HMM 11 – 17 – 2020

Hello Capital Region! 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.

Up first, we’ll hear from reporter Paul Smart on the city of Albany’s new building demolition guidelines.

Then we preview Friday’s event and film screening of “Against All Odds,” with anti-incarceration activists. Hear an interview with filmmaker Messiah Rhodes.

And later on, we’ll go to a public safety committee meeting in Albany, where protestors gathered to bring up concerns about policing in the city.

After that, hear part two of a conversation on WEB Dubois’ book, “Black Reconstruction in America from 1860-1880,” from Underground Railroad Educational Center Book Reads

Finally, hear part two of “What Food Means,” a conversation with food justice activist and author of “The New Bread Basket” Amy Halloran, and the nationally recognized photojournalist Brenda Ann Kenneally, whose photoessay “America at Hunger’s Edge” appeared in the New York Times this September.

And now some headlines…