by Mohawk Valley Freedom School In preparation for May Day, otherwise known as International Workers’ Day, on May first, the Mohawk Valley Freedom School will host a series of classes focused on workers’ rights, unions, labor history and activism. The first class is this Thursday, April 7 from […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn / Love and Rage Supporters of Donald Trump from across New York State held a rally and march at Fort Stanwix in Rome on Saturday, April 2 where they were confronted by two counter-rallies of Bernie Sanders supporters and anti-Trump protesters. Those that organized […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn/Love and Rage Nearly 200 nurses and their supporters walked on a picket line in front of St.Elizabeth’s Hospital on Friday, March 18. The nurses, who are members of the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), held a two hour informational picket to educate the […]
by Mohawk Valley Freedom School St. Patrick’s Day Film Screening: “The Wind that Shakes the Barley” Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and to honor the long struggle for Irish independence and freedom, the Freedom School will screen this […]
by Brendan Maslauskas-Dunn/Love and Rage This list of five revolutionary women from the Mohawk Valley was written in celebration of International Working Women’s Day, a holiday that has very radical roots in the labor and socialist movements, and in the tumultuous textile strikes that swept across New York […]
by Wayne Price/Anarcho-Syndicalist Review In recent decades, there have been efforts to “rehabilitate” the U.S. Communist Party (CP) as an historical model for the Left. Anti-authoritarian socialists and anarchists find this troubling. While the CP did some good things it also did some very bad things. A brief […]
by Matt Lester/Guest My political awareness is shaped by what happened to my Grandfather. Of course, there are other things. But it is high on the list. It filters my world-view. Growing up in Germany during the rise of the Nazis, fleeing to a Jewish community in Shanghai, […]
by MVCC Student Social Justice Club Former political prisoner, Black Panther and member of the George Jackson Brigade Mark Cook is stopping in Utica to give a lecture as part of statewide speaking tour. The newly formed Student Social Justice Club, an organization at Mohawk Valley Community College, […]
by Mohawk Valley Freedom School/Upcoming Events Utica Social Forum, World Social Forum and May Day Organizational Meeting Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Interested in organizing the Utica Social Forum, a conference for networking, education, organization and action that will be held this April? […]
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 […]
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