Hudson Mohawk Magazine

First, Ellie Irons talks with Fruition Seeds about The Gift of Seed: Growing Gardens & Cultures of Care Beyond Consumption, an event taking place Saturday May 2nd at The Sanctuary for Independent Media. Then, we have a story on ticks and tick prevention from our broadcast partners, WGXC. Later on, we welcome back retired National Weather Service Meteorologist Hugh Johnson to give us our weekly wea...

The Capital District Area Labor Federation is holding a MAY DAY rally in West Capitol Park in Albany on May 1st at 5:30 PM. International Workers’ Day is the day the world celebrates the bravery of workers throughout history who have sacrificed for safety, dignity and justice on the job. This year's even will speak out against the attacks on immigrannts, the war in Iran, and the suppression of dem...

Join Fruition Seeds and Soul Fire Farm at The Sanctuary for Independent Media for a special seed gifting and exchange event. Receive an abundance of seeds to sow in your community as we cultivate gift culture together. Petra Page-Mann of Fruition Seeds speaks with the Sanctuary's Ellie Irons. Learn more: https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/the-gift-of-seed/

This piece focuses on a protest safety training in the Capital Region, combining on-site observations with interviews from participants and organizers.

With spring slowly progressing in the Capital District, botanist Rich Ring with the Natural Heritage program talks with Mark Dunlea about the changes we are seeing. He discusses birds, ephemeral flowers, fireflies, maple syrup, amphibians, and tree leaves.

Musician Ian Galipeau once had an audience once member compare his sound to Nirvana, or James Taylor. This has been the best compliment Ian has received about his music. Ian Galipeau talks evolution as a musician, love for new instruments, and his upcoming performance at Song City with Jacob Boston and Sina Basila Hickey.

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine, First, Mark Dunlea reports on pending NY legislation to require large social media platforms to comply with law enforcement subpoenas with the grandfather of a youth who died due to a bad social media sale. Then, Moses Nagel brings us coverage on the Albany Common Council’s changes to the affordable housing measure. Later on, Elizabeth EP Press reports on a Tr...

For the very first time, Troy High School's girls lacrosse will field a team at the varsity level. To learn more about this historic moment, Jacob Boston and Elizabeth took a trip to Troy High to speak with Coach Horan and players on the team about what this season means to them, the sport, and the city of Troy.

Avery Ping, 16, died from an accidental drug overdose after ingesting a fentanyl and methamphetamine mixture that he thought was ecstasy and that he bought via the Snapchat social media platform. His death has led his family to join with others who have similarly lost loved ones to question the role of social media both in targeting young people and facilitating criminal activities. Legislation is...

On April 20, at their regular meeting, the Albany Common Council took up to the changes to the inclusionary zoning measure they had passed in 2025 at the request of the mayor. The old measure used a tiered system based on development size to enforce a percentage of affordable housing units. The new version uses a flat 5% of units and allows developers to buy out of the requirement for $50,000 per...

Do Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) Requests in Troy, NY actually produce useful information? One Troy resident is trying to use this law to obtain information related to how Flock Safety technology is being used in the Capital Region. In this interview Heather Crimmins talks with HMM producer Elizabeth Press about some of the FOIL requests she has submitted, the lack of information the requests...

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine, First, Mark Dunlea speaks with Pippa Bartolotti of the Global Women for Peace Against NATO. Then, Willie Terry interviews Leon Van Dyke about his relationship to the late Civil Rights Activist, the Rev. Jessie L. Jackson. Later on, Justin Hurley brings us to a University of Albany Student Association Senate meeting where they passed the Legal Expenses in Immig...

Rachael Sophrin Lorimer founded the Printmakers Guild of New York in 2024 in an effort to grow a community of like minded artists as a response to the pandemic-era isolation many of us, including Rachael, faced. She joined Marrow for a live in-studio interview on April 23rd, 2026 to discuss her journey of printmaking, community building, and the Guild's new space in the atrium in downtown Troy.

Dr. Aaron Major, a Professor of Sociology at UAlbany, in anticipation for his upcoming book, Theories of Emancipation: Sociology and Socialism at the Turn of the 20th Century, leads a lecture discussing how W.E.B. DuBois's racial theory can provide guidance for current and future emancipatory endeavors.

More than 100 individuals protested on Earth Day against drones at the Hancock Air Base near Syracuse. The military is the greatest threat to the environment, including being the largest institutional user of fossil fuels. Pippa Bartolotti, from Delmar, of the Global Women United for Peace Against NATO, talks with Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

The UAlbany Student Association Senate passes a bill that creates a immigrant legal defense fund of $50,000 for immigrant undergrad students who are arrested by a federal immigration agency or law enforcement.

Today on Hudson Mohawk Magazine, we hear about why 19 climate activists were arrested at the state Capitol on Tuesday. Then, we get an update on the NY For All Act to protect immigrants by preventing collusion by local governments including the police with ICE In this week’s On the Brink, Rosemary Armao explores the latest misadventures of the Trump administration. After that, we have an interview...

Eli Boonin-Vail is a Professor at UAlbany, scholar, and filmmaker who is exploring the relationship between incarceration and Hollywood cinema. His research has examined the portrayal of being incarcerated and how it affects public perspective, not only on the big screen, but in media as well. Boonin-Vail speaks with Sephora Quinones about his research that extends beyond film analysis to explore...

Podcast host Rosemary Armao and opinion writer Jay Jaynowitz recently talked with an audience in Vermont about whether the US might follow the lead of Hungary in voting out an authoritarian-leaning leader, and how best to protest against that leader while he was still in power. Are we framing our public discourse in the right way, the two ask. Are we even asking the right questions about what our...

The New York for All Act would prohibit local governments and the police from colluding with ICE. We have a two-part segment. The first part has Iridian Lucas and Glo Martinez from the Columbia County Sanctuary Movement discussing a banner drop on Saturday, April 18 outside the SOMOS conference at the Empire State Plaza. Then at a rally at the Capitol on April 21, we hear from Senator Goundardes,...

On Sunday, March 15, 2026, Hudson Mohawk Magazine's Roaming Labor Willie Terry interviewed Leon Van Dyke, founder and Community Organizer of the Albany "Brothers." In this Labor segment, Willie interviewed Leon about his interactions with the late Civil Rights Activist, the Rev. Jessie L. Jackson, and other civil rights leaders—part 1.

Climate activists were back at the State Capitol on April 21, with 19 being arrested after they compared Governor Hochul to Donald Trump due to her efforts to gut the CLCPA, the state’s climate law. We hear from Pete Sikora of NY Communities for Change; Eleanor from Germany; Cornell Professor Bob Howarth; and, Santosh Nandabalan from NYCC.

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine, First, Mark Dunlea talks with Eric Wood of NYPRIG about the proposed data center to be built in Albany NY. Then, we have two performers in studio to talk about their work taking place in the Corpus Festival at EMPAC. Later on, Moses Nagel talks with Scott Kellogg of the Radix Center about some ways for listeners to engage with Earth Day. After that, we hear ab...

EMPAC's Courpus Festival, curated by Tara Aisha Willis, takes place from April 23–25, 2026. Yanira Castro of the installation "Raft" and nibia pastrana santiago of the performance "preámbulo" came to Hudson Mohawk Magazine to speak about their works, how they are challenging the traditional audience participation, and the themes of power, responsibility, and colonialism in their work. They spoke w...

This week, Thom Francis welcomes Hudson Valley poet Cheryl A. Rice to the mic. Cheryl was featured at the Eight Poets event at The Fish Market on Saturday, October 11, 2025, where she was joined by writers from the Hudson Valley Writers Guild, online zines Trailer Park Quarterly and Hobo Camp Review, and Troy-based bookstore Paper Moon. +++++ On October 11, 2025, Trailer Park Quarterly and Hobo Ca...