Launched in 2022, the Sanctuary’s Air Justice Lab (AJL) is a community air monitoring and educational initiative serving the greater Capital Region of NYS. Based within our NATURE Lab, AJL started in late 2022, when concerned residents, local students, and Sanctuary staff began a collaborative effort to install a growing network of low-cost air-monitoring devices. A'Livija Mullins-Richard is the Air Justice Lab Coordinator and reflected on the experience with Sina Basila Hickey.

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Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine,

First, A’Livija Mullins-Richard joins us to talk about Air Justice Lab as we approach the celebration to culminate this community air monitoring project with a virtual event this Thursday.

Then, Jacob Boston highlights the spring youth baseball season on Spring Ave.

Later on, we hear from Tara Aisha Willis about EMPAC’s upcoming Corpus Festival.

After that, this week on the Albany Comedy interview corner Tyler Atis interviews local comedian Nate Wright.

Finally, This week, Thom Francis welcomes poets Francesca Sidoti and Anna Boughtwood to the mic.

Hosts: Caelan McPherson and Sina Basila Hickey

Engineer: Caelan McPherson

Part 2 of conversation with co-founders Angela & Elroy Tatem...Hear how the organization got started and the passion and heart that Angela and Elroy bring to their work.

Produced by Marsha Lazarus

Conversation with YOU, Inc co-founders Angela & Elroy Tatem ...Learn the significance of the name, YOU, Inc and the keys to upping motivation to follow simple, timeless financial literacy practices.

Pt 1 of a 2-part series

Produced by Marsha Lazarus

This week, Thom Francis welcomes poets Francesca Sidoti and Anna Boughtwood to the mic. They shared their work at the 2024 Word Fest Open Mic at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts on April 27, 2024.

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The Word Fest began in 2001 in Thatcher Park as a one-day open mic, bringing together poets from all over the region to share their work. Over the years, the event grew into a week-long celebration of poetry and spoken word with workshops, poetry slams, featured performances, and, of course, the open mic.

For the first time since 2019, the Word Fest Open Mic returned on Saturday, April 27, 2024, at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts with an afternoon of incredible featured spoken word artists and open mic readers.

Today we are highlighting two of those poets - Francesca Sidoti and Anna Boughtwood.

Francesca J. Sidoti’s poetry has been published in Chiron Review, Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, Viet Nam Generation, Moonstone Arts’ “Nikki Giovanni Tribute”, and other literary magazines. Upcoming publications include the Deep Overstock Fiction Podcast, which will feature her reading her work for the “Romance” edition. Sidoti has been the recipient of several awards, including the 2021 Dorn Space Poet of the Year. Her 2023 book, Civil Twilight and Other Transitions, are currently available.

Anna Boughtwood lives just over the Dunn Memorial Bridge from Albany. Her writing has appeared in Sad Girls Club, Dipity, Hudson Valley Writers Guild, Dime Show Review, and East Jasmine Review.

First, Mark Dunlea speaks with Paul Stewart of the Underground Railroad Education Center about a lawsuit filed by the organization against the National Endowment for the Humanities following their federal grant cancellation as a result of anti-DEI retaliation.

Then, Moses Nagel brings us coverage from the recent No Kings protest in Albany. He talks to protesters about their signs.

Later on, retired national weather meteorologist Hugh Johnson joins us to give a recap of the weather this past March and the worrying signs of an acceleration of global warming.

After that, as part of the weekly series Everybody Moves, we hear from Jamar as he shares with us his immigration story to the Capital District from Jamaica.

Finally, Elizabeth Press spoke to City Council President Sue Steele about Mayor Montello's Public Safety emergency declaration in an effort to push through the renewal of the Flock Safety contract.

Co-hosts: Lennox Apudo and Sean Bernyk

Engineer: Kalix Sausville

Baseball is back, and what a wonderful time it is. Little league teams throughout the Capital Region are getting ready to take their first bases in the new year. However, before the first pitch, Jacob Boston and baseball mom Liz sat down with Ian Silverman of spring youth baseball on Spring Ave to preview the upcoming season.

Ecological resistance begins with a hard truth: the biosphere is being destroyed by systems that know exactly how to absorb moral outrage. You can march, sign, lobby, and testify, and still wake the next morning to another forest cut, another river poisoned, another species pushed closer to silence. Some feel more direct action is needed, Pike talks with Mark Dunlea of Hudson Mohawk Magazine,, including about the "culture of resistance that these punks out in the woods cultivate. "

A conversation about resistance, activism, and community. Get Out the Resistance (GOTR) together with Share My Kitchen Table (SMKT) are for those who haven’t engaged in activism yet by empowering with information with about at least 25+ different ways that can help restore Democracy!

In this interview Mary Panzetta and Toni McGrath of SMKT speak with Andrea Cunliffe.

Get Out The Resistance (GOTR) is a grassroots, non-profit, Albany activist group and one of the 11 groups in the Greater Capital Region Coalition (GCRC). Their events have proven to increase activist membership and turnout. Their PowerPoint: One Million Rising, outlines activism strategies, ICE watch, FLOCK cameras, mid-term election data & actions, advocacy of progressive legislation. and student engagement.