Hudson Mohawk Magazine

Hudson Mohawk Magazine's Blaise Bryant talks thunder storms and weather with retired Meteorologist Hugh Johnson.

HMM Host and Producer Blaise Bryant talks with Julia Duff, Executive Director of the Spina Bifida Association of Northeastern New York about their upcoming Saturday May 14. Walk and Roll. for more information visit sbaneny.org

HMM correspondent Garrett McCarey speaks with Coach Lou Butts & others about the NY Knockout Women's Tackle Football Team that plays in Schenectady, NY.

For more information go to NYKnockoutFootball.com. Come down to Monohasen High School on May 21st at 5:00 O'clock to catch their last home game of the season. See you there!

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine:

We begin with Mark Dunlea’s conversation with Jerry Mitchell who has been awarded The Nellie Bly Award for Investigative Reporting.

Then, Willie Terry brings us more coverage from the Albany May Day event.

Later on, Jeff Jones reflects on the life of Kathy Boudin, activist confronting racism, supporting the Black freedom struggle, and co-founder of RAPP (Release Aging People from Prison).

After that, Moses Nagel speaks with Corey Aldrich of ACE! about the creative economy in the Capital Region.

Finally, Ian Romake interviews musician Ruth Pelham about the Music Mobile, her Jewish roots, and how she chooses to age her way.

A town judge, in the interest of justice, has dismissed charges against anti-drone protestors who had blocked the entrance to the Hancock Airforce Base in Syracuse. Mark Scibilia-Carver of Upstate Drone Action discusses the importance of the judge's decision in the 13-year civil resistance campaign to expose Hancock's lethal role in the killing of civilians by drones in Afghanistan and elsewhere. With Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

For most of her 78 years, Kathy Boudin was a front line activist confronting racism and supporting the Black freedom struggle that defined her life. There were some serious consequences including spending several decades in prison for her role in a Brinks robbery for a Black revolutionary group that resulted in 3 people being killed. Fellow Weatherman member Jeff Jones talks about her life, especially her work for criminal justice in the decades following her release. With Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine. (https://www.thenation.com/article/society/kathy-boudin-memoriam)

Dr. Michael Lozman joins the show live to talk with HMM producer Cathy Silber about his vision for the Capital District Jewish Holocaust memorial and its beginnings in 17 years of working to restore Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe. For more information, see https://www.cdjhm.org/; https://dailygazette.com/2022/04/28/niskayuna-holocaust-remembrance-ceremony-stresses-need-to-stand-up-to-hate/.

Doug Bullock of the Solidarity Committee of the Capital District helps Hudson Mohawk Magazine kick off our series of community groups dropping in to tell us what they're up to––in the last segment of the Thursday night/Friday morning show. In this episode, Doug, Cathy and Sina discuss the recent flurry of labor victories in the Capital District and beyond. If you'd like to receive the Solidarity Committee's monthly newsletter, you can email Doug at [email protected]

The Museum of Political Corruption in Albany has selected Jerry Mitchell, Founder of the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting (MCIR), as the winner of The Nellie Bly Award for Investigative Reporting. Jerry Mitchell’s reporting led to convictions in some of the nation’s most notorious crimes, including the assassination of NAACP leader Medgar Evers and the bombing of a Birmingham church that killed four girls. Mitchell talks with Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

On April 30, 2022, the Hudson Mohawk Magazine Roaming Labor Correspondent Willie Terry attended the May Day 2022 event in Washington Park in Albany. The sponsors were a coalition of labor and community groups led by the The Albany County Federation of Labor. In this part 2 labor segment, Willie recorded event speakers Fareed Michelen of the Nurses Union, Gabriel Silva from Citizen Action, and Doug Bullock of Solidarity Committee.