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Ahead of the day of advocacy for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and two-spirit, WOOC's Sina Basila Hickey spoke with Demian DinéYazhi’ (Diné) of R.I.S.E., director of the collective/initiative/organization which stands for Radical Indigenous Survivance Empowerment. They spoke about the complexity of increased visibility of Indigenous culture and issues and about the art's impact on the success of social movements. DinéYazhi’ is part of a group putting on a march for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women May 6 in Hudson.

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. The Catskill Makers Syndicate produce the "Better Weather" for the show. Rob Gelles produces the Columbia County history segment "Rob Around The County" and "This Month in History" for the show. And Jack Sencabaugh contributes the "Backtracks in Time" segment about local history. Some reports come from our partner station, WOOC-LP in Troy, out of The Sanctuary for Independent Media. Tom Roe also cuts up local and national news with songs and sounds for the show. At 9 a.m. "The WGXC Daily," with local headlines, weather, and previews of community events, airs. Also tune in for national headlines from the Public News Service on WGXC. Sometimes national, state, or local press conferences, meetings, or events are also broadcast live here.