Hudson Mohawk Magazine

The 108 mile Water Walk to protest the Constitution Pipeline ended on October 6 at the State Capitol. Prior to their press conference at the Capitol urging Governor Hochul to deny the water permit, Mark Dunlea talked to Owl, Erin Dudley of the Waterfall Unity Alliance, Sunder Ashni of the Mumbets Freedom Farm, Ethan Gormley of Citizen Action and Sandra of the Mohawk Nation. For the Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

More than seventy grassroots organizations across New York and New England will conduct coordinated Bannering actions on October 10 and 17th—large, high‑visibility political messages displayed from highway overpasses during peak weekend traffic. These actions are designed to encourage civic participation and voter engagement ahead of the 2026 Midterm elections. Andy Lee of the Albany Visibility Brigade talks with Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine, First, Mark Dunley reports on the protests held by Beyond Plastics against Starbucks in response to their unverifiable claims that its single-use plastic cold cups are “widely recyclable.” Then, we have an interview with Abu Zeyn who will be performing Egyptian Spiritual Jazz at The Sanctuary for Independent Media this Friday October 9th. After that, we have an interview with comedian Jovan Afzali. Finally, we have a poetry recording from a beautiful fall day.

Democracy appears to many people to be in trouble not just in the US but around the world. At a recent salon gathering Opinion writer Jay Jochnowitz and Rosemary Armao, host of the podcast Beyond the Brink and Fighting Back talked with their audience about what had them worried. They pointed to the unsettling rise of far right politicians and the ADF party in Germany and to America's faltering relations under the Trump-Vance administration with old allies. The old order, they say, seems to be disintegrating and what that means for American power is unclear. In the past under such confusing and potentially dangerous times America seems to have always found a hero... a leader with vision and courage to move the country forward. Do we see anyone like that now?

This year was the second annual Homelands Powwow, bringing Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans from Wisconsin to their ancestral homelands for a celebration together with other Native folks and non-Native folks. This year's event took place at the Shakespere and Co. campus in Lennox, MA. This clip begins with the announcer talking about jingle dress dancers and then transitions into a talk by Shawn Stevens. Learn more and support this annual homecoming of the Indigenous people upon whose land the Sanctuary resides at www.HomelandsPowwow.org