Hudson Mohawk Magazine

NYC has recently adopted ranked choice voting for its primaries in local election and several states (Maine and Alaska) are using it for races including federal elections. Over 100 communities nationwide are now using RCV, where voters ranked candidates in order of preference and the winner must end up with a majority of the votes. Howie Hawkins discusses the status of the effort to promote such election reforms in New York. With Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

Governor Hochul has signed the first-in-the-nation cryptocurrency mining moratorium. The law will put a two-year pause on new and renewed air permits for fossil fuel power plants that house proof-of-work cryptocurrency mining, and requires the state DEC to conduct a study into the practice's climate and environmental impacts. Mark Dunlea of Hudson Mohawk Magazine talks with Yvonne Taylor of Seneca Lake Guardians who helped led the grassroots effort.

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine we bring you a holiday special, focusing today’s program on Indigenous People:

Murdered and Missing Indigenous People with artist Korina Emmerich and director of R.I.S.E. Demian DinéYazhi'.

Heather Bruegl: public historian, activist, & decolonial education consultant.

Kahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore: media maker, story teller, artist.

Sandra Owén:nakon Deer-Standup who is spearheading the reeducation effort that will be a part of the land-back effort by Waterfall Unity Alliance.

Roberto Múkaro Borrero: human rights advocate, consultant, cultural adviser, writer, artist, musician.

All interviews by Sina Basila Hickey

Thanksgiving special

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine we take a break from our regular program to bring you a talk by Heather Bruegl from August 2021 entitled "Not the Last of the Mohicans: A History of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community." This talk was hosted by Rensselaer Plateau Alliance, part of a larger guest speaker series.

This is holiday special on climate, which poses the greatest threat to humanity. We will have two segments, the first with Frank Sheridan, Executive Secretary of the Global Greens, reviews the recently completed COP27 climate gathering in Egypt of the world’s governments as a followup to the Paris climate accords. Frank was an attendee. Then we will hear about climate advocacy here in New York with Santosh Nandabalan of Food and Water Watch. With Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

H Bosh Jr invites Dr. Sorochinski, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at St. John’s University, for this week’s Triple Es segment. Marina Sorochinski is an interdisciplinary scholar with a Masters in Forensic Psychology and a PhD in Psychology & Law from CUNY. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at St. John’s University, New York. Dr. Sorochinski’s research in the area of wrongful convictions focuses on investigative issues and challenges that lead to wrongful convictions within serial violent crime. She has also been an avid advocate and activist in the innocence movement, teaching and raising awareness among students and the wider community.

Santosh Nandabalan is a senior NY organizer for Food and Water Watch. He discusses why we need Governor Hochul to sign the two-year moratorium on proof-of-work crypto currency mining (she just did) as well as the push for the All Electric Buildings act (to ban gas in new buildings) and to push the New York Power Authority to build renewable energy. He also discusses the push to defeat the so-called permitting reform package by Sens. Manchin and Schumer that would help fossil fuel companies. With Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

Today on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine we bring you a holiday special all about Water Justice Lab! This youth-focused water testing program and community science initiative is a collaboration with Riverkeeper, a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the protection of the Hudson River and its tributaries.

The recently concluded COP27 climate gathering in Egypt for the first time agreed to the concept that the industrialized countries should pay for "loss and damages" to developing nations in the Global South, but the details and actual funding remained to be determined. World leaders once again failed to agree to the emission cuts needed to prevent excessive global warming. Frank Sheridan of the Global Greens was in Egypt and provides an overview of the event. With Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

"Open Space for All" is a report to address the lack of diversity in open spaces and public parks. This plan lays out a vision for addressing accessibility, representation, and structural issues that keep demographics such as Black, Brown, and LGBTQ+ folks from visiting these spaces. Kathy Moser, Chief Conservation Officer at Open Space Institute, spoke with Sina Basila Hickey about these findings.

Read the report on the Open Space Institute website: https://www.openspaceinstitute.org/research/openspacesforall