Sowing seeds for Palestine is a Fundraiser + Livestream of Beekeepers Storytime taking place at YesFolk Tonics on May 23, from 11am-4pm. This event plants hope to feed the future and preserve life-giving stories. Part of this event is Storytime from Palestine, hearing from Palestinian beekeepers and Bees, Land, & Liberation members who recently returned from a solidarity beekeeping trip in Palestine. Hana' and Nora join HMM producers Cricket and Marrow for a live zoom interview about seeds and their experiences in the West Bank.

The New York State Museum is collecting oral histories from Black New Yorkers connected to the Great Migration. The project, led by Jennifer Lemak, focuses on preserving the traditions and experiences that shaped communities across New York State.

In this episode, Jasmeet Kaur, a student at UAlbany, sat down with Delilah Ramos, a junior at University at Albany, to get more insight into the services Middle Earth Peer Assistance Program provides and how student volunteers help support their peers through difficult moments, stress, and everyday challenges on campus.

Albany Law professor Dale Margolin Cecka joins Hudson Mohawk Magazine to talk about adultification bias — the everyday ways institutions stop seeing Black children as children. Drawing on her recent op-eds in USA Today and Slate, she reflects on her own family, her clinic work, and what it takes for institutions to believe the people they’re meant to protect.

On Monday May 11, several hundred people attended Beyond Plastic’s lobby day and rally. The Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act – known as PRRIA - would require producers of single use packaging to reduce the amount by 30% over 12 years and ban 13 toxic chemicals from packaging. The bill has twice passed the Senate but the Assembly Speaker has refused to let it come up for a vote despite having a majority of members as co-sponsors. However, a few days after the rally, the Speaker announced that the Democrat members of the Assembly would be reviewing the legislation in conference. The sponsors recently did an additional 38 amendments to the bill to help with its passage. In part two of our coverage, we hear Dr. Charles Moon of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Chris Alexander of the NYS NAACP Conference, Assemblymember Deborah Glick, and Jay Buckiewicz of the Peekskill NAACP. This has been Mark Dunlea for the Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

More than one hundred New Yorkers were at the Capitol on Wednesday April 13 calling for a three-year moratorium on new data-center development while the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the Public Service Commission (PSC) complete comprehensive reports evaluating the industry’s current and projected effects on electricity rates, energy use, water resources, air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, and electronic waste, and issue new regulations to mitigate those negative impacts. At the rally, we hear from Eric Weltman of Food and Water Watch, Assemblymember Anna Kelles, Senator Kristen Gonzalez, Reverend Dr. Majadi Baruti of PUSH Buffalo, and Assemblymember Dana Levenberg. This has been Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

On This Episode of the TripleE's, Diana Mbombo-TIte tells her story of growing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and all the languages she learned in the DRC. she also talks about her story of how and why she immigrated to the United States of America , and Finally she tells H Bosh Jr about starting her business Akula Interpreting and Translation LLC.

On Tuesday, May 11, 2026, Hudson Mohawk Magazine Network Roaming Labor Correspondent Willie Terry covered the NY Statewide Senior Action Council, "2026 Annual Senior Grassroots Advocacy Day" at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, where they were demanding "Budget Equity" for Seniors. In this Labor segment, Willie interviewed Maria Alvarez, Executive Director of the New York Statewide Senior Action Council, about the purpose of Advocacy Day.

The climate crisis is upon us. The upcoming summer is expected to be brutal with dangerous heatwaves, severe drought across the country, wildfires, and extreme storms. We know the solution to the climate crisis is to stop burning fossil fuels, yet, despite his commitment to divest from fossil fuels in 2020, Comptroller DiNapoli continues to invest heavily in Exxon, Shell, Chevron and other Big Oil companies that continue to destroy our climate. In addition, continued investments in risky fossil fuels have hurt the pension fund. Ruth Foster of Divest NY talks with Mark Dunlea of Hudson Mohawk Magazine as to why the group decided to endorse comptroller candidates Drew Warshaw and Raj Goyle in the democratic party primary. Ruth also discusses the effort to shut down the Sheridan Ave. Steam Plant and convert the Capital Complex to renewable energy, including geothermal.

Today On Hudson Mohawk Magazine we hear from Monday’s advocacy day by Beyond Plastics.

Then, we have a report on a Mother’s Day rally around sentencing reform.

Later on, in this week’s On the Brink and Fighting Back, Rosemary Armao explores Donald Trump’s fiscal policies.

After that, we have the latest segment from the Skidmore Labor Series.

Finally, from our archives, we hear from author Nancy Castaldo about how water is an environmental justice issue.