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Amy Klein, Chief Executive Officer of Capital Roots, talks with HMM's Sina Basila Hickey about her session for The Sustainable Futures Conference taking place from April 27 - 30.

About her session, “Why Good Food Should Not be a Privilege”:

Food is considered a basic human right but fresh, quality food is often viewed as a privilege. Building true community food security must focus on reducing the financial and transportation barriers to healthy food retail where all food preferences and dietary needs can be provided for.

To learn more about the conference, visit www.sustainablefuturesconference.com and for more information on Amy Klein's section, https://www.sustainablefuturesconference.com/breakout-session-leaders/amy-klein

Poet, actor, playwright, and stage director Carol Durant has been not only producing her own work but encouraging the work of many, many others in the Capital Region with her Outliers Poetry Brunch and work with the Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate New York. HMM correspondent Meg Marohn sat down with Carol to talk about her life in the arts. This is part two of a two part interview.

This is the Hudson Mohawk Magazine, broadcasting from the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY.

Today, we start off with a discussion by the proposal to put a garbage transfer station into the south end of Albany which is designated as an environmental justice community.

Then, John Amidon joins us to discuss the Earth Day protest about the military and climate at Hancock air force base.

And later on, we have part 2 of Willie Terry’s interview about organizing black workers in the south, including with Amazon.

After that,we hear from Heather Bruegl about bringing an indigenous perspective to the upcoming Sustainable Futures Conference.

Finally, for dessert, we talk about Lansingburg’s Snowman, opened since the 1950s.

Each year more than one billion dollars is stolen from the paychecks of low-income workers in New York. A coalition of workers and community groups worked for years to pass the SWEAT bill to address the problem, only to have Cuomo two years ago veto the bill on New Year's Day. April 12 saw statewide actions targeting Cuomo. We talk with Mary Lister a home health care worker and an organizer with the Queens' City Worker Center. By Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Radio Network.

Water Justice Fellow Shansanique Pollack talks with Melissa Hoffman, a student at Vassar College, about her climate activism. Melissa, along with the WJL fellows, will be a part of the Youth Congress at the Sustainable Futures Conference on April 27-30, 2021

Water Justice Fellow Shansanique Pollack talks with Melissa Hoffman, a student at Vassar College, about her climate activism. Melissa, along with the WJL fellows, will be a part of the Youth Congress at the Sustainable Futures Conference on April 27-30, 2021

In 2009 Waste Management lost their bid to take municipal garbage at their transfer station in the South End of Albany, which is designated an environmental justice community due to myriad pollution problems, including diesel emissions from trucks. We talk with local resident and former city council member Dominick Calsolaro about the company's latest proposal. By Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Radio Network.

On April 11, 2021, the Hudson Mohawk Magazine Network Roaming Labor Correspondent Willie Terry spoke to long-time Labor organizer and Activist Art Fleischner. Art is a Solidarity Committee member, Troy Area Labor Council member, and on the planning committee for the Capital District MayDay events. In this Labor Talk segment, Art will talk about Mayday's history in the capital region and upcoming events on May 1, 2021.

Poet, actor, playwright, and stage director Carol Durant has been not only producing her own work but encouraging the work of many, many others in the Capital Region with her Outliers Poetry Brunch and work with the Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate New York. HMM correspondent Meg Marohn sat down with Carol to talk about her life in the arts. This is part one of a two part interview.

This is the Hudson Mohawk Magazine, broadcasting on WOOC-LP 105.3 FM Troy and WOOS-LP 98.9 FM Schenectady, from the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY.

Tonight, NMASS member Carlos Herrera speaks about the SWEAT bill and the recent protest outside the Governor's office in Manhattan.

Then Jared Enriquez, lecturer of Environmental and Land Use Planning at the University at Albany will discuss expanding local partnerships and the upcoming Sustainability Futures conference

And later on, long-time labor Organizer Saladin Muhammad of the Southern Worker Assembly and Black Workers for Justice speaks on the ongoing fight for the right to Unionize

After that, Julina Guo, Senior Staff Attorney in the Immigration Law Clinic at Albany Law School, gives us a history lesson in US Immigration and anti-Asian racism

Finally, Josh Whelan, Director of Sales & Marketing for Nine Pin Cider, gives us a tour of the cidery and discusses, the cider making process, bottling, and packaging, of Nine Pin’s signature ciders.