
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A delegation of Capital District peace activists recently traveled to Kurdistan to visit Yassin Aref, the local Iman who spent 15 years in federal prison due to the FBI entrapment on him and a local pizza store owner. Lynne Jackson of the Coalition for Civil Freedoms discusses the trip with Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.
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May 7, 2022
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Matthew Hopkins and Joe Ferritto from Augustine Classical Academy join Lovonia Mallory and Guy Schaffer to talked about their unique school based on a classical education. The Academy is located in Mechanicville NY.
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May 3, 2022
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TripleE's host H.Bosh Jr. speaks with Matt Toporowski, who is running for Albany District Attorney and Jeffrey Deskovic who spent 16 years in prison-from age 17 to 32- wrongfully convicted of murder and rape. In this segment they speak about reforming the District Attorney office, qualified immunity and the need for a conviction review unit in the DA office. This is part one of a three part segment on criminal justice reform. The Jeffrey Deskovic Foundation for Justice is a 501 C 3 organization...
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May 2, 2022
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Rapid response today from local activists at the Troy Police Department on 6th Avenue. Troy resident Kenneth Zeoli says that he was thrown down a flight of stairs and beaten by Sergeant Sean Kittle. Zeoli was at the station house requesting to file a complaint form about the removal of benches from Barker Park. After about 20 minutes, Zeoli was arrested by sergeant Kittle at about 8:15 am. He was released at approximately 11am after having been thrown down the stairs and left in solitary...
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May 7, 2022
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Intro: In our next segment, WOOC correspondent Aaron Pedinotti talks with Adam Tinkle, the director of Skidmore College's Documentary Studies Collaborative, about an upcoming film screening about the legendary free jazz musician Milford Graves. Outro: that was Aaron Pedinotti talking to Adam Tinkle about the documentary, "Miford Graves: Full Mantis," which will screen at Skidmore College's Tang Teaching Museum in the Somners Screening Room, this Wednesday at 6pm.
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Apr 25, 2022
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The Veterans for Peace (VFP_ Nuclear Posture Review warns that the danger of nuclear war is greater than ever and that nuclear disarmament must be vigorously pursued. With the first anniversary of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) on January 22, the VFP Posture Review calls on the U.S. government to sign the treaty and to work with other nuclear-armed states to eliminate all the world’s nuclear weapons. Alice Slater of World Beyond War discusses the VFP report with...
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May 3, 2022
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The Center for Law and Justice has issued a new report calling for the City of Albany to take steps to address systemic racism in the City, starting with the criminal justice system. We talk with Dr. Alice Green, Executive Director of the Center. With Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Radio Network (Part 2 for radio play)
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Apr 30, 2022
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Grannies for Peace of Albany Women Against War are co-sponsoring the A Valentine for People and Planet: Documentarian Cynthia Lazaroff’s Heartfelt Plea for a Nuclear Weapons Free Future. Feb. 14 at 2 PM, go to events on WorldBeyondWar.org to register. We talk with Maureen Aumand about the event. With Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Radio Network.
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May 5, 2022
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Hudson Mohawk Magazine correspondent Steve Pierce attended a session at Troy City Hall on the newly-released Community Forest Management Plan. He spoke with Chris Peiffer, who developed it. Chris Peiffer is director of urban forestry consulting at Plan-It GEO. You can find the City of Troy's new Community Forest Management Plan online at www.troyny.gov and you can find an interactive resource map of the city's trees at www.pg-cloud.com/troyny
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Casey Camp-Horinek is an environmental ambassador, elder, and hereditary drumkeeper of the Ponca Tribe in Oklahoma. The Tribe was one of 257 signatories on a letter urging Congress to address plastic pollution and environmental justice in the next stimulus. Casey's other work includes Rights of Nature with Movement Rights. ( www.movementrights.org ) She is also fundraising for a youth camp this upcoming summer with her son's organization, Earth Rights Defenders. Those who can help can connect...
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May 6, 2022
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Long time Capital Region cultural activist Mona Golub has been presenting music from all around the world for decades. She joined us live in the HMM studio to talk about her ambitious new season at Music Haven in Schenectady's Central Park.
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May 7, 2022
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Rossana Coto-Batres is the Education and Training Coordinator at the Northeast New York Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (NENYCOSH). She works with low-wage, immigrant and refugee workers to empower and educate them on workplace health and safety. NENYCOSH is bringing photojournalist Earl Dotter's LIFE’S WORK, A Fifty Year Photographic Chronicle of Working in the U.S.A. exhibit to the Capital Region next week, April 22-28, where it will be shown at the Legislative Office Building...
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It has been an exciting week in housing justice. Advocates arrested in May pushing for the passage of the Good Cause Bill were arraigned in Albany and we saw reports of giant cockroaches shutting down the court. Today we air an interview Elizabeth Press did with Caroline Nagy to understand better the failed Good Cause Housing Bill and the protests in support of it. OUTRO - Clayanna Lightbourn’ was fired from her job as a result of the events at the courthouse and the community is pulling...
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Apr 24, 2022
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For over two months, the Rensselaer County Public Health Director has ignored the request of Rensselaer residents to investigate the public health threats posed by the Dunn Landfill. On December 15, 2021, Rensselaer Environmental Coalition’s attorney, Colleen Pierson, sent a formal complaint to the Public Health Director, calling for the director to exercise her legal authority under the state Public Health Law to investigate the Dunn Landfill. Pierson talks about the situation with Mark...
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May 5, 2022
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The Hudson Mohawk Magazine Network Roaming Labor Correspondent, Willie Terry, attended the Sanctuary for Independent Media, “The Eighth Annual North Central Holiday Justice and Peace Celebration!” on Saturday, December, 14th at the sanctuary. In this part one segment, you will hear celebration music, voices from community members, and sanctuary volunteers on their views of the event.
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Apr 23, 2022
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The Pride Center of the Capital Region got a new executive director. His name is Nathaniel Gray. Elizabeth Press interviewed him about the importance of pride centers, what the pride center is up to, and his effort to resolve past conflicts with the community. You can meet Nathaniel Gray and get to know The Pride Center of the Capital Region at their BBQ on April 24th.
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The Third Act is coordinating a national day of action to "Tell Banks to Stop Financing Fossil Fuels" on Tuesday, March 21st. The event in Albany, which starts at noon at Broadway and Maiden Lane, is one of more than 100 marches nationwide. Vanessa Arcara, who lives in Rensselaer County and is a national co-founder of the group along with Bill McKibben, discusses the action with Mark Dunlea of Hudson Mohawk Magazine.
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Apr 30, 2022
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HMM Reporter Garrett McCarey speaks with the Troy Foundry Theatre's David Girard, Artistic Director and Emily Curro, Producing Executive Director about the upcoming Digital Gala Performance/Fundraiser. (IN- Hello, I'm... OUT- Thank you) The Troy Foundry Theatre's Digital Gala will be happening on Saturday, February 27th at 7PM. IT will feature music, performance and a live auction. For tickets go to TroyFoundryTheatre.com. A splendid time is guaranteed for all!
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May 4, 2022
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A sampling of three water bodies near the Dunn Landfill in Rensselaer found contamination for PFOS. PFAS are a family of chemicals with direct links to cancers, motor disorders in children, obesity, endocrine disruption, and liver and thyroid diseases. Rensselaer Environmental Action and PEER have called for DEC to ensure that the water supply is not being contaminated. In part one of our coverage of the March 14 news conference, we hear from Dave Ellis and former EPA regional administrator...
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Emmy award winning editor, filmmaker, educator, and Arts and Education Coordinator at The Sanctuary for Independent Media, Branda Miller joined HMM live on-air to talk about her film Witness to the Future twenty-five years after its release. “Witness to the Future” is an experimental documentary video project about individuals who have been transformed from so called “ordinary” citizens into activists who struggle for environmental and social change. This film is a part of the North...
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Water Justice Fellow Shansanique Pollack talks with RPI student Emily Berkemeyer about her involvement in climate activism on RPI's campus. Emily, along with the Water Justice Fellows, will be part of the Youth Congress at the Sustainable Futures Conference later this April.
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Nov 20, 2022
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Through the use of sound, video and AI in a 360 immersive projection-and-sound environment, "Possible Worlds" uses technology to deconstruct identity and gaze. This immersive dance performance will be performed this Friday, November 18th, 2022 @ 3 pm at CRAIVE LAB (Center for Cognition, Communication & Culture). HMM's Sina Basila Hickey spoke with Mercedes Searer, Direction, Choreography and Performance; Bibiana Med, Video Installation and Film; and Lara de Bruijn, Costume and...
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Apr 8, 2023
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In this segment of Reclaiming History, Lovonia Mallory covers the Northeastern Woodworkers Association NWA’s speakers series “Concealed Dovetails”, where master woodworker Kuniaki Kishi of Tokyo, Japan; demonstrates how to build a concealed blind dovetail joint using Japanese saws, to plane, and join to wooden surfaces. Mr. Kishi is owner of ACROGE Furniture which means "beyond generations" he makes custom-made furniture, and as his website states; his furniture “will be...
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Apr 28, 2022
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On Earth Day climate change groups will rally at 4 PM outside of Cong. Paul Tonko's office in Albany to urge him to be a climate champion. They want him to say NO to more fossil fuels and remove False Solutions from his CLEAN Futures bill. We talk with Francis Magai of PAUSE (People of Albany United for Safe Energy) and Rachel Frascella of XR. By Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Radio Network.
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Apr 26, 2022
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This year's International Workers Day event in the Capital District will be celebrated on Saturday, April 30 at the Washington Park lakehouse from 1 to 4:20 PM. Rev. Pedriñán of Albany Central Labor Federation discusses why his group is participating and touches on climate change, Graduate Student Employees Union, and the Nurses Union at Albany Med. With Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.
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May 12, 2022
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We start off our show with coverage of Thursday’s night protest in Albany against the federal government’s plan to allow offshore oil drilling. We’ll have part 3 of Meghan Marohn’s conversation with artist Brenda Ann Kenneally. To hear part 1 and 2 check out our website media sanctuary.org. Then we hear from correspondent Willie Terry on Malcolm X and the labor movement. And we’ll play part of my interview on Organic farming with Seth Jacobs of Slack Hollow Farm. Also, we’ll have...
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Dec 10, 2022
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All of Us is hosting a community conversation in Schenectady on Sat. Dec. 10 on the issue of housing and theme of Wacanda Forever. The event will be at 11:30 AM at the SICM office on Albany Street. Jamaica Miles discusses the event with Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.
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May 7, 2022
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HMM Correspondent Amy Halloran speaks with P. Thomas Carroll about the beginnings of the Troy Waterfront Farmers Market.
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Apr 11, 2023
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Andrea Mercier was trying to get answers about her child's health, and the work of David Carpenter's research gave her some answers. She spoke with Sina Basila Hickey about discovering his work and why he deserves to get the Good Trouble Award. Celebrate Dr. Carpenter
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Apr 24, 2022
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The 'All-Electric Building Act” (S6843A/A8431) would ban gas hookups in new construction in New York starting in 2024. Governor Hochul agrees with the goals but wants a 2027 deadline. Anne Rabe of NYPIRG explains why the shorter timeline is so critical to the climate action effort. With Mark Dunlea with Hudson Mohawk Radio Network.
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Apr 11, 2023
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On Saturday, February 25, 2023, Hudson Mohawk Magazine Roaming Labor Correspondent Willie Terry attended the Black History Month Celebration at The Sanctuary For Independent Media in Troy. In part two of his reports, you will hear from the program speaker, Rev. Jerry Ford, Vice President of the Troy NAACP and President of Team Hero, talking about a family history discovery and Poet Shania Jackson—part 3.
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May 5, 2022
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HMM Correspondent Chris Scully was down in NYC on Tuesday acting up with Extinction Rebellion and got the chance to sit down with Tew, Mar, and Xander, members of intentional communities in Virginia who traveled to NYC to take part in the Extinction Rebellion protests. They discuss living in community, and the importance of activism and building networks for change.
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Aug 12, 2022
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With an expired permit and the blessings of DEC, the Dunn Dump continues churning up known environmental and health hazards, in a residential neighborhood 500 feet from a school. The Rensselaer Environmental Coalition was formed in a futile attempt to prevent the siting of the dump in that location in the first place, and has been fighting it every step of the way. Bob Welton of the REC summarizes the ongoing saga for HMM producer Cathy Silber, and previews the group's August 25 press...
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May 3, 2022
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Former Public Safety Chair and District 4 City Council representative Bob Doherty talks about efforts to reform policing and his reactions to Mayor Patrick Madden's announcement of the formation of a new Police Objective Review Board with HMM correspondent Corinne Carey.
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May 1, 2022
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Groups seeking to divest the NYS Teachers Retirement System from fossil fuels held a webinar on Nov. 14. In part 2 of our coverage, we hear from Hridesh Singh from NY Youth Climate Leaders; Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org; and public school teacher and NY Senator-elect Jabari Brisport. By Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Radio Network.
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May 1, 2022
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Ana Joanes, director of the film Wrestling Ghosts and creator of the podcast Healing Our Ghosts, spoke with HMM's Sina Basila Hickey about her work, what stress does to the body, self-love, teaching the impact of trauma, and more. Ana Joanes created teaching curriculum to go along with her film so that teaching her film can open up larger discussions about trauma, social justice, and self-healing. Learn more about her work at www.wrestlingghosts.com *You will hear Ana Joanes search for a word...
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Apr 25, 2022
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On Tuesday, January 11, the Schuyler Center for Advocacy and Analysis held a public briefing on the the State of New York's Children. HMM correspondent Corinne Carey spoke with Kate Breslin, the Schuyler Center's President and CEO and Dede Hill, SCAANY's Director of Policy about the briefing, the challenges facing children and families in 2022, SCAANY's reaction to how New York Governor Kathy Hochul's State of the State speech dealt with these challenges, and what the group hopes the state will...
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