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Lights Out Norlite held a news conference on April 20 to release data from the NYS Department of Health’s cancer registry showing significantly elevated lung cancer incidence in the areas downwind of Norlite’s operations in Cohoes, which is also the area where Norlite’s carcinogenic dust is distributed. We hear from New York biochemist and cancer researcher Chris Sevinsky, PhD, who lives a mile from Norlite.

From May 25 through May 28, beginner and expert foragers -- and those who are curious about foraging -- will gather in Troy for a food festival celebrating wild-found foods. Participants will get to taste dishes created by local restauranteurs and learn how to forage their own food. Hudson Mohawk Magazine correspondent Corinne Carey spoke with Nadine Medina, one of the organizers of the festival, about the event. Listeners can learn more and volunteer to help by visiting foragednewyork.org.

Will Kemp's Players Shakespeare's Season returns with Humor and Horror. Kristoph DeMaria talks with Hudson Mohawk Magazine's Andrea Cunliffe about the upcoming performances of "Comedy of Errors" and "Titus Andronicus" this summer in locations throughout the upper Hudson Valley. In this segment he recites Sonnet 116 in honor of Shakespeare's Birthday.

Kim Kelly is the author of the new book "Fight Like Hell." The book chronicles a history of the labor movement both in the distant and recent past. The author is a regular labor columnist in Teen Vogue as well as The Nation magazine and her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, the New Republic and more. Moses Nagel spoke with her this week as "Fight Like Hell" is set to come out on April 26th.

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine,

We begin with a recap from Mark Dunlea about a recent gathering at the Capitol on using renewable energy.

Then, we hear New York Attorney General Letitia James announce the first opioid settlement funds for the Capital District, in a press conference brought to us by Moses Nagel and Cathy Silber.

Later on, Sina Basila Hickey speaks with Paulette Moore who will be giving an in-person talk on Indigenous media for MDOCS at Skidmore on April 20th.

After that, we hear an archived piece by our beloved producer Meghan Marohn, who is still missing.

Finally, we hear from Mary Maggic who will be giving the last virtual BioArt Talk @CBIS this coming Friday, April 22.

This Friday is the final talk from the BioArt Talks @CBIS series. Mary Maggic will present her talk We’re All Living in the Estroworld, asking questions like How do bodies queer at the molecular level, and, how is this queering inextricably tied to industrial capitalism? We spoke with her to get a sneak peak of the event.

Mary Maggic’s presentation takes place on April 22nd 12:30-1:30pm ET. You can register for this virtual presentation on our website, https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/were-all-living-in-the-estroworld/

The final event of the MDOCS Co-Creation Initiative Spring 2022 series “Indigenous Media-Making: Land, Language, Relationship” will be a presentation with Paulette Moore, Indigenous media maker and storyteller and member of the collective The Aunties Dandelion. She spoke with Sina Basila Hickey about the power and dis-empowerment of the mainstream media, language changing one's perspective, and how Indigenous storytelling is unique.

This talk can be attended in person and will be streamed live to the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative Facebook page. For more information: www.Skidmore/edu/MDOCS

NY Attorney General Letitia James held virtual press conferences all around the state on April 19, 2022 to announce opioid settlement monies for each region. Albany County Executive Daniel P. McCoy and Albany Treasurer Darius Shahinfar joined the attorney general to announce the first tranche of several settlements for the capital district, Albany County, and the city of Albany, to be used for treatment, education and prevention. Hudson Mohawk Magazine producers Moses Nagel and Cathy Silber bring us the audio.

Lawmakers gathered with climate and community groups at the Capitol on April 19 to introduce legislation requiring that the Capitol complex be powered by renewable energy in 3 years. We hear from Assemblymember John McDonald; Mert Simpson of SHARE (Sheridan Hollow Alliance for Renewable Energy); and Arlene Way of the Arbor Hill Development Corporation. With Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

Delmar resident Pippa Bartolotti will discuss her new climate fiction book, "The Symmetries: Book 1 Poetic Symmetry" at the Albany Public Library on May 3. The book also draws upon her years working on human rights in Troy. By Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine. (https://events.timesunion.com/event/ffapl-tuesday-author-talk-the-symmetries-book-1-poetic-symmetry-by-pippa-bartolotti-guvqkh)