by Kevin Nugent/Love and Rage Since announcing last spring, the Sanders campaign has sparked a fierce debate on the left regarding Sanders’ viability as a candidate, his left-wing credibility, and the distance between himself and the establishment party machinery. Quasi-enthusiastic Clinton supporters aside, the left is split between […]
by Joshua A. Turner/Guest If one were to have watched the media coverage of American politics over the last six months, one might be forgiven for thinking that the only two stories going on are Donald Trump and the GOP circus, and the tightening race between former Secretary […]
by Hana Selimovic/Guest As an American-Muslim, it is easy to say that I am constantly in a battle with the general public about its personal views and stances on Islam. Just as my religion preaches, however, I try to teach more than I try to argue. There were […]
by Hamilton College Media Relations/Press Releases Clinton, N.Y. – Hamilton College announces its spring F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series, scheduled on Sunday afternoons at 2 p.m. in the Bradford Auditorium in the Kirner-Johnson Building on Hamilton’s campus. The theme of the spring series is “In […]
by Hamilton College Media Relations/Press Releases Clinton, N.Y. – John Dau, one of the “Lost Boys of Sudan,” will give a lecture titled “Between Two Worlds” on Wednesday, Feb. 3, at 7:30 p.m., in the Chapel at Hamilton College. The lecture is free and open to the public. […]
by Alexander Reid Ross/It’s Going Down The Malheur Rebellion took overnight control of all screen time throughout social media and conversations about it quickly became pervasive. I felt compelled to go to the site and try to gain some perspective. I contacted Ben Jones, and we decided to go down together […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage Many commemorate the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. without paying much tribute at all to the intellect and ideas of the man. We settle for a whitewashed history that erases much of the man himself and his radical, even revolutionary, […]
by Dilar Dirik/Guest We publish this letter here on Love and Rage from Dilar Dirik, a committed activist in the Kurdish liberation struggle. It is an open letter in response to the recent publication of a racist cartoon depicting Alan Kurdî in the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. Kurdî […]
The Problem with The Utica Phoenix by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn/Love and Rage You may have seen the latest edition of the Utica Phoenix around town lately or perhaps you’ve read it online. I have been reading the Phoenix since shortly after it was launched. I even wrote for […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn / Love and Rage Urged on by local activist John Furman in the middle of his speech, the gathered protesters started chanting, “No borders! No fences! No borders! No fences!” The words echoed throughout Utica’s historic Oneida Square on an unseasonably warm evening on […]
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