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The Town of Poestenkill has been awarded $3.32 million in state funding to provide safe water to residents after the local water was contaminated with PFOA. The grant will cover 60% of the estimated cost associated with creating a second water district covering Algonquin Middle School and the surrounding area. State and county officials however are still not investigating the source of the water contamination. Poestenkill Town Board member Eric Wohlleber gives an update with Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

The Albany Center for Law and Justice is working to stop Jordan Young from facing a prison sentence that they say may be fatal for the young Albany Native. He has not fully recovered after being shot by Albany police in January in a case that is under investigation by the Albany Community Police Review Board. Moses Nagel reports for Hudson Mohawk magazine.

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine,

We begin with Eric Wohlleber (Wall le-ber) of Poestenkill, who wants NYS to pay for PFOA testing

Then, Bernice Mennis of ‘North Country Earth Action’ on ecofeminism speaks with Mark Dunlea

Later on, we’re talking Nataure, Writing and Mushroom Farming in the Collar City with Avery Stempel

After that, we hear about the celebration of the Canandaigua Treaty

Finally, We talk with Mari Lee, creator of Salon Séance about “The End of Time”,

Bernice Mennis of North Country Earth Action talks about ecofeminism with Mark Dunlea of the Hudson Mohawk Magazine. Bernice has been living on 70 acres of beautiful woodland wilderness in the southern Adirondacks, for 42 years. Having been involved in social action--for about 55 years, she reflects how all the different causes and movements are connected: from civil rights, to feminism, gay rights, democracy and justice, and here, now, the climate crisis and climate justice.

Violinist Mari Lee, creator of the innovative ensemble Salon Séance, talks with Hudson Mohawk Magazine's Andrea Cunliffe about the meaning of this piece, inspired by "Quartet for the End of Time." Friends of Chamber Music of Troy, NY will co-present this concert on November 19th at The Sanctuary for Independent Media.

Salon Séance brings “communing with kindred spirits through music” with the "End of Time" to the Sanctuary on November 19th 2022. https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/salon-seance/

Avery Stempel has been coming out to local poetry readings and open mics since the late-90s. Since then, he has been featured at many regional literary events. Last December Avery graced the stage at The Linda, WAMC's Performing Arts Studio in Albany, for the Year in Review show. There he read, as some have called it, his "signature mushroom poem."

When the pandemic hit and his job as manager of EMPAC at RPI came to an end, Avery shifted his focus to a dream that he shared with his girlfriend, Amy. Together they opened a mushroom farm in Lansingburgh.

The Canandaigua Treaty was signed on November 11, 1794. It established peace and friendship between the young United States of America and the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. Ansley Jemison, Cultural Liaison at the Ganondagan State Historic Site, told correspondent Sina Basila Hickey that this celebration is an opportunity to educate people about this treaty (what it did well and how it failed), the overall importance of treaties, and the treaty's impact on affected Indigenous communities.

Learn more about the treaty here: https://ganondagan.org/Learning/Canandaigua-Treaty

image from ganondagan.org

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine:

We begin with a recent Albany Common Council Budget Hearing for 2023.

Then, we hear some of Bernie Sanders’ speech at the Labor Notes conference back in June.

Later on, H Bosh Jr invites Dr. Sorochinski, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at St. John’s University, for this week’s Triple Es segment.

After that, November is National Picture Book Month as well as Native American Heritage month and Brea Barthel gets us some book suggestions for young people on these themes.

Finally, Marsha Lazarus talks with Rabbi Linda Motzkin about her current art exhibit in Saratoga.

Rabbi Linda Motzkin is a lifelong artist, and her work will be shown in a solo exhibition at the Spring Street Gallery in Saratoga Springs beginning Sunday, November 13th (opening reception from 2 to 4 pm). Learn how the exhibit name "Between Earth and Heaven" came to be in this interview by producer Marsha Lazarus.

On June 17-19, 2022, Labor Notes held a significant conference of grassroots labor activists in Chicago. Labor Notes is a non-profit organization and network for rank-and-file union members and grassroots labor activists. Hudson Mohawk Magazine Network Roaming Labor Correspondent Willie Terry covered the conference virtually. In this labor segment, he shares audio excerpts of the presentation given by Bernie Sanders, United States Senator. This part is one of two labor segments.