In the first hour, Senior "Democracy Now!" producer Mike Burke talks with WOOC correspondent Aaron Pedinotti about a workshop that he recently conducted at the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy. Plus, tune in the week in news for Rep. Antonio Delgado. And Tracy Frisch of WOOC speaks with Mike Ewall, founder and director of the Philadelphia-based Energy Justice Network. The Energy Justice Network is a national network supporting grassroots resistance against dirty energy and waste facilities, notably biomass and waste incinerators, coal and natural gas facilities. And Mark Dunlea of WOOC reports on the Farmworker Fair Labor Practices Act. The Rev. Richard Witt of the NYS Rural Migrant Ministries; Ramas Begoya, a farmworker; Sen. Jessica Ramos, the main bill sponsor; Mario Cilento of the NYS AFL-CIO; Michael Paris of UFCWU; and Sen. Robert Jackson are included in his report. In the second hour, Catskill artist Richard "Rip Van" Wagoner discusses the first annual Rip's Awakening festival, commemorating the 200th anniversary of the publication of Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle", planned for Sat., June 22 in Catskill.

The WGXC Morning Show is a radio magazine show featuring local news, interviews with community leaders and personalities, reports on cultural issues, a rundown of public meetings and local and regional events, with weather updates, and more about and for the community, made mostly through volunteers in the community through WGXC. Some reports come from our partner station, WOOC-LP in Troy, out of The Sanctuary for Independent Media. Tuesdays the show is broadcast live from HiLo in Catskill.