Hudson Mohawk Magazine

Mark Dunlea gives an overview of the recently concluded 2021 legislative session, with a focus on climate change, single payer health care and criminal justice reforms. There are short interviews with Arielle Swernoff of NY Renews on the Climate and Community Investment Act and Corinne Carey of Compassion and Care on the NY Medical Aid in Dying Act. For Hudson Mohawk Radio Network.

Marketa Edwards is running to represent District 6 on Troy's City Council. She's challenging the candidate endorsed by the Democrats, Cheryl Kennedy, in the primary election on June 22. Edwards spoke with HMM correspondent Corinne Carey about why she chose to run for this seat, the experiences that led her to become a community leader, and the issues she hopes to tackle should she win. Early voting in this election starts on Saturday, June 12.

An in-person interview with Christoph Paul, the lead singer/songwriter and bassist of the Dionysus Effect, a local rock band from Troy, NY. The interview explores his motivation to start the band, goals for the future and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on local musicians in the Capital Region.

In this first episode of the Plastic Bucket, we talk with Sharon Lavigne of Rise St. James in St. James Parish, Louisiana, about their upcoming Juneteenth event. The fifth district of St. James Parish is fighting a massive plastics plant from being built in their neighborhood. The site where Formosa intends to build a 2,500 acre plastics plant contains hundreds of acres of wetlands and the graves of people who were enslaved. Rise St. James will honor those ancestors at their Juneteenth event. They hope to see grocery stores, green jobs, and housing for St. James Parish instead of more petrochemical infrastructure for Cancer Alley.

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine,

We begin by listening in on a Public Safety Committee in which concerns for inherent and systemic racism in police training were voiced.

Then, for this week’s Labor Bucket, we have an interview with Adam Pelletier, the New President of "Troy Area Labor Council."

Later on, early voting begins this weekend and we have an interview with Cheryl Kennedy who is running for a Troy City Council seat to represent District 6

After that, we have the second part of our interview with Utica resident and Burmese revolutionary activist Zaw Naing Win

Finally, we hear about the locally created MoonCatcher Project which provides reusable washable menstrual products to thousands of menstruating young people.

Albany's mayoral race has two women facing each other on primary ballots June 22, in addition to the city's usual array of write-in candidacies. Incumbent Kathy Sheehan and the Rev. Valerie Faust recently faced off in a virtual Meet the Candidate event to demonstrate their different approaches and summarize the raison d'etre of their candidacies. Hudson Mohawk Magazine's Paul Smart edited down the nearly two hour debate, which included Republican candidate Alicia Purdy, to get at some key differences.

Noreen McKee, Board Member of the Rensselaer County League of Women Voters spoke to HMM's Melissa Bromley about the latest in the New York State Attorney General's lawsuit against Rensselaer County Board of Elections for failing to provide voters in Rensselaer County with adequate and equitable access to early voting poll sites, specifically in communities of color.

On Wednesday, 6/9, the Board of Elections filed an appeal to Friday's decision from Judge Adam W. Silverman that the BOE must select a location in Troy's city central.

Cheryl Kennedy is running for a Troy City Council seat to represent District 6. HMM correspondent Corinne Carey talked to Cheryl about why she's running, what her priorities will be should she win the seat, and her position on a number of issues facing the city. Cheryl has the nomination of Democratic party leaders, but is being challenged by Marketa Edwards for the Democratic party line. Early voting for the Democratic primary begins Saturday, June 12.

Protesters from multiple organizations joined together to show their frustration with the environmental efforts of U.S. Representative Paul Tonko in a weekly event called Tonko Tuesdays. Hear from Protesters at the event and learn about what different organizations are doing to promote clean energy.

On Reclaiming History, Lovonia speaks with Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black is Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon Lovonia Mallory discuss Harriett Tubman freeing more the 700 people during a military raid in South Carolina. This is part 2 of a multi-part segment.

Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black is Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University in the Department of History. She is author of her upcoming book entitled, Combee’: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War (Oxford University Press).