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by Nay Briggs/Guest The Ban The Box campaign definitely hits home for me and is catching fire in Utica. I had the great opportunity in April at Mohawk Valley Community College to join forces with other supporters of this fast-growing campaign and discuss the ways that it negatively effects our communities now, but […]
by Kevin Nugent/Love and Rage On May 6, 2015, the first ever fully automated commercial shipping trucks were launched in Nevada. Run by a fairly simple system of cameras and radar, the trucks have been heralded as the future of getting things from here to there. The trucks, […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn/Love and Rage I’ve been asked by a number of people why I traveled to Mexico and Cuba, or to put it in their exact language: “Why the hell did you go there for?” and, invariably, “You’re crazy.” And of course, this is followed by […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage Over the summer, there was a palpable atmosphere of excitement in Utica as if a parade could spontaneously come into existence. No our Utica Comets hadn’t won the Calder Cup. Turns out that our governor, Andrew Cuomo, had announced big news about the […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage Years ago, during the surge in antiwar activity during the Bush administration I assume, I signed up for MoveOn.org newsletters. As such, when someone pursues the MoveOn process as a vehicle to organize a bit of people action, emails are sent out to […]
by Kevin Nugent/Love and Rage Bernie Sanders has been quickly gaining on Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary race since he announced his candidacy in May. While Sanders identifies culturally as Jewish, he recently said “I’m proud to be Jewish,” but “I’m not particularly religious.” Sanders does […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn/Love and Rage The taxi rolled to a sudden and unexpected stop. The driver turned around. “Estamos aqui. Oventic.” For the last hour the car had driven the winding roads from the city of San Cristobal de las Casas to our destination – a small village […]
by Jack Suria Linares/YDS USA When potential presidential candidate Bernie Sanders opposed the idea of open borders, many (the media, the liberal establishment, and even activists) took his position as an attack on immigration reform. A similar attack happened after the events at Netroots Nation where Black Lives […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage From the perspective of an activist, neither black, nor Democrat, nor capitalist, it is not ambiguous at all what’s going on between #BlackLivesMatter, Bernie Sanders and white liberals. It’s a love triangle caught in the myopic assuage of white liberals who feel that […]
by Derek Scarlino/Love and Rage Occupy Entitlement Written off like a disobedient child; a subversive flare-up of Millenial angst. Left for dead by many outside of the movement, the ones who failed to engage in it. Who failed to touch it. The dying light of the Occupy movement […]
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