Featured stories, analysis, and news.
by Lydia Marie Hanna/Love and Rage It’s hard to get help if you’ve never done it before. There’s an art to it, to obtaining the support you need from a medical establishment that is poorly designed to help those living with mental illness. There is an infinite list […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn/Love and Rage “Don’t mourn – organize!” These were the powerful words written in a letter to fellow union agitator Big Bill Haywood by the revolutionary immigrant troubadour Joe Hill in 2015. Or so the story goes. Hill was falsely accused of a murder in […]
Photos by Stand Up and Speak Out Earlier this afternoon, organizers involved with The Movement, a social justice campaign with intent to confront and expose racism on college campuses, staged a walk-out at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. Utica-based activist group Stand Up and Speak Out was there to […]
by Kevin Nugent/Love and Rage Terrorists affiliated with ISIS struck Paris over the weekend, killing at least 129 people and injuring hundreds more. The world recoiled in horror and roundly condemned the attacks. The warm sentiments directed toward France from around the world, as well as the outcry […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage In the wake of 30 states refusing or opposing to take in Syrian refugees, Congressman Richard Hanna (R) of New York’s 22nd Congressional District issued a statement urging the Obama administration to immediately cease plans to accept refugees in the aftermath of the terrorist […]
by The Movement/Press Releases HAMILTON COLLEGE – Colleges and Universities around the world are participating in a National Walk Out demonstration in solidarity with Concerned Student 1950 to help bring an END to campus racial injustice. Stand up with students of color and their allies for a National […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage photos by Christopher Casey and Kimberly Jones UTICA – On Thursday November 12th, the lights in the classroom of the Cornerstone Community Church were turned on a little before 7 PM. This night of the week is usually reserved for meetings of the Mohawk […]
by Stand Up and Speak Out/Press Releases Our community action groups, Stand Up and Speak Out and Beauty Beyond Bows have joined forces with Vernon Patterson of Guess House of Wings, located at 1207 Park Ave in Utica’s Oneida Square, for our next monthly community outreach initiative. We will be giving […]
by Lana Nitti/Love and Rage Two years ago I was sent a very interesting piece of investigative journalism from USA Today entitled, “Ghost Factories”. This article looked at the societal impacts of formerly unknown lead smelters throughout the United States. It also detailed ongoing and intentional failure on […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn/Love and Rage “It is the word which is the bridge to cross to the other. Silence is what the powerful offer our pain in order to make us small. When we are silenced we remain very much alone. Speaking heals the pain. Speaking we […]
loveandrage 